Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-11-19
THE CURE OF NAAMAN
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
mTEiE SICK GENERAL"

TcInple-Tvhat General NaaIlan Was
Willing. to Do to lie Cured-The True
Remedy.
BncoELYN, Nov. 1S.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage has chosen IS the subject of to-
days sermon through the press ''The
Sick General, - tho text selected being
II Kings V, 1, 'tHe was leper.'
Here we have a warrior sick, not
with pIcurisies or rheumatisIns OF con-
sur1ptiOns, but with q disease worse
than I'll these put together. A red mark
has come ont on the forehead precursor
of complete Disagreement and dissolu-
ton. [ have something awful to tell
YOU. General Naaman, the commander
in chief OF all the Syrian forces, has the
leprosyl 1t is on his hands, on his face,
OH his feet, on his entire person. The
leprCsy! Get out of the way Of the pes
tilencel If his breath strike you, you
are q dead man. The commander III
chief CT all the forces Of Syrial And YET
he would be glad to exchange conditions
with tie boy at his stirrup Or the hos
tier that blankets his charger. The news
goes like wiIdfire all through the realm,
and the people are sympathetic, and
they CRY out, els it possible that our
great hero, who slew Ahab and around
whom we came with such vociferatiOn
when lie returned from victorious bat
tle-can it be possible that our grand
and glorious Naaman has the leprosy?"
All Are Afflicted.
Yes Everybody has something he
wishes he had nOt-David, an AbsalOm
to disgrace him; Paul, thorn to sting
Il L.,
Samson. n Delilah to shear him; Abab,
a Naboth to deny him; Haman, q Nor
decai to irritate him; George Washing
ton, childIessness to afElict him; John
Wesley, q ternagant wife to poster him;
Leah, weak eyes; Pope, q crooked back;
Byron, club foot; John Milton, blind
eyes; Charles Lamb, an insane sister,
and you and you and you something
which you never bargaiDed for and
would like to get rid O.. The reason Of
this IS that God does not want this
world TO be too BRIGHT Otherwise we
would always want to stay and cat these
fruits and lie Oh these lounges and shake
hands IN this pleasant society. We arc
only il the vestibuIo OF & grand temple.
God Coos not want Us to stay on the
doorstep, ard therefore he sends aches
and aun0yance3 and sorr0Es and be
reave1>o1-t5 Of al SORTS to push Us on
and push Us up toward ripper fruits and
briGGt-r society and more radiant pros
peri ica. God is only whipping is ahead.
Tie reason that Edward FaTson and
ROBBERS Hall had more E.pturoCa views
Of heaven than other people hGl was
beo2u52, through their Ccl-cs and pains,
God ru-Led them nearer I'd to II. II
God Cezhos out one Of y0Ur pictures, il
is only 70 show to you q brighter one.
If he sting yo-r fO05 With GCut, your
brain with Eoa-oIG 5a, yC-E tongue Nit,1
an i1cz.i-.c :Jlish:l-G t.-i-Ef, / ! j. only be
cause he IS preparing 10 cocstituto . bet
ter boy than y0l ever l------,-cl G. Wien
the + til sLls,II put ca Immortality.
Tt = 10 push you ca and 10 push yea
up toward something Gr1aler 2al better
tina cd sends upon Jos, as he did up0n
Gcuc-al NGlEoD, something yoE &C
not ut. Seated il lis Syrian man
sio-. II the wells differing; with TIC
shield T-I-5-I he he'd c.7c-.11d II bat
tie, the corridors crow 5ed With admir-
in -i=ltor5 NO just wanted - see liz
once. --- - md Ei-th c-.l h.-~-eei r
films all t--3 mansion G-3 eoz'.. I'D
Go-r 10 pictured ceil-.g,
wo-l5 haze 1orCot-en that
an r better J-.l ZTC-ld
GLAD Is Say Gro 10, coo -ec-. ~,
how The Shields dim, and how IT, visit
Ors - ti-o hall, ard l-oy. t.e z--= c C.-e,-2s
dead 1-c1 th5 strz--.-e, ans, how t. 8 gates
OF J,.o mansion SLIM shut vgit.l s53-l-
Chral Beng af -01 Iea-l t. clCe .--o-,.i
Of the o. l,ilzl ''L38 T-as : l5E,r! H.
was = l9peE!'
Must E-e.ro ayl-2-sa-laE.
There was O-o person ----s sTmDG-
thario with General -Tac~-c-. than t.--v
Other ~--zc-l. L-G-2C1's VII walks t:--
foo, E.---g.-,c her hands q tIE M 70
thin what SO cGu DC - @Iiovi@.3 Eo1
hus1c-l's suffering. Ill Ezmedloi haze
failed. Tic surgeon general and tie
doctors Of the royal star have 1net, a1li
thoT have shaken their heads, as l..v..l
as to say, mo cure, no cure. It-:--'-
that lie Office seekers had all I0ld 4 ~
then IL Communications and gone E5-ac
Probably most Of the employee OF tbs
Gst25l hmo25 had dropped their work
and were thinking Of looking for some
othCr .1atiQn. What shall new 3eoCZ-e
Of poo Laaman's wife? She must have
Bympcc-y somewhere. II her despair
she goes to a little Hebrew captive, Z
servant girl Ia her house, to whom she
tells the whole story, as sometimes,
when overcome by the gorro7s OF tie
world and finding nc sympathy any
where else, you have gene oCtend found
in the sympathy OF some humble domes-
tic-ROse OF Diuah or Bri5Get-a helm
which the world could not give you.
Nbct ,op71c x--0c---07,0 Of 10
grandest women in I'll Syria in cabinet
council with d waiting maid over the
declining health Of the mighty general