The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-01
AFTER THE BATTLE.
REV. DR.. TAIMAGE'S SERMON AT The
ACADEMY IN NEW YORK.
The Eloquent Preacher on Influence.
Temptation and the Wiles OF the World
Story of the Good Angel and the Bad.


Story of the Good Angel and the Bad.
New YORK. April 21.-There is no
diminution in the vast numbers that
assemble from Sunday to Sunday to
listen 10 the eloquent sermons of Rev.
Dr.. Talmage. Today he chose for his
subject After the Battle, the text
selected being l samuel XNNl. s, And
it came to pass on the morrow, when
the Philistines came to strip the slain.
that they found Saul and his three
sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.
Some ofyou were at South Moull, ur
or Shiloh, or Balls Bluff, or Gettys-
burg, on northern or southern side,
and I ask YOU if there is any sadder
SIGHT than a battlefield after the guns
have stopped firing? walked across
the field of Antietam just after the
conflict. The scene was so slckenlng
l shall not describeit. Every Taluable
thing had been taken from the bodies
of the dead. for there are always vul-
lures lowering over and around about
an army, and they pick up the watches
and the mem orandum 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 VIII an Napoleon marched up toward
! Moscow, as when y ON Moltke went to
Sedan. There is a similar scene IN my
text.
Saul and his army had been horribly
cut to pieces. Mount Gilboa was ghast-
" 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 the 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 | suppose the COW
ardly Philistines, to show their BRAY
cry, leaped upon the trunk of his car.
cass and ieered at the fallen slain and
whistled through the mouth of his he'll
met. Before night those cormorants
had taken everything valuable from
the field. And it came to pass on
the morrow when the Phillstines came
to strip theslain that they found Saul
and his three sons fallen in Mount Gil
boa. Before 1 get through today | will
show you that the same process is 60
inc on all the world over and every
day and that when men have fallen
satan and the world, so far from pity
ing them or helping them, 60 to work
remorselessly to take what little there
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 redhot stove
in the evening, talking over the pros
poets of the young man who has gone
off to the city. Two or three of them
think that perhaps he may get along
very well and succeed, but the most OF
them prophesy failure, for it is very
hard to think that those whom we
knew in boyhood will every make any
great success in the world.
But our young man has fine posi-
ton in the dry goods store. The month
is over. He gets his wages. He IS
not accustomed to have so much money
belonging to himself. He is little
excited and does not know exactly
what to do with it, and he spends 1t IN
some places where he ought not. Soon
there come up new companions ana
acquaintance from the barrooms and
the saloons of the city. Soon that
young man begins to waver IN the bat,
| tie of temptation, and soon his soul
goes down. In few months or few
years he has fallen. He is morally
dead. He is a mere corpse OF what ne
once was. The harpies Of sin snuff up
the taint and come on the field: bis
garments gradually give out: He has
| pawned his watch. His health is fail
ING him. His credit perishes. He is
too poor to stay in the city, and he is
too poor to pay his way home to the
country. Down, down. Why do the
| low fellows of the city now stick to
him so Closely Is it to help him back
tosa moral and spiritual life? Oh, no;
I will tell you why they stay; they are
Philistines stripping the slain:
Do not look where | point, but yon-
der stands man who once had a
beautiful home in this city. His house
had elegant furniture, his children
were beautifully clad, his name was
SYNONYMOUS with honor and useful
ness, but evil habit knocked at his
front door, knocked at his back door,
knocked at his parlor door, knock at
his bedroom door. Where is the piano.
Sold to pay the rent. Where us the
hatrack2 Sold to meet the butcher S
bill. Where are the carpets! Sold to
get bread. Where is the wardrobe:
Sold to get rum. Where are the
daughters: Woring their fingers OFT try
ing to keep the family together. Worse
and worse until everything is gone.
Who is that going up the front steps
of that house? That isa creditor, hop
ing to find some chair or bed that has
not been levied upon. Who are those
| TWO SentleEleu HOW So1nS ''p LIZ - W =
steps? The one is a constable; the
other is the sheriff: Why do they go
there. The unfortunate is morally
dead, socially dead, financially dead.
Why do they 60 there: will tell you
why the creditors, and, the constables,
and the sheriffs 60 there. They are
some on their own account, and some
on account of the law stripping the
slain.
An ex-member of congress, one Of
the most eloquent men that ever stood
in the house of representatives, said in
his last moments: This IS the end.
am dying-dying ona borrowed bed,
covered by borrowed sheet, IN
house built by public charity. Bury
me under that tree in the middle OF
| I lad