Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-17
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS.
They Make wreckage Of Mems Pre-
cious Souls, or Level
Tho TaIlest Growths q. Human y.r,,x-
Pestiience That Comes on the WING.
OF the East wind-Dr. TaImage.s
Lesson of the Tornado.


or the East wind-Dr. TaImaxe.s
Lesson of the Tornado
Rev. DIR. Talmage chose for his text
sunday Exodus X, ID: And the Lord
brought an east wind upon the land all
that day and all that night"
The reference here is not to a cy-
clone, but to the long-continued blow
ing of the wind from an unhealthful
quarter. The north wind is bracinp.
the south wind 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 locusts that plagued
Egypt were blown in on the east
wind. The gourd that sheltered Jonah
was shattered by the east wind, and
In all the 5000 summers, autumns, win
tiers, springs of the worlds existence
the worst wind that ever blew Is the
east wind. Now, il God would only
give MS 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 worlds viii
lainies, frauds, outrages, suicides and
murders have been Matched out. /
think i you should keep meteorologi-
cal history of the days of the year, and
put right beside it the criminal record
OF the country you would find
those Aaa a.
for public 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 NOR
ais and the churchs piety than YOU
have yet suspected. Rev. DIR. Archi-
bald Alexander, eminent for 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" DIR.
Francia, dictator of Paraguay when
the wind was from the east, made OPP
pressive enactments for the people; but
when the weather changed, repented
him of his cruelties, repealed the en-
actments and was in good humor with
all the world.
You say that men and women ought
not to be so sensitive and nervous. /
admit it, but l am not talking about
what the world ought to be. l am
talking about what the world is. While
there are persons whose dispositions do
not seem to toe affected by the changes
in the atmosphere, nine out of ten are
nightly played upon by such inhu-
ences. Christian mani under such
circumstances do not write hard things
against yourself, do not get worried
about your fluctuating experience. You
are to remember that the barometer in
your soul is only answering the barom-
eter of the weather. Instead of sitting
down and being discouraged and say
ing: Il am not Christian because |
do not feel eXhilarant," get up and
look out of the window and see the
weather vanc pointing to the wrong
quarter and then say: Get thee be-
hind me, Satan, thou prince of the DOW
or of the air, get out of my house; get
out of my heart. thou demon of dark
ness horsed on the east wind Awav!'
However good and great you NAV be in
the Christian life, your soul will never
be independent of physical condition. |
feel | am uttcring most practical, use
full truth, here, one that may give relief
to great many Christians who are
worried and respondent at times.
DIR. Rush, monarch in medicine, af-
ter curing hundreds of cases of mental
depression, himslf fell sick and lost his
religious hope, and he would not be-
lieve his pastor when he told him that
his spiritual depression was only a con
sequence of physical depression. An
drew Fuller, Thomas Scott, VIM. Cow
per, Thomas Boston, David Brainard.
Philip Melancthon were mighty men
for God, but all of them illustrations
of the fact that mans soul is not in
dependent 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. Stackhouse,
the learned Christian commentator
says he does not think Saul was
insane when David played the
harp before him, but it was a hvpo-
chondria coming from inflammation of
the liver. oh, how many good people
have been mistaken in regard TO their
religious hope, not taking these things
into consideration! The dean of Car
Isle. one Of the best men that ever
lived. and one of the most useful. sat
down and wrote: Though / have en-
dcavorcd TO discharge my duty as well
as / could. yet sadness and melancholy
OF heart stick close by and increase
upon me. / tell nobody. but ] am very
much sunk indeed. and ! v ish / could
have the relief OF weeping as used to.
My days are exceedingly darl, and dis
tressing In a word, Almighty God
seems 20 hide His face, and / intrust
the secret hardly to any earthly being.
! know not what will become Of me.
There is doubtless a good deal Of bodily
aiiliction mingled with this. but IL is
not all so. bless God, however. that
} never lose sight Of the cross. and
though ] should die without seeing any
personal interest in the Redeemer's
merits, hope that ! shall be found at
His feet. ! will thank You for a word
at your leisure. My door is bolted at
the time / am writing this, for I am
full Of tears.
What was the matter with the Dean
Of Carlisle? Had he got to be worse
man? No. The physician said that the
state Of his ptt1ea could MOI ...