The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-04-21
REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION.
The Sunday Sermon as Delivered by the
Brooklyn Divine.

pnS.'--l Samuel xv., 81.
SO cried Agag, AMI the ONLY objection
have TO this text is that bad man uttered
IT, Nevertheless Il is true, an in a higher
and better sense than that in which it was
originally uttered. Years ago a legend
something like this was told me: In hut
lived very poor woman by the name oi
Misery In front OF her door was pear tree.
which was her only resource for living.
Christ the Lord In poor garb was walking
throush the earth and no one would enter.
tain Him. In vain He Knocked at the door
of palaces and Of humble dwellings. Cold
and hungry an1 insufiiciently clad. rs He
was, none received Him. But coming one
drv 90 the hut ot this woman, whose name
was Misery. she received Him. md offered
Him few crusts and aske Him TO warm
Himself at the handful Of Goals and she sat
up all night that the wayfarer might have
pillow g. rest on.
In the morning this divine being asked her
as He departed what she would have Him do
IN the way % reward, and told her that He
owned the universe and woul give her what
she asked. All she asked wa, that Ler pear
tree might be- protected ami that the hoys
who stole her fruit, once c,impng the tree,
might not be able to get down without her
consent. So ~ was granted, anl all who
climbed the tree were compelled TO stay
there. After awhile Death came along AMI
told the poor woman she must go with him.
But she did not want 20 20. for however
poor ones lot ls, no one want. to 20 with
Dcuth. hen she said to Death, Of will go
with you II You will fist climb up into my
pear tree and bring me down few pl1rs
before ! start This he consented 10 do
out having climbed into the tire, he could
not AGAIN come down.
Then the troubles Of the world began, for
Death did not come. The physicians had no
patients. the undertnkers no business. law.
/ yCrs no wills 90 make the people who waited
| Tor nhcritauccs could not get them, the old
men staid i'm all the professions AMI occupa.
/ ti1us 50 that there was no room for the
I youug who were coming on and the enrth
/ got ovcrcrowdei. aud from all the earth the
/ cry went up: "Oh. for Death Where Is
/ Death" Then the people came % thB poor
/ woman AMI begged her 90 let Death descend
from the tree. In sympathy for the world,
| she consented TO let Death come down on one
I condition and that was that he should never
| molCst or take her away, and on that cOnli-
tion Death was allowed 10 come down, and
/ hc kept his word and never removed her,
| and for that reason we always have Misery
/ with us.
/ In that allogory some one has set forth tho
| truth that mean 10 present on this Easter
morning, which celebrates the resurrection
/ Of Christ ana our coming resurrection
one Of the grandest and mightiest merc,cs
OF the earth is cur divine permission % quit
it, SNty-iOur persons every minute Sep
or this planet Thirty million people every
year board this planet. As "A steamer must
unload before u takes another cargo ami as
the passengers of "a rail train must leave 10
IN order 10 have another company of passea.
GERS enter 1t, so with this world
What would happen 10 an ocean steamer
ii man, taxing a stateroom, should stay IN
Il forever What would happen 10 n rail
train II one who purchases a ticket should
always occupy the seat assigned him, Aud
10 all
came into il never departed from 1t? The
grave II MS much "A b1nediCtiou rs the cradle.
What sunk that ship In the Black Sea few
days agoy Too mguy passenger What
was the matter with that steamer on the
Thames which, tew years ago, went down
,n H'th 600 liySsL 1p? many poissnsers. S2y
= and sporting news. NO Saloon GC
}}eE. Barber pmahy'tlo6isssta snp,sI- g
| IL is freighte1 with mountains and cities,
and has In its staterooms aud steeraga about
! sixteen hundred million passengers. SO
many are coming aboard, 1t Is necessary that
| a goui many Jisembark.
suppose that all the pe)p,e that have
. lived since tao days OF Adam an Eve were
tt,li ahv,. What a clutterel up place this
I world woui ue--no elbow rooM-no placs
o. walk-lO privacy nothing to elt or
wrtu, or Il ANYTHING were left Toe human
rae. would, like shipwrerkei crew. nave
perhaps only biscuit "A day. And what
/ chance would there ho tor the rising genera.
b tIonsg The men and women who started
/ when TIE world started would keep the
/ modern people back and down, saying:
/ I'VE are six thousand years old. Bow
7 down. History rs nothing, for we are older
than history What a mercy for the hu-
man race was death Within a few years
I YOU c.n get from this world all there is Ia
/ It.
After you have had fifty or sixty or sew.
cnty sprugtimes, You have seen enough
/ blossoms. After fifty or sixty or seventy
autumns you have seen enough of gorgeous
/ foliage. After fifty or sixty or seventy
winters you have seen enough snOwstorms
/ and felt enough Chills aud wrapped yourself
/ In enough blankets. In the ordinary length
/ OF human life you have carried enough bur.
/ dens, ana shed enough tears AMI suffered
/ enough iniustiCes and felt enough pangs
and been clouded by enough doubts, aud
surrounded 10y enough mysteries. We talk
! about the shortuess OF life, but II we exer-
| cised good sense we would realize that life is
/ quite long enough.
| II we are the children OF God we are AZ a
banquet, and this world Is only the first
| course Of the food, and we ought 10 be glad
/ that there are other and better and richer
/ courses Of fool 20 be handed on. We are
/ here IN one roon OF our Fathers house, but
/ there are rooms up stairs. They are better
| pictured, better upholstered, bstter fur
uishcd. Why do We want to stay in the
nntercom forever, when there are palatial
/ apartments waiting Tor our occupancyg
| what mercy that there is q Limitation 10
| earthly enylroumentsl
| Death also makes room for improved
| physical machinery. Cur bodies have won.
| drous powers but th'y are very limited
! There are beasts that can outruu u. outfit
/ us outcarry us. Tho birds have both the
| earth and air for travel, vet we must stick
! TO the one. In this world, which the human
/ race takes Tor It's own, there are creatures
/ OF tod that can far surpass Us in some
/ things Death removes this slower and less
| adrolt machinery and makes room tor some-
/ thing better. These eve, that can see half
/ a milo Will hc removed for thos, that can
/ sec from world 10 world. These ears
| which can hear sound few feet OH will
! he removed tor ears that can hear from
| 2oneto zone. These feet will bo removed
! Tor power Of loclmoton swifter than the
/ reindeer hoot or eagles plume OF lightn.
| ing's fash.
Then we have only five senses and 10 these
! W. are shutup. Why only five sensesg Why
| not hity; why not one hundreds why not a
| thousand? We can have, anl we will have
- not Il l.