The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-06-18
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: "An Ill East Wind"

night. -EXOiuS K, 10.
The reference here is not to cyclone, but |
TO the long continued blowing of the wind
from an unhealthful quarter. The north
wind is bracing. 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 locus's
that plagued Egypt We're born in on the east
wind. The gourd that sheltered Jonah was
shattered by the east wind. and in all the
5000 summers. autumns. winters. springs Of
the worlds existence the worst wind thar
ever blew is the east wind. Now, If God
would only give us a climate of perpetual
'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 viliainies,
frauds. outraces. suicides and murders have
been Matched out. I think if you should
keep a meteorological history of the davs Of
the year and put right reside it the criminal
record of the country You would find that
those were the hest 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 wind.
with the worlds morals and the churrh's
! pietv than you have vet suspected. Rev. DR..
| Archibald Alexander. eminent for learning
| and for conservation. when asked by one Of
| his Students at Princeton whether he always
| had full assurance 0f faith. replied, eyes.
| except when the wind blows from the east
| DR.. Francia dictator Of Paraguay, when the
| wind was from the east. ma le oppressive en-
actments for the people, but when the
weather changed rep2nted him of the cruel
| ties, repealed the enactmeDts and was in
good humor with all the world.
Before overIake the main thought Of nv
subject want to tell Chrstirn people thev
ought to be observant of climatical changes.
| Be on your guard when the wind blows from
the east. There are certain styles of tempta-
tions that you cannot endure unle certain
| styles of weather. When the wind blows
| from the east. if you are of nervous tenn
| permanent, 60 not among operating people.
try not to settle bad debts. do not try to
| settle old DISPUTES, 90 not talk with a bigot
on religion, do not 60 among those people
| who delight in saying irritating things, do
not try to collect funds for a 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 the west. but not when the wind is
from the east.
You say that meu and women ough. not to
De SO SENSITIVE duu nervous. ADMIT II, out
| I am not talking about what the world ought
to be. am talking about what the world IT,
| 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 Christian
man: under such circumstances do not write
hard things against yourself. do not get wor-
ried about your 1uctnatlng experience. You
are to reminder that the barometer in your
soul is only answering the barometer of tho
weather. Instead OF sitting down and being
discouraged and saying. 81 am not a Chris
tian because 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 tho 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. l
feel am uttering a most practical, useful
truth here. one that may give reliefto a great
many Christians who are worried and de-
spondent at times.
DR.. Rush. IA monarch in medicine, after
curing hundreds of cases of mental depres-
sion. himself fell sick and lost his religious
hope. and he would not believe his pastor
when the pastor told him that his spiritual
depression was onlya consequence of physi-
cal depression. Andrew Fuller. Thomas
Scott. William Cowper. Thomas Boston.
David Brainerd, Philip Melanchthon Were
mighty men for God, but all of them illus
trations of the fact that a mans soul is not
independent of his physical health. An emf
nent physician gave as his opinion that no
man ever died a great triumphant death
whose disease was below the diaphragm.
Stackhouse, the learned Christian common
tor, says he does not think Saul was insane
,bar nu1-i %l,,l J, Lo,ro
1t was hypOchOnGria coming from milan
nation of the liver. Oh, how many good
people have been mistaken in regard to then
religious hope, not taking these things into
consideration!
The dean of Carlisle. one of the best mer
that ever ivei. and one Of the most useful
sat down AMI wrote Though | have en-
deaVored to discharge my duty as we'll as
could. yet sadness and melancholy of hear
stick close BY and increase upon me. l tel
nobody. but am very much sunk indeed
and / wish | could have the relief of weepinG
as used to. My days are exceedingly oar!
and distressing. Ia IA word Almighty Goo
seems to hide His face. and intrust the Sc
cret hardly to any earthly being. know
not what will become Of me. here is ,loub,
less good dea! of bodily affection mingiec
with this. but it is not all SO. bless God
however that | never iCse sight of the cross
and though | should die without seeing an,
personal interest in the Redeemer's merits
! hope that snail be found at His feet. wi!
thank you for a word at your leisure. NJ,
door is boiled at the time I am writing this
for am full of tears
What was the matter with the dean of Car
Isle? Had be got to be worse man? No
| The physician said that the state of his pulls
would not warrant his living minute. Oh
If the east wind affects the spleen, and affect
the lungs, and affects the liver it will affrc
your immortal soul. Appealing to God 20
Eelp, brace yourself against these witherin
blasts and destroying Influences, lest tina
which the psaimist said broke the ships o
Tarshish shipwreck you.
But notice in my text that the Lord con
trolls the east wind: The Lord brought til
east wind" He brings it for especial vur
pose; it must sometimes blow from th.
quarter. The east wind is just as mportou
as the north wind, or the south wind, or To-
west Wind. but not so pleasant. Trial mus
come. The text does not say you vii
escape the cutting blast. Whoever did escnp
: it? Especially who that accomplished any
thing for church or state ever escaped it,
was in the pulpit of John Wesley. in Lon
don, pulpit where he stood one day an,
: said. II have been charged with ali tn
/ crimes in the catalogue except one-that o
drunkenness and a woman arose in tn
audience and said. John, you were DRUM