The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-26
TALMAGE's SERMON.
The Folly Of Attempting Deceit IN
Affairs Of Life.
The Story OF Jerobosm's wiss-For Dou-
bio Dealing, Moral shunn.ng, Coua-
torfeit and Sham God Has
Sure PunishmenE

scene in a sermon before his Washins
ton congregation. 1t was based on til
text:
Why agurest thou thyself TO be another,
L Kings, XIV.
In The palace of wicked Jeroboar
there Is sick child, very sick chile
Medicines have failed; skill is ca
hausted. Young Abijah, the prince
has lived long enough to become ver
popular, and yet he must die unles
some supernatural aid be afforded
Death comes up the broad stairs O
the palace and swings back the doc
pf the sick room of royalty, and stand
hooking at the dying prince with tn,
dart uplifted. Wicked Jeroboan
knows that he has no right to asl
anything of the Lord in the way o.
Kindness. He knows that his PRAYER.
would not be answered. and SO he
sends his wife on the delicate and ten.
der mission to the prophet of the Lord
IN Shiloh. Putting aside her royal at
tire, she puts on the garb of peasant
woman and starts on the road. In
stead OF carrying gold and gems, as
she might have carried from the pal
ace, She carries only those gifts which
seem to indicate that she belongs to
the peasantry-a few loaves of bread
and IL few cracknels and cruise of
honey. Yonder she goes, hooded and
yelled, the greatest lady in all the
Kingdom, yet passing unobserved. No
one that meets her on the highway
has any idea that she is the first lady
IN all the land. She is a queen in dis
guise. The fact is that when Peter
the Great was working in the dry
docks OF Saardam the sailors hat and
the shipwrights ak gave him no more
thorough disguise than the garb
-of the peasant woman gave to
the Queen of Tirzah. But the
prophet of the Lord saw the de-
'ceit. Although his physical eycsight ,
had failed. He was divinely ilIumina-
ted, and at one glance looked through |
abe imposition, and He cried out:
Come in. thou wife OF Jeroboam.
why feignest thou thyse to be
another? have evil tidings for thee.
Get thee back to thy house, and when
thy feet touch the gate of the city,
the child shall die" She had a right
TO ask for the recovery of her son; she
had no right to practice an imposition.
now, she started on
the way, the tears falling on the dust
OF the road all the way from Shiloh to
Tirzah. Broken-hearted now, she is
not careful any more to hide her
queeniy gait and manner. True to the
prophecy, the moment her feet touch
the gate of the city the child dies. AS
She goes in, the soul of the child goes
out. The cry in the palace is joined
by the lamentation of a nation, and
rs they carry good Alb jah to his grave
the air is filed with the voice of
eulogy for the departed youth, and
fhc groan of an afflicted kingdom.
1t Is for no insignificant purpose that
] present you the thrilling story of the
text. In the first place, learn that
wichedness involves others, trying to
make them its dupes, its allies, and it's
sea pegoats. Jeroboam proposed to
hoodwink the Lords prophet How
did he do it? Did he go and do the
work himself? No. lie sent his wife
to DO it. Hers the peril of exposure,
hers the fatigue of the way, hers the
of the plot. His, nothing.
lniquity is a brag, but it is great
coward. 1t lays the plans, gets some
one else to execute it-puts down the
9unpowder train, gets some one else
TO touch it off-eontrives mischief,
gets some one else To work it starts q |
lie, gets some one else to circulate it.
La nearly all the great crimes of the {
word IL is found out that those who l
planned the arson, the murder, the
theft, tine fraud, go free, while those
Who were decoyed and cheated
IND hoodwinked into the consplr- |
ICY clank the chain and mount the I
,ailows. Aaron Burr, with heart {
illed with impurity and ambition,
'iots for the overthrow of the United
states government, and gets off with {
! few threats and "A little censure, Will
the learned Blenner- I
lasSeLL. the sweet-tempered Blenner- 1
lassett, is decoyed by him from the {
richards, and the laboratories, and {
he home on the eanks of the Ohio q
lrer, and his fortunes are scattered, !
nd lie is thrown into prison, and his t
amny, brought up in luxury, is turned a
nut To die. Abomina BILE Aaron Burr $
'ns ~ comparatively easy; sweet-tem- I
'ered Bleunerhassett has it hard.
benedict Arnold proposed to sell out s
he forts of the United States. to +
urrepder the revolutionary army I
md TO destroy the United States q
government lie gets off with q
lis pockets full of pounds ster-
ing, while Maj. Andre, the brave {
md the brilliant. is decoyed into the q
and suffers ON the gibbet Z
IN the banks OF the Hudson; SO that
wen the literature-the marble Ia bla- I
ure that concentrated that event Z
las been blasted by midnight despcra-
loes. benedict Arnold has it ensy: ,
Maj. Andre has it. hard. 1 have no
iced that nine-tenths of those who 4
uffer Tor crimes are merely the satel- I
ties II some great williams. Iguvhiin- ,
ous fraud is juggler which by I
and legerdemain makes I
he gold that 1t stole appear in SOM. q
'ody else's poe let Jeroooam plots tn. !
lie, contrives the imposition, and Qets 9
lis wife 10 execute it. stand off from q
III lnnps itinn and chit. / :