The Grenada sentinel., 1888-08-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"T:ouble On Both Sides" and How
..... to Meet It.
The Financial and Domestic TribulatIons
Which Beset Mankind-The Cos
pei of Jesus a Sure Bull
wark OF Defense.

ReL 7. Dewitt Talmage took for his
subject OF recent sermon: Trouble
on B.th Sides" His text was:
! Thee was sharp rock on the one side, and
shap rock on the other side.-L Samuel
xiv.,t
Th' cruel army OF the Philistines must
be taien and scattered. There is just one
man, accompanied by his body guard, to
do that thing. Jonathan Is the hero Of
the Gene. know that David cracked the
skull OF the giant with few pebbles we'll
sluny, and that three hundred Gideonites
scat cred ten thousand Amalekites by the
crasl of broken crockery; but here is
NOR, wonderful conflict. Yonder are the
Philstines on the rocks. Here is Jonathan
with his body guard in the valley. On
the ne side is rock called B1zez, on the
othe' side is a rock called Seneh. These
two we're as famous in olden times as in
modrn times are Plymouth Rock and Gil
bralhr. They were precipitous, unscal-
able md sharp. Between these two rocks
Jonathan must make his ascent. The day
comes for the scaling of the height. JON
athan, pn his hands and feet begins the
ascent With strain and slip and bruise,
l suppo.e, but still on and up, first goes
Jonathan, and then goes his body guard,
| Bozez onone side, Seneh on the other.
After sharp tug, and push,
and clinging, I see the head of
Jonathan above the hole in the
mountain; and there is challenge, and
a fight, and supernatural CONSERVATION.
| turp his hn5
guard, drive back and drive down the
Philistines over the rocks, and open a
campaign which demolishes the enemies
of Israel. suppose that the overhang-
ing and overshadOwing rocks on either
side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan
or his body guard, but only reused and
filed them with enthusiasm as they went
| up.
There was sharp rock on the one side, and
sharp rock on the other side.
| My friends, you have been, or are now,
some Of you, in this crisis of the text. II
man meets one trouble he can go
through it He gathers, all his energies,
concentrates them upon one point, and in
the strength of God or by his own natur
al determination, goes through it. But
the man who has trouble to the right Of
him, aud trouble to the left of him is to
be pited. Did either trouble come alone
he might endul it, but two troubles, two
disasters, two Overshadowing misfort-
unes, are Bozez and Sepah, God pity him,
There Is sharp rock on the one SIDE, and a
| sharp rock on the other side.
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him a the
same time Nine-tenths of'all our mer-
chants capsize in business befOre they
come forty-,ive years of age. There is
some collision in commercial circles, and
they stop payment. 1t seems as II every
nan must put his name on the back Of
n1te before he learns what a fool a man
is who risks all his own property on the
prospect that some man will tell the
trutA. 1t seems as if man must have a
large amount of unstable goods on his
own shelf before he learns how much
easier it is to buy than to sell 1t seems
as if every man must be completely
burned out before he learns the impor-
tance Of always keeping fully insured
1t seems as if every man must be wrecked
in a financial tempest before he learns to
keep snug in case Of sudden eurocly-
don. When the calamity does come, it is
awful. The man goes home III despair
and he tells his family:
we nave " ~ W 'tt' too ~
ne 'ahe' uoloiuu' VIC" y. ,,.1 ,;.'c
tnlu@ ~ SreHi9 "S L io 1AI, ,e4 N'ulO
but Atlle tlihe passes anu ne say :,
Nh!' am npt 50 p"u1y 04 "i 'e' "14'
have my family left"
Before lhe horu lUrIE" Au",n oUC y
faradlse he gave MN Eve 81 lnoI n'l
ne loSt faraul'e lie c"u'u Sl"u" It, e.
NIT one VINO mas never re'o ou' lev
noVels III an HIS me- an" WV H"s NV
grea' uetl Oh romance Ill MS coLl ''o'l'toI !,
TO say tha' II, Wneh nun loLtu!1cS LaLl
he l"S 'ou WIFI S"ou : III - ''"H VII
he ought hot 10 oe ue7Pon"eH'
I'm" you say lilaI ollly lH'Fease' u
emparra'Sment, since !o" nave nel ais
TO take care Oh.
OIL are an lIiSra'e' Ior 'lIe "o'''a1l
orteh supports 'He III man a' lli9 man sul,
porlS the Woii.''l' iAe man INA! o'inS ~ ~,
the aoliars' put 'ne "UilSH Seuet -, a. !
prlngs the courage anu me IaI'u III Uo"
, WELL TINS man OF "holn am spe"h III
looRs arouhu, Hi" lie mus HIS l"il'IlA
left, ana ne r"!lleS' anu 'ne 4lSl.' come
TO ms eyes ana tue Silll' ~ MS l''e' ",'
the courage 10 MS hea' T. III '"o e"i u
Is quite over IT, ne Ht"Nt' MS i.'4o.i !l' "a
CALAMITY the nrSI c1lapC III d new era y
prosperity he met tuat ono VlouDttI I,.,,
conquered II. ne sat 'o"n lol ll''i