The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-02-27
TALMAGE Al HOME.
A GREAT CONGREGATION AT THE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

Ho breaches an EOrnest aud ELOQUENT
Sermon on "rho House on tho walI"-
How tho Subject was Treated.
The Rev. T. De Witt TIA Image, D. D.,
having returned from his visit to the
Holy Land, resumed preaching in Brook
yn on Sunday. The Academy Of Music
temporarily used instead of the destroy
cd Tabernacle, was crowded to its ut.
most. Thousands of people were not
able to get into the building. The sub
ject of his discourse was ''Ihe House on
the Wall" DR.. Talmage took for his
text Joshua vi, 80: "And tho young
men that were spies went in, aud brought
out KaAab, her father, and her mother,
and her bretheren 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 a wedding present
to Cleopatra3 Where are the groves of
palm trees2 Where is the great theatre
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
placer Where is the wreck of the walls
that fell at the blowing of the rams
hornY But the fact that all these have
disappeared did not hinder me from
seeing in Imagination the smash Of
everything on the fated day, save one
house on the wall. That scene centuries
ago comes back to me as though it were
yesterday.
There is very sick and sad house in
the city of Jericho. What is the matter2 ?
1t is poverty2 No. Worse than that. Is it
leprosy2 No. Worse than that. Is it
deathS No. Worse than that. A daugh-
ter has forsakeu her home. BY what in
fernal 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
Alasl 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 q little
while ago in the streets know her no
now as she passes. The brothers clinch
their fists, swearing vengeance against
the despoiler 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 invading
army SIX miles away, just over the river,
coming on to destroy the city, and what
with the loss Of their child and the COM
ing on Of that destructive army, / think
the old people wished that they could
die. That is the first scene in the drama
of the Bible. In the house on the wall
10 LOT Il
ho" nov Nc 3pi3 6Ar' ctG:s ;rou
the -nvad.Ag AMY Co .ook a.ound
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 shuflling Of feet all around about the
door, and the city government demands
the surrender of those two spies. First,
RahaS-for that was The name of the
lost child-frst, Rahab secretes the two
spies and gets their pursuers off the
track; but after awhile she says to them:
II will make IA bargain with you. I will
save your life if you will save my life,
and the life of my father, and my moth.
or, and my brothers, and my sisters,
when the victorious army comes upon
the city" O, she had not forgotten her
home yet, you see. TIE wanderer never
forgets home. Her 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 her sinful enthrall-
ment; and sometimes she looks up in the
face Of the midnight, bursting into agon-
izing tears. No sooner have these TWO
spies promised TO save her life, and the
life of her father and the life Of her
mother, and brother, and sister, than
Rahab takes scarlet cord and ties it
around the body Of one Of the spies,
brings him to the wiadow, and as he
chambers Out--nervOus lest she have not
strength to hold him-with muscular
arms such as woman seldom has, she lets
him down, hand over hand, in safety to
the ground. Not being exhausted, she
ties the cord around the other spy, briggs
him to the window, and just as success,
fully lets him down to the ground. No
sooner have these men united the scarlet
cord from their bodies than they look up
and they say: "You had better get all
your friends in this house your father,
your mother, your brothers and your
sisters; you had better get them in this
house. And then, after you have them
here, take this red cord which you have
ppJ ulOuuu Oul DOGlcS anu TIC III across
the window, and when our victorious
army comes up and sees that scarlet
thread in the window, they will spare
this house and all who arc in it. Shall
it be so2 cried the spies. AYE, ave.
said Rahab, from the window sit shall
be So" That is the second scene in this
Bible drama. There is a 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 to
talk. They gather in excitement around
her, and she says to them: "Get ready
quickly, and go with me to my house.
The army is coming! The trumpet!
Make haste Fly The 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 suffocating with dust, and horrible
with the screams of a dying city. All the
the houses fiat down. All the people
dead. All no, no. On n crag of the wall
there is house which we must enter.
There is family there that have been
spared. Who are they9 Let US go and
see. Rahab, her father, her mother,
her brothers, her sisters, all safe, and
the only house left standing in all the