Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-10
DEAD STILL LIVING.
DR.. TALMAGR!S ELOQUENT SERMON OF
YESTERDAY.
The Wagons Of The King and Their Coming home to
Cannan-Ths Reunion Of Brsthrsn-An
Eternal Life Beyond the Grsvs-IS
Joys and Promises.
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BROOKLYN, December 9.-Tne Rev. I.
Dewitt Talmsge, ID, preached to-day
on "Our Departed Still Living" His text
WAS Genesis ch. As. V. 81 and %: "And
when he saw the wagons which Joseph had
sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their
father revived. and Israel ssid, 1t is
enough; Joseph my son is yet alive" DR..
Talmage said:
The Egyptian capital was the focus Of
the worlds wealth. In ships and barges,
there had been brought to it from India
fraukincense, and cinnamon, and ivory,
and diamonds; from the North, marble and
from Syria, purple and silk; from Greece,
some of the finest horses in the world, and
some of the most brilliant chariots, and
from all the earth that which could bfst
please the eve, and charm the ear, and
gsatify the taste. There were temples
sflame with red sandstone, entered by
gaieways that were guarded by piilsrs be-
wildering with bieroglynhics, and wound
with brazan serpents, and adorned win
winged cteatures-their eyes, and beaks,
and pinions glitteIing with preciOue stones.
JOSEPH AND PHARoAH.
This was the place where Jo,eph, the
shepherd boy, was called to stsnd next 10
Pharoah in honor. What contrast De-
tween this scene and his humble starting,
and the pit into which his brothers threw
him! Yet he was not forgetful Of his
early home; he was not ashamed of where
he came from. The Bishop of Mentz, &c.
scended ftom a wheelwright, covered his
house with spoke|, and hammers, and
wheels; and the King Of Sicily, IN honor
of his father, who was potter, refused to
drink out of anything but an esrthen yes
sci. So Joseph was not ashamed Of his
carly surroundings. or OF his old-time
father, or of his brothers. When they
came up from the famine-stricken land to
get corn fcom the Kings corn
crib, Joseph, instead Of child
ing them for the way they
had maltreated aud abused him, sent
them back with wagons, which Pharaoh
furnished, laden with corn; and old Jacob,
the father, in the very same wagons, was
brought back, that Joseph, the SOD, might
see him, ard give bin a comfortable home
all the rest Of his days.
Well, hear the wagons, the kings wag'
ons rumbling down in font of the palace.
On the outside CT the pslace, 10 see the
wagons 20 off, stands Pharaoh in royal
robes; and beeide him prime-minister
JOSEPH, with cnain of gold around his
neck, and on his hand ring given by
Pharaoh to him, 80 that any time he
wanted to stamp the royal seal upon a
document he could do so. Wagon after
| wagon rolls on down from the palace,
laden with corn, and meat, and changes
of raiment, and everything that
could help a famine.struck people.
One day / see aged Jacob seated in front OF
his house. He is possibly thinking OF his
absent BOYS (sons, however old they get
are never TO a father any more than boys;
and while he is seated there, he sees dust
arising, and he hears wagons rumbling,
| and he wonders what is coming now, for
the whole land hos been smitten with
toe famine, and was in silence. But after
a while the wagons have come near enough
and he sees his sons on the wagons, and
before they come quite up they shout:
Joseph is yet Glivel"
THE OLD MAN FAINTs DEAD AWAY.
do not wonder at it. The boys tell the
story how that the boy, the long-absent
,Joseph, has got to be the first man in the
Egyptian palace. While they unload the
| wagons, the wan and wasted creatures IN
the neighbOrhood come up and ask for
handful of corn, and they are satisfied.
One day the wagons are brought up,
for Jacob, the old father, is about to 90 to
see Joseph in the Egyptian palace. iou
know it is not very easy thing to trans
| plant an old tree, and Jacob has hard work
to get away from the place where he has
lived so long He bids goodbye to the
old place where hs has lived so long, lie
bids good bye to the old place, and leaves
his blessing with the neighboIs and then
his sons steldy him, while he, determined
to help himself, gets into the wsgon, stiff
old, and decrepit. Yonder they 60, ia
cob and his sons, md their wives, and
their children, eighty-two III all, followed
by herds and flocks, which the herdsmen
drive along. They are going out from
famine 10 lnxuriance; they are going from
a plain country home to the finest palace
under the sun.
NV friends, we arc in world hy sin
fsmiue-struck; bat the King is in constant
communication with us, his wagons COM
ing and going perpetuslly; and in the Te,t
of my discourse / will show you what the
wagons bring and what they take back.
In the first plsce, like those that came
from the Egyptian palace, the King. s wsg-
ons now bring us corn and meat, and many
changes of raiment. We are apt to think
of the fields and the orchards as feeding
us: but who m AXES the fax grow for the
linen, and the wheat for the bread, and
the wool on tie sleeps back Oh, wish
we could see through every grain field, by
every sheep fold, under the trees Of every
orchard, the Kings wagons. They drive
up three times dsy-mornipg, noon, and
night. They brig furs from the arctic
they bring fIuits from the trOpic, they
bring bread from the temperate zone.
THE KING LOOKS OUT,
and he says: There sre twelve hundred
millions Of people to bs fed and clothed.
So many pounds Of meat, 50 many barrels
of -four, so many yards Of cloth and linen
and flannel, so many hats, 60 maHy socks,
so many Shoes" enough for all, save that
we who ale greedy get mcrs shoes
than belong to ia, ard Others 20
barefooted. None but q God could feed
end cloths the world None but q kings
corn-cri6 cauld sppesce the w9rid's
famine. None but king could tall how
many wagons to send, and how heavily to
Iosd them, and when they are to start
Thew are 1miug over the frozen ground
to-day. Do you not hesr their rumsling?
They will stop at noon at your table.
oh, if for LITTLE while they should cease,
hunger would come into the nations, a. to
Utica when Hsmilcar besieged it, and "a
in Jerusalem when Vespasian surrounded
II. and the nations would be hollow-eyed,
and fall upon ,slsh Other in universal
csnnibalism; and skeleton would drop
upou skeleton; and there would be no one
TO bury the dead; and the earth would be
| f,ld Of bLesciled skeletons; and the
birds of prey would fall dead, II 'ck afteE