The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
!, DEAD LION;
oRDS SPOKEN IN THE IASthNh.
Gle PULPIT.

DR.. De Witt T:dmage Speaks From Scciesi
astes Upon Dead Lion" and Creates
Sensation.
The subject of Dr. Talmages ser
mon on Sunday Was a Deaf laon,
and his text. Ecclas!astes ga, "A liE
lns dog is bet;~y ti.;:n dead non,
He said:
Tie Bible is the strangest,the love,
Hest, the nlightiest, the welrdes5, tbs
best Of books. Written by Moses
the lawyer. Joshua the soldier, sam
uel tic Judge. Ezra the builder, JOB
lhe poet, David the shepherd, Damel
ti,,. ,,Iia.2 minister. Amos the herds
,nan, Matthew the custom house
officer, Luke the doctor, faal the
scholar, John the exile; and yst !.
complete harmony from the middle
verse Of the Bible, which is the eighth
verse of the one hundred and seven
teenth psalm. both ways to the upper
and lower lids, and from the shortest
passage, which is thlty-tiith verse OF
the eleventh chapter OF John, to the
longest verse, which is the ninth
verse OF the eighth charter OF rs
ther. ani yet not an imperfectlon IN
all the 1868 words which it is com
posed cf. 1t not only reaches over
the past, but owe: the future; has IN
it ferry-boat, as IN second Samuel;
and a telegraph wire, as IL Job: and
i ral,o I train, as in Nahum: and
i.,:"c,iu.es us to q foundrylnan by
t ie na,ae of Tubal Cain, and a SHIP
o;.il1er by the name Of Noah, and an
rcil,tect by the name OF anoEao,
ana tells us how many stables Solo
mon had to take care OF his horses,
us! how much he pad TO: those
s.orses. But few things in this ver-
s4t.l,. %ld comprehensive book inter
e. ,.lt so much as It's apothegms,
those short. terse, sententious, epi-
,sammatic sayings, of which my text
is one-~"A living dog is better than a
dead lion"
Here the lion stands for nobility,
and dog for meanness. You must
know that the dog mentioned In the
text is not one of our American or
European or Scottish dogs that, IN
our mind, is synonym for the beau-
tiful, the graceful, the afectionate,
the sasacious. and the true. The st.
Bernard dog is a hero, and II you
doubt it, ask the SHOWS OF the Alps,
out of which he picked the exhausted
traveller. The shepherd dog IS a
poem, and if you doubt it, ask the
Highlands of Scotland. The Arctic
dogis the rescuer Of explorers, and II
you doubt it, ask DR.. hsne,s expedl-
ton. The watchdog is living pro-
lection, and if you doubt it, ask ten
thousand homesteads over whose
safety he watched last night. But
Solomon, the author Of my text, lived
in Jerusalem, and the dog he speaks
OF in the text was adog in Jerusalem.
Last December I passed nights and
cays within stones throw OF where
Solomon wrote this text, and from
what I saw of the CANNES OF Jerusa-
lem by day, and heard Of them by
night 7 can understand the slight ap-
preciation my text puts upon the dog
OF Palestine. It is lean and snarly
and disgusting, and afflicted with
parasites, and takes revenge upon the
human race by filing tie nights with
clamor. AL up and down the Bible,
the most of which was written IN
Palestine or Syria, or contiguous
lands, the dog is used in contemptu-
ous comparison. Hazael said, is
thy servant dog, that he should do
this thinss" In self-abnegatlon the
Ssro-Phcenician woman said, even
the dogs eat of the crumbs which
fall from the Masters table. Paul
saws in Philippians, Beware OF dogs;
and St. John in speaking OF heaven,
SAYS. s'Without are dogs
Onthe other hand theGon is healthy.
strong, and loud-voiced, and at
is roar the forests echo and ths
mountains tremble. It is marvellous
for strength, and when its hide is re-
moved, the muscular compactness IS
something wonderful, and the knife
of the dissector bounds back from the
tendons. By the clearing Of OF the
forests of Palestine and the use OF
firearms, of which the lion is particu-
larly afraid, they have disappeared
from places where they once ranged,
but they were very bold IN olden
times. They attacked an army OF
Xelxes while marching through Mac
edonia. They were so numerous
that one thousand lions We're slam IN
forty years in the amphltheater n
Rome. As most of the Bible was
written in regions hon-haunted, this
creature appears in almost all parts
Of the Bible as simile. David un-
>.es stood it's habits of night-prowhng
:a1u day-slumbering, as IS seen IRON
nis description: The young lions
car after their prey and seek then
meat from God. The sun arlseth
they gather themselves together, ano
hy them down in their dens." And
asain he cries out, My souls among
ions Moses knew them and SAID
~;;adah is crouched like ahon." Sam
son knew them for he took honey
from the carcass ola slain hon. Sol
omon knew them and says, 1.-The
kings wrath is like the roar OF
lion" and again s'The slothful maj
says, there is d lion in the way.
Isaiah knew them, and says IN th'
millennium, ':The lion shall eat straw
like an OK" Ezekiel knew them an(
SAYS, 'sThe third was the face OF
Lion" Paul knew them, ard says
i was. delivered out OF tie mousl
of the lion" Peter knew them, an(
says: The devil as a roaring hol
walketh about" st. John knev
them, and says OF Christ, "Behol'
the Ion of the Tribe Of Judah!
Now what does my text meal
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