The Penn's Grove record., 1889-01-12
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
A Bad Boil Cured.

n bau boil turcus
~ have heard thy prayer: . . behold ] will
heal theo . And Isaiah said Take a lump
of figs. And they took and laid II on the boil,
and he recovered."-1i Kings 1855.
LUXURIOUS living is not healthy.
The second generation Of kings and
queens and lords and princes Is apt to
be brainless and invalid. The second
crop of grass is almost always short.
Royal blood is generally scrofulous.
You will not be surprised, then, to
hear that King Hezekiah had disorders
which broke out In a carbuncle, virul-
ent and beautiful. The Lord told him
he must die; he did not want to die.
lie turned his face to the wall, so that
his prayer would not be interrupted,
and cried for his life.
GOD HEARD THE PRAYER,
and answered it, saying, ''Behold, 1
will heal thee" But there was human
instrumentality to be employed. This
carbuncle needed a ''cataplasm," which
is a poultice. Your old mother, who
doctored her own children in the time
when physicians were not as plenty as
they are now, will tell you that the
very best poultice Is a fig, and that wal
what vas used upon the carbuncle of
King Hezekiah. The power of God,
accompanied by this human instru.
mentality, cured the king.
In this age of discovery, when men
know so much it almost Kills them,
and write so wisely it almost kills us,
it has been found out that prayer TO
God is q dead failure. All things are
according Il memorable law.
Inere is no use IN praying 70 uou ior
ram IN Time OF 1ne "eaeneI
programmes. IN Il morning papers
VIII decide the question. ram OF no
rain, I'M the whole nation IN prayer pc
lore God would not oring DOWN Single
drop. am not now speaking OF an N
aginary theory, put OF tnat Whicn Is Do
v by ten thousand times ten thou-
sand men.
Ii sickness comes 10 your nouSenoiu'
IL VIII depend entirely upon ventilation,
good diet, n the skill Oh the uOctors,
as TO whether your chiia gets we'll Inc
father might pray all day, d the
mother might pray all hlgnt-it wouiu
not have any erect upon tne case. II
s.quiiis, Deilauonna, paregoric, any gruei
90 The WORK, your chllu VIII get wei,
II not, not. Inere Is y cast-lron you
seated at the neau ol the UNIVERSE;
noldlng III the cOiu grasp OIL iiis nleuai
fingers a Dand OF iaw from WHICH hoth-
ing can break away.
THE BATTLE-GROUND.
Men and women of God, at this point
the great battle of Christianity Is 10 be
fought. The great foe of Christianity
to-day is r~ationalism, that comes out
from Il schools and universities, anu
magazines and newspapers. TO scott at
Bible truth and caricature the old re-
ligiOn of Jesus. 1t says Jesus is not
uou, loi ~ % i"o nmS wan ~ tho
same time The Hihje il moi insured.
Tor tbara orc things in n that thew
DON'T I;Ee Recene1ation ia a farce:
thsre 10 FOOD anomah in ms and lie
nnIv ti,ir9 10 to hrin1 II ont Develon-
ment ia he word-deyelopment. The
Garden NJ Eden ia a fairy story. and
M moro To he believed than the Arab
ian Niobts or G~nlliver,s Trayels or
Roh;nson Srusoe We all started as
hshonns and are blood relations To that
mnnrev sanirmino about On the Ton of
,hot T,nd' nraan Tazarns was moi
JaaJ when Christ nretended to raise
lin. ha was only nIaving dead The
water VAS not changed into WING at
,ha M INF Christ brought in
snme vine tSat he had found elsewhere
IN maEa nm the de@0ciencv Christ did
not wall On the sea Inf IN The shore
sn Moor hat r. seemed az if he really
Sr.a ON Inc water
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cuie. nneie 10 hos vho "a nn. a..
~ hSo ., as ~ th;s %raiiarv sani,n.
'ho Pie'en'0 "A Wis ' ~'o
81 BELIEVE IN THE WHOLE BIBLE,
and in every single statement that it
makes" Christian men try to soften
the Bible down to suit the sceptics.
The sceptics sheer at the dividing Of the
Red Sea; and the Christian goes to ex-
planning that the wind blew a huIri-
canoe from one direction q good while,
until all the water piled up; and be-
sides, that it was low water anyhow,
and SO the Israelites vent through with
out any tronolp: why not De iTank
miahty came to the brink of the Red
Saa md viii h;s rioht arm svnng
boct the biiiows on tbe right side and
wifi hIs ,eft arm swuno hack the hiI-
lows on The left side and The abashed
water stond nm hundreds of feet high.
While tI,rouph their CLASSY wall the zen.
monsters ca7ed with affriphted ewes on
the nassinS Israeljtes;'p
Tbe rationalist comes to Won saving.
SLOW abont Jonah and the whale?
No y"u really beIieve that fish storvYn
Tbere were never So many Nantmcket |
dsharmen after one Whale as there
love haen r%ationaIists ainginc HARMONIC
at tSe Mediterranean seasmonster, and
from that onewhale thevhaye cot enomoh
oil to Iiaht ten Thousand sonIs to perdi.
lion 4 scanf;c tells Won that Jonah |
would have heen killed in the nrocess
~ syvaiIoyiu~ and hat ba could not
anvhow have lived three DAYS in such
cicsa nnarters int won,d have haen
emotberad by the moor ventiIation