The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-31
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LAST SUNDAYS SERVICES IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

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BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
DR.. Talmage Says That in the Army Of
Christ Too Many want to be Conn
mandcrs Tho Church Needs More
Earnest Workers in the Ranks.
BROOKLYN, May 27.-At tine Taberna-
Gle this morning the Rev. 7. De Witt Tai
mage D. D., read the account of the
man helpless at the Beautiful Gate of the
Temple. He than gave out the hymn
beginning:
cloud Of witnesses around
Hold thea IN full survey;
Forget the steps already trod.
And onward urge thy way.
The subject Of the eloquent DOCTORS
discourse was: DISABLED Hunters Bring
ing Down the Most Came" His text
was from Isaiah xuil. %: 'sThe lame
take the prey" EEc.l3wing is the SER
mon:
The utter demolition Of the Assyrian
host was here predicted. Not only robust
men should 60 forth and gather the
gpoils of conquest, but even men crippled
Of arm and crippled Of foot should 60
out and capture much that was valuable
Their physical disadvantages should not
hinder their great enrichment So It has
been in the past, 80 it Is now, 90 It will
be in the future. So It Is In al depart
ments. Men labor under seemingly great
disadvantages and amid the most un-
favorable circumstances, yet making
grand achievements. getting great bless
ing for themselves, great blessing for the
world, great blessing for the church, and
30 .'the lame take the prey"
Do you know that the three great
poets Of the world were totally blind3
Homer, Ossian, John Milton. Do you
know that Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that
enchanting book, 1.-THE Conquest of Mex
ico." never saw Mexico, could not even
see the paper on which he was writing?
A framework across the sheet, between
which, up and down, went the pen i'm
mortal. Do you know that Gambassio,
the sculptor, could not see the marble
before him or the chisel with which he
cut it into shapes bewitchingf Do you
know that Alexander Pope, whose poems
will last as long as the English language,
was so much of an invalid that he had
to be sewed up every morning In rough
canvas in order to stand on his feet at
all2
Do you know that Stuart, the cele-
brated painter, did much Of his wonder
full work under the shadow Of the dun
geon, where he had been unjustly i'm
| prisoned for debit Do you know that
Demosthenes, by almost superhuman ex-
ertion, first had to conquer the lisp of his
own speech before he conquered assem-
blages with his eloquence? Do you
know that Bacon struggled all through
innumerable sicknesses, and that Lord
Byron and Sir Walter Scott went limp
ing on club feet through all their life,
and that many of the great poets and
painters and orators and historians and
heroes of the world had something to
keep them back, and pull them down,
and impede their way, and cripple their
physical or their intellectual movement;
and yet that they pushed on and pushed
up until they reached the spoils of
worldly success, and amid the huzza OF
nations and centuries, 1.-THE lame took
the prey2"
You know that vast multitude OF
these men started under the disadvantage
of obscure parentage. Columbus, the son
of the weaver. Ferguson, the astrono-
mer, the son of the shepherd. America,
the prey of the one; worlds on worlds
the prey of the other. But what Is true
in secular directions Is more true in
spiritual and religious directions, and
proceed to prove it.
There are in all communities many In
| ~a1;5e Thau novar kr,nuy UoI1 GqV
They adhere to their occupations, but
they go painting along the streets with
exhaustions, and at eventhme they liz
down on the lounge with achings beyond
all medicament. They have tried all pre-
scriptions, they have gone through al
the cures which were proclaimed infalii
BILE, and they have come now to surren
der to perpetual ailments. They consider
they are among many disadvantages
and when they see those who are buoyan
In health pass by they almost envy theil
robust frames and easy respiration.
But I have noticed among that invalit
class those who have the greatest knowl
edge Of the Bible, who are In neares
intimacy with Jesus Christ, who hav
the most glowing experiences Of tn
truth, who have had the most remarkable
answers to prayer, and who haye mos
exhilarant anticipations of heaven. Tn
temptations which weary us who are il
robust health they have conquered. The.
have divided among them the spoils O
the conquest. Many WHO are alert an
athletic and swarthy loiter in the way
These are the lame that take the prey
Robert Hall an invalid, Edward Payso
| n
Samuel Rutherford an invalid. Thi
morning, when you want to call to min
those who are most Christliks, you thin
of some darkened room in your father
house from which there went forth a
influence potent for eternity.
A step farther: Through raised letter
the art Of printing has been brought t
the attention OF the blind.
You take up the Bible for the blind
and you close your eyes, and you ru
your fingers over the raised letters, an
you say: why, never could get an
information in this way. What q slow
lumbrous way OF reading! God help th
blind"
And yet FIND. among that class Of pei
sons--among the blind, the deaf aAad th
dumb-the most thorough acquaintanc
with Gods word. Shut out from a
other sources Of information, no soone
does their hand touch the raised lette
than they gather a prayer. Without eyes
they look of upon the kingdom Of God
love. Without hearing they catch th
ninstrelsy of the skies. Dumb. yet wit
pencil, or with irradiated countenancs
they declare the glory Of God.
A large audience assembled In Me-
York at the anniversary of the Deaf an
Dumb asylum. and one Of the visitor
with chalk on the blackboard wrote th
question to the pupils: ''Do you not fin
it very hard to be deaf and dumb2" An
one Of the pupils took the chalk an
wrote on the blackboard this sublin
sentence in answer: ..When the song