The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-20
TROUBLE ON BOTH SIDES.
BUSINESS MEN BETWEEN THE
ROCKS OF BOzEz AND SENEH.

oCAb 40 W SlllAO INV VhO OAkAAAS L1O "a
Gods Favor.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 19.-The Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmages subject to-day was
Trouble on Both Sides" and his text
There was a sharp rock on the one side,
and a sharp rock on the other side. u.
Samuel, xiv, L.
The cruel army of the Philistines must be
taken and scattered There is just one man,
accompanied by his bodyguard, to do that
thing. jonathan is the hero of the scene. |
know that David cracked the skull of the
giant with a few pebbles well slung, and
that three hundred Gideonites scattered ten
thousand Amalekites by the crash of broken
crockery; but here is a more wonderful con-
fiict. Yonder are the Philistines on the
rocks. Here is Jonathan with his body
guard in the valley. On the one side is a
rock called Bozez; on the other side is
a rock called Seneh. These two were
as famons in olden times as in modern times
are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They
were precipitous, unscalable and sharp.
Between these two rocks Jonathan must
make his ascent. The day comes for the
scaling of the height. Jonathan, on his
hands and feet, begins the ascent. With
strain, and slip. ana bruise, | suppose, but
still on and up. first goes Jonathan, and
then goes his body guard. Bozez on one
side, Seneh on the other. After sharp
tug, and push, and cinging, / see the head
of Jonathan above the hole in the noun
tain; and there is a challenge, and fight,
and q supernatural CONSERVATION. These
two men, Jonathan and his body guard,
drive back and drive down the Pnilistines
over the rocks, and open campaign which
demolishes the enemies Of Israel. suppose
that the overhangiug and overshadowing
rocks on either side did not balk or dis
hearten Jonathan or his body guard, but
Cnly reused and filled them with enthusiasm
as they went up. There was a sharp rock
on the one side and a sharp rock on the
other side"
Ny friends, you have been. or are now,
some OF you, in this crisis of the text If a
man meets one trouble, he can 20 through
with it. He gathers all his energies, con-
centrates them upon one point, aud in the
strength of God, or by his own natural de-
termination, goes through it, but the man
who has trouble to the right of him, and
trouble to the left of him, is to be pitied
Did either trouble come alone, no might
endure it. but two troubles, two disasters,
two overshadowing misfortunes, are Bozez
and Seneh. God pity himl "There is a
sharp rock on the one side, Aud sharp
rock on the other side.n q
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him at the
same time Nine-tenths of all our mer-
chants capsize in business before they come
to 45 years of age There is some collision
in commercial circles, and they stop pay
ment. 1t seems as II every man must put
his name on tie back of a note before he
learns what fool u man is who risks all his
own property 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 now
much easier it is to buy than to sell. 1t
seems as if every man must be completely
burned out before he learns the Importance
of always keeping fully insured 1t seems
as if every man must be wrecked in finan-
cial tempest before he learns to keep things
snug in case OF sudden euroclydon. When
the calamity does come, it is awful. The
man goes home 10 despair and he tells his
family: "We'u have TO go TO the poor
house." He takes dolorous view of every
thing. 1t seems as if he never could rise.
But little time passes, and he says:
"Why, | am not so badly off after all; /
have my family left"
Before tue Lord turned Adam out of
paradise he gave him Eve, so that when he
lost paradise he could stand it, Permit one
who has never read but few novels in all
his life, and who has not great deal of
romance in his composition, to say that if,
when mans fortunes fail, he has a good
wife-a good Christian wife-he ought not
to be respondent. "Oh," you say "that
only increases the embarrassment, since
you have her also to take care Of" You
are an migrate, for the woman as often sup
ports the man as the man supports
woman. The man may bring ali the dol
lars, but the woman generally brings the
courage and the faith in God.
Well. this man of whom l am speaking,
looks around, and he finds his family 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 for a little
while under the grim shadow of the rock
BoZez; yet he soon rose, and began, like
Jonathan, to climb. But how often is it
that physical ailment comes with financial
embarrassment. Wnen the fortune failed
it broke the mans spirit. Ills nerves were
shattered. His brain was stunned can
show you hundreds of men in New York
whose fortune and health failed at the same
time. They came prematurely to the staff.
Their hand trembled with incipient paraly-
hour when they called their creditors to-
gether for a compromise. If such men are
impatient, and peculiar, and irritable, ex-
cuse them. They had two troubles,
either one of which they could
have met successfully. II, when
the health went, the fortune had been re-
tanned it would not have been so bad. The
man could have bought the very best medi-
cal advice, and he could have had the very
best attendance, and long lines Of carriages
would have stopped at the front door TO in-
Quire as to his welfare But poverty on
the one side and sickness on the other, are
Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock their
shadows and drop them upon the poor
mans way. God help him There Is a
sharp rock on the one side, and q sharp
rock on the other side.n
Now, what is such a man to do7 In the
name of Almighty God win tell him what
to do. Do as Jonathan did--climb; climb
up into the sunlight Of Gods favor and
consolation. | can go through the hurches
and show you mon who lost fortune and
health at the same tune, and yet who sing
all day and dream of heaven all night. IL
you have any idea that sound digestion,
and steady nerves, and clear eyesight, and
good hearing, and plenty OF friends are
necessary TO make man happy, you have
miscalculated. suppose that these over
hanging rocks only made Jonathan scram-
Bile the harder and the faster TO get up and
out iuto the sunlight; and this combined
shadow of fnyalidism and financial embar-
rassment has often sent q man up the
quicker into the sunlight Of Gods