Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-12-21
THEY TAKE THE PREY
REV. DR.. TALMAGE PREACrES WORDS
OF HOPE TO THE WEAK.

Struggle of Iife-Eloqucnt Plea to Those
who Are Unconverted.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 17.-Dr Talmage, who
Is now in this city on his western lecture
tour, selected rs his topic for today text
full of spiritual encouragement for those
who labor under disadvantage in the strug-
gle of life. The text chosen was Isaiah
NNxiii, %, THE lame take the prey"
The utter demolition of the Assyrian host
was here predicted. Not only robust men
should go forth and catherine spois of con.
quest, but even men crippled of arm and
crippled Of foot should go out and capture
much that was valuable. Their physical
disadvantages should not hinder { heir great
enrichment. SO ii has been i'm the past, so
it is now, so it will be in the future so it
is in all departments. Men laboring under
seemingly great disadvantages and amid
the most unfavorable circumstances, vet
making grand achievements getting great
blessing for themselves great blessing for
the world, great blessing for the church
And so "the lame take the prey"
Do you know that he three great poets
of the world were totally blind--lIomer,
Ossian, John Milton? DO You know that
Mr. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
book, The Conquest of Mexico" never
saw Mexico could not even see the paper
on which he was writing? a framework
across the sheet, between which, up AMI
down, went the pen immortal. DO YOU
know that GambaSsio, the sculptor, could
not see the marble before him. or the chisel
with which he cut it into shapes bewitch-
ing? DO you know that Alexander Pope,
whose poems will last as long as the Eng
fish language was so much of an invalid
that he had to be sewed up every morning
in rough canvas in order to stand on his
feet at all?
SUCCESS DESPITE DISADVANTAGES.
Do you know that Stuart, the celc DRAFTED
painter. did much of hi, wonderful work
under the shadow of the dungeon, where he
had been unjusty imprisoned for debt? DO
you know that Demost hcnes BY almost ST.
perhuman eXertion first had to conquer the
lisp of his own speech before he CONQUERED
assemblaEeS with his eloquencc? Do you
know that Bacon struggled all through in
Vulnerable eicknessos. and that Lord Byron
and Sir Walter Scott went lmpngon club
foot through all their life, and that many
of the great poets and painters and orators
and historians and heroes of the world had
something to keep them back, and pull
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of worldly success, and amid the huZza of
nations and centuries ''the lame took the
prey"
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