Connecticut western news., 1895-11-07
HUMBLE WORKERS.
REV. pR. TALMAee SPEAKS FOR Moo-
 EST CHRISTIAN EFFORT.

Jussscs-A Word For the Nobodies In L.isss Battle.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Dr. Talmage oiay preached his second sermon since coming to the national capital If possi ,le, the audience was even larger than ast Sunday. The subject was "The Disabled" the text selected being l Samuel xxx, 24, "As his part is that soeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.
 If you have never seen an army change quarters you have no idea of the mount of baggage--20 loads, 50 loads, 100 loads of baggage David and his army were about to start on a double quick march for the recovery of their captured families from the Amalekites. So they left by the brook Besor their blankets, their knapsacks, their bag gage and their carriages. Who shall be detailed to watch this stuff There are sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and aQed 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 a soldier who is not strong enough to march 30 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 of an enemy who might put tho 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 aoroes the brow. and some of them had their arms in slings, and some of them walked on crutchea. They were not cow ards shirking duty. They had fought in many fierce battle for their country and their God They are now part of tho time in hospital and part of tho time on garrison duty. They almost cry because they cannot 90 with the other troops to the front While these senti- nels watch tho baggage tho Lord watches tho sentinela.
 TAksa by S1rpriss.
 Thers is quito different scene being enacted in tho distance. The Amalek- ites. having ravaged and ransacked and robbed whole countries. are celebrating their success in . roaring oarousaL Soms of them are dancing on the lawn with wonderful gyration of heel and toe, and some of them are examining tho spoils of victory-the finger rings and earrings and necklaces, the wrist lets, tho headbands, diamond starred, and the coffcFs with coronets and carne- iani and pearls and sapphires and emer- dds and all the wealth of plate, and jewela 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 m imperial wardrobe. The banquet has gone on until the ban oueters are maudlin and weak and stu hid and indecent and loathsomely drunk. What time 1t is now for David and his men to svoop on them. So the Engnsh lot tho battle of Bannockburn because tho night before they were in wassail and bibulous celebration, while the Scotch were in prayer. So the Syrians were overthrown in their carousal by tho Iraelites. So Chedorlaomer and his army were overthrown in their carousal by Abraham and his men. So in our civil wa more than onoe 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 hacled to pieces on the spot, some of them aro int able to 90 staggering and hiccoushing on tho field. some of tham crawl on came1s and speed of in the distance. David and his mon gather to- gskhoe the wardrobes. the jewels. and put them upon tho bacls of camels and Into wagons, and they gather together tho sheep and cattle that had been stol- en and start back toward tho garrison. Wonder they come. yonder they come. Tho hmping men Of the garrison como out end greet them with wild huxza. Tho Bible ays David saluted them that is, ho aaked them how they all were How is your broken armr' "How is your fractured jawf' Has tho sti6ened limb been unlimbered?" "Have yoa had another chilli" "Are you getting betterr' He saluted them.
 But now came very difficult thing, tho distrihutien of the spoils of victory. Drivs up those laden camels now. Who ahall havs the spoils2 We'll, some selfish sonl suggests that these treasures ought all to belong to those who had been out In active service. I've did all the fight ing while these mon stayed at home iE the garrison, and we ought to have all tho txeasnres" But David looked into the worn facss of these veterans who had stayed in tho garrison. and he looked around and saw how cleanly everything had been kep<. and he saw that tho bag sags was all safe, and he knew that these wounded and crippled men would gladly enough have Seen at the front if fhey had boen able, and the little gen cal looks up from under his helmet and says. "No, no, let us have fair play, " and he rushes up to one of these men and hs says, Hold your hands to- gether." and the hands are held to- gether, and he fills them with silver
 And he rushes up to another man who va dtting away back and had no idea Of setting any of the spoils, and throws Babylonish garment over him and fills his hand with gold. And he rusbes up to another man who had lost all his property in serving God and his country years before, and he drives up some of the cattle and some of the sheep that they had brought back from the Anal ohites, and he gives two or three of the cattle and three or four of tho sheep to this poor man. 60 he shall always be fed and clothed He sees . man 90 emaciatod and Hoen out and sick he needs stimu- Iants, and he gives him little of the wine that he brought from the Amalek- itea Wonder is man who has no ap- petite for tho rough rations of the army, and he gives him rare morsel from the Amalekitish banquet, and the 200 crip- pied and maimed and aged soldiers who tarricd on garrison duty get just as much of the spoils of battle as any of the 200 men that went to the front. "As his part. is that goeth down to the bat tie. 90 shall his part be that tarrieth by the stud"