The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-06-07
TALMAGE6 SERMON.
Tho Brooklyn Divine Discourses on
Topics Incident to Every
Day Life.

The Brooklyn Divine Discourses on
Topics Incident to Every.
Day Life.
Where One ChrIstian II Hard at work
In the Vineyard. FIFTY Stand Idly
by Bossing the Job.
The subject OF the eloquent doctors dis.
course was: "Disabled Hunters Bringing
Down the Most Came" His text was from
Isaiah, xxxiii, %.
The lame take the prey.
The following is the sermon:
The utt.r demolition of the Assyrian host
was here predicted. Not only ROBUST men
should so forth and gather the spoils of con-
quest, Tut even men crippled Of arm and
crippled Of foot should 70 out and cap
TUE much that was valuable. Their physi-
great enrichment. So it has been in the
past, SO it is row, so it will be in the future.
20 it is In all departmen ts. Men labor un-
der seemingly great disadvantages, and
amid the most unfavorable circumstances,
yet making grand achievements, getting
great blessing for themselves, great blessing
for the wcrld, great blessing for the church,
and SO 'the lame take the. prey" -
Do you know that the three great poets of
the world were totally blind2 Homer,
Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that Mr..
Prescott, who wrote that enchanting book,
'"The Conquest OF Mckee," never saw Mex
icc-tould not eytn see the paper on which
he was writing? A framework across the
sheet, between which, up and down, went
the Pen immortal. DO you know that Gam
before him, or the chisel with which he cut
It into shapes bewitching2 Do you know
that Alexander Pope, whose poems will
last as long as the English language. was SO
much OF an Invalid that he had to be sewed
up every morning in rough canvass in order
to stand Oil 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
had been unjustly imprisoned for debt? Do
you know that Demosthenes by almost
superhuman exertion first had to conquer the
assemblages with his elouuence? Do you
know that Bacon struggled all through in
Vulnerable sicknesses and that Lord Byron
and Sir Walter Scott went limping on club
foot through all their lives, and that many
of the great poets and painters and orators
something to keep them back and Full 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 spells of worldly sue
cess, and amid the huzza of nations and cen.
buAASo Vic lN4l1 COOA UlC PlCyt
You know that a vast multitude Of these
men started under tie disadvantage of OBJ
scure 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.
But what is true in secular directions is
more true in spiritual and religious direc-
tons, and I proceed to prove it.
There are in all communities many inva-
lids. They never know a we'll day. They
adhere to their occupations. but they 60
painting along the streets with exhaustion,
with achings beyond all medicament. They
have tried all prescriptions, they have gone
through all the cures which were proclaimed
infa llible, and they have come now to sur
render to perpetual ailments. They con!
slider they arc among many disadvantages;
and when they see those who are buoyant in
health pass by, they almost envy then ro-
4 bust frames and easy respiration.
But / have noticed among that invalid
SSafass those who have the greatest knowledge
"uitdhe Bible, who are in nearest intimacy
;nv IxJesu Christ, who have the most glow
nMSs..scsnerience of the truth, who have had
1ae iloss remarkable answers to prayer, and
VIZ nav nest eXhilarant a%nticipatlons of
WHOA arc, in roSusia which weary us
quered. They y'i have "d1if 7fIahsash they ey,d have Icon son,
the spoiIs of the conquest. Many Va su lern
alert and athletic and swarthy loiter IN the
way. These are the lame that take the
prey. Robert Hall, an invalid; Edward
laid Samuel Rutherford. an Invalid. This
morning, when yuu ssaate ID eall to mind
those who are most Christlike,. you think of
: some darkened room in your father house
from which there went forth an influence
potent for eternity.
A step farther; Through raised letters
the 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
g., "Why I never could get any information in
this way. What a slow, cumbrous way of
reading! God help tho blindw
Ana yet l. II among that class OF per-
sons, the blind, the deaf and the dumb, the
most thorough acquaintance with Gods
formation, no sooner does their hand touch
the raised letters than they gather q prayer.
Without eyes they, look off upon the
kingdoms of Gods love. Without hearing,
they catch the minstrelsy Of the skies.
Dumb, yet with pencil, or with irradiant
countenance, they declare the glory of God.
A large audience assembled in New York
at the anniversary of the Deaf and Dumb
asylum, and one Of the visitors with chalk
on the black board wrote this question to the
pupils: do you not find it very hard to be
deaf and dumb" And one Of the pupils
took the chalk and wrote on the blackboard
this sublime sentence 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 fliend,
nor thrum of harp, nor carol Of bird, nor
dOxology Of congregations.
A lad who had been bin from infancy
= was cured. The oculist operated upon the
lad and then put a very heavy bandage over
the eyes, and after a few weeks had gone by
the bandage was removed, and the mother
said to her child: "Willie, can you seer"
He said: "Oh! mamma, is this heaven?"
The contrast between the darkness before
whelming. And | tell you the glories of
heaven Will be a thousand fold brighter for
these who never saw anything or earth.
While many with good visloa closed their
eyes in night, and many who had a good,
artistic, and cultured ear went down int,
Lord in their trouble, and BE made their
sorrows tkeir advantage, and SO sthe lame
tohe. the prey" =
in the seventh century there was a legend
Of St. Modobert. 1t was said that his mother
was blind, and one day while looking as his
7 ness that he rushed forward and kissed her
blind eyes, and, the legend says, her vision
came Immediately. That was only q leg
end, but 1t is q truth, glorious truth, that a
kiss Of God's eternal love has brought TO
many a bind eye eternal illumination,
A step further: There are those in all CONE
munities who toll nightly for a livelihood,
They have scant wages. Perhaps they are
diseased or have physical intirmities, 30 they
are hindered from doing a continuous DAVIS
WORK. A city missionary finds them up the
dark alley, with no FIRE, with thin clothing,
with very coarse bread. They never ride in
the sire et-car; they can rot afford the 5