Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-07-27
SHARPENED XES.
TALMAGE breaches A SERMON
IN WISCONSIN,. u
A Great Throng Assemblies at Monona
Lake to Hear the Celebrated Pulpit
Orator Diagnose Certain scripturai
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MADISON, Wis, July 3--A great throng
of many thous auds from all parts of the
North and West are gathered at the Mo
mona Lake Assembly, a Chautauqua held
near this city. Rev. Talmage this forenocn
preached to this great multitude on
"Sharpened Axes, the text being J. sam
ue 10 lg-%l: Now there was no smith
found throughout all the land of Israel,
etc. ...
My loving and glad salutation to
this uncounted host Chautauquans,
Christian Endeavore s,gospel workers,
and their friends from all parts of
Wisconsin ard America, saints and
sinners! My text is gloriously appro-
pirate. What scalding subjugation
the lsraelites were suffering. The
lhiliStines had carried off all the
blacksmiths. and torn down all the
blacksmi hs shops, and abolished the
blacksmiIh's trade in the land of
Israel. These pnilistincs had "A par
ticular grudge against blacksmiths,
although have always adm red
them. and have sometimes thought !
ought to have been one myself. The
Phil;stines would not even allow these
parties 10 work their valuable mines
of brass and iron, nor might they
make any swords or spears. There
were only two swords left n all the
land. ca, these Phil st ne went on
until they had taken all the grind
stones from the land of Israel, SO that
if an lSraclitish farmer wanted TO
sharpen his pillow o. his axe, he had to
go over 10 the garrison of the Philis-
tin S to get il done. There was only
one sharpening instrument left in
the land, and that was a file, The
farmers and the mechanics having
nothing 10 whet up the coulter and
the gOad aud the picSuNc. save q simple
file, industry was hindered and work
praC ticAlly disgrace l. The great idea
of these ihilistincS was to keep the
lsraelites dlsurmcd. / hey might get
iron out Of the Iii IS to make swords
of. Init they would not have any black
smiths to weld this iron, Il they got
the iron welded, they would have no
griud>tOnes on which to bring the in,
strumeuts of agriculture or the mill
tary Weapons up 10 an edge. Oh, you
poor, wcapOnlesS lsraelites reduced to
Il file, how pity YOU, But these Phil
j tines were not forever to keep their
heel on the ne. k Of Gods CHI ldren.
Jonathan, on his hands and knees,
climbs M q great rock beyond which
were the rhiiistin :: and his armor-
bearer, on h hands and knees, climbs
up the same 70 *, and these two men,
with their two swords, hew to pieces
! the Fhilistine the Lord throwing n
great terror upon them. 80 it was
then: so it j. now. The two men of
tod on their knees mightier than
PhiliStine host on their feet.
learn first from this subject, how
dangerous it is for the church of tod
to allow its weapons to stay in the
hands of is enemies. These Israel
ties nigh again and az in nave OBJ
tanned II supply of sW ords and weapons,
/ as for instance when they took the
| spoils of the Amnonites; but these
| lsraelites seemed content to have no
swords, no spears, no bla rksmiths, no
grinustoneS, no active iron mines,
until it WAS too late tor them to make
any resistance. | see the farmers tug
I ging along with their piellaXes and
/ plough, and | say, Where are you
! going with those things They say,
| "Oh, we are gOiug over 10 the garrison
. of the Ihilistines to get these things
: shurpenrd' ! say You 'Colish men,
why don't you sharpen them at home?'
/ "Oh." they s'y, the btacksiniths
! shops are all torn down, and we have
nothing left rs but a file.
/ 50 il i in the church Of Christ to-
| dav. We are too willing TO give up
/ our weapons to the enemy, The world
/ boasts that it has gObblvd up the
[ schools, and the co lcgCs, and he arts.
and the sciences, and the literature,
3 L.. "a. I..N 4
! making u mighty attempt to gel all
! our weapons in its hand, and then to
/ keep them. GU know il IS making
| this bouS all the time; and after
/ awhile{ when the great battle be ween
I sin and RICH cuusness has opened, il
! we do not lpOlI out we will be as badly
off as these lsraehtes. without any
! swords 90 fight with, and without any
sharpening instruments. | call III on
the superintendent of literary insti-
! tutiuns 81 see to it that the men who
/ 60 into the Class.rOOmS 10 stand beside
| the Leydcn jars. and the electric bat
| tcrieS and the microscopes or tclc-
scopes, be children of cod. not philis.
! tines. The atheist. thinkers of his
day are trying to get all the in elect
! ual weapons Of this century in their
life Christians 90 cantura Tho science
and scholastic. Christians IN c,ntnra
the scholarship and nhiInsonhin fbr;S.
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