The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-26
HOME AGAIN.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage breaches
to a Brooklyn Congregation
About Rahab's House Perched on the
Walls of Jericho-HOw She and Her
Family We're Saved from De-
structiOn-The Scarlet Cord
Across the Window and
What 1t signifies.

udy, dltcr HIS VlSlt W IuC IIoiy Ldhu,
and tho Academy of Music was crowded.
Thousands Of people were not able to
get into the building. The subject OF
his discourse was 1.-THE House on the
Wall" DR.. Talmage took for his text
Joshua vi. 90: 'And the young men
that were spies went in, and brought
out Rahab, and her father, and her
mother, and her brethren. and all that
she had" He said:
When, only few weeks ago, visited
Jericho, said, can it be possible that
this dilapidated place is the Jericho that
Mark Antony gave as wedding present
to Cleopatra? Where are the groves OF
palm trees? Where are Herod's palaces
that once stood here? Where is the
great theater from the stage Of which
Salome told the people that Herod was
dead? Where is the sycamore tree on
the limb of which Zaccheus sat when
Jesus passed this place? Where is the
wreck Of the walls that fell at the blow
ing OF the rams horns? But the fact
that all these have disappeared did not
hinder me from seeing in imagination
the smash of every thing on the fated
day, save one house on the wall. That
scene centuries ago comes back to me as
though it we're yesterday.
There is very sick and sad house in
the city of Jericho. What is the mat
ter? Is it poverty? No. Worse. than
that. Is it leprosy? No. Worse than
that. Is it death? No. Worse than
that, A daughter has forsaken her
home. BY what Internal plot she was
induced to leave know not; but they
look in vain for her return. Sometimes
they hear footstep very much like
hers, and they start up and say: ''She
comes!' but only to sink back again 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 too fast,
and she begins to stoop so that those
who saw her only little while ago in
the street know her not now as she
passes. The brothers clench their fists,
swearing vengeance against the de-
spoiler OF their home. Alas! will the
poor soul never come back? There is a
long, deep shadow over all the house
hold. Added to this there is an invad-
ing army six miles away, just over the
river, coming on to destroy the city;
and what with the loss of their child
and the coming on Of that destructive
army, think the old people wished that
they could die. This is the first scene
in this drama of the Bible. In 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
around through Jericho and see how best
it 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 shutting of feet all around about the
door, and the city government demands
the surrender of those two spies. First
Rahab-for that was the name of the
lost child-frst, Rahab secretes the two
spies and gets their pursuers off the
track; but after while she says tc
them: 81 will make bargain with
you. will save your life If you will
save my life, and the life of my father
and my mother, and my brothers, and
my sisters, when the victorious army
comes upon the city" 0, she had moi
forgotten her home yet, you see. The
wanderer never forgets home. Hel
heart breaks now as she thinks of how
she has maltreated her parents, and she
wishes she were back with them again
and she wishes she could get away from
she looks up in the face of the midnight
bursting into agonizing tears. No sooner
have these two spies promised to save hel
life and the life of her father, ant
mother, and brothers and sisters, thar
Rahab takes scarlet cord and ties i
around the body of one of the spies
brings him to the window, and as hi
chambers out, nervous lest she have no
strength to hold him, with muscular
arms such as woman seldom has, sht
lets down, hand over hand, in safety t,
the ground. Not being exhausted, sh,
ties the cord around the other spy
brings him to the window, and just a
successfully lets him down to tn,
ground. No sooner have these men un
tied the scarlet cord from their bodie
than they look up and they say: "Yol
had better get all your friends in thi
house-your father, and your mother
your brothers and your sisters; you hat
better get them in this house. An,
then, after you have them here, TAX
this red cord which you have put aroun,
our bodies and tie it across the window
and when our victorious army comes up
and sees that scarlet thread in tn
window, they will spare this house an
all who are in it. Shall it be sop erie,
the spies. ave, aye" said Rahab, fror
the window, lit shall be so." That i
the second scene in this Bible drama
There is knock at the door of the oil
man. He looks up, and says: "Com
in" and 10! there is Rahab. the los
child, but she has no time to talk
They gather in excitement around her
and she says to them: Get ready quickly
and go with me to my house. TIL
army is coming! The trumpet! Max
haste! Fly! The enemy" That is tn
third scene in this Bible drama. TIL
hosts of Israel are all around about n
doomed city of Jericho. Crash! goes tn
great metropolis, heaps on heaps. TIL
air suffocating with the dust, and horri
BILE with the screams of dying city
All the houses fat down. All the pee
pie dead. All, no. no. On a crag Of tn
wall-the only piece of the wall let
standing-there is house which W
must enter. There is family Their