The Forrest City times., 1889-12-28
TALMACE IN CANA.
He Talh to Christians Near the Gatss of
 Galilee.
The Famous Brooklyn Preacher Draws . Lesson from the "narriags Feast" where Our Lord Performed His First Miracle The sympathies of the Savior.

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 Our Lord Performed His First Miracle The
 sympathiss of the Savior.
 Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage preached at Cana, in the Holy Land, last Sunday on "A
 Marriage Feast" taking for his text John
 II, 10: Thou hast kept the good wine until
 now" He said:
 l Standing not far of from tho demolish- ! cd town of what was once called Cana of ! Calico, I bethink myself of our Lord 8 | first manhood miracle, which has been the
 astonishment of the ages. My visit last
 week to that place makes vivid in my mind
 that beautiful occurrence in Christ's minis
 try. My text brings us to wedding in
 that village. It is wedding in co ut- mon life, two plain people having
 pledged each other, hand and heart,
 and their friends having come in for con | graduation. Tho joy is not the less be-
 cause there Is no pretension. In each | other they find all tho future they want | The daisy in the cup on the table may
 mean as much us a score of artistic gar
 lands fresh from the hothouse. When a !, daughter goes off from homo with nothing
 but plain fathers blessing and plain mothers love, she Is missed as much
 as though she were princess. It ! oo>hiS hhu, uict tuc pttrcuts uhN0 SuclttF> l ed her for eighteen years that in few
 short months her affections should have ! been carried of by another; but mother 1 remembers how 1t was in her own case
 when she was young, and so she braces up i until the wedding has passed, and the ban 1 qucters arc gone, and sho has good cry all i alone.
 1 We'll we arc to-day at the wedding in i Cana of Galilee. Jesus and his mother 1 have been invited. It Is evident that there
 are more people than there were expected ] Either somo people havo como who were not invited or moro invita-
 tions have been sent out than 1t was sup 1 posed would be accepted. Of course there 1 is not enough supply of wine. You kno W
 that there Is nothing more embarrassing to q 1 housekeepcr than a scaut supply. Jesus ] sees the embarrassment, and he comes up l immediataly to relieve it. He sees standing 1 SIX water pots, Ho orders the servants to 1 fill them with water, then waves his hand
 over the water, and immediately it is 1 wine-rcai vino Taste cf it. and soc i for yourselves; no logwood in 1t no
 strychnine in it. but first rate wine.
 will not now be diverted to tho question so often discussed ia my own country whether
 It is right to drink wine. 1 am de-
 scribing the scene as it was, When
 God makes wine he makes tho very 1 best wine; and ono hundred and thirty 1 gallons of it standing around in these water i pots-wine so good that the ruler of tho
 feast tastes 1t and says; "Why, this is
 really better than anything we have had ! Thou hast kept the good wine until now" Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to
 the person who should write the best essay
 about tho miracle in Cana, Long manu- nyas tad iv,y yla
 but poet won the prize by just this one
 line descriptive Of tho miracle.
 The conscious water saw its God, and l blushed.
 We learn from this miracle, In tho first
 place, that Christ has sympathy with | housekeepers. You might havo thought 1 that Jesus would have said: s'I cannot be l bothered with this household deficiency of 1 Wine. It is not for me, Lord Of heaven, of
 earth, to become caterer to this feast
 have vaster things than this to attend to"
 Not so said Jesus. The wiuc gave out and
 Jesus, by miraculous power came to the
 rescue. Does thero ever como scaut
 supply in your householdf Havo you to make very close calculation. 1.
 Is 1t hard work for you 10 carry on
 things decently and rccpoctablyl If so don't sit down and cry. Don't 20 out and aAShs phs %V tb Nun stptu lu tOG mousse
 in Cana of Calico Pray in tho parlor | Pray in the kitchen, Let there be no room
 In all your house unconsecratcd by the
 voice of prayer 1T you have microscope, put under il one drop of water, and see the
 insects floating about; and when you see that God makes them and cares for them, ana Feeds them, come to tho conclusion that
 he will take care Of you and feed you, oh,
 ye Of little faith
 A boy asked If he might sweep the snow from the steps of a house. Tho lady of the household said Yes; you seem very poor" He says; ''I am very poorr She
 says: Don't you sometimes get discourag-
 cd, and feel that God is going to let you ! starveh The lad looked up in tho woman
 face md said: "no you think God will let
 me starve when l trust him, and then do tho best l camp Enough theology for old CT people, Trust in God and do the best you can. Amidst all tho
 worriments Of housekeeping, go to him; he will help you control your temper, and
 supervise your domestics and entertain your guests, and manage your homo econo. mics. There arc hundreds of women weak,
 and nervous, and exhausted with the cares Of Housekeeping. l commend you 10 tho Lord Jesus Christ as the best adviser and the most efficient aid the Lord Jesus who performed his first miracle to relieve
 housekeepcr.
 learn also from this miracle that Christ does things in abandance. l think a small
 supply of wine would havo made up for the deficiency, l think certainly they
 must have had enough for half of the guests One gallon of wino will do, cer-
 talnly five gallons will be enough ccr-
 tainly ten. But Jesus goes on, and ho gives them thirty gallons, and forty gal
 Ions, and fifty gallons, and seventy gallons.
 and one hundred gallons, and one hundred
 and thirty gallons of the very best wine. IL IS just like him. doing everything on the largest and most generous scale Does
 Christ, our creator, 20 forth to make ieavcsi
 He makes them by tho whole forest full,
 notehed like the fern, or silvcred like tho
 aspen, or broad like the palm; thickcts in
 the tropics, Oregon forests. Docs he go
 forth to make howcrsi Ha makes plenty Of them; they famo from tho hedge, they hang from the top of tho grape vine In blossoms, they roll in tho hlue wave Of the violets they toss their white
 surf into the spiraa- enough for every child s hand a flower. enough to make for
 every brow chaplet enough with beauty
 to cover up the ghastlincss Of all the graves.
 Does he go forth to create waterl Ho 1 pours II out not by the cuptul but by a river full, a lako full. an ocean full, pour.
 ing il out until all the earth has enough to drink and enough with which to wash. Does Jesus, our Lori, provide redemp- tioni It Is not a littlo salvation for this one, a little fer that and little for tho other, but enough for Whosocvcr will, let him come" Each man an ocean 1 full for himsclk Promises for the young, promises for tho old, promises for the lowly, promises for tho blind, for the halt, for the ontcast for the abandoned Par. don for all, comfort for all. mercy for all, heaven Tor all, not merely a cupful of Gospel supply, but ono hundred and
 thirty gallons Ay, tho tears of godiy
 repentance are all gathered up into Gods
 bottle, and some day, standing before the throne, we will lift our cup of delight and
 ask that it bo fulfilled with tho wine of
 heaven, and Jesus. from that bottle of
 tears, will begin to pour in the cup, and we will cry. "Stop, Jesus We do not want ta