The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-20
TALMAGE's SERMON.
Oonsolations Of Religion for An
Who Are In Trouble.
The Christian's Faith HIS support EVEN
Amid the Most Trying Ordeals--
All Affections Sent for
sPurpose.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage In a recent
sermon before his Washington congre-
cation, presented the consultations ofrs-
ligion as q panacea for human troubles.
He took for his text;
And the Lord brought an cost wind upon tho
land oil that dry and oil that night Exodus
T., H.
The reference here Is not to q cy-
clone, but TO the long-continued blow
Ing of the wind from an unhealthful
quarter. Tho north wind Is bracing,
tho south wind 10 relaxing, but the
east wind 10 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 locusts that
plagued Egypt were borne in on tho
east wind. The gourd that sheltered
Jonah was shattered by the east
wind; and In all the 5000 summers,
autumns, winters and springs of the
| worlds existence the worst wind that
ever blew Is the east wind. Now, II
God would only give us climate Of
perpetual nor'wester, how genial and
kind and placid and industrious Chris
tians we would all bel 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
villianies, fraunds, outrages, suicides
and murders have been Matched out
I think II you should keep meteoro-
and put right beside it the criminal
record Of the country, you would find
that those were the best days for pub
lie morals which were under the north
or west wind, and that those were the
worst days for public morals which
were under the east wind. The points
of the compass have more to do with
the worlds morals and the church's
piety than you have yet suspected.
Rev. DR.. Archibald Alexander, emf
nent for learning and for consecra-
ton, when asked by one of his stu
dents at Princeton whether he always
had full assurance of faith, replied:
Eyes, except when the wind blows
AIOlh biC Caob~ LIZ IdhCAd, olCCdLOT
of Paraguay, when the wind was from
the east, made oppressive enactments
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ties, repealed the enactments, and was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 l overtake the main thought
of my subject want to tell Christian
people they ought to be observant of
climatic changes. Be on your guard
when the wind blows from the east.
There are certain styles Of temptation
that you can not endure under certain
styles of weather. When the wind
blows from the east, II you are Of
nervous temperament, go not among
exasperating people, try not to settle
bad debts, do not try to settle old DIS
putes, do not talk with bigot on re-
ligion, do not go 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 men and women ought
not to be SO sensitive and nervous. I
admit it, but am not talking about
what the world ought to be; am
talking about what the world Is.
While there are persons whose dispo-
sition does not seem to be affected by
changes in the atmosphere, nine out of
ten are nightly played upon by suoh
influences. o Christian man! under
such circumstances do not write hard
things against yourself, do not get
worried about your fuctuating expert
ence. You are to remember that the
barometer in your soul is only an
swering the barometer of the
wea Their. Instead of sitting down
and becoming discouraged and
saying, II am not Chris
tian because I don't feel exhil-
arant" get up and look out OF tho
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 demon 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 most practical,
useful truth here, one that may give
relief to a great many Christians who
are worried and respondent at times.
DIR. Rush, Q monarch in medicine,
after curing hundreds Of cases Of men,
tai depression, 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 only q consequence Of physical de-
preston. Andrew Fuller, Thomas
Scott, William Cowper, Thomas Bos-
ton, David Brainerd, Philip Melancthon
were mighty men for God, but all of
them illustrations OF the fact that
mans soul is not independent Of his
physical health. An eminent physician
gave as his opinion that no man ever
died greatly triumphant death whose
disease was below the diaphragm.
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