Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-18
AT THE TABERNACLE.
WHERE'S MOTHERr WAS REV. Or.
TALMAGE'S SUBJECT SUNDAY.

Portable Heaven ana Waiting at the Pal
ace window For Their Loved Ones.
BRooKLYN, Jan. IT, This novel and
unique subject was presented by Dir Tai
mage this forenoon to the usual throngs
crowdng the largest Protestant church in
America. The congregation, led by organ
md cornet, sang gospel hymnto the tune
of Home, Sweet Home Text, Judges V,
2S, 1.-The mother OF Ssera looked out at
window"
Spiked to tue ground of Jacl's tent lay
the dead commander in chief of the Ca
raantish host, General Sisera not far from
the river Kishon, which was only dry bed
of pebbles when in 1889, in Palestine we
crossed it. but the gullies and ravincs which
ran into it indicated the possibility Of great
freshets like the one at the time Of the text.
General Sisera had gone ont with 900 iron
chariots. but he was defeated and his chart
OF wheels nterlocked with the wheels of
other chariotS, he could not retreat fast
enough, and so he leaped to 1.-THE ground and
ran till, exhausted, he went into Jae's tent
for safety. She had just been churning
and when he asked for water She gave him
buttermilk which in the east is considered
a most refreshing drink.
Very tired and surprising he was safe, he
went to sleep upon the floor, but Jael, Tho
had resolved unou mi. deatb tool, - tom,
min. LONG and round and sbarp. in one hand
and 81 hammer i'm her. nt her hand and ,ut
tine tho sL,,.n end or tho tant MA ia fin,
foreheod of Sisera wifi, hen, NJ hrr hand si,o
lifted the hammer and brought if down ON
the head of the pin with stout stroke,
when Sisera struggled to rise. and She
struck him ooaiu. and he struo,,I,d f. ri.n
and the third time she struck him and Two
commander in chief of the Canooniti,I ho.t
Law dead
Meanwhile i'm the Distance Sisera =. u,ntb.
er sits amid surroundings of wealth and
pomp and scenes palutial WAITING, for his re-
turn Every uothpr exnects her SON to bo
victorious. and this mother lool,ed o,t nj
the yiudov. ovncctin, to 500 hin, die, 80,
in his chariot followed Inv ,,,,nr. l,ol,L
with embrnidrrics and also Inv rn,,ir,,utsn f
men vnnn,li-brd and cnelav6d I 500 L.r
now sitting at the window in hiph cvnocta-
tion. She watches the fauLest [I,,n If Tho
road. She looks for tbo nvino du.t of tho
swift hoof. The first Aosi of tbe bif nf tI.
horses birdie She will catch
THE DEATH OF s1,rEA
The ladies of her court stand round and
she tells them of what they shall ha,.r whom
her son comes un-chains of GOLD anal c,r
cauets of beauty and dresses of such wan
drous fabric and s2lendor AS the Bible only
hints at. but leaves us to imnrine .JIn
ought to he here bv this time save lis
mother. .,Tha1 battle is surely over
hone that freshrt of the river, L;i.bo,, bo,
not impeded him. hone those STRANGE nm.
rearances we saw last NIGHT in the sLv ,vero
not ominous whcu1 he star. secmed ia foL,
in their courses NJ. no, lie i. 90 bra,.e il,
battle | know he has won the day Hp,vill
soon be here
But alas for the dieapnointed mother,
She will not sec the ltlitteriu,, headoeo,. nf
the horses Mt full GALLON brin,,ing her son,
home from yicrorion. battle Asa solitary
messenger arriving in not haste rides nm tn
the window at which the mother Of oitar,
sits he cries. "Your armies are Ciefa,tcd and
YOUR son is dead THERE'S a scene of bor
ror and anguish from which we turn ayov
Now Won see the full meaning, of my sbort
text. 1.-The mother of Sisera Looked o,t at
a window" Well my friends we oro all
out in the battle of life. IL * racine nov
and the most of us have n mother ,votcl-
ing and waiting for news of orr victorv mr.
defeat. If She be not sitting at the yvinio,v
of earth. she * sittin,, Mt n ,,.irdo,,, 81
heaven and She .,oino to be,r,11 aI,o,,+ :,
Nv all tbn rulas Of ,,o, l,iso,,., o,,,.tt 80
bave been tri,,n,nb,u4 IL Inl nn1 t..',D
rboriots and . host Of ,no,,,. tbl,,,..l,,I'
yoster than tho ,r,,,iou Of I.,..,l III
was ON the otbe,. .ide and tho ,,,,,,,,. f,.,.l,
.t,o f Eiebon o,,d tI,o h,i1 H., ii'i.,;.-
and tho nnn,ona,,etIo n,,I
caneiyod cho,ots ODD .ts+,il,,, ,,',, ~
tba CIV disco,oGtod cisa,a '' f p't','o ~
his history de.rrhes tba :" Pm, Fd1Io ~,
inc words. ''-' '''''"
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