Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-06-19
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Washington Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Subject: can Ill East Wind"


wind upon the land all that day and all that
night. Exodus K, IS.
The reference here is not to a cyclone, but
TO the long continued blowing OF the wind
from an unhealthful quarter. The north
wind Is bracirg. the south wind Is relaxing,
but the east wind Is irritating and full OF
threat. Eighteen times does the Bible speak
against the east wind. Moses describes the
thin ears blasted by the east wind. The
psalmist describes the breaking OF the ships
of Tarshish by the east wind. The locuss
that plagued Egypt were born In on the east
wind. The gourd that sheltered Jonah was
shattered bv the east wind, and in all the
COCO summers, autumns. winters, springs oil
the worlds existence the worst wind that
ever blew is the east wind. Now, If God
would only give MS a climate OF perpetual
nor'wester, how genial and kind and placid
and industrious Christians we would all be!
But It takes almighty grace to be what we
ought to be under the east wind.
Under the chilling and wet wing OF the
east wind the most of the worlds viltainies,
| frauds, outrages. suicides and murders nave
been Matched out. l think II you should
keep meteorological history Of the days OF
| the year and put right beside 1t the criminal
record of the country you would find that
those were the best days for public morals
which were under the north or west wind,
| and that those were the worst days for pub
| lie morals which were under the east w1nds
| The points of the compass have more to DC
with the worlds morals and the church's
piety than you have yet suspected. Rev. DR..
| Archibald Alexander, eminent Tor learning
and for conservation, when asked by one OF
his students at Princeton whether he always
had full assurance of faith. replied, yes:
except when the wind blows from the east.
DR.. Francia, dictator of Paraguay, when the
wind was from the east, made oppressive en-
actments for the people, but when the
weather changed repented him OF the cruel
ties, repealed the enactments and was in
good humor with all the world.
Before I Overtake the main thought OF my
subject I want to tell Christirn people they
ought TO be observant Of climatical changes.
Re on vour guard when the wind blows from
the east. There are certain styles OF tempta-
tions that YOU cannot endure under certain
styles of weather When the wind blows
from the east, if you are. of nervous tenn
perament. 60 not am ong e&asperating people,
try not to settle bad debts. do not try to
settle old disputes, do not talk with blgot
on religion, do not go among those people
who delight in saying irritating things, 40
| not try to collect funds for charitable
institution. do not try to answer an insulting
! letter. If these things must be done, do them
when the wind is from the north, or the
south, or tne west, but not when the wind Is
from the cast.
You ,ay that men and women ought not to
he so sensitive and nervous. admit 1t, bit
| am not talking about what the world ought
to be. l am talking about what the world IS.
| While there are persons whose disposition
does not seem to be affected by changes in
the atmosphere, nine out Of ten are nightly
PLAYED upon by such influences. o ChrIstisn
man under such circumstances do not Write
hard things against yourself, do not get wor-
ried about your fiuctuating experience. You
are to reminder that the barometer in your
soul is only answering tho barometer OF the
weather Instead of sitting down and beng
discouraged and saying, VI am not Chris
tian because l don't feel exhilarant, get up
and look out OF the window and see the
weather vane pointing in the wrong quarter,
and then say; "Get thee behind me, satan,
thou prince OF the power of the air; get out
of my house; get out of my heart, thou de-
mon of darkness horsed on the east wind
: Away!" However good and great you may
be in the Christian life. your soul will never
, be independent of physical condition.
.. feel | am uttering q most practical, useiu
! truth here, one that may give reliefto grea
J many Christians who are worried and de
, | spOndent at times.
Dr.. Rush, monarch In medicine, afte
curing hundreds of cases OF mental depres
sion, himself fell sick and lost his religion
hope. and he would not believe his pasto
0 when the pastor told him that his spiritua
. depression was only q consequence o. physi
cal depression. Andrew Fuller, Thoma
Scott, William Cowper, Thomas Boston
, David Brainerd, Philip Meanchthon wer
4 mighty men for God, but all OF them illus
: trations of the fact that mans soul Is no
: independent of his physical health. An emi
4 -, ID no hic ODiDiOn that nj
. man ever Gied great triumphant deaf
a whose disease WAS below the diaphragm
! Stackhouse the learned Chrlstian~commen
Z tor. saws he does not think Saul was insan
7 when David played the harp before him. bu
/ II was a hypochOnGria coming from infiam
4 nation Of the liver. Oh, how many goo
= people have been mistaken in regard to thei
& religious hope, not taking these things int
u consideration.
4 The dean of Carlisle, one Of the best me
:, that ever lived, and one OF the most usefu
a Eat down and wrote: rrhough I have Ell
h deavored to discharge my duty as we'll as
could. vet sadness and melancholy OF heal
stick close by and increase upon me- tie
nobody but l am very much sunk indeed
and wish could have the relief OF weepin
Z us used to. My days are exceedingly dar
n and distressing. In word, Almighty 90
il seems to hide His face, and intrust the 81
"a cret hardly to any earthly being. kno
- not what will become of me. There Is doub
10 less good deal Of bodily affection miDgle
If with this. but it is not all so. bless Goo
20 however. that never lose sight of the eros
~ and though should die without seeing an
IL personal interest in the Redeemers merits,
hope that shall be found at His feet. wi
thank you for o word at your leisure. NJ
door is bolted at the time am writing thi
Is for am full of tears"
IL What was the matter with the dean OF "a
isle? Had he got TO be a worse mann n
The physician said that the state OF his pull
= would not warrant his living minute. "
If the east wind affects the spleen, and ai1ec
the lungs, and affects the liver. IT VIII a1e
your immortal soul. Appearing 10 uou !
Y, Eelp. brace yourself against these witherir
blasts and destroying influences, lest tn
which the psalmist said broke the ships
ID Tarshish shipwreck you.
n But notice in my text that the Lord CO.
10 froIs the east Wud: 1.-The Lord brought Il
east wind" He brings it for especial pu
y pose; it must sometimes blow from tn
is nuarter. The east wind is just as importa
as the north wind, or the south wind, or II
II west wind. but not 50 pleasant. Trial mu
II come The text does not say you W
escape the cutting blast. Whoever did esca
it2 Especially who that accomplished an
thing for church or state ever escaped II?
was in the pulpit of John Wesley, in Lo
don. a pulpit where he stood one day al
said. ~ have been charged With all Il
crimes in the catalogue except one-tbat
drunkenness aud woman arose in L
audience and said. "John, you were drul
last night" So John Wesley passed und
the fail.
saw in q foreign journal report of o.
Of George Whiteleld's sermons-a serm
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