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Significance Of the Verse, II Answered
Thee In the secret Place Of Thunder
In the Bible Thunder Is the Type Of
Power and Mystery.
Brooklyn, May 29-Dr. Talmage gave
A fresh illustration this morning OF the
power he possesses OF extracting valuable
lessons from a text which preachers nave
generally neglected as barren ground. His
sermon was based on the text Psalms XXX.
:. 81 answered thee in the secret place OF
thunder"
1t is past midnight, and two o'clock in the
morning. far enough from sunset and sun
rise to make the darkness very thick, and
the Egyptian army in pursuit of the es-
Gaming Israelites are on the bottom OF the
Red sea. its waters having been set up on
either side in masonry Of sapphire, for God
can make wall as solid out of water as
out of granite, ana the trowels with which
these two walls wero built were none the
less powerful because- invisible. Such
walls had never before been lifted.
When | saw the waters Of the Red sea
rolling through the Suez canal they were
blue and beautiful and flowing like other
waters, but tonight, as the Egyptians look
M to them built into walls, now on one
side and now on the other, they must have
heen frowning waters, for it was probable
that the same power that lifted them up
might suddenly fling them PROSTATE. A
great lantern Of cloud hung over this
ebasm between the two walls. The door
of that lantern was opened toward the Is
raelites ahead, giving them light, and the
back Of the lantern was toward the Egyp-
tians and it growled and rumbled and
Jared with thunder; not thunder like that
which cheers the earth after drought,
promising the refreshing shower, but
charged and surcharged with threats oil
doom.
The Egyptian captains lost their pres
ence of mind, and the horses reared and
snorted and would notanswer to their bits
and the chariot wheels got interlocked and
torn off, and the charioteers were hurled
beadlong, and the Red sea fell on all the
/ host. The confusing and confoundine
/ thunder was in answer to the prayer Of the
Israelites With their backs cut by the
lash and their feet bleeding and their
]
/ generations. they had asked Almighty God
| to ensepuleher their Egyptian pursuers in
/ one great sarcophagus, and the splash and
/ the roar Of the Red sea rs it dropped to its
natural bed were only the shutting of th'
] sarcophagus on dead host That is the
meaning of the text when God says, Il an
swered thee in the secret place of thunder.
THE SYMBOL OF POWER.
/ Now, thunder, all up and down the Bible
/ is the symbol Of power The Egyptian
plague of hail was accompanied with this
! fuIl diaDason of the heavens While Sam
uel and his men were making burnt Of
| fering of a lamb, and the Philistines were
about to attack them, it was by terrorizine
thunder they were discounted. job
who was a combination of the Dantesqu'
and the MiltOnic, was sOlemnized on thil
reverberatiou of the heavens. and cried
1.-THE thunder of his power, who can I'm
derstand?" and he challenges the uni
verse by saying, "Can'st thou thunder
with a voice like himy" and he throw
Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair" into TIN
shade by the Bible photograph Of war
horse. when he describes his neck a
"cIothed with thunder" Because Of tn
power of James and John, they were called
1.-THE sons of thunder" The lay given Oh
the basaltic crags of Mount Sinai was EN-
phasized with this cloudy ebullition. Thu
skies ali around about St. John at Patmo
were full of the thunder of war and TIN
thunder of Christly triumph and the thun
der of resurrection and the thunder o
eternity.
But when my text says, Il answered
thee in the secret place of thunder" it sug
gests there is some mystery about tn
thunder. To the ancients the cause OF TIN
bombarding the earth with loud soun'
must have been more of a mystery than j
is to us. The lightnings, which were t.
them wild monsters ranging through tn
skies. in our time have been dOmesticated
We harness electricity to vehicles and w
cage it in lamps, and every schoolbo!
knows something about the fact that it j
the passage Of electricity from cloud t.
cloud that makes the heavenly racSe
which we call thunder But after all tina
chemistry has taught the world, there ar
mysteries about this skyey resonance, am
nv text, true in the time of the Psalmist
is true now and always will be true, tina
there is some secret about the place o
thunder.
To one thing known about the thunde
there are a hundred things not known
After all the scientific batteries have bee
doing their work for thousand years T.
come and learned men have discOursed t
the utmost about atmospheric electricit
and magnetic electricity and galvanic cleo
tricity and thermotic electricity and friC
tional electricity and positive electricit
and negative electricity, my text will b
as suggestive as it is today, when it speak
of the secret place of thunder.
NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL LAWS.
Now right along by natural law ther
is ALWAYS a spiritual law As there is
secret place of natural thunder, there is
secret place Of moral thunder In othe
words. the religious power that you Sc
abroad in the church and in the world ma
hiding place, and in many cases it
never discovered at all. will use simi
itude. | can give only the dim outline {
a particular case, for many Of the remark
. able circumss Ances have forgotten. Man
years ago There was n large church. II wa
characterized by strange and unaceoun
able conversions. There were no great II
vivals, but individual cases Of spiriJus
arrest and transformation.
a Young m..n sat in one of the front pew
He was a graduate of Yale, brilliant as tn
north star and VIGOROUSLY dissolutl
Everybody knew him and liked him for hi
genialitv, but deplored his moral errantr!
10 please his parents he was every Sal
hath morning in church. One day thei
was a ringing of the doorbell of the paste
of that church, and that young maj
wbelmed with repentance, implored pray'
and advice and passed into complete rofo
. nation of heart and life All the neighbo
hood was astOnished and asked, Why va
thisa His father and mother had sal
nothing to him about his SOULS welfare
On another aisle of the same church 81
an old miser He paid his pew rent, bt
was hard on the poor and had no intere.
in any philanthropy. Piles Of none
And people said: "What a struggle he wi
have when he quits this life, to part wit
his bonds and mortgages" One day
wrote to his minister; please TO call in