The Penn's Grove record., 1896-12-18
REV DR. TALMAGE
The Eminent Divins,s sundzy
DIscsurse-
Subject. .rhe Mask d neesis.v

II. "Art f ~
TRxr: awhy feignest thouthyself ID be an.
otherS'--I Kings KIN 9.
In The paIace Of wicked ~Jsroboam thers ii
2 sick child "a very sick child. Medicines
nave failed; skiliis exhausted. Young Abb
jap, the PRINCE has lived long enough to be-
come very popular. and yst no must die un-
less some supernatural aid be afforded.
Deafh comes up the broad stairs Of tho pAlAce
and swings back the door OF the s.ckroom oil
royalty and stands looking at the dying
prince with the dart dplifted. Wicked Jero-
boam knows that be has no right to ask any
thing OF b Lord in she way OF kindness.
He knows thai his prsyefs would not b an
swered, and 50 he sends his wife on the deli
cate and tender mfssi9n to tire prophet Of
the Lord In Shiloh. 4 Putting aside her royal
attire. she puts on the gafb OF q peasant ggo-
man and starts on the road. Instead ofcsr-
fyfng gold and gems as she might have car
ried from the palace she carries only those
to the pessautry--a Jew ioayes Of bread and
Q few oracknels and acruse of honey. Yon-
der she goes. hooded and v4iied, the greatest
lady In all the Kingdom, yet passing unob-
served. No one tha. meets her en- the higa-
way has any idea that she is the nrst lady ia
all the land she isa queer In disguise
The fact ia that Peter the Great working
in the dry docks oil saardam, the sailors hat
and the shipwrightls a < gave HIN no more
thorough disguise tina tina garb OF the peas
ant woman gave to The queen OF Tirzab. But
the prophet Of the Lord saw The deceit. Al
though his physical eyeslght had failed, be
was diyincly liumined, and at one glance
looked through the imposition, and he cried
out."Come In. thou wife OF Jerpbeami Why
feignest thou thsself 70 re another9 I havs
evil tidings for thee. Ges thee baekto thy
house, and when thy feet touch this gaze OF
the cifyfhe child shat die. She had Alright
to ask for the recovery Of her son; shs had
no rightto practice an imposition Broken
tears falling on the dust Of the road all the
way from sbiloh 10 Tirzah. Brokea
hearted now, shsis not careful amy more to
hide her queenly gait and y True to
the prophecy, the moment her feet touch the
gate OF the city the child dies. As she goes
IN the soul OF the child goes out. Tie cryin
the city palace Is joinei by the lameniation
OF Q nation. andas they carry good Abijah
to his grave the air Is filed with the voice oil
euiogy for the departed youth and tho gronn
Of IN afflicted kingdom.
1t Is for no insignificant pufuese that I pre-
sent you the thrilling story OF the text. In
the first place / learn thai wickedncas In
wolves others trying 70 maket them Its dupes,
its allies and its s~eapegoats. Jerobeam pro-
posed to hoodwink the Lords prophet. How
NN 80 ~ 8tA 44 ~ Va w wv MYTH
HIMSELF No. 10 ssnt his wife to do it.
Hers the period exposure, hers the fatigue
Of the way, hers the NFeeutlQn Of the plot,
MS. nothing. lniq1ity 10 aprag, butft5s q great
coward. II lays the pIan and gets some ono
else to execute III puts down tbs g~unpowdef
train aud gets some one else % touch It OH
coniriyes mischief and gets come ono else 70
work III starts a liz and gets some u elseto
circulate II. In nearly all the great crimes
oithe world # " found our TINT those who
Planned The arson. tbs murder. the t1aff. Tho
fraud go free, While those who were decoyed
and cheated and hoodwinked into the cons
spiracy ciank the chain n mount the gall
lows. -
Aaron Burr, with Mozart dltes WIKI =.
the United States Government q gets on
With . lew threats and o little censure, while
Blennerhassetf. the learned Biennefhassett,
the sweet tempered Biennerhasaett, Is de-
coyed by him frofa the orchards and the
laboratories and the gardens and the home
on the banks of the OHIO River, and his fort
tunes arc scattered, and ne y thrown into
prison, and his iamily. brought up III lux
ury, ia turned out to de. A~bniainabie Aaron
Burr has It comparatively easy. Sweer tenn
pered Biennerhasseft hils X hard. Benedict
Arnold proposed to sell cut the forts oil the
United States; tosurrender the Revolutionary
army and TO destroy the United States Gov
oLhHont. np kuts IN W}t1 IH Futkpic tup
OF pounds sterling while Major andre, the
brave and the brilliant, is decoyed into the
conspiracy and suffers on the gibbet on the
banks OF the Hudsoni 50 that even the
iiterature--the marble tNplature that CONS
memoratsd that svent-has been blasted by
midnight deeperadoes Benedict rnola has
II easy. Major Andre has Il hard 4 have
noticed that n~inertenths 81 those who. suffer
for crimes are merely the satellites q some
great villains. Ignominious fraud Is q
iuggler which by sleight a hand and leger-
demain makes the gs'id that Il stole appear
In somebody elsess pocket. ~9eroboaln picta
the lie, contrives tho imposition: md gets
his wife to execAts y. Stand on rom all
imposition and cbicanery De not consent
w~ickedness, anybody's scapsgont-
The story OF the text a~lsoifApresses me
with the fact that ROYALTY sometimes passes
In disguise. The ffoek, the veil, the hood OF
the peasant woman hid the qneeniy char-
acter OF this woman OF Tjfzah. Nobody sus-
pected that she Was o queen 81 4 rr1ncess as
she passed ny, blt ne vs. last Y much z
robes incrusted With diamonds, And 50 all
around about Us there are princesses and
queens whom the world does not recognize.
They sit on no throne Of royalty, they ride
In no chariot, they elicit no hnxzs, they
make no p~reiense, but by the grace Of God
they are princtNdtH y tut} Nf1 t4uftHNs
sometimes In their poverty, sometimes ~
their self-deniai, sometimes In their hard
STRUGGLES OF Christian sefFiee-0od knoNa
they are queens. The world does not reeog-
nize them.
Royalty passing In disguise, kings without
the crown, conquerors Without the palm,
expresses without the jewel. You saw her
yesterday on the street. fou saw nothing
Important In ner appearance ny SUES
regnant over . vast realm q Firture anu
goodness realm yassef t1ah sfeDos
ever looked a.. fon went how'd into fpe
house Of destitution and wasn't anff euifeftpg.
You saw the story OF trial WRITTEN on me
wasted hand 81 the mother, on the p9te
cheeks OF the children on me empty bread
tray, on the nreless hearth on The broken
chair: You would nos have given 2 nqitar
TOT all the iurnltnse ! sne house, But ~
the grace ot too sne y 4 pf5nceSs Inc
oyerseers OF the poor come there and dtssHss
the cause AND Say, 1T z panpenS 7lsy
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shsorgh sbs sstisrins ie,,eSsv ssc., lr,,zsh
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sbe shnli Nj iorsysT. Giory veiied, III
amanca hidden. Fternai ,snfnfes hnsbed IA
4 queen ia mask. Aprincess In dlsguIsc.
When you think Of . queen you do not
think OF CRthes4ne OF Hussias or Maria