Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-10-04
LIES ACIDS.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage Dis.
courses On Sour Experiences.
Differness tho Rule on This Earth-No
Lie Without Its Griefs-Bitterness
from the Cradle to the Grave
Tho Great Helper.

In q recent sermon Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage. discoursed on Sour Experiences
from the text: "When Jesus therefore
had received the vinegar" John xix. "a
Inc sermon was as follows:
The brigands OF Jerusalem had done
their work. 1t was almost shutdown, and
Jesus was dying Persons in crucifixion
Cften fingered on from day to day-crying,
begging, cursing; but Christ hal been ex.
hausted by years OF maltrcatment. Pillow
less, poorly fed. fiogged-as bent over and
tied to post, Hi, bare back was inflamed
with the scourgeS intensified with pieces
Of lead and bone-and now for whole
hours the weight OF His body hung on
delicate tendons and. according to custom,
Q violent stroke under tie armpits had been
given by the execut:oner. Dizzy, swoOn-
ing, nauseated, fevsris.i-a world Of agony
10 compressed in the wo words: Il thirst?'
U! skies OF Judea, et drop OF rain fall on
His burning tououe. o! worlds, with
rolling rivers, and sparkling lakes, and
spraying fountains, give Jesus something
TO drink. If there be any pity in earth, or
Heaven. or he'll. let it now be demonstrated
In behalf of this royal sufferer.
The wealthy women OF Jerusalem used
70 have q fund of muney with which they
provided wine for those people who died in
cruclhXion-a powerful. opiate to deaden
the pain; but Christ would not take 1t.
He wanted to die soucr, and SO he refused
the wine. But ait rward they go to cup
OF vinegar and soak sponge IN 1t, and put
1t on stick of hys. p, and then press 1t
against the hit iirs of Christ. You say
the wine was AN aneslhetc, and intended
to relieve or de- dan the PAIN. But the
vinegar was an i sult. | am disposed to
adopt The theory of the old Eng ish COM
mentators, who believed that instead OF
its being an opiate to so,th, 1t was vinegar
to insult Malaga and Burgundy for grand
Dukes and Duchesses, and costly WINE
from royal watts tor bioaie,i imrer ais; but
singing acids for a dying Christ. He took
the vinegar.
In some lives the saccharine seems to
predominant. Life is -uEshne on d bank
Of flowers. A ,housa' d hands TO clap at
prevail In Decem; e. or IN January, look
ing across their t;itc, hey zee ali their
family present; hrs h rubirund: SKIES
flamboyant; days resilient. but In great
many cases here are i.o5 80 many sugars
as acids. The annoya"crs and the vexa-
ti0ns, and the disappointments 4 life over
power the successes. There is gravel in
almost every shoe. An Arabian legend
says that there was worm IN Soiomon's
stan, gnawing its strength away, and there
is weak spot in every earthly support
that man leans on.
King George, of England. forgot all the
grandeurs of his throne because one day IN
an interview Beau Brummell called him by
his first name ana addressed him as q serv-
ant, crying: George ring the bell!" Miss
Langdon, honored all the world over for
her poetic genius, is so worried over the
evil reports set afoat regarding her, that
She Is found dead with an empty bottle of
pruss sic acid in her hand. Goldsmith said
thai his life was a wretched being and
that all that want and contempt could bring
to it had been brought, and cries out:
'What, then, is there formidable IN jail!"
Correggio's fine painting is hung up for a
tavern sign. Hogarth can not sell his best
paintings except through rattle. Andrew
Delsarte makes the great fresco in the
Church of the Annunclata at Florence and
gets for pay a sack of corn; and there are
annoyances and vexations in high places as
well as in low places, showing that in a
great many lives the sOurs are greater than
tho sweets.
"When Jesus therefore had received the
vinegar"
It is absurd to suppose that a man who
has always been well can sympathize with
those who are sick; or that one who has
always been honored can appreciate the
sorrow Of those who are despised; or that
one who has been born to a great fortune
can understand the distress and the
straights of those who are destitute. The
fact that Christ Himself took the vinegar
makes Him able to sympathize to-day and
forever with all those whose cup is filed
with the sharp ACIDS of this life. He took
the 7inegari
In the first place there is the sourness of
betrayal The treachery Of Judas hurt
Christ's feelings more than all the friend
ship Of His disciples did Him good. You
have had many friends; but there was one
friend upon whom you put especial stress.
You Toasted him. You loaned him money.
You befrlenoed him in the dark passes Of
life when he especially needed a friend.
Afterward he turned upon you and he took
advantage of your former intlm icies. He
wrote against you. He talked against you.
He microscopized your faults. He flung
contempt at you when you ought to have
received nothing but gratitude. At first
you could not sleep at nights. Then you
went about with sense Of having been
stung. That difficulty will never be healed,
for, though mutual friends may arbitrate
in the matter until you shall shake hands,
the old cordialhy will never come back
Now / commend to all such the sympathy
Of Q betrayed Christ. Why, they sold Him
for less than SO. They all forsook Him
and fed. They cut Him 10 the quick. He
drank the cup of betrayal TO the dregs
He took the vinegar.
There is also the sourness Of pain. There
are some Of you who have not seen a we'll
day for many years BY keeping out Of
draughts, and by carefully studying dietet-
les, you continue to this time; but o, the
headaches, and the sideaches, and the back
aches, and the heartaches which have been
your accompaniment all the way through
You have struggled under a heavy mort
gage Of physical disa bilIties; and instead Of
tho placidity that once characterized you,
It Is now only with great effort that you
keep away from irritability and sharp re-
tori. Difficulties Of respiration, of diges-
ton, of locomotion make up the great
obstacle in your life, and you tug and sweat
along the pathway, and wonder when the
exhaustion will end.
Ny friends, the brightest crowns in
Heaven will not be given to those who, in
St.rrups, dashei to the cavalry charge,
while the General applauded, and tho sound
Of clashing sabers rang through the land;
but the brightest crowns iu Heaven,
believe, will be given to those who tTudged
ON amid chronic ailments which unnerved
eheir strength, yet all the time maintain.
ing their faith in God. 1t is comparatively
easy to fight in q regiment Of a thousand
men, charging up the parapets to the sound