Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-09
SOUR EXPERIENCES.
SORROWS THAT EAT INTO AND cANKRR
THE SOUL.
DR.. qalmags's Eloquent Sermon Yesterday Christ
Took the Vinsgar-A Nan Of Sorrows BE
Helps 10 Bear Misfortunss-
A Divine Aid.
Special Telegram 10 the Register.

Special Telegram 10 The Register.
CHICAGO, Ill, July S.-The Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
preached in this city this evening. he is
here on his way home from tour of the
Chsutauquas in Missouri, Kansas and Min
nesota. The doctor had an enormous audi.
tory. His subject was 'Sour Experiences, "
and his text when Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar" John XIX: 80. The
sermon was as follows:
The brigands of Jerusalem had done
their work. It was almost sundown, and
Jeaus was dying. Persons in crucifxion
often fingered on from day to day, crying,
begging, cursing, but Christ had been ex-
hausted by years of maltreatment. Pill
lowless, poorly fed, fogged-as bent over
and tied to low post. His bare back was
inflsmed with the scourges intensified
with pieces of lead and bone e-and now
for whole hours the weight Of His body
hung on delicate tendons, and, according
to custom, q violent stroke under the arm
pits had been given by the executioner.
Dizzy, swooning, nauseated, feverish-a
world of agony is compressed in the two
words: II thirstw o, skies of Judea, let
a drop of rain strike on His burning
tongue. o, world, with rolling rivers, and
sparkling lakes, and spraying fountains,
give Jesus something to drink. If there
be any pity in earth, or heaven, or hell,
let it now be demonstrated in behalf OF
this royal sufferer. The wealthy women
of Jerusalem used to have fund ofmoney
with which they provided wine for those
people who died in crucifxion-a powerful
opiate to deaden the pain; but Christ
would not take it. He wanted to die
sober, and 30 He refused the wine. But
afterward they 60 to cup Of vinegar and
soak sponge in it, and put it on stick
of hysop, and then press it against the hot
lips OF Christ. You say the wine was an
ape esthetic, and intended to relieve OF
deaden the pain. But the vinegar was an
insult. am disposed to adopt the theory
of the old English commentators, who be.
lieved that instead of its being an opiate to
soothe, it was vinegar to insult. Malaga
and Burgundy for grand dukes and duch,
essss, and costly wines from royal watts fol-
bloated imperials; but stinging acids for q
dying Christ. He took the vinegar.
SOME BLESSED LIVES.
In some lives the saccharine seems To
predominate. Life is sunshine on bank
of flowers. A thousand hands to clap ap-
approval. In December or in January,
looking across their table, they see all
their family present. Health rubicund,
skies flamboyant, days recilient. But in a
great many cases there are not 80 many
sugars as acids. The annoyances, and the
vexations, and the disappointments of life
overpower the successes. There is gravel
in almost every shoe. An Arabian legend
says that there was q worm in Solomon's
staff, gnawing its strength away; and there
is weak spot in every earthly support
that a 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, and addressed him as servant,
crying: George, ring the bell" Miss
Langdop, honored all the world over for
her poetic genius, is 30 worried over the
evil reports set afost regarding her, that
she is found dead with an empty bottle of
prussic acid in her hand. Goldsmith said
that his life was 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 tavern sign. Hogarth cannot sell
his best paintings except through rattle.
Andrew Dslsart makes the great fresco in
the Church of the Annunciata at Florence
and gets for pay sack of corn; aud there
are annoyances and vexations in high
places as well as in low places, showing
that in q great many lives the sours are
greater than the sweets. "When Jesus,
therefore, had received the vinegar"
1t is absurd to suppose that man who
has always been well can sympathjzs with
those who are sick; or that one who has
always been honored can appreciate the
sorrow of those who are despoiled; or that
one who has been born to a great fortune
can understand the distress and the straits
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 filled
with sharp acids Of this life. He took the
vinegar.
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 ONT
friend upon whom you put especial stress.
You feasted him. You loaned him money,
You befriended him in the dark passes Of
life, when he especially needed friend.
Afterward, he turned upon you, and he
took advantage Of your former intimacies
He wrote against you. He talked against
you. He microscopized your faults. II.
flung contempt at you when you ought Il
have received nothing but gratitude. Al
first, you could not sleep at nights. Their
you went about with sense Of havinl
been stung. That difficulty will nevel
be healed, for though mutual
friends may arbitrate in the mat
ter until you shall shake hands
the old cordiality will never come back
Now commend to all such the sympathy
of betrayed Christ. Why, thy sold Hin
for less than our twenty dollars! They al
forsook him and fed. They cut him tt
the quick. He drank the cup of betrayal
to the dregs. He took the vinegar.
There is also sourness of pain. Thert
are some Of you who have not seen vel
day for many years. By keeping out ol
draughts, and by carefully studying dietet
les, you continue to this time; but o, tht
headaches, and the sideaches. and the back
aches, and the heartsches, which have
been your accompaniment all the way
through! You have struggled under .
heavy mortgage of physical disabilities
and instead Of the plscidity that oncs
characterized You, Il is now only will
great effort that you keep away from irrit.
ability and sharp retort. Difficulties o
respiration, of indigestion, Of locoEotion
make up the great obstocle in your life, anf
you