Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-19
A POISONED DINNER.
ouDJEcT or OR. TAlMAGe's TABER-
NAclE SERMON, MAY ~.


g.r~liei Drawn Between the Past and the
Prs~ent-The ~Coloquintida Of Mighty
Experimentation Of Iniquity to he
Found Everywhere In Modern Life.
BROOKLYN, May 12,-The Rev. T.
Do Witt Talmage, d. D., preached at
The Tabernacle today TO a vast congre-
CATION. who sang with grand effect
the hymn beginning:
Ny soul. be on thy guard;
Ten thousands foes arise.
And hosts OF sin are pressing hard
To draw thee from the skies
His subject was "A Poisoned Dinner"
and his text III Kings iv, 40; so they
poured out for the me 10 eat. And
il came TO pass, as they were eating Of
the pottage, that they cried out, and
said, . thou man of God, there is
death in the pot And they could not
eat thereof"
Elisha had rome down 10 lecture to
the students in the theological semin.
AIRY at Gilgal. He found the students
very hungry, as students are apt to be.
IL Is very seldom the world makes
large provision for those who give
themselves To intellectual toll. In or
der that these students may be pre-
pared TO hear what Elisha says, he
first feeds their hunger. He knew very
well il is useless TO talk, TO preach,
10 lecture with hungry men.
So Elisha, recognizing this common
principle, which every Christian
ought TO recognize, sends servants out
10 get food for these hungry students.
They pick up some good, healthful
herbs, but they happen to pick up also
some coloquintida, a bitter, poisonous,
beautiful herb. They bring all these
herbs, they put them into the boiling
pot, they stir them up, and then a por-
ton Of this food is brought 70 the Stu
dents and their professors Seated at
The table, one of the hungry students
begins Immediately to eat, and he hap
pens TO get hold of some OF the colo
quintida. He knew it by the taste. He
cries out: Poison, poIsonl . thou
man Of god, there is death in the potv'
CONSERVATION is thrown over the
whole group. What a fortunate thing
il was that this student so early found
the coloquintida in tie mixture at the
table, You will by reference find this
story is precisely as / have mention
edit.
cALDRoNs OF SIN AND DEATH.
Well, in our day there are great
caldrons of sin and death. Coloquin.
tida Of mighty temptation is pressed
into it, Some dip it out, and taste,
and reject il and live. Others dip ii
out, taste il, keep on and die. And il
is the business OF every minister Of re-
ligion and every man who wishes
well 10 the human race, and who
wants TO keep the world back from its
follies and its sufferings, 10 cry out:
"Bewarel poison, poisonl Look out
for this caldronl Stand back Beware!'
Sin has done an awful work in our
world. Ii has gone out through all
the ages, il has mixed up a great cal
dron Of trouble and suffering and
pain, and the whole race is poisoned
poisoned in body, poisoned in mind,
poisoned in soul. But blessed be God
thai the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the
antidote, and where there was sin
there shall be pardon, and where
there was suffering there shall be
comfort. and where there was death
there shall be life.
Some time ago, you will remember,
I~persuaded you of the importance OF
being charitable in judgment Of others.
Al the same time | said TO you briefly
what this morning | wish TO say with
great emphasis, that while we sym.
pathize with the sinner we must de-
nounce the sin, that while we pity the
unfortunate we must be vehement
against transgression. Sin is a jagged
thing that needs 10 be roughly han.
died. You have no right TO garland il
with fine phrases or lustrous rhetoric.
You cannot catch a buffalo with a
llken lasso.
A group of emigrants settle in a
wild region. The next day a wild
beast comes down from the mountain
and carries off one Of the children.
The next day a wild beast comes down
from the mountain and carries off an
other child. Forthwith all the neigh
bors band together, and they go out
with torch in one hand and gun in
the other 10 hunt these monsters
down, to find their hiding place, to
light up and ransack the caverns, and
70 destroy the invaders of their houses.
So We want now not merely 10 talk
about the sins and follies of the world,
we want TO go behind them, back Of
them. Down into the caverns where
they hide we need 10 go with the
torch Of Gods Word in one hand and
the sword of Gods eternal Spirit in
the other 10 hunt out and slay these
iniquities in their hiding places. Or,
10 come back TO the figure suggested
BY my text, we want 10 find what are
the caldrons Of sin and death from
which the iniquities Of society are dip
ped out.
UgDIscIPLIyED HOMES.
l. In the first place, | remark: that
unhappy and undisciplined homes
are the caldrons Of great iniquity.
good home is deathless in lis .sf;ch,
Parents harsh and cruel on the one
hand, or on the other hand loose in
their government, wickedly loose in
their government, are raising up p
generation Of vipers. A home where
scolding and fretfulness are dominant
Is blood relation TO the gallows and the
pen~itentiaryi Petulance is a serpent
that crsw Is up into the family nursery
.umetimes and crishexs everything