New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-19
TALMAGE Al HOME,
Again He breaches to His
People in Brook
lyn.
a Great Audience Welcomes
Him at the Accad-
envy of Music.

envy of Music.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Special.-The Rev. T..
DE Witt Talmage, d. D.. resumed preaching
in BROOKLYN this morning, alter his visit to
the Holy Land and the Academy of Music
was crowded. Thousands of people were not
able to get into the building. The subject of
his discourse was THE House on the Wall. "
DIR. Talmage took fer his text Joshua vi, %:
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" Hesaid:
Wien, only few weeks ago visited Jeri-
cho, said can it be possible that this dilap-
adated place is the ] ericho that Mark Antony
gave as q wedding present to Cleopatra:
Where are the groves of palm trees?
Where are Herod's palaces that once stood
leres Where is the great theater from the
stage of which Salo ME told tie 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 blowing of the
rams horns? But the fact that all these
have disappeared did not hinder me from
seeing iii 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 were yesterday.
There is a very sick and sad house in the
city of Jericho. What is the matter? Is it
.poverty? No. Worse than that. Is it lep-
rosy? No. Worse than that Is it death?
No. Worse than that. A daughter has for
saken her no me- By what internal! plot she
was induced to leave know not; but they
look in vain for her return. Sometimes they
hear q footstep very much like hers, and
they start up and say, "She comes!" but only
TO sink back again into disappoin tment.
-Aias Alas! The father sits by the hour, with
his face in his hands, saying not one word
The mothers harris becoming gray too fast.
and she begins to stoop SO that those who
saw her only a little while ago in the street
know her not now as she passes. The broth
ers c!inch their fists, swearing vengeance
against the despoiler of their home. Alas!
will the poor soul never come back? There
is long, deep shadow over all the house
Mold Added to this there is an invading
army six miles away, just over the river,
coming 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. That is the first
scene IN this drama of the Bible. In a house
on the wall ofthe cityis that daughter. That
as her homenow. Two spies have ONE from the
lnvading army to look around through Jeri-
clio and see how best it may be taken Yon-
der is the lost child, in that dwelling on the
walt 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 de-
maRds the surrender of those two spies.
H1rst, Rahab-for that was the anne of the
iost child-frst, Rahab secretes the two spies
anu gets their pursuers off the track; but aft
or q while she says to them: 81 will make
bargain with you. ~ will save your life if
YOU will save my life, and the Ii e of my
father and my mother, and my brothers. and
my sisters when the victorious army comes
upon the city" o, she had not forgotten
her home yet, you see. The wanderer never
forgets home. Her heart breaks now as she
thinks of how she has maltreated her pa-
rents, and she wishes she were back with
them again, and she wishes she could get
away rom hersinful enthrallment; and some
times she looks up in the face ofthe midnight
hurstlng into agonizing tears. No sooner
nave these two spies promised to save her
lille, and the life Oh her father, and mother,
and brothers. and sisters, than Rahab takes
q scarlet cord and ties it around the body of
one OF the spies, brings him to the window,
and as he chambers out-nervous lest she
should not have strength enough to hold
7him-with muscular arms such as woman
= seldom has, she let's him down, hand over
hand, in safety to the ground. Not being
: exhausted. she ties the cord around the other
! spy, brings him o the window. and just as
successfully let's him doWnto the ground No
{ sooner have these men united the scarlet
cord from their bodies than they look up
nnd they say: You had better get all your
friends IN this house-your father, your
mother, your brothers and your sisters: you
mad better get them in this house. And then,
af5es. you have them here, take this red cord
which you have put around our bodies and
tie 1t across the window; and when our vic
Gorlons army comes up, and sees that scar
let thread III the window, they will spare this
house, and all who are in it. Shall it beso?''
cried the spies. "Aye, aye" said Rahab, from
the window, sit shall be so.'' That is the
/ seconG 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
and she says to them: sect 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 around about
the doomed city of Jericho
Crash goes the great metropolis, heaps on
theaps. The air sufiocating with dust, and
III orrible with the screams of a dying city
ALI the houses fat down. All the people
dead. All, no, no. On crag OF the wall
the only piece OF the wall left standing-there
Us 81 house which we must enter. There is a
family there that have been spared Who
are they? Let US go and see Rahab. her
father, her mother, her brothers, her sisters,
all sale, and the only house LETT standing in
all the city. What saved them? Was the
house more firmly built? Oh. no; it was
built in the most penous place-on the wall;
and the wall was the first thing that fell
Was it because her character was any better
shan any of the other population of the city?
Q. no. Why. then. was she spared and all
iier household? Can you tell me why? 0, it
was the scarlet line in the windo w That is
the fourth scene in this Bible drama. When
the destroying angel went through Egypt it
was the blood of the lamb on the door posts
that saved the lsraelites; and now that