Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-10
TALMAGE AT HOME.
THB GREAT PREACHER WELCOMED BY
THOUSANDS OF HIS PEOPLE.
he Takes for His Subject she House on The
WAl,"-Ths RorSaken Mansion in
Jericho Graphically
Pictured

NAty Vi OCAiCuO. WHdl IS Tue m1llslf IL
il poverty? No. Worse than that. Is il
leprosyS No. Worse than that. Is it
death? No. Worse than that. A daugh-
ter has forsakea her home. By
WHAT INTERNAL PLOT
she was induced to leave know not; but
they look in vain for her return. Some
times they hear foOtstep very much like
hers, and they start up and say: "She
comes" but only 10 sink back sgain into
disappointment. Alas! Alas The father
sits by the hour, with his face in his hands,
saying not one word. The mothers hair
is becoming gray. Added to this there is
sn invading army six miles away, jnst
ever the river, coming on TO destroy the
city; and what with the loss of their child
and ths coming on of that destructive
army, l think the old people wished that
they could die. That is the first scene in
this drama of the Bible.
Ia house on the wall Of the city is
that daughter. That is her home now.
Two spies have come from the invading
army TO look srCund through Jericho and
see how best il may be taken. Yonder is
the lost child in that dwelling on the wall
OF the city. The police hear OF it, and soon
there Is the shutfllDg of feet sll around
abOut the 49,. - -ha city government
DEMANDS THE SURRENDER
Of those two spies. First, Rahab-for that
Was the name Of the lost child-6rat. IA.
hsb seore;es the two spies and gets their
pursuers of the track; but after awhile
she Gays to them: ~ will make a bargain
with you. l will cave your life if you
will save my life, and the life OF Roy father
aud my mother, and my brOihere, and my
sisters, when the vic orious army comes
upon the city" o, she had not forgotten
her home yet, you see. The wsnderer
never forgets home. Her heart breaks
now as she thinks of how she has
maltrested her parents, and she wishes
she were back with them agsiu, and abe
wishes che could get away from her sinful
enthrsllmept; snd sometimes she looks up
10 the face of the midnight, bursting intO
agooizipg tears.
No sooner have these two spies promised
10 save her life, and the lie of her father
and mother, and brothers, and sisters,
than Rahab takes a scarlet cord and ties
il around the body Of one of the spies,
brings him 20 the window, and ss he
Chambers out-neryous lest she have 10.
strength to hold bim-with muscular
arms such ss woman seldom has. che lets
him down.
HAND OVER HAND,
in safety to the ground. Not being eI
hausted, she ties the cord around the other
SPY, brings him to the window, and iust
ss successfully let's him down TO the
Rrovnd. NosO have these men united
the sca.let cord from their bodies thar
they lock Up, and they ssy: ''You had
better get I'll yonr friends in tbis house
yonr father, your mother, your brothers
ard your sisteIs; you bad better get them
II this house. And then, after you have
them there, take this red cord which You
have pus around our bodies aud tie il
across the window; and when our vctori-
ous army comes up, and sees that scarlet
hresd in the window, they will spare this
house and sll who sIe in il. Shall il be
> - cried the spies. AYE, aye" said
R.bab from the window, ''it
shell n co." Tha. is the second scene iD
THE Bible drama. There is q knock at the
door Of the old man. He looks up and
says: Come in, and 10! there is Rahab,
the lost child; but she has no time 20 talk.
They gather in excitement around her,
and she says TO them: "Get ready quick
ly, and 20 with me 10 my house. The
army is comiUJ, The trumpet! Make
haste! Fly! Tbs enemy"
That is
THE THIRD SCENE
in this Bible drama. The hosts Of Israel
are all around about the doomed city Of
Jericho. Crash, goes the great metropolis,
heaps on heaps The air sufocating with
the dust, and horrible with the screams Of
a dyiug city. All the houses fat down.
All the people dead. All no, no. Ga
Greg Of the well-the only piece of the wall
left standipg-there is house which
we must enter. There is family there
that have been spared. Who are lhey2 Let
us 20 and see. Rahsb, her father, her
mother, her broihers, her sisters, all safe,
and the only house lett standing in all the
city. What saved them? Was the house
more firmly built? o. no; it was built in
the most peIilous plaee-On the wall; and
the wall was the frs. thing that fell. Was
il because her character was any better
than any of the other population Of the
city? o, 10. Why, tbes, was she spared
and all her household? Can you tell me
why9 o. it was the scarlet lire in the
window. That is the fourth scene in the
Bible drama. When the destroying angel
went through Egypt, it was the
BLOOD OF THE LAMB
on the door posts that saved the Isrealites;
snd now that vspgssr ce has come upon
Jericho il is the same color that assures the
safety of Rshab and all her household.
NV friends, there are foes coming upon US,
more deadly and more tremendous, to
overthrow our immortal interests. They
will trample rs down a,d crush us out
forever, unless there be some skillful mode
of rsscue open. Il ia through the window
snd by a rope so saturated with the blood
of the cross, that it is as red ss that With
which the spies were lowered; and If oEce
our souls shall be delivered, thsD, the
scarlet cord stretched scross the window of
our escare. we may defy all bombaTdment,
earthly and Satanic.
In the FIRE, place, carrying out the idea
Of nv text, we must stretch this scarlet
cord across the window of our rescue.
There comes time when man is sur
rounded. What is that in the front door
Of bis soul2 Il is the tbreatenings Of the
future. What is that in the back door Of
his sCui? It is the sins Of the past. He
cannot get out of either Of these doorwsys.
II he attempts be will be cut TO pieces.
What shall be DO? Escape through the
window Of Gods mercy.
A young msn goes TO the marble conn
ter Of hotel He asks for brandy
smssh-cslled so, suppose, because it
smashes the man that takes it. There is
no intoxicstioa in it. As the young man
receives it he does not seem to be at sll ex-
cited. It does not give any glOssinees to
ths eye. He wslks home IN beautiful sp-
rarei, ard sll his prospects are brilliant.
That drink is not going 10 destroy him,
but il is
THE FIRST STEP
on bad road. Years have passed on. and
l see that young man after be has gone
the whole length OF dissipation. Il is
midnight, and be is in botel-perhsps
the very one where he took tbs first drink.