New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-06
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine Discourses on
Topics Incident to Every
Day Life.

Day Life.
TYhere One Christian Es Hard at w orll
I'm the Vineyard, Fifty Stand Idly
by BOssing the Bob.
The subject of the eloquent doctors dis.
course was: disabled Hunters Bringing
Down the Most Came" His text was from
Isaiah, xxxiii, 49,
The lame take the prey.
The following is the sermon
The utter demolition of tile Assyrian host
was here predicted. Not only ROBUST men
should 60 forth and gather the spoils of con-
quest, but even men crippled of arm and
crippled of foot should 90 out and cap
Gure much that was valuable. Their phvsi-
cal disadvantages should not hiader their
great enrichment. So it has been in the
past, so it is row, so it will be in the future.
So it is in all departing nts. Men labor I'M
der seemingly great disadvantages. aud
amid the most unfayorable circumstances,
yet making grand achievements, getting
great blessing for themselves, great blessing
for the wcrld, great blessing Tor the church,
and so ''the lame take the prey"
Do you know that the three great poets of
Che world were totally blind? Homer,
0ssian, John Milton. Do you know that Mr..
Prescott, who wrote that enchanting book,
us SO1queSt Ol MEXICO, never SlN MeA-
fCo-t could not even see the paper on which
he was writing? A framework across the
Sheet between which, up end down, went
the pan immortal Do you know that Gam.
basslo, the sculptor, could not see the marble
before him, OF The chi ell with which he cut
st into shapes bewitching? Do you know
that Alexander Pope. whose poems will
last as long assthe English language. was so
much of an invalid that he had to be sewed
up every morning in rougn canvass in order
ITO stand on his feet at all?
Do you know that Stuart, the celebrated
painter, did much Of his wonderful work
under the shadow of the dungeon, where he
chad been I'M Justly imprisoned for debt? Do
you know that Demostnenes by almost
superhuman eXertion first had to conquer the
lisp of his own speech before he conquered
assemblages with his elouuence? Do you
lisnow thai Bacon struggled all through in
Vulnerable Sicknesses anu that Lord Byron
and Sir Walter Scott went limpng on club
foot through all their lives, and that many
of the great poets and painters and orators
and historians and heroes of the world had
something to keep them back and PULL them
down and impede their way and cripple
their physical or their intellectual movement,
and yet that they pushed on and pushed up
until they reached the spoils of worldly sue
cess, and amid the huzza OF NATIONS and cen
turtles '.the lame took the prey"
You know that vast multitude Of these
men started under tie disadvantage of OBJ
&cure parentage. Columbus, the son of the
weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer the son
of the shepherd America the prey OF the
one; worlds on worlds the prey Of the other.
13ut what is true in secular directions is
more true in spiritual and religious direc-
ttlons, and [ proceed to prove it.
There are in all communities many inya-
lids. They never know we'll day. They
adhere to their occupations. but they 80
painting along the streets with exhaustion,
and at 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
lnfaliible, and they have come now to sur
render to perpetual ailments. They con-
slider they are among many disadvantages;
and when they see those who are buovant i'll
health PASS by, they almost envy THEN ro-
bust frames and easy respiration.
But l have noticed among that invalid
class those who have the Grea est knowledge
OF the B1be, who are in nearest intimacy
with Jesus Christ, who have the most glow
ing experience OF the truth, who have had
'GRe most remarkable answers to prayer, and
who have most eXhilarant anticipatlons of
heaven. The temptations which weary us
Who are in robust health they have con-
quered, They have divided among them
the spoils 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, an invalid; Edward
Payson. an invalid; Richard Baxter, an in
valid; Samuel Rutherford, an invalid. This
morning. when you want to call to mind
those who are most Christhke, you think of
some darkened room in your father house
from which there went forth an influence
potent for eternity.
fGhe art of printing has been brought to the
attention of the blind
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:
why never could get any information in
Ihls way What a slow, cumbrous way OF
reading! God help the blindn'
And yet find among that class of per
sons, the blind, the deaf and the dumb, the
most thorough acquaintance with Gods
word. Shut out from all other sources of In
formation, no sooner does their hand touch
the raised letters than they gather prayer
Without eyes they, look off upon the
they catch the minstrelsy of sthe skies
Dumb, yet with pencil, or with irradiant
countenance, they declare the glory of God.
a large audience assembled i'll New York
at the anniversary of the Deaf and Dumf
asylum, and one of the visitors with chal
on the blackboard wrote this question to the
pupils: DO you not find it very hard to be
deaf and dumb?o And one of the pupils
TOOK the chalk and wrote on the black boalC
this sublime sentence in answer: sWheI
che song OF the angels shall burst upon our
enraptured ear we will scarce regret tha
our ears We're never married with earthly
sounds" Oh! the brightest eyes in HEAVIER
will be those that never saw on earth The
ears most alert i'll heaven will be those tina
IN this world heard neither voice of fliend
nor thrum of harp, nor carol Of bird, no
,doXology OF congregations.
A lad who had been blind from infancy
was cured. The oculist operated upon tht
lad and then put very heavy bandaee owe
che eyes, and after few weeks had gone by
the bandage was removed, and the mothe,
said to her child: .'Willie, can YOU see9'
He said s'Oh! mamma is this heavens'
The contrast between the darkness before
and the brightness aiterward was over
wheming. And tell you the glories 0
heaven viii be thousand fold brighter TO
those who never saw ANYTHING on earth
While many with good vision closed thei
eyes in night, and many who had a cool
artistic, End cultured ear went down int
discord, these afflicted ones cried unto tn,
Lord in their trouble, and He made thel
sorrows tkeir advantage, and so 1.-THE lam,
"G5he the prey"
In the seventh century there was legent
oil ST Modobert. 1t was said that his mothe
was blind, and one day while looking as hi:
hay ha fe r ,o+;