The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-21
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
Dr. TALMAGE WILL CONTINUE
HIS SERMONS.
The Burning of the Tabernacle VIII
Not Interfere with His Long Estab-
lshed Relations With the Newspapers
Last Sundays Discourse.

DR.. Talmage will continue his ser
mons through the press until such
time a new tabernacle will have re-
| placed the one destroyed by fire Sun
day, May 70.
The text chosen for this week was
l. Samuel 80: 4, 10. ''Then David and
the people that were with him lifted
up their voice and wept, until they
had no more power to weep. David
recovered ALL"
There is intense excitement in the
village of Ziklag. David and his men
are bidding good-b to their families
and are off for the wars In that little
village of Ziklag the defenseless ones
Will be safe until the warriors, flushed
with victory, come home But will
the defenseless ones be safe? The soft
arms of children are around the necks
of the bronzed warriors until they
shake themselves free and start, and
handkerchiefs and flags are waved and
kisses thrown until the armed men
vanish beyond the hills. David and
his men soon get through with their
campaign and start homeward. Every
night on their way home, no sooner
does the soldier put his head on the
knapsack than in his dream he hears
the welcome of the wife and the shout
of the child Oh, what long stories
they will have to tell their families of
how they lodged the batt1eax! and
then will roll up their sleeves and
show the half-hea1ed wound With
glad, quick step, they march on, David
and his men, for they are marching
home. Now they come up to the last
hill which overlool1s Ziklag, and they
expect in a moment to see the dwell
ling places of their loved ones. They
look, and as they look their cheeks
turn pale, and their lips culver, and
their hands involuntarily come down
on the hilt of the sword. "Where is
Ziklag? Where are our homes?'' they
cry. Alas! the curling smoke above
the ruin tells the tragedy. The
Amalekites have come down and con-
sumed the village. and carried the
mothers and the wives and the chill
dren of David and his men into cap
tivity. The swarthy warriors stand
for a few moments transfixed with
horror. Then their eyes glance to
each other, and they burst into I'M
controllable weeping; for when a
strong warrior weeps, the grief is APP
palling. 1t seems as if the emotion
might tear him to pieces. They ''wept
until they had no more power to weep"
But soon their sorrow turns into rage,
and David, swinging his sword high in
air, cries, pursue, for thou shalt
overtake them, and without fail re-
cover ALL Now the mach becomes a
s'double-quick.' Two hundred of
David's men stop by the brook Besor,
faint with fatigue and grief They
can not go step farther They are
left there. But the other 400 men
under David, with sort of panther
STEP march on in sorrow and in rage.
They find by the side of the road a
half-dead Egyptian, and they resusci-
tate him, and compel him to tell the
whole story. He says, ''Yonder they
went, the captors and the captives,"
pointing in the direction. Forward, !
ye 400 brave men of frel Very soon
David and his enraged company come |!
upon the Amalekit1sh host. Yonder |
they see their own wives and children
and mothers, and under Amalekitish |
guard Here are the officers of
the Amalekitish army holding a
banquet The cups are full, the |
music is reused, the dance begins
The Amalekitish host cheer and cheer
and cheer over their victory. But, |
without note of bug1e or warning of /
David and his four hundred /
men burst upon the scene David and
his men look up, and one glance at !
their loved ones in captivity and under
guard throws them into a
very fury of determination; for you
know how men will fight when they
fight for their wives and children. Ali
there are 1ightnings in their eye, and
every finger is a spear, and their voice
is like the shout of the whir1windl
Amidst the upset tankards and the
costly viands crushed undertook the
wounded Amalekltes lie (their blood
ningl1ng with their wine) Shrek
ing for mercy. No sooner do
David and his men win the
than they throw their swords
down into the dust--what do they
want with swords now?-and the
broken families come together amidst
4 great shout of joy that makes the
;iped in the comparison The rough
I'D warrior has to use some persuasion
before he can get his child to come to
him now after so long an absence; but
oon the little fingers trace the
amiliar wrinkle across the SCARED
ace And then the empty tankards
ire set up, and they are filled with the
pest wine from the hills, and David
md his men, the husbands. the wives,
he brothers. the sisters, drink 20 the
,verthrow of the Amalekites and to
he rebuilding of Ziklag- So. o Lord,
ct thine enemies perish!
Now they are coming home, David
nd his men and their families-a
ong procession. Men, women, and
hildren, loaded with jewels and robes
nd with all kinds of trophies that the
.maIekifes had gathered up in wears |