Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-25
AFTER THE BATTLE.
REV. DR.. TALmAeE's SERMON AT THE
ACADEMY IN NEW YORK.

ACADEMY IN NEW YORK.
The Eloquent Preacher on Influence, Temp
tation and the wiles of the world-story
OF the Good Angel and the Bad.
NEW YORK, April 2l.-Thcrc is no dim
mutton In tho vast numbers that assemble
from Sunday to Sunday to listen to the
eloquent sermons of Rev. DR.. Talnage.
Today he chose for his subject After the
Battle," the text selected being / Samuel
XXI, 8, "AnL It came to pass on the NOR
row, when the Philistines camo to strip
the SHIN, that they found Saul and his
three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa."
Some of you were at South Mountain or
Shiloh, or Balls Bluff, or Gettysburg, on
northern or southern side, and l ask you If
there is any sadder sight than q battlefield
after the guns have stopped firingY
walked across the field Of Antietam just
after the conflict. The scene was so sick
ening shall not describe 1t. Every valu-
able thing had been taken from the bodies
of the dead, for there are always vultures
lowering over and around about en- army,
and they pick up the watches and the
memorandum books, and the letters, and
the tlaguerreotypes, 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
my text.
Where Saui Lay Dead.
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 fold, and they lifted the
latchet of the helmet from under the chin
of tho dead and they picked up the swords
and bent them on their knee to test the
temper of the metal, and they opened the
wallets and counted the coin. Saul lay
dead along the ground, eight or nine feet
in length, and suppose the cownrdly
Philistines, to show their bravery, leaped
upon the trunk of his carcass and jeered
at the fallen slain and whistled through
the mouth of his helmet Before night
those cormorants had taken everything
valuable from the field "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."
Before I get through today l will show
you that the same process is going on al
the world over and every day, and thai
when men have fallen satan and thu
world, so far from pitying them or help
ing them, go to work remorselessly to taxi
what little there Is left, thus stripping thu
slain.
There arc tens of thousands Of young
men every year coming from the countr.
to our great cities They come with bray
hearts and grand expectations. The coun
try lads sit down In the village grocery
with their feet ON the iron rod around tn
rcdhot stove in the evening" talking owe
the prospects of the young man who ha
gone off to the city. Two or three of then
think that perhaps he may get along YER
well and succeed, but the most Of then
prophesy failure, for 1t is very hard t
think that those whom we knew in boy
hood will ever make any great success i
the world.
The Battle Of Temptation.
But our young man has fine, positio
in dry goods store The month is ovel
He gets his wages. He is not aecustome
to have SO much money belonging to him
self He is a little excited and does nc
know exactly what to do with ii, and h
snands II, IN some ulaces where he ouQl
not Soon there come up new companior
and acouaintances from the barroo1ns an
the saloons of the city. Soon that youn
man begins TO waver in the battle Of tenn
tation, and soon his soul goes down. In
few months or few years he has fallci
He il morally dead. He is a mere corps
If what he once was. The harpies Of 81
snuff up the taint and come on the flel,
His garments gradually give out He h,
nawned his watch. His health Is failir
him His credit perishes He is too DO,
70 stay in the city, and he Is too poor
nav his way home to the country. Dow
down. why do the low fellows Of the eli
now stick to him SO closely9 Is it to he
him back to a moral and spiritual lif
Oh. NO. I will tell YOU why they stay; til,
are Philistines stripping the slain.
Do not look where Ipoint, but yond
stands man VINO once had DeauOn
nome ~ pnis Guy. IT'S mouse nau eiega l.ss' !,
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ciad, ms name was synohy ynous WiDh no
Or and useininess, pun evil nanis KNOCK
80 ms Iron5 aoor' knocseu az nus pach uos !
knocked at ms parlor door, Knockeu az
to pay the rent. Where Is the hatrac
Sold TO meet tne 6utcners oiu; wnere me 9
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