The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-04-25
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
sfSDAY,s SERMON IN THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
subject: "After the Eattie."

fallen in Mount Gilboa. Il Samuel XXI. 3.
Some Of you were at South Mountain or
shiloh or Balls Bluff or Gettysburg on
Nothern or Southern side, and [ ask Won N
there is any sadder sight than n battlefield
aner the guns have stopped fring2 Iwalked
across the field of Antietam just after the
coniict The scene was so sickening shall
not describe II. Every valuable thing had
l,en taken from tho bodies OF the dead, for
there are always vultures lowering over and
around about an army. and they pick up
the watches. and the memorandum books.
and the letters. and the daRuerreotypes, and
,he hats. and the coats. applying them TO
their own uses. The dead make no rasis-
lance. 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 silu,-
lar scene in my text.
saul and his army had been horribly cut 20
pieces. Mount Gilboa was ghastly with the
dead. On the morrow the stragglers came
on 10 the field and they lifted the latchet of
the helmet from under the chin Of tho dead.
they picked up the swords and bent them on
their knee 20 test the temper Of the metal.
and they opened the wallets and counted the
coin. Saul lay dead along the grouud, eight
or nine feet in length. and suppose the
cowarlly Philistines. TO show their bravery.
leaped upon the trunk OF his carcass and
jcered at the fallen slain and whistled through
ihe mouth OF his helmet. Before night those
comorants had taken everything valuable
from the field. "And II 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 get through to-day will show
| sou that the same process is going on all the
world over, and every day. and that when
a...s. fffl fl.at.. a al
from plying them or helping them. 60 to
work remorselessly to take what little there
4 left, thus stripping the slain.
There are tens ot thousands OF young men
every year coming from the country To- our
great cities. They come with brave hearts
and grand expectations. The country lads
gt down In the village grocery, with their
ieei on the iron rod around the redhot
stove, In the evening, talking over the
prospects of the young man who has gone
N 10 the city. Two or three Of them think
that perhaps he may get along very well and
succeed, but the most OF them prophcsv
failure. for II Is very hard TO think that
those whom we knew in boyhood will ever
make any great success in tho world.
But uryoung man has fine position in
dry goods store. The month e. over He
gets his wages. He is not accustomed 10
lave so much money belonging to himself.
He Is little excited and does not know
exactly what 10 do with IL. and he spends IL
IN some places where he ought not Soon
there come up new companions and acquaint-
ancs from the barrooms and the saloons of
The city. Soon that young maa begins to
vayer In the battle OF temptation. and soon
i' soul goes down. In few months or few
Eear he has fnllen. He is morally dead. He
a mere corpse of what he once was. The
larpies of sin SNUFF up the taint and come
rn the field. His garments gradually give
ut He has pawned his watch. His health
falling him. His credit perishes. lie is
20 poor to stay in the city. and he is too
oor TO pay his way home TO the country.
Down, down! Why do the low fellows OF
he city now stick to him so closely? Il IL to
elp him back to moral and spiritual life?
h, no. will tell you why they stay. They
e Philisunes stripping the slain.
Do not look whore / point. but yonder
lands man who once had beautiful homo
this city. His house had elegant furni-
lre his children were beautifully clad. his
ame was Synonymous with honor and USE
illness, but evil habit knocked at his front
oor' Knocked al his back door, knocked mt
laror door, Knocked at his bedroom
OL Where In the piGnOy Sold to pay the
hL Where Is the hatrack? Sold TO meet
butchers bill. Where are tho carpets2
odto get bread. Where is the wardrobe?
ID to get rum. Who're are the daughters?
oodhS their fingers of IN trying to keep
amily together. Worse aud worse until
eTthing is gone. Who is that going up the
'h' steps OF that house? That is a creditor,
ping 70 IND some chair or bed that has not
ea levied upon. Who are those two gem
men now going up the front steps? The
Is constable; the other is the sheriff.
ay DO they go there? The unfortunate Is
ally dead, socially dead. financially dead.
.! 20 they go there? l will tell you why
IA nI "a.
erihs 30 there. They are. some on their
laccount and some on account of.the law,
rpping the slain.
an ex-member of Congress, one OF the
Eloquent men that ever stood in the
use oil Representatives. said in his last
+ hehts; This is the end. | am dying
1 ag ona borrowed bed, covered by a bor-
b M sheet, IN house built by public
nly Bury me under that tree in the mid
the neld, where shall not be becrowded,
o nave been crowded all my life" Where
- y tne Jolly politicians and the dissipating
81 les raues who had been with him, laughing
uls Jokes, applauding his eloquence and
h, uglhs him into SIM They have left. Why?
~ money Is gone, his reputation Is gone,
WI gone, his clothes are gone--every-
IS gone. Why should they STAY any
si serf They have completed their work.
ck nave stripped the slain.
WY Is another way, however, of doing
-, ane work. Here is u man who through
~ ~ sn' Is PROSTATE. He acknowledges that
'~ s uone wrong. Now is the time for YOU
70 that man and say, Thousands of
hs p~ nave been as far astray rs you are
ain sot sot Dack." Now is the time for you TO
ors Ihat man and tell him Of the omnipo-
sWce ol God that is sufficient for any
lI syui' Now is the time to go and tell
h0' swearing John Bunyan, through the
Ciuod d,atterward came 70 the Celestial
ha NOW is the time to 80 II that man and
, q, nim how prOillgate Newton came.
.su conversion, TO be n world renowned
.vs OF righteousness. Now Is the time
by lat man that multitudes who have been
usei lyu With all the hails OF sin and dragged
81 all the sewers Of pollution at last
.o., ''oh 10 positive dominion OF moral
~" 90 not tell him that, do you? No.
sy 10 him, "LOan you money? No
ID l. 80 uoWn. You will have to go TO the
syll Lend You dollar? | would not lend
,v cents 10 keep You from the gallows.
-, @'e debauche1! Get OUT of my sight.
lD0" pown! You will have to stay DOWN.
ttus those bruised and battered mRn are
nrns ihe5 Gccostod by those who ought to
m up. Thus the last vestige of nope
a rom them. Thus those who ought
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