Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-09
HUMBLE WORKERS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE SPEAKS FOR MOD
EST CHRISTIAN EFFORT.

REV. DR.. TAlMAGE SPEAKS FOR MOD
EST CHRISTIAN EFFORT.
Not Opportunity and Accomplishment. but
Genuine Effort the Standard of Gods
Justice-A Word For the Nobodfes In
LIES Battle.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Dr. Talmage
today preached his second sermon since
coming to the national capital If posi-
BILE, the audience was even larger than
last Sunday. The subject was 1.-THE
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Samuel xxx, "a, "As his part is that
goeih down to the battle, so shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff. !"
Ii you have never seen an army
change quarters you have no idea of the
amount of baggaae-20 loads, 90 loads,
100 loads of baggage. David and his
army were about to start on double
quick march for the recovery of their
captured families from the Amalekites.
So they left by the brook Besor their
blankets, their knapsaeks, their bag
gage and their carriages. Who shall be
detailed to watch this stuff? There are
sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and
aged soldiers who are not able to go on
swift military expedition, but who are
able to do some work, and SO they are
detailed to watch the baggage. There is
many soldier who isnot strong enough
to march 80 miles in day and then
plunge into ten hours fight who is
able with drawn sword lifted against
his shoulder to pace up and down as
sentinel to keep off an enemy who might
put the torch to the baggage. There are
200 of those crippled and aged wounded
soldiers detailed to watch the baggage.
Some of them, suppose, had bandages
across the brow, and some Of them had
their arms in slings, and some Of them
walked on crutches. They were not cow
ards Sinking duty. They had fought in
many fierce battle for their country
and their God. They are now part Of
the time in hospital and part Of the
time on garrison duty. They almost cry
because they cannot go with the other
troops to the front. While these seEti-
nels watch the baggage the Lord
watches the sentinels.
Taken by Surprise.
There is quite different scene being
enacted in the distance. The Amalek-
ties, having ravaged and ransacked and
robbed whole countries, are celebrating
their success in roaring carousal.
Some of them are dancing on the lawn
with wonderful gyration of heel and
toe, and some Of them are examining
the spoils of yictory-the finger rings
and earrings and necklaces, the wrist
let's, the headbands, diamond starred,
and the Golfers with coronets and carne-
lians and paris and sapphires and emer-
aids and all the wealth of plate, and
jewels and decanters, and the silver and
the gold banked up on the earth in
princely profusion, and the embroid-
cries, and the robes, and the turbans,
and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobe.
The banquet has gone on until the ban
queters are maudlin and weak and stu
pid and indecent and loathsomely drunk.
What time it is now for David and his
men to swoop on them So the English
lost the battle of Bannockburn because
the night before they were in wassail
and bibulous celebration, while the
Scotch were in prayer. So the Syrians
were overthrown in their carousal by
the Israelites. So Ghedorlaomer and his
army were overthrown in their carousal
by Abraham and his men. So in our
civil wa more than once the battle was
lost because one of the generals was
drunk. Now is the time for David and
his men to swoop upon these carousing
Amalekites. Some of the Amalekites are
hacked to pieces on the spot, some of
them are just able to go staggering and
hiccoughing off the field, some Of them
distance. David and his men gather to-
gether the wardrobes, the jewels, and
put them upon the backs Of camels and
into wagons, and they gather together
the sheep and cattle that had been stol-
en- and start back toward the garrison.
Yonder they come, yonder they come.
The limping men of the garrison come
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The Bible says David saluted them
that is, he asked them how they all
were. .sHow is your broken arm?"
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the stitfened limb been unlimbered?"
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