Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-16
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Eloquent Preacher Discourses on
the Love of David and jonathan.
fer"nte to DaVid-iis Took the UnforA
tunste Into His Fine Palace. and Sat
Him Down at the Royal ISanquct.

DIR. Talmagcs text was II Samuel xi.,
and l3: lis there yet any that is left
of the house of Saul that ! may show
him kindness for IonathauS sake?
80 McphihuShrth dwclt in Jeru-
>Ilcm. for he did eat continually at the
Kings table aud was lame on both his
feet.
Was there ever anything more ro-
mantle and chivalrous than the love of
David and Jonathan ~ one time Jon
athan was up and David was down.
Now David Is up and .luuathan's family
is down. As You have often heard of
two soldiers before going into battle
making covenant that il one is shot
the survivor will take charge Of
the body, the watch, the me-
mrntoS, and perhaps of the be
rcft family Of the one that dies. 50
David and Jonathan had made a covcn-
ant, and now, that Jonathan is dead,
David is inPuiring about ms family
that hc NAV show kindness uitC them
for their father Iunathau's sake. Care
ful search is made, and n son of Iona
than 10y the drcadfully homcly name of
McphiboShcth i found His nurse in
his infancy had let him fall. and the
fall had put both his ankles ont of
place. and they hnd never been SET.
This dccrcpit. poor man is brought
into the palace of King David.
David looks upon him with melt
ing tenderness, no doubt seeing
In his face a resemblance 10 his old
friend, the deceased Jonathan: The
whole hearing of King David toward
him seems To say: How glad am to
see you, McphiboShcth. How YOU re-
mind me of your father, my old friend
and bcnfactor. made Il bargain with
your father good many years agb,
and ! am going To keep it with you.
What can do for you, Mcphiboshcth?
] am resolved what To do. | will make
You a rich man. will restore To YOU
the contiScated property Of your grand
father saul. and you shall Ice sucst
of mine as long a. You live. and YOU
shall hc seated at my table among the
princes" II was too much for Mephi-
bosheth, and he cried ont against it.
calling himself Il dead dog. BE still, ."
says David. Il don't do this on your
own account; ! do this for your father
Jonathan's sake. can never forget
his kindness. remember when | was
bounded front place 80 place how
he bcfricrded Inc. Can ever
forget how he stripped himself
of his rourticr apparel and
gave it to me instead of my sherhcrd'S
4 4
sword and belt and gave them To me
instead of my slingH oh. can never
forget him. | feel as il | couldn't do
enough for you, his son. | don't do it
for your sake: do it for your father
Jonathans sake" $50 Mcphibosheth
dwclt in JerulSalcm; for he did eat con-
tinually at the kings table, and was
lame on both his feet
There is 81 much gospel in tins %. int
incident that | am embarras h.
xBow where to begir. Whom do taur
bosheth. and DID. .u' Jon "a
make YOU think d
Mcphibosheth, in .r first = zee,
stands for the disabled huns on lord
Byron describes sin as cha ing eek
lesSneSs. as "A gallantry, a, ? Don
Juan; George Sand describes sin as
triumphant in many intricate plots;
Gavarina. with his cngravcr's knife. al
ways shows sin a. great popularity:
hut the Bible presents it as n Mcphi-
bn>hrth, lame on both feet, Sin, like
the nurse in the context, attem'..,.1 10
carry MS, and lei ms fall, and ...
been disabled and in orsE-whoir moral
nature we are decrepit. Sol. orlmea
thcologians hagglc about n technical
ity. They use the words total derrav-
ity,' and some people believe in -Le
doctrine. and some reject it What -
You mean by total deprarit uo YOU
mean that every man is as uad as he
can be? Then | do not believe it either.
But do you mean that sin has let us
fall. that it has sacrificed, and disabled,
and crippled our entire moral nature,
until we can not walk straight, and are
lame in both feetp Then | admit your
proposition. There is not SO much diff
ference In an African Jungle, with
barking, bowling, kissing, fighting
quadruped and reptile, and Paradise
with its animals coming before Adam
when he pattcd them and stroked them
and gave them names. SO that the pan
Their was as tame as the COW, and the
condor as tame as the dove, as there Is
between the human soul disabled and
that soul as God originally constructed
it. / do not care what the sem
timentalists or the poets say in
regard to sin; in the name of
God | declare To you to-day that sin
is disorganization, disintegration,
CHASTITY disfiguration, hobbling de-
formity.
Your modern theologian tells you
that man is little out of sorts; he some
times thinks wrong: he sometimes does
wrong: indeed. his nature needs little
moral surgery, an outside splint, a
slight compress, little rectification.
Religion is good thing to have; it
might some day come into use. Man is
partially wrong, not all wrong. lie is
lame in one foot. Bring the
salve of divine grace and the
ointment, and the pain extractor,
and we will have his one foot
cured. Man is only half wrong, not
altogether wrong. In what is mans
nature right? In his will? his affec-
tons? his Judgment? No. There is an
old book that says: The whole head is
sick, and the whole heart faint" Nc
phihs beth lame in both feet. Our be-
lief Of The fact that sin has sacrificed
and deformcd our souls increases as
we go on in years. When You start
ed life you thought that man
was IA little married by sin, and
Ia was about one-tenth wrong.
by the time you had gone through
the early experience of your trade,
or occupation, or profession, you be
lieved that man was about half wrong.
by the time you came to mid-lifc you
lIeved that man was thrcc-fourths
wrong. But within these past few
years, since you have been so lied about
and swindled and cheated, YOU have
come to the conclusion that man is al
together wrong, and now you can say
with the prayer book and with the
Bible: There is no health in MS" Now
you believe with the prophet, The
heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked" Whatever you
may have believed before, now you be-
lievc that Mephibosheth is lame on
both feet.
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