The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-02-21
nAHAB's DWELLING.
Dr.. Tal,nage Again Addresses His
Brooklyn Congregation.

Brooklyn Congregation.
Rahab's Dwelling on the Walls Of Jericho
and Her Escape the Subject Of His Dis
course-The True Road to SAL
walton Defined.
Upon his return from his visit to the
Holy Land Eev. T. De Witt Talmage
was greeted by large congregation the
frst Sunday that he preached in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. The
subject of his discourse was, ''The
House on the Wall" DIR. Tai
mage took for his text Joshua
vi. %: sand the young men that
were spies went in and brought out
Rahab, and her father, and her mother,
and all that she had" He said: f.-
When only a few weeks ago visited
Jericho, l said, Can it be possible that
this dilapidated place is the Jericho that
Mark Antony gave as a 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 horn? But the fact
that all these had 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 were yesterday. ..I
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. A daughter has forsaken home.
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 her and
they start up and say: "She comes" but
only to sink back again into disappoint-
ment. 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 is be-
ginning to stoop SO that those who saw
her little while ago in the street know
Der not now as she passes. The brothers
clinch their fists, swearing vengeance
against the despoiier of their home.
Alas. will the poor soul never come
back?
There is long, deep shadow over all
the household. 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 coming on of that destruct-
i've 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 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-first
Rahab secretes the two spies and gets
their pursuers off the track; but after
awhile she says to them: 81 will make
bargain with you. will save your life
if you will save my life, and the life of
my father ard my mother, and my broth
ers 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
wishes she were back with them again,
and she wishes she could get away from
her sinful enthrallment; and sometimes
she looks up in the face of the midnight,
into agonizing tears. No sooner
have these two spies promised to save
her life and the life of 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 have not strength to
hold him-with muscular arms, such as
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, brings him to tie
and just as successfully 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 brother and your sisters. You had
better get them in this house. And
then, after yoi have them here, take
this red cord which you have put around
our bodies and tie it across the window;
and when our victorious army comes up
and sees that scarlet thread in the win
low, they will spare this house and all
who are in it." ''Shall it be SOP" cried
the spies. "Aye, ave." said Rahab from
the window, 1T shall be So" That is
the second scene in this Bible drama.
There is knock at the door of the old
man. He looks up, and says: Come
H." 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,
md go with me to my house. The army
IS coming! The trumpet! Make haste!
Fly! The enemy" That is the third
scene in the Bible drama. The hosts
If Israel are all around about the
doomed city of Jericho. Crash! goes
The great metropolis, heaps on heaps.
The air suffocating with the dust, and