The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-08
fTALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine DiscOurses on
Topics Incident to Every
Day Life.
where One Christian Is Hard at WOriE
In the Vineyard, Fifty stand Idly
by BOssInE the Sob.

Down the Most Game" His tex: Was from
Isaiah, xxxiii, %.
The lame take tho prey.
The following is the sermon:
The utt.r demolition Of the Assy rian host
Nas'here predicted. Not only 70 ,ust mcu
should GO forth and gather tie spOils of con-
Guest, but even mon crippled of arm and
crippled OF foot should 20 out and cap.
Cue much that was valuable. Their physi'
cal disadvantages should not Iii der their
great enrichment. so it hGs been in the
past, so it is row, 50 it will be in the future.
80 it is in all Departments. Men labor uG-
der Reeminglv great Disadvantages, aud
amid the most UnfayOrable circumstances,
yet making grand achiD yCmrnts, getting
Great blessing Tor Themselves. great blessing
for the world, great blessing iOr the church,
and so "thc lame take the prey"
Do you know that the three great poets Of
Che world were totally blind? Homer,
Ossian, John Milton. DO you know that Mr..
Prescott, who wrote that enchanting book,
S"The Conquest OF Mexico" never slw Mex
fco-lould not even see tie paper On which
he was writing? A framework across the
sheet, between which, up md down, went
the pm immortal. DO YOU know that Gam
bassIo, the slUlptOr, could not see the marblc
before him, or The chi ell with which lie cut
ts into shares LcwitUhing% DO YOU krOw
that Alexander PCpa. whose poems will
last as long as the English language, was SO
much Of an invalid that he had to be seWed
W every morning in rOugn canvass in order
60 stand on his fec at ally
Do you know that Stuart, the celebrated
painter, did much OF his wonderful work
under the shadow Of the dungcOl, where he
had been uniuStly Imprisoned for debt? Do
you know that DemOstnenes by almost
e|upcrhumam C~Xertion first had TO conquer the
lisp Of lns own speech bCf IRE he conquered
avsal l.. T. l. awA4 . \ wran
know that HaeOn struggled all through in
Vulnerable sickneSses ana that Lord Byron
and Sir Walter Scott went linpng on club
fool through all their lives, aud that many
OF the great poets and painters and orators
and historians and heroes of tine world had
something to keep them back and LuIl them
down and impede their way and cripple
their physical or their intellectual TOyCmeut,
and yet that they pushed on and Iu,hed up
until they reached the spells Of worldly sue
cess, and amid the huzza Of nations and CEN
turtles "the lame took the preyi"
You know that a vast multitude of these
tnen started under tic disadvantage OF OBJ
scuss parentage. Columbus, the son Of the
weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer, the son
OF tho shepherd. America the prey Of the
one worlds on worlds the prey Ofthe other.
But what is true in secular directions is
more true in spiritual and religious direc-
Cons, aud l proceed to prove it.
There ara in all communities many inva-
dds. They rev AZ anOw a well day. They
adhere to their occupations, but they go
painting along the streets with exhaustion,
and az evening they lie down on the lounge
with achings beyond all medicament. They
have tried all Prescriptions, they have gone
through all the cures which were proclaimed
tnfallible, and they have come now to SUR
gender 20 perpetual ailments. They con-
slider they are among many Disadvantages;
s. arsgl tphgFa fbaKF Ena gEngs tnItR aRa kufrw,,NF ~
health pass by, they almost envy then TO-
bust frames aud easy respiration.
But | have noticed among that invalid
class those who have the greatest knowledge
Of the Bib.e, who are in nearest intimacy
with Jesus Christ, who have the most glow
tng experience Of the truth, who have had
the most remarkable answers to PRAYER, and
who hive most eNhilaranG anticipanons Of
heaven. The temptations which weary us
vino are In robust health they have con-
quored. They have divided among them
the spoiIs Of the conquest. Many who are
alert and athletic and swarthy loiter IN the
way. These are the lame that take the
prey. Robert Hall, on invalid; Edward
Payson. an invalid; Richard Baxter, an ie-
VALID Samuel rutherford, an invalid. This
morning, when you want to call to mind
those who are most Christlike, you think of
some dar&eued room in Your fathers house
from which there went forth an influence
pOltllb Tor ebernllys
A step farther; Through raised letters
Che aft OF printing has been brought to the
@ttentlon OF tie hllsd.
You take up the Bible for the blind, and
you close your eyes, and YOU run your fin
gers over the raised letters, and You say:
WAY IneYer could get any Information In
CHS way. Wbst . slow, eumbrous way Of
reading! Godielp the blind..'
And yet i fnd among that class OF per-
E1ngAfN him. fffa Hoaf aud fHn HVfra1t. The
amcs5 thorough acquaintance with Gods
word. shut out from all other sources Of in
formation, no sooner does their hand touch
nc rsusea letters than they gather q prayer.
Without eyes they, look off upon the
Kingdoms oil Gods love. Will out hearing,
they catch the ninstrelsy Of the skies.
DUNN, vet With pencil, or with irradiant
co~untenance, they declare the glory Of God.
a lnrge audience assembled In New York
at the anniversary Of the Deaf and Dumb
akFiunb md Que Of the visitors with chalk
on the blackboard wrote this question 70 the.
pupils: 'tDo SOU not find Il very hard to be
deaf and dumbT And one OF the pupils
took the chalk and wrote on the blackboard
this Eabil3ne sentence in answer: "When
the song Of the angels shall burst upon our
~cBfaptufed ear we win scarce retaet that
q cars were never married with earthlg
SOUNDS" Oh! the brightest eyes in heaven
VIII be ulose that never saw on earth. Tie
tAit Woht Nlefb N heaven VIII DO those thQL
~ this world heard neither voice of hiend,
nor tbrum Of harp, nor carol Of bird, nor
QoxQl0gy Of congregations.
"a lad who had been blind from infancy
WAS cured. The oculist operated upon tie
iad and then put a very heavy bandage over
gAe eyes, and after q few weeks had gone by
tie bandage was removed. and the mother
SAID 10 her child; sAFiiiie, can YOU saefv
nc katds son mamma, Is this hbavensg
TIC eontrnst between the darkness before
8pd the irie htness afterward was over
Mhelpting, And ten you thee glofies e
heuyfH NH be a thousand fold kfighttr for
these WIG never saw anything pn earth.
Whilel many with good yisiOtf closed their
eyes n might, and many who had 4 goo |,
Aftisiie and cultured ear went down int,
1i4fpfd THESE aiiiieitd cnts cried unto inc
&hcfa ln tneir Il outle, and He made their
eg'rQNs tfeir advantage, and 10 -the lame
~ fkqe rFFRnAu century JftGrn WAS y iegpna
cf Sc MedobertS4 II was said thAthIs tnother
ab1ind, ans one ahY while l0ok1bgas his
N1Qther ~ a4itsa zgRpathetie Gor her blinds
atH that BE- rushed forward and kissed ! or
Nllna eyes. afa fue legend says. her vision
fNNIq iBmealafHiy' TnNt was only p lGg~
end, Auf1tt$N f{ufh, glorious truth, that 4
Afta pf<0ots eternal lnYe has hrauglt y
nianN a u taa p4e eternal illumination.
~ siFp tkuihef YAssf nre those ia al cou3-
1nu1naes who totl nightly lof . Nfednood.
M3a4f Ipa4o Ff1II WtRnH NAFIfnHN fh4I Ana