The Opelousas courier., 1890-07-12
REV. DIR. 'TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.


DAY SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE sword--Its Mission
and its DOOM"
TEXT: THY s,uosd shall be bathed In
Reoren. Isaiah xxxiv., s.
Chaplain T. Dewitt Talmage preached
his annual sermon before the Thirteen1h
Regiment, N. G.. S. N. Y, in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music. The staff officers and
members of the regiment were Immediately
In front Of the platform, and their friends
thronged the GALLERIES. The hymn sung was
the national air:
Ny country, his of thee,
Sweet land Of liberty.
The following is the sermon in full:
Three hundred and ffty-one times does
the Bible speak Of that sharp, keen, curved,
fnexorable weapon, which flashes upon ug
from the text-the sword. Sometimes the
mention is a~pplaudatory and sometimes
~dannnatory, sometimes as drawn, sometimes
as sheathed. In the Bible, and in much.
secular literature, the sword represents all
&aVCA1SS 1t I9uShStS, Ill C&EDIUeo, ell &44Ss (
all police clubs. all battle AXIS, all weaponry
for physical defense or attack. It would
he an interesting thing to give the history
of the Plow, and follow its furrow all down
through the ages, from the first crop in
"haldea to the last crop in Minnesota. 1t
would be interesting to GLOW the Pen as
it has tracked its way on down through the
literature of nations, from its first word in
the first book to the last word which some
author last night wrote as he closed his
manuscript. 1t would be an interesting
thing to count the echoes Of the hammer
from the first nail driven, down through all
the mechanism of centuries to the last stroke
In the carpenters shop yesterday. But IN
this, my annual sermon as chaplain Of the
Thirteenth Regiment, / propose taking uPa
weapon that has done a work that neither
plow nor pen nor hammer ever accom-
plished. My theme is the sWord-its mission
and its doom.
The sword Of the text was bathed in
heaven; that is, it was q sword OF righteous
ness, as another sword may be bathed in hell
and the sword of cruelty and wrong. There
[ is q great difference between the sword OF
Winklereid and the sword Of Catalina. be-
tween the sword OF Leonidas and the sword
!. If Benedict Arnold. In our effort to hasten
the end Of war, we have hung the sword,
with abuses and execrations, when it has had,
q divine mission, and when in many crises Of;
/ tuo WUIlA D ulSbQEy " udS eWulR 4OI AD04 ~
and justice, civilization and Righteousness
and God. At the very opening Of the Bible
and on the east of the Garden OF Eden God
placed a flaming sword to defend the tree
of life. OF the officer of the law st. Paul
declares: He beareath not the sword in
vain" Through Moses God commanded:
Put every man his sword by his sid =
upon thy thigh, O most mighty" One Of the
old battle shouts OF the Old Testament was,
1.-THE sword OF the Lord and Of Gideon"
Christ, in a great axigency, said that such Q
weapon was more important than q coat, for
ne declared: "He that hath nc sword, let him
sall his garment and buy one" Again He de-
clared: u come T,n1t to send peace but a
"Out of His mouth wdnt a sharp, two edged
sword" Thus, sometimes fguratively, but
oftener literally, the divine mission of the
sword in announced.
What more consecrated thing i'm the world
than Joshua's sword, or Caleb's sword, or
Gideon's sword, or Davids sword, or Wash
ington's sword, or Marions sword. or Lafays
cites sword. or Wellingtonss sword, or
Kosciusko's sword, or Garibaldrs sword, or
hundreds of thousands of American swords
that nave again and again been bathed In
heaven. Swords Of that kind have been
the best friends Of the human race. They
have slain tyrannies, pried open dungeons,
anu CtoA1Ou tuS way lW AaS1uns shSA-
march upward. 1t was better for them to
take the sword and be free, than ls under
the oppressor's heel and sufeF. Inere u
something worse than death. and Shaf
10 life II IL must crlnge d crouch
before the wrong. Turn over Gas
caves of the worlds history, and find that
a naf;on l;harsfad areant hy the sword. I
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sssei nasning IN tine s"o hsn's~'he nsn'
a.. ssstino If the s,n of barbarisnn, the light
) - tbe r;s;no SIM of civilization. Hail to thss,
tLras arsaf sgords hathedi in heaven
h mt al end to infamous Louis XVI.
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