The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-05-28
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DTvINEs sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: 4rhe New Tabernacle."

TExr; ~fphot ys By these stonsss
Joshua w.. ..
The Jordan, like the Mississippi, has blua
ON the cue side and fats on the other Her
ana there = sycamore shadows il. Here an
there willow dirs into IT, Il was only
| little over waastQeepin December as I wade
through II but IN the months OF April An
May toe SHOWS on Mount Lebanon thaw an
1 how down into the valley, and then the Jor
dan overfows its banks. Then Il Il wids
deep, raging and impetuous. AT this seasol
| Of the year hear the tramp Of forty thou
sand armed men coming down to cross ~
river. You say, why do they not 20 N
nearer the rise of the river at the old came
fordf All my friends, it is because il Is no
safe TO 60 around when the Lord tells US I,
60 ahead. The Israelites had been eoin,
around forty years, and they had enough o
it. do not know how It is with you, m,
brethren, but have always got into troubl,
when / went around but always got int
safety when went ahead.
There spreads out the Jordan, raging
torrent much of it snow water Just come
down from the mountain top; and / see some
OF the Israelites shivering at the idea of
plunging in, and one soldier says TO his com
rade, Joseph, can you swime And another
says; IF We get across the stream we will
get there with wet clothes and with damaged
armor, and the Canaanites will slash us TO
pieces with their swords before we get up the
other bank" But it is no time to halt The
great host marches on.
The priests carrying the ark 20 ahead. the
people follow. l hear the tramp of the great
multitude The priests have now come with
IN stones throw of the water Yet still
there is no abatement of the food. Now they
have come within four or five feet Of the
stream; but there is no abatement of the
Hood. Bad prospects 1t seems as IL these
Israelites that crossed the desert are now go
ing TO be drowned in sight of Canaan But
all along the line OF the host. ''Forwardr'
Now the priests have come within one step
OF the river. This time they lift their feet
from the solid ground and put them down
into the raging stream. No sooner are their
feet there than Jordan flies.
On the right hand God piles up a great
mountain of floods; ON the left the water
flows off toward the sea. The great river for
hours helts and 'rears. The back waters,
not being able to flow over the passing Is
raelites, pile wave on wave until perhaps a
sea bird would find some difficulty in scaling
the water cliif. Now the priests and all the
people have gone over on dry land The
water on the left hand side by this time has
reached the sea- and now that the miracu-
lous passage has been made stand back and
see this stupendous pile Of waters leap God
takes His hand from that walls of floods, and
like a hundred cataracts they plunge and
roar in thunderous triumph to the sea
How are they to celebrate this passage?
Shall it be with music? / suppose the trum-
pets and cymbals were all worn out before
this. Shall it be with banners waving? Oh,
no; they are all faded and torn. Joshua
cries out, II will tell you how to celebrate
monument here to commence
rate the event and every priest puts a
heavy stone on his shoulder and marches out
and drops that stone in the divinely ap-
pointed place. | see the pile growing in
height, in breadth, in significance: and, in
lfter years, men went by that spot and saw
his monument, and cried out one to another,
n fulfillment Of the prophecy of the text,
w hat meant ye by these stonesg
Blessed be God, Hadid not leave or. church /
n the wildernessl We have been wandering |
bout for a year and a half worshiping in |
he Academy of Music, Brooklyn, ana the |
academy Of Music, New York. And some
bought we would never reach the promised I
and Some said we had better take this
QUITE and others that. Some said we had
letter 80 back, and some said there were
ons Of Anak IN the way that would eat us 4
p and before the smoke had cleared away
rom the sky after our tabernacle had been
onsEmed, people stood on the very site OF
he place and said: This church will never
gain be built" We came down to the bank
Jordan; we looked OF upon the waters.
ONE Of the sympathy that was expressed
irned out to be snow water melted from the
% of Lebanon. Some said: "You had bet
n not go in; you will get your feet wet y
ut we waded in, pastor and people. farther ;
nd farther, and in some way, the Lord only I
bows how. we got through; and tonight / /
, all around about this great house, erected {
' your prayers and sympathies and sacri- |
,es, and cry out in the words Of my text: {
What mean We by these stones? III
1t is an outrage TO build a house like this !
vast and 50 magnificent unless there be i
me tremendous reasons for doing it; and {
, my friends, | pursue you tonight with i
e question Of my text and demand OF /
ese trustees and of these elders and of oil g
no have contributed in the building of this il
ructure, What aean We by these stonesg' d
IT before get your answer to my question D
u interrupt me and point to the memoriaI \
al at the side of this pulpit, and saw Eek h
ain that unusual group of memorials, b
hat mean you by those stoness BY per- ii
ssion of the people of my beloved charge a
Gently visited the Holy Lands, and having x
mind by day and night during my alb S
ace this rising house Of prayer, Ibethought ),
vself, What can do to make that place y
nificant and gloriousY Of
IN the morning of December the Sd we I s.
re at the foot of the most sacred mount Ii
! OF all the earth, Mount Calvary. There al
10 more doubt Of the locality than of N
,unt Washington or Mount Blanc On the Ia
m Of this mountain, which is the shape Of ii
. human skull, and so called X the Bible. er
he place of the skull,p there Is room for IL
ZEE crosses. There / saw a stone so sug- 81
tive rolled it down the Hill and traas- re
ted it. It is at the top Of this wall, a
lite stone, with crimson veins running sa
ough 1.-THE white typical Of purity the til
nson suggestive of the blood that paid al
price Of our redemption. We place it at OF
top of the memorial wall for above all al
his church for all time, in sermon and W
& and prayer, shall be the sacrafice Of til
unit Cavalry. Look at it. That stone was pr
Of the rocks rent at the crucihxion That Iii
I'd the cry. at is finished Was ever sd
church on earth honored with such co
emorials ~
eneath it are two tables Of stone which au
I'd brought from Mount Sinai where the fri
was given. Three camels were three ch
Ks crossing the desert to fetch them na
en- at Cairo, Egypt, / proposed to the 50
1stlan Arab that he bring one stone from sh
ant sinai, he said, I'VE can easier bring th
rocks than one, for one must balance eli
n on the back Of the camel and did els
think until the day Of their arrival how ca.
h more Suggestive would be the two. be- va
se the law was written on two tablets Of lik
e. Those stones marked with the words ms
1unt Sinai7 felt the earthquake that shook liv
mountains when the law was given. The loy
r stone Of the wall is from Mars Hill the en-
e where Paul stood when be preached fo1
famous sermon on the brotherhood Of RAJ
human race, declaring God hath made ing
De blood all nations ~
nee Lord Elgin took the famous statuarv VII
Z the Acropolis. the hill adjoining Mars BEL
the Greek Government makes il impos- sau
70 transport to other lands any anfifs- re