Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-23
fHE SCOURGE OF GOD.
The Cruelty of Attila, King of the
Huns, Who Conquered the
Great Roman Empire.
G. grIIIIAn. was ths CaBqusror In At
lire that His Enemies Could
Not Look 1T Him.
Circle, the Church, the state.
A Great Sermon,

sos,lsl to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, April % The Rev.
hewitt Talmage, D. D., preached this
-norping st he Tabernacle on the sub
;.ct. "The SIsr Norwood, or Brilliant
pittsrless." Tie musical exercises were
assisted by the organ and cornet. Thous
,nds of voices in the main auditorium and
IN the adjoining parlor and lecture room
and corridor, joined in singing:
rs,Il crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,
utyh as the heavens our voices raise,
ubIIe esrth with her ten thousand tongues
sbsll fill Thy cou IS with sounding praise.
Professor Browne rendered Sonats
number l, in D minor, by Guillmant
Alter DR.. Talmsge had expounded the
sarcasm Of Elijah at the Offering Of the
B,slites ne spoke as follows:
Revelation viii, 10-1l: "There fell 6
crest star from heaven ,!burning as it were
a lamp, and it fell upon the third part OF
the rivers, and upon the fountains Of
waters; and the name of the star is called
NORWOOD"
Patrick and 'Lowth, Thomas Scott,
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes and all
otber commentators agree in saying that
the star NORWOOD of my text was
Ittlls, King of the Huns. Ia WAS so
called because he WAS brilliant as star,
and. like NORWOOD, he embittered
everything he touched. We have studied
the S!ar OF Bethlehem, and the Morning
Star OF the Revelation, and the Star Of
Peace, but my subject this hour calls us
10 ssze at the start Wormwood, land my
theme might be called Brilliant Bitter
ness.
Amore extraordinary character history
does not furnish than this man referred
10 in my text, Attils, the king of the
Huns. One day wounded heller came
llmping along through the fields, and a
herdsman followed it's bloody track on
the grass to see where the heifer was
wounded, and went on back, further and
further, until he came to sword fsst in
the earth, the point downward as though
it had dropped from the heavens, and
against the edges of this sword the
heifer had been cut. The herdsmsn
pulled up that sword and presented it to
Attils. Attila said that sword must have
dropped from the hesvens from the grasp
Of the god Mare, and its being given to
him meant that Attila should conquer
and
GOVERN THE WHOLE EARTH.
Other mighty men have been delighted at
being called liberators, or the merciful or
the good, put Attila called himself, and
demanded that others call him the
SCourge Of God. At the hesd of 0.000
troops, mounted on Cappadocian horses,
he swept everything from the Adriatic to
the BlsCk SEES. He put his iron heel on
Macedonia, and Greece, and Thrace. He
made Milan, and P.via, and Padua and
Verona beg for mercy, which he bestoW-
ednot. The Byzantine castles, to meet
bis ( ,inous levy, put up at auction
massive silver tables and
vases CT solid gold. A
city captured by him, the Inhabitants
we're brought cut and put into three
classes: The first Glass, those who could
bear arms, who must Immediately enlist
under Attila or be butchered; the second
class, the beautiful women, who were made
captives to the Huns; the third class, the
aged men and women, who were robbed
OF everything aud let go back to the city
10 psy heavy tax.
1t was common saying that the grass
never grew again where the hoof of
Attia's no Sc had trod. His armies red
dened the waters Of the Seine and the
Moselle and the Rhine with carnage, and
fought on the Catalonian plains the
1erciest battle since the world stood,
three hundred thousand dead left on the
held. On and on until those who could
not oppose him with arms lay PROSTATE
On their faces in prayer, and cloud of
aust seen in the distance, 8 bishop cried:
VI. is the aid OF Coda all the people
TOOK up the cry: "It is the aid OF God"
as The cloud OF dust wss blown aside the
banners OF reinforcing armies marched
mo help against Attile, the Scourge Of
Gou. The most unimportant occurrences
ne USED as supernatural resource, and
alter three months of failure TO capture
the city of Aquileia and his
army had given up the siege, the
ulgnt OF q stork and her
young from the tower of the city was
MKen oy him as q sign that he was to
capture the city, end his army inspired
Win The same occurrence resumed the
siege and took the walls at g point from
winch the stork had emerged. So bril-
Hant was the coIQueror in attire that his
enemies could not look at him, but shaded
tnelr eyes or turned their heads.
Slain on the evening of his marriage by
us bride Ildico, who wss hired for the
assassination,
:. Els FOLLOWERS BEwAILED
nim not with tears but with blood, cutting
themselves with knives and lances. He
mas put into three coffias, the first of
HOn' Inc second Of silver, and the third of
sota' He was buried by night, and into
a.s grave were poured the most valuable
ION and precious stones, amounting to
1e wealth Of kingdom. The grave
sIsgers and all those who assisted st the
uuElal were massacred so that it would
never De known where so much wealth
WAS entombed. The Roman empire con-
yuerea the world, but Attils conquered
He Roman empire. He was right in
esilng himself q scourge, but in
S.eau OF being the scourge of God,
Nc St vas the scourge OF hell. Because of
us ofiliiancy and bitterness the common.
S.ofs were right in believing him to be
sae star Wormwood of the text. AS the
Ieslons he devastated were parts most
ri putent with fountains and streams and
ttrTTe s YOU see how grsphic my text is:
naere fell great star from heaven,
Su'Alls as Il were lamp, and it fell