The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-18
THE LANE TAKE THE PREY
Talmago on the Overthrow Of TIE
ASSyTill Host.

tian Is at Work Fifty Are watching
the JOB.
Nashville. Tenn, Dec. l7.-Rev. DR..
Talmaqe, who is now in this city on his
western lecture tour, selected as his
topic for to-day a text fun Of spiritual en-
courazemeut for those who labor under
Disadvantages in the struggle Of life. The
text chosen was Isaiah 30. %, The lame
take the prey"
The utter demolition Of the Assyrian
host was here predicted. Not only robust
men should go forth and gather the spois
Of conquest. but even men crippled Of
arm and crippled Of foot should 90 out
ana capture much that was valuable.
Their physical disadvantages. should
not hinder their great enrichment
So it has been in the past, so it is now, so
it viii be in the future. SO it is in all de
partmeuts. Men laboring under seemingly
great disad vantagcs. and amid the most
unfavorable circumstances, set making
grand achievements, getting great bless
ing for themselves, great blessing for the
world, great blessing for the church, and
50 1.-The lame take the prey
Do you know that the three great poets
of the world were totally blind Homer,
Ossian, John Milton. DO YOU know that
Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
book The Conquest Of Mexico, 80 never
saw Mexico, could not even see the paper
on which he was writing A framework
across the sheet, between which, up and
down. went the pen immortal DO you
know that CambaSslO the sculptor, could
not see the marble before him. or the
chisel wi which he cut it into shapes
bewitchinEi DO you know that AleXan-
der Pope, whose poems viii last as long as
the English language, was so much of an
invalid that he had 10 be seWed up every
morning in rough canvas, in order 10 stand
on his feet at all3
DO you know that Stuart, the celebrated
painter. did much OF his wonderful work
under the shadow Of the dungeon where
be had been un Justly imprisoned for debit
Do you know that DemOsthenes by almost
suparhuman exertiOn, first had to conquer
the lisp Of his own speech before he con-
guered assemblages with mis- elOguence2
DO you know that Bacon struggled all
through iuuumerable sicknesses, and that
Lord Bryon and Sir Walter Scott went
limping on cluDfoot Though 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 them down,
and impede their way, and cripple their
physical or their intellectual movement,
anu yet that they pushed on and pushed
up Until they reached the spoils OF
worldly success, and amid the huzza of
nations and CO turies, "the lame took the
prey"
You know that a vast multitude of
these men started under the disadvan-
tage Of obscure par3ntage; Columbus,
the son Of the weaver; Ferguson, the
astronomer, the son of the shepherd
America the prey of the one; worlds on
worlds the prey Of the other. But what
is true in secular directions is more true
in spiritual and religious directions, and
l proceed TO prove il.
There are in all communities many in
valids. They never know a well day
They adhere 10 their occupations. but
they 90 painting along the streets with
exhaustions, and at eventime they lie
down on the lounge with achings beyond
al indictments. They have tried all
prescriptions, they have gone through all
the cures which were proclaimed infalli-
bic, and they have come now to surren-
der TO perpetual ailments. They CON
slider they areamOng many disadvantages,
and when they see those who are buoy
ant in health pass by, they almost envy
their robust frames and easy respira-
ton
But have noticed among that invalid
tihoo inbab WuO nave iilb greatest kQOWl-
edge OF the Bible, who are in nearest init
macy with Jesus Christ, who have the
most glowing experiences of the truth.
who have had the most remarkable an
swers to prayer, and who have most ex-
hilarant anJcipations of Heaven The
temptations viii: weary us who are in
robust health they have conquered
Many who are alert and athletic and
swarOhy, lOlter in the way-the lame take
the prey. Robert Hall an invalid, Ed
ward Payson an invalid, Richard Baxter
an invalid, Samuel Rutherford an invalid
This morning, when YOU want to call to
mind those who are most Christlike, YOU
think Of some darkened room in your
fathers house from which there went
forth an influence potent for eternity.
A step farther: Through raised letters
the art Of printing has been brought to
the attention Of the blind.
You take up the Bible for the blind, and
you close your eyes, and YOU run your
fingers over the raised letters, and YOU
aay: "Why, never could get any infor-
motion in this way What a slow. lum-
brous way of reading! God help the
blind ~
And yet, find among that class of per
sons, among the blind the deaf and the
dumb, the most thorough acquaintance
with Gods word. Shut out from all other
sources of information, no sooner does
their hand touch the raised letter than
they gather PRAYER. Without eyes, they
look OF upon the kingdoms of God S love.
Without hearing, they catch the min
strelsy of the skies. Dumb vet with
pencil, or with irradiated countenance,
they declare the glory of God
A large audience assembled in New
YORK at the anniversary of the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, and one of the visitors.
with chalk on the black board, wrote this
question TO the pupils "Do you not find
u very hard TO be deaf and dumb!7 And
one OF the pupils took the chalk and wrote
on the blackboard this sublime sentence
IN answer: when the song of the angels
shall burst urOn our enraptured ear. we
viii scarce regret that our ears were
never married with earthly sounds.n
Oh! the brightestCyes in heaven will be
those that never saw on earth The ears
most alert ia heaven will be those that in
this world heard neither voice Of friend
nor thrum of harp, nor carol of bird. nor
doXoloyy Of congregations.
a lad who had been blind from infancy
was cured. The oculist operated upon
the lad and then put a very heavy band
age over the eyes and after few weeks
had gone by, the Baudage was removed.
ana the mother said to her child: willie.
can you see.' He said, "Oh mamma. is
this heavent' The contrast between The
darkness before and the brightness after
ward was OvCrNhelmiug And tell Won