Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-08

LeII hunGcu son OF Gera illustrates the |
Value Industry and Perseverance-The
Gate of Tears.
BROOKLYN June 4.--The sermon selected |
by Rev. Dr. Talmage for this forenoon is
founded on the text Judges ill., 10. But
when the children of Israel cried unto the
Lord the Lord raised them up delverer,
Ehud, the son of Gera, a Beujamite a man
left handed"
Ehud was n ruler in Israel He was left
handed, and what was peculiar about the
tribe of Benjamin, to which he belonged,
there were in it 700 left handed men, and
yet so dexterous had they all become in the
use Of the left hand that the Bible says they
rould sling stones at a hairs breadth and
not miss.
Well, there was Il king of the name of
Eglon who was an oppressor of Israel. lie
Imposed upon them most outrageous tax.
Ehud, the man Of whom first spoke, had
divine commission to destroy that OPP
pressor lie came, pretending that he was
going to pay the tax, and asked to see King
Eglon. He was told he was in the summer
house, the place to which the king retired
when it was too hot to sit in the palace.
This summer house was place surrounded
by flowers and trees and springing foun-
tains and warbling birds.
Ehud entered the summer house and said
to King Eglon that he had a secret errand
with him. Immediately all the attendants
were waved out of the royal presence. King
Eglon rises up to receive the messenger
Ehud, the left handed man, puts his left
hand to his right side, pulls out a dagger
and thrusts Eglon through until the haft
went in after the blade. Eglon falls. Ehud
comes forth to blow trumpet of recruit
1 1Nv,t,
great host is marshaled, and proud Moab
submits to the conqueror, and Israel is free.
So, o Lord let all thy enemies perishl So.
o Lord, let all thy friends triumph!
TIE POWER OF LEFT HANDED MEN.
learn first from this subject the power
of left handed men. There are some men
who by physical organization have as much
strength in their left hand as in their right
hand, but there is something in the writing
of this text which implies that Ehud had
some defect in his right hand which COM
PEELED him to use the left. Oh, the power
of left handed menl Genius is often self
observant, careful of itself, not given to
much toll, burning incense to its own ag-
grandizement, while many a man with no
natural endoWments, actually defective in
physical and mental organization. has an
earnestness for the right, patient indus
Hy az " ~ ny
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AHuusn leu H"nNcu "S A-Hui' Ohe! can
strike down sin as great and imperial as
Eglon.
have seen men Of wealth gathering
about them all their treasures, snuding at
the cause of world lying in wickedness,
roughly ordering Lazarus Off their door
step, sending their dogs, not to lick his
sores, but to hound him off their premises;
catcnius an Vhe pure ram oi UOu pressing
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ms ihlI1eu means hi''le poverty ieap lor
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spans 'ne grave ana wiz swing roulti anu
To'tnu the Uhroi'e oi uou' "orlu WITHOUT
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handeu men, VINO nave oeeh longing Tor
thIS SllU' anu 'naU ei9quence' anu 'ne VUner
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WONDERFUL ueAUerlty, bo 1orth TO your
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