Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-13
TALMAGE. 5
His Sermon Preached in Washington Yesterday Morning



h n is lame On both feet
Asaan. Mephibosheth in the text
sands fer
THE DISABLED HUMAN SOUL
kumblsd and restored. When this IN
valid Of my text got command 10
come 70 King David's palace, he trNn-
hied The TACT was that the grand
fath.r CT Mephibosheth had tre3.s1
David most shockingly, and now NE
phibosherh says 10 himself: WhaC
does thu king want OF NE? Ism II
enough that | am lama? Is he gong
- destroy my life? Is he gong 20
wreck on me the vengeance whsh n
h,3ds toward my gIandiSther saul
It's 100 bad" But 60 TO the palace
Nfsphlbosheth must, since the KING mas
commanded il. With san anu
clutches and helpsd by his friends,
z=s AlsDh.6osheth going up tAe s1aIs
of the palace. hear his stan anu
cru.ches rattliag en- the tessellated
Noor Of the throne-ucom. No sooner
have these two persons conHonted e4ch
er-Mephibosheth and David, the
k;ag-laan Msphlbosheth throws him
e,s,f fat On h.s face before the kilL
and STYLES himself dead dog. In the
Faa;. when a man styles himself dog,
he ut.ers the utmost term of ssil-2Dhe-
cation. II Is not ttrm go strong II
tbs country, where, if dog has lalr
chance. he sometimes shows more no
bili-y of character than some human
sDecimens that We wot OF; but Inc
n.ngv ours of the Oriental cities, as
know by my own observation, are
UTTERLY DETESTABLE.
Nephfbosheth gives the utmost term OF
se,f-loathing when he compares hlmSeH
10 a dog. and dead at that.
Consider the analogy. Nhen inc
command is given from the pa-ace oI
heaven TO the human soul to come, the
souI begins TO tremble. 1t says: What
is God going 20 do with me now! IS
he going 10 wreck his vengeance upon
ma?" There is more than one MepM-
bosheth trembling now, because ga
has summoned him 10 the palace OF a.
vine grace! What are you trembling
about? God has no pleasure IN the
death OF a sinner. He does not send
for you TO hurt you de senGs IoT
you 10 do you good.
Why. then, uemble before the King
Of heaven and earth calls you 70 MS
palace? Stop trembling and start rlsnt
away. oh" you say, Il can't start.
have been 50 land by sin, ana SO
lamed by evil habit. l can't start.
am lame in both feet" My friend, we
come out with cur prayers and SYM
pathies 10 help you up 10 the palace.
If YOU want 20 get to the palac7 you
NAV get there. Start now. The Holy
Spirit will help you. All you have 10
do is lust TO throw yourself on your
face at the feet OF the King, as Mephl-
bosheth did.
Mephibosheth's oaainal comparison
SEEMS ex1ravagant 20 the world. but
when a man has seen himself as he real
w is. and seen how he has been treat
ing the Lord, there is no term vehement
enough 10 express his sef-coldemna-
ton. The dead dog OF Mephibosheth.s
COMPARISON fails to describe the man
UTTER LOATHING OF HIMSELF.
NeDhf boshethNs posturirg does not
seem TOO PROSTATE. When a soul Is
convicted. first he prays upright. Then
tn muscles OF his neck relax, and he
IS able TO bow his head. After awhile,
by an almost superhuman effort ne
kneels down to pray. After awhile,
when he has seen God and seen him.
self he throws himself fiat on ms
face at the feet of the King, just like
Nsphibosheth. The fact is, if we could
see ourselves as God sees US, we would
perish at the spectacle. You would have
no time to overhaul ether people.
Your cry would be, God be merciful TO
me a sinner"
And again: Mephibosheth in my text
stands for the disabled human soul
saved for the sake of another. Me-
ph;bosheth would never have got into
the palace on his own account. Why
did David ransack the realm TO find
that poor man, and then bestow On
him a fortune, and command a farmer
by the name of Ziba 10 culture the es-
tate and give to this invalid Meph.
bosheth half the proceeds cTeTy year?
Why did King David
MAKE SUCH A MIGHTY STIR
about a poor fellow who would never
be Of any use to the throne OF Israel?
II was for Jonath3n'S sake. 1t was
what Robert Burns calls for "aul lang
syne." David could not forget what
Jonathan had done for him in other
days. Three times this chapter has Il
that all this kindness on the part OF
David TO Mephibcshelh was fer. his
father Jonathan's sake. Ths daughter
of Peter Martyr, Through the vice OF
her husband came down to penury, and
the Senate Of Zurich took care Of her
for her fathers sake. Sometimes
person has applied to you for help,
and you have refused him; but when
YOU found he was the son or brother
Of some one who had been your bSle-
factor in former days, and by a glance
you saw the resemblance OF your old
friend in the face of the applicant, you
relented, and you said: "Oh, will do
this for your fathers sake" You know
by your experience what my text
means. Now. my friends. it is on. that
principle tina, you and l are to &c, into
the Kings palace.
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART
of every prayer is the last three or four
words of it-"For Christ's sake" Do
not rattle off those words as though
they were merely the finishing stroke
Of the prayer. They are the most i'm
portant part OF the prayer. When in
earnestnesS you go before God and say,
For Christ's sake" it rolls in, as it
were, upon Gods mind, all the mem
cries of Bethlehem and Gennesaret and