The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Stripping OF the Slain by the
Philistines.
1ne Robbery Of the Dead Saul and Ills
Army Initiated By the World To-
Day-The Rewards Of an
In-spent Life.

music. New York city, on the subject
After the Battle" basing 1t on the
text:
ana y came to pass on the morrow, wher
the Phiiistines came to strip the slain tina,
they found Saul and his throe sons fallen in
Mount Gilboa.-L Samuel, xxi,
Some Of you were at South Noun.
tain. or Shiloh, or Balls Bluff, or Get
tysburg, on northern or southern side.
and ask you If there is any sadder
sight than battlefield after the guns
have stopped gring? / walked across
the field or Antietam Just after the
conflict. TIL yscene was so sickeuinp !
shall not describe it. Every valuable
thing bad been taken from the bodies
OF the dead, for there are always vul-
lures lowering over and around IN
army, and they pick up the watches
and the memorandum books, and the
letters, and the daguerreotypes, and
the hats and the coats, applying them
to their own uses. The dead make no
resistance. So there are always camp
followers going on and after an army.
as when Scott went down into Mexico.
as when Napoleon marched up toward
Moscow, as when Won Moltke went to
Sedan. There is a similar scene in nv
S1xt:
Saul and his army had been horribly
cut to ,pieces. Mount Gilboa was
CHASTITY with the dead. On the morrow
the stragglers came on to the field, and
they lifted the latchet of the helmet
from under the chin of the dead, and
they picked up the swords and bent
them on their knee to test tSe temper
OF the metal, and they opened the wal
lets and counted the coin. Saul lay
dead along the ground. eight or nine
feet In length, and l suppose the cow
ardly Philistines, to show their BRAY
cry, ieaped upon the trunk of his car
cass, and jeered at the fallen slain,
and whistled through the mouth of
his helmet. Before night those cor
morants had taken everything valua-
BILE from the field: "And it came to
pass on the morrow, when the Phili-
shines came to strip the slain, that
they found Saul and his three sons fall
en- in Mount Gilboa."
Before get through to-dayI will show |
you that the same process is going on |
all the world over, and every day, and |
that when men have fallen. Satan and |
the world. so far from plying them or
helping them, go to work remorse-
lessly to take what littsesthere is left,
thus stripping the slain.
There are tens of thousands of young
men every year coming from the coun-
try to our great cities. They come
with brave hearts and grand expecta-
tons The country lads sit down in
the village grocery, with their feet on
the iron rod around the red-hot stove,
in the evening, talking over the pros
poets OF the young man who has gone
of to the city. Two or three of them
think that perhaps he might get along
we'll and succeed, but the most of them
prophesy failure, for it is very hard to
think that those whom we knew in
will ever make any great sue
,ess in the world.
But our young man has fine posi-
ion in q dry goods store. The month
8 over. He gets his wages. He is not ,
to have so much money be-
onging to himself. He Is little ex-
'ited. aud does not know exactly what 1
o do with it, and he spends it in some ]
,IAces where he ought not. Soon there I
ome up new companions and acquaint-
noes from the bar rooms and the sa-
oons Of the city. Soon that young
nan begins to waver in the battle of I
and soon his soul goes I
own. In few months, or few years,
e has fallen. He is morally dead.
(e II . mere corpse of what he once
RS. The harpies Of sin snuh up the t
niut and come ON the field. His gar i
,enta gradually give out He has Z
awned his watch. His health is fail {
g him. His credit parishes He is i
20 poor to stay in the city, and he is q
% poor to pay his way home to the !
ountry.. Down. down. Why do the '
~ fellows Of the city now stick to i
I'M 20 closely? Is Il TO help him back n
, moral and spiritual life? Oh, no! n
Will tell you why they stay; they are r
hilistines stripping the slain. h
There II another WY. however, Of v
ping that same work. Here Is : man p
no, through his sin, il PROSTATE. He p
that he has done wrong.
on q the time for you to 70 to that q
IN and gay: Thousands Of people d
Ivo been q far astray Is you are and Il
It back" Now is the time for you to q
, 70 that man and tell him Of the om-1 "
potent grace Of God, that Is sufficient =
( any poor soul. Now is the time to Of
, tell him how swearing John Bum "
n, through the grace Of God, after d
lrd came to the celestial city. Now Il
the time TO go to that man and tell IA
d how prohigate Newton came, in
rough conversion. TO be world-re- ST
'wned preacher Of righteousness. "
~ Is the time to tell that man that 81
attitudes who have been pounded N
th III the fails Of sin and dragged Ia
rough all the sewers Of pollution, 1T d.
i have risen TO positive domination Of u
,ral power.
You do not tell him that do you2 slI
! You say TO him: Loan you "a
,ncy3 No You ara down. You In
u have 10 20 to the doga Lend you to
lollar2 would not lend you ave -
,ts to keep you from the gallows. nj
a are debauched! Get out Of my 60
ut. nowi Down; you win have to Oh
y down." And thus those bruised I'll
battered men are sometimes &C. an
ted by those who ought to lift them tal
Thus the last vestige of hope Is mn
Ion from them. Thus those who tn
rht to 70 and lift and save them, wi