Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-04-22
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun :
day Sermon.
subjects "Thc Resurrection"

and better sense than that in which it wa
originally uttered. Years ago a legenC
something like this was told me; In hui
lived very poor woman by the name Of
Misery. In front of her door was pear tree
which was her only resources for a living
Christ, the Lord, in poor garb was walking
through the earth and no one would enter
tain Him. In vain He knocked at the dooi
of palaces and of humble dwellings. Coli
and hungry and insufliciently clad, as He
was none received Him. But coming one
day to the hut of this woman, whose name
was Misery, she received Him, and offered
Him few crusts and asked Him to warm
Himself at the handful Of Goals, and she sat
up all night that the wayfarer might have
pillow to rest on.
In the morning this divine being asked her
as He departed what she would have Him do
in the way of reward. and told her that He
owned the universe and would give her what
she asked. All she asked was that her pear
tree might be protected, and that the boys
who stole her fruit, once climbing the tree,
might not be able to get down without her
consent. So it was granted and 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 to go, for however
poor ones lot is, no one wants to go with
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with you IL you will first climb up into my
pear tree and bring me down few pears
before ! start" This he consented to do,
but having climbed into the tree he could
not again come down.
Then the troubles of the world Began for
Death did not come. The physicians had no
patients, the undertakers no business, law
yers no wills to make, the people who waited
for inheritances could not get them, the old
men staid in all the professions and occupa-
tons so that there was no room for the
young who were coming on, and the earth
! rot overcrowded, and from all the earth the
cry went up: "Oh, for Death Where is
Deathr Then the people came to thu poor
woman ami begged her to let Death descent
from the tree. In sympathy for the world,
she consented to let Death come down on one
condition, and that was that he should never
modest or take her away, and on that conii-
ton Death was allowed to come down, an
he kept his word and never removed her,
and for that reason we always have Misery
with us.
In that allegory some one has set forth the
truth that | mean to present on this Easter
morning, which celebrates the resurrection
Of Christ and our coming resurrection-that
one of the grandest and mightieSt merc'es
If the earth is cur divine permission to quit
I IL. DiAbJ-AOul ltAcOuo fNNi sup
off this planet. Thirty million people every
rear board this planet. AS a steamer must
Unload before it takes another cargo, AMI as
he passengers OF a rail train must leave Il
II order to have another company ofpassen'
gers enter it, so with this world
What would happen to an ocean steame'
4 man, taking stateroom, should stay IN
t forever What would happen to a raj
rain IL one who purchases ticket shou y
always occupy thu seat assigned him, Anf
what would happen to this world If all WIZ
,ame into it never departed tron II: Thi
rave is as much beneliction as the cradle.
What sunk that ship in the Black SEA few
lays ago, Too many passengers. VIVA
vas the matter with that steamer on tn
Thames which, few years ago. went dow
with COO lives Too many passengers. No,
his world is only ship, which was launche
some six thousand years ago. IL IS sauln
II the rate of many thousand miles an hour'
Il is freightel with mountains and tics,
and has in its staterOoms aud steerage aoou
sixteen hundred million passengers. -
many are coming aboard, it is necessary thai
good many disembark.
Suppose that all the people that havl
ived since the days Of Adam AMI Eve weri
still alive. What cluttered u place this
world would be-no elbow roOn-no place
!
wear or if anything were left tee hu nan
race would. ike a shipwrecSe1 crew, HAYS
10 be put Oh small rations. each of Us having
oerhaps only a biscuit a day. And wnat
chance would there be for the rising genera.
lions? The men and women who started
when the world started would keep tho
modern people back AMI down, saying:
I'VE are six thousand years old. Bow
down. History is nothing, for we are older
than history What a mercy for the hui
nan race was death Within a few years
you can get from this world all there IS in
It.
After you have had fifty or sixty or sew
enty spIiugtimes. you have seen enough
blossoms. After fifty OF sixty OF seventy
lutumns you have seen enough Of gorgeous
foliage. After fifty or sixty or seventy
winters Won have seen enough snowstOrms
and felt enough chils and wrapped yourself
in enough blankets. In the ordinary length
Of human life you have carried enough bur
lens. AMI shed enough tears, and suffered
enough iDjusticeS, anI felt enough pangs,
and been ciouded by enough doubts, and
surrounded by enough mysteries. We tax
about tine shortness Of life, but il we exer-
cised good sense we would realize that life Is
quite long enough.
II we are the children of God we are at a
Da00uCI. anu TINS MOAll 10 DIif bhp III ~
course of the food, and We ought to be glad
that there are other aud better and richer
courses of food TO be handed on. We are
here in one roo II of our Fathers house, but
there are rooms up stairs. They are better
pictured, better upholstered, better fur
nished. Why do we want to stay in the
anteroom forever, when there are palatial
apartments waiting fOT our occupancyl
What mercy that there is limitation to
earthly environments.
Death also makes room for improved
physical machinery. Our bodies have won
drous powers, but they are very limited.
There are beasts that can outrun US. outltt
us outcarry u. The birds have. both the
earth and air Tor travel, yet We must stick
to the one In this world which the human
race takes for its own, there are creatures
of God that can far surpass us in some
things Death removes this slower and less
adroit machinery and makes room for some
thing better. These eyes that can see halt
a mile will be removed for those that can
see from world TO world. These ears,
which can hear a sound a few feet oil, VIII
be removed for ears that can hear from
zone to zone These feet will be removed
for powers of locomotion swifter than the
RENDERS hoof or eagles plume OF lightn-
ing's flash.
we arc shutup. Why only five sensesl Why
not fifty why not one hundred: why not
thousand We can have, and we will have
them. bat not until this present physical
machinery is put out of the way. DO not
think that this body is the best that God
can do for us. God did not half try when
he contrived your bodily mechanism. Mind
you. I believe with all ANTAGONISTS aud with
all Psychologists and with all scientists and
with the psalmist that I'VE are fearfully and
wonderfully made" But | believe aud
know that God can and will get us better
physical equipment.
Is it possible for man to make improve
ment in almost anything and God not be
able 10 make improvements in mans paysi-
cal machinery Shall canal boat give way
to limited express train Shall slow letter
give place to telegraphy, that places San
Francisco and New York within minute OF
communication Shall the telephone take
the sound Of a voice sixty miles and instant
" bring back another voice, end God, who
made the man who does these things, not be
able to improve the man himsslf with inf
mite veiocities and infinite multiplcatiole
bsneicent Death comes in AMI makes th)
necessary removal 10 mako way for thess
supernatural improvements. So also our
slow process OF getting information must
have substitute.
Through prolonged stx1y we learned the
alphabet, AMI then we learned to spell, AMI
then we learned to read. Then the book is
put before us aud the eye travels from word
10 word AMI from page to page, and we take
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