Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-21
THE ANGEL OF DEATH.
DIR. TALMAGE THROWS LIGHT
AT SUPERSTITION.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Treated to an
Easter Sermon Fluent with New
Theology - Death as Seen from the
True Christian Standpoint.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, April 17.-Being
Easter morning, the Brooklyn Taber-
naele congregation had been invited
to bring flowers the night before, and
bank of them was ON the front OF
the pulpit and wreaths of them over
the pulpit. The word Resurrection
was spelled out in letters of white
lilies Especial music was added to
the great congregational singing.
Text, /. Samuel 1889: "Surely the
bitterness of death is past"
So cried Agag, and the only objec-
ton have to this text is that bad
man uttered it. Nevertheless il is
true, and in higher and better sense
than that in which it was originally
uttered. Years ago legend some
thing like this was told me. In a hut
lived very poor woman by the name
of Misery. In front of her door was
pear tree, which was her only resource
for living. Christ, the Lord, in poor
garb was walking through the
earth and no one would entertain him.
In vain he knocked at the door of pal
aces and OF humble dwellings. Cold
and hungry and insufficiently clad, as
he was, none received him. But com
ing 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 hand
full of Goals, and she sat up all night
that the wayfarer might have a pillow
to rest on. In the morning this divine
beng 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 bows who stole her
fruit, once climbing the tree, might not
be able to get down without her con-
sent. SO it was granted, and all who
the tree We're compelled to
stay there. After while death came
along and 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 death.
Then she said to Death, Il will go with
you if you will first climb up into my
pear tree and bring me down few
pears before | start" This he CON
sentcd 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
no business, lawyers no
wills to make, the people who waited
for Inheritances could not get them, the
old men staid in all the professions and
occupations so that there was no room
for the young who were coming on,
and the earth got overcrowded and
from all the earth the cry went up so,
for Death. Where is Death?" Then
the people came to the poor woman
and begged her to let death descend |
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 condition Death !
was allowed TO come down, and he |
kept his word and never removed her. |
and for that reason we always have |
Misery with us.
In that allcgOry some one has set |
'orth the truth that mean to present |
IN this Easter morning, which cele-
Orates thereSurrection of Christ and our |
coming resurrcction-that one of the |
and mightiest mcrcies of the
earth is our divine permission to quit
t. SiXty-fUur persons every minute
step off this planet.
Death also makes room for improved
physical machinery. Our bodies have
powers, but they are very
limited. There are beasts that can
'utrun us, outfit us, out-carry us. The
birds have both the earth and the air
Tor travel, yet we must stick to the
)ne. In this world, which the human
.ace takes for its own. there
ire creatures of God that can far
'urpass us in some things. Death
'emOveS this slower and less adroit ma
'hnely and makes room for something
better. These eyes that can see half Il
nile will be removed for those that can
see from world to world. These ears
which can hear sound few feet off.
will be removed for ears that can hear
rom zone to zone. These feet will be
'emoved for powers of locomotion
'wifter than the reindeer's hoof, or
'agle's plume, or lightning's flash.
Then, we have only five senses and to
hese we are shut up. Why only five
enses? Why not fifty, why not one
why not thousand?
We can have, and we will have
hem, but not until this present
physical machinery is put out of the
way. ID not think that this body Is
he best that God can do for us. God
lid not lnlf try when he contrived
our bodily mechanism. Mind you,
believe with all anatomistS and all