Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-06-30
CLIPS FROM TALMAGE.


A large audience assembled in
New York at the anniversary OF the
Deaf and Dumb asylum, and one oil
the visitors with chalk on the black.
board wrote this question to the pu-
pills: Do you not find it very hard
10 be deaf and dumb ~ And one oil
the pupils took the chalk and wrote
on the blackboard this sublime sen.
tence IN answer When the song
of the angels shall burst upon our
enraptured ear, we will scarce regret
That our ears were never marred
With earthly sounds" Oh! the
brightest eyes IN heaven will be those
that never saw on earth. The ears
most alert in heaven will be those
that in this world heard neither
voice of friend, nor thum of harp,
nor Carol of bird, nor doxology OF
congregations.
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God has royal family in the
world. Now if | should ask +" Who
are the royal families of history ~
you would say: "House of Hapsburg,
house of Stuarts, house Bourbons."
They live in palaces and great equi.
page. But who are the Lords royal
familyf Some of them may serve
you in your household, some of them
are in unlighted garrets, some of
them will walk this afternoon down
the street, on their arm a basket of
unbroken food some of them are in
the almshouse, despised and rejected
men, yet in the last great day, where
it will be found that some of us who
Jared sumptuously every day are
hurled back into discontinue, there
are the lame that will take the prey.
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There are in all communities many
orphans. During our last war and
in the years Immediately following,
how many children we heard say /:
ooh my father was killed in the
war;" Have you ever noticed-I fear
you have not-how we'll those child.
len have turned out ? Starting un-
der the greatest disadvantage, no
orphan asylum could do for them
what their father would have done
had he lived. The skirmished sat
one night, by the light of tagots, in
the swamp, writing letter home,
when sharpshooter's bullet ended
the letter which was never folded,
never posted and never read.
Who built the Pyramids The
king VINO ordered them built? No;
the plain workman who added stone
after stone and stone alter stone.
Who built the bikes of Holland ?
The government that ordered the
enterprise? No; the plain work
men who carried the earth and rung
their trowel Oh the wall. Who are
those who have built these vast cit
les? The capitalist? No; the
carpenters, the masons, the plumb
e:s, the plaSterers, the timers, the
roofers, dependent on days wages
for livelihood. And so in the
great work of assuaging human suf.
fering and enlightening human ig-
norance and halting human iniqui-
ty. In that great work, the chief
part Is to he done by ordinary men
in an ordinary manner, and
by ordinary means. The trouble is
that in the army of Christ we all
want to be captains and colonies and
brigadier generals. We are not will
ing to march with the rank and file
and to do duty with the private sol
der. We want to belong to the re.
serve corps. and read about the bat.
tie while warming ourselves at the
camp fires, or on furlough at home,
our feet upon an ottoman, we sag
ging back into an arm chair.
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DO you know that the three great
poets of the world were totally blind !
Homer, Ossian, John Milton. Do
you know that Mr.. Prescott, who
wrote that enchanting book, "The
Conquest of Mexico" never saw
Mexico, could not even see the pa
per on which he was writing
A framework across the sheet,
between which, mp and down, went
the pen immortal. Do you know
that Gambassio, the sculptor, could
not see the marble before him or the
chisel with which he cut it into
shapes bewitchings Do you know
that Alexander Pope, whose poems
will last as long as the English Ian.
guage, was so much OF an invalid
that he had to be sewed up every
morning IN rough canyass in order
10 stand on his feet at all |?