Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-31
n1NAGE ON TROUBLE,
= Combined Shadow of In.
,o1idism and Financia
Embarrassment.

Embarrassment.
uor,d Fattens the Horse It Wants to
nr;ve- Home Troubles - Outside
Persecution.
r,o Rev. DR.. T. De Witt Talmage
Inc sna1 at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
1e 1ataok for his subject, Trouble on
pa az '0s Sides" and his text, There was a
0tn rock on the one side, and sharp
nary ~ the other side" /. Sam, xix, /.
e g,o 90 mel army of the Philistines must
l .alan and scattered. There is lust
NAM, nam. accompanied by his bodyguard,
ne d 1l," that thing. Jonathan is the hero
IN ,Is scene. know that David
. led the skull of the giant with
"a. nsbbles we'll slung, and that 800
e: s scattered 10000 Amalekites
the crash of broken crochery; but
x a more wonderful conflict. Yon-
e.e a1e the Philistines on the rock.
u IT, is Jonathan with his bodyguard in
,o valley. On the one side is rock
p1,e1 Bozez; on the other side is rock
ilaJ Seneh. These two were as ia
ans in olden times as in modern times
w plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They
sra nrecipitous, mnscalable, and sharp.
po.waen these two rocks Jonathan must
'els his ascent. The day comes for the
.oal;nc of the height. Jonathan, on his
s .n, and feet, begins the ascent. With
u a.rain. and slip, and bruise, 1 suppose,
sut still on and up, first goes Jonathan,
u ma then goes his bodyguard. Bozez
p 'uu one side, Seneh on the other. After
= sharp tug. and push, and clinging, I
zee the head of Jonathan above the hole
f. The mountain: and there is chal-
fence, and q fight, and a supernatural
and his bodyguard, drive back and drive
down the Philistines over the rocks, and
Open a campaign which demolishes the
Enemies Of Israel. I suppose that the
Exchanging and overshadowing rocks
pp either side did. not balk or dishearten
Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only
koused and filled them with enthusiasm
s they went up. There was sharp
! lock on the one side, and sharp rock
Epn the other side.
Nv friends, you have been, or are now,
ZONE of you, in this crisis of the text.
Il man meets one trouble, he can go
through with it. He gathers all his
Energies, concentrates them upon one
koint. and in the strength of God, or by
bis own natural determination, goes
through it. But the man who has trouble
h the right of him and trouble to the
: eft of him is to be pitied. Did either
|rouble come alone, he might endure it,
but two troubles, two disasters. two over
ehadowing misfoTtunes, are Bozez and
Eeneh. God pity him! There is a
eharp rock on the one side, and sharp
rock on the other side"
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him at the
came time. Nine-tenths of all our mer-
chants capsize in business before they
zone to forty five years of age. There
is some collision in commercial circles,
and they stop payment. 1t seems as if
every man must put his name on the
back of note before he learns what a
fool man is who risks all his own prop
ery on the prospect that some man will
tell the truth. 1t seems as if a man must
have large amount of unstable goods
on his own shelf before he learns how
much easier it is to buy than to sell. It
seems as if every man must be completely
burned out before he learns the impor-
lance Of always keeping fully insured.
ltseems as If every man must be wrecked
in financial tempest before he learns
to keep things snug in case of sudden
When the calamity does
come. it is awful. The man goes home
in despair, and he tells his family:
We'll have to go to the poor-house. :"
He takes dolorous view of everything.
1t seems as if he never could rise. But
q little time passes, and he says: Why,
am not SO badly off after all; have my
family left"
Before the Lord turned Adam out of
Paradise he gave him Eve, SO that when
he lost Paradise he could stand it. Per-
nit one who has never read but a few
novels in all his life, and who has not q
great deal of romancein his composition,
to say. that if, when mans fortunes
fail, he has good wife-a good Chris
tian wife-he ought not to be despond-
ent. oh, you say, that only increases
the embarrassment, since you have her
sototake care Of" You are an migrate,
for the woman as often supports the man
as the man supports the woman. The
man may bring all the dollars, but the
woman generally brings the courage and
the faith in God.
Well, this man of whom l am speak
ing looks around, and he finds his fam
lily is left, and he rallies, and the light
comes to his eyes, and the smile to his
face. and the courage to his heart. In
two years he is quite over it. He makes
his financial calamity the first chapter
In new era of prosperity. He met that
one trouble-conquered it. He sat down
Tor little while under the grim shadow
OF the rock Bozez, yet he soon rose, and
began, like Jonathan, to climb. But
how often it is that physical ailment
comes with financial embarrassment.
When the fortune failed it broke the
mans spirit. His nerves were shattered.
his brain was stunned. I can show you
hundreds of men in New York whose
fortune and health failed at the same
time. They came prematlrely to the
staff Their hand trembled with lnclp-
lent paralysis. They never saw a well
day since the hour when they called
their creditors together for a compro--
mise. If such men are impatient, and
peculiar, and irritable, excuse them.
1hey had two troubles, either one OF
which they could have met successfully
II, when the health went, the fortune
mad been retained, it would not have
1een SO bad. The man could have
bought the very best medical advice and
he could have had the very best attend