The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-09
A SEASONABLE SERMON.
Rev DR.. Talmage Discou-ees upon
National Affairs.
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FIRE Crates, wornout Apparei anu
Cheerless Homes in This Lana -
OF Peace and Plenty.

fore his washington conRhos"
the subject: Gates of Carbuncle. LII
was based on the text:
And will make thy windows.of agates, ana
ahv gates of carbuncles. -Isaiah l1V.. IL
Perhaps because human disease OF
most painful and Outlines fatal char-
acter is named after 1T, the cherch
and the world have never done ]ustlce
TO that intense and all-sugg estive pre-
Icious stone, the carbuncle. The pearl
that Christ picked up to illustrate his
sermon. and the jasper and the
sannhire and the amethyst which the
apocalyptic vision masoned into the
wall of Heaven have had proper recog-
milton. but this, in all the ages, Is the
first sermon on the carbuncle.
This precious stone is found IN the
East Indies; in color it is an intense
scarlet. and held up between your eye
and the sun it is burning coal. Inc
tnoet puts it into rhythm as he writes'
1.ike to the burning coal whence comes Its
Among the Greeks as Anthrax known to fame
God sets it high up in Bible crystal
1ogranhv. He cuts it with divine
chisel, shapes it with precise geom-
etry. and kindles its fire into an almost
snnernatural fame of beauty. Its law
of symmetry, it's law of zones, its law
of parallelism, something to exclte
the amazement of the scientist, Gimme
the cantos of the poet, and arouse the
alteration of the Christian. No one
hut the infinite God could fashion
carbuncle as large as your thumb-nal'
and. as if to make all ages appreciate
this precious stone, He ordered 1T set
in the first row of the high priests
breast-plate in olden time, and higher
up than the onyx and the emerald and
the diamond, and in EzekieIs prophe-
cies concerning the splendors OF the
Tyrian court the carbuncle Ifs men
toned, the brilliancies OF the walls
and of the tessellated floors suggested
bv the Bible sentence: "Thou hast
walked up and down in the midst OF
the stones of fre!"
What an odd thing it is, think some,
this idea of v1carious suffering or suf-
fering for others! Not at all. The
world has seen vicarious suffering
millions of times before Christ came
and demonstrated it on scale that
eclipsed all that went before and, all
that shall come after. Rachel lived
only long enough after the birth OF
her son to give him name. In FAINT
whisper she said, ''Call him Ben-oni,
which means "son of my pain, and all
modern travellers on the road from
Jerusalem to Bethel uncover their
heads and stand reverently at
the tomb of Rachel who died
for her boy. But in all ages
how many mothers die for. their
children, and in many cases grown
up children, who by recreancy stat
clear though the mothers heart! Sui
fering for others? Why the world is
full of it. Jump said the engineer
to the fireman ON the locomotive
zone of us is enough to die. Jump!'
and SO the engineer died at his post
trying to save the train. When thu
summer the two trains crashed int
each other near Atlantic City, among
the AZ who lost their lives, the engl
neer was found dead with one han'
on the trottle of the locomotive, an
the other on the brake. Ayel Their
are hundreds here to-day suffering
for others. You know and 90
knows that it is vicarious sacr
Zee. But on one limestone hill abou
twice the height of this church, fiv
minutes walk from the gates OF Jer'
salem, was the sublimest case OF SUI
fering for Others that the world eve
saw or ever will see. Christ, the VII
tim. human and Satanic malevolen1
the executioner, the whole huma
race having an overwhelming intere
In the spectacle. To open way II
ms sinful men and sinful women in
glorious pardon and high hope al
eternal exultation, Christ, with mar
dripping with the rush of opened
teries, swung back the gate OF deepe
hue, a gate of carbuncle.
What is true in spirituals is true
temporals. There are young men al
older men who hope, through the rig
settlement of this acrid controver
between silver and gold, or the bin
tallie quarrel, that it will become ca
10 make a living. That time will new
come. 1t never has been easy to ma
a living. The men who have it ca
now went through hardships and Sc
denials to which most young m
would never consent. Unless they 6
it by inheritance, you can not me
ton 20 men who have come
honorable fortune that did
fight their way inch by inch, q
against fearful odds that again a
again almost destroyed them !
some good reason God has arranged
for all the centuries that the only "