The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-30
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
rho Eminent DivIne's Sermon De-
uvered In Washington.


TExr: "why feignest thou myself to be an
ctherY'- Kings xiv, G.
In the palace of wicked Jeroboam there is
q sick chid-a very sick child. Medicines
have failed; skill is exhausted. Young Aoi-
jan, the prince, has lived long enough to pc
come very popular, and yet he must die un-
less. some supernatural aid be afforded. |
Death comes up the hroads.airs OF the palace |
AMI swings back the door OF the ssckroom oil |
| royalty and stands looking at the dying |
| prince with the dart up lifted. Wicked Je-o- |
| beam knows THAT he has no right TO ask any
| thing Of The Lord in the way OF kindness. |
| He knows that his prayers would not be an- |
| swered. and so he sends his wife on the DELI
| cate and tender mission to tire prophet OF |
| The Lord In Shiloh. Putting aside her royal |
attire. she puts on The garb OF peasant wo-
man and starts on The road. Instead OF car
| rying gold and gems rs she might have car
| ried from the palace she carries only thoss
/ gifts which seem to indicatethat she belongs
| to the peasantry-a few loayes OF bread aud
few crackncis and cruise OF honey. YcE-
der she goes. hooded and yelled. the greatest
! lady in all tina kingdom, YET passing unob-
| served. No one that meets her on the high
| way has. any idea that she is the first lady in
! ali the land. She Is queen in disguise.
The fact is that Peter the Great working
in the dry docks of Saariam, the sailors hat
and the shipwrights OK gave him 10 mora
thorough disguise than the garb OF the peas
| ant woman gave to The queen OF TlrzaG. But
the prophet of the Lord saw The deceit. Al
though his physical eyesight hal failed, he
was diyinely ilumined, and at one glance
looked through the imposition, and he cried
out: "Come in. thou wife OF Jeroboam. why
fcignest thou tbyselt 10 te another! have
evil tidines FOR thee. Get thee back to thy
house, AMI when thy feet touch thu gate of
the city the child shall die" She had a right
to ask for the recovery OF her son; she had
no right to practice an imposition. Broken
hearted now, she started on the way. the
tears falling on the dust of the road all the
yay from Shiloh TO Tirzah. Broken
J heart ed now, shs is not careful any more 10
hide her queenly gait and manner. True to
the prophecy, the moment her feet touch the
gate of the city The child dies. As she gees
in the soul of the child goes out. The cry In
I The city palace is joinel by the lamentation
OF nation, and rs they carry good Abijah
TO his grave the air is filed with tho voice OF
, eulogy for the departed youth and tho groan
, OF an afflicted kingdom.
1t is for no insignificant purpose that 1 pre-
sent You the thrilling story of the text. In
7 the first place | learn that wickedness in-
wolves others, trying o makethem its dupes,
its allies and its scapegoats. Jerohoam pro-
!, posed to hoodwiDk the Lords prophet. How
4 did he do il? Did he go and do the work
I himself? No. IIo sent his vile to do it,.
. Hers the peril of exposure, hers the fatigue
l of the way, hers the execution OF the plot,
his nothing Inquiiy is a brag, but ii is q great
h coward. 1t lays The plan and gets some one
else to execute il puts down the gunpowder
q train and gets some one else to touch it off;
:. contriyes mischief and gets some one else 10
!. work it; starts a lie and gets some one else 10
7, circulate it. In nearly alt the great crimes
s OF the world il is found out that those who
banned the arson, the murder, the theft. the
: fraud 60 free, while those who were decoyed
:, and cheated and hoodwinked into tho con-
II spiraey clank the Chain ana mount the gall
l. lows.
n Aaron Burr, with heart filed with impur-
l. fly and ambition, plots br the overthrow Of
Is the United States Government and gets of
with few threats and little censure, while
- Blennerhassett. the learned Blennerhasseit
the sweet tempered Bennerh2ssett, is &C.
j. coyed BY him from the orchards and the
S. laboratories and the gardens and the home
e on the banks of the Ohio River, and his for
:. tunes are scattered. and he Is thrown into
81 prison, and his family. brought up in lux
ury, is turned out to die. Abo-nina5le Aaron
70 Burr has it comparatively easy. Sweet TEN
perei Biennerhassett has it hard. Benedic
~ Arnold proposed to soil out the forts OF the
s. United States; tosurrenier theRevo utionar,
Of army and 10 destroy the United States aov
:, eminent. He gets off with his pockets full
~ of pounds sterling, while Major Andre, the
I. 4 brave and the brilliant, is decoyod into tn
70 conspiracy and suffers on tho gibbet on TIL
banks OF the Hudson; so that even III
cs lterature-the marble tablaiure that com
he memorated that eyent-has been blasted b.
" midnight desperadoes. Benedict Arnold ha
Nv It easy. Major Andre las it hard. hay
= noticed that nine-tenths OF those who SUITE
III for crimes are merely the satellites OF som
great villains. Ignominious fraud Is
juggler which by sleight of hand and legel
domain makes the g,ld that it stole appea
Of in somebody e'se's pocket. Jeroboam plot
"a the lie, contrives the imposition. and ge;
his wife to execute it. Stand of from q
imposition and chicanery. Do not consen
- 10 be anybodys dupe. anybody's ally j
wckednes-. anybody's seapegoat.
The story of the text also impresses no
with the fact that ROYALTY sometimes rasse
In disguise. The frock the veil, the hood {
-, the peasant woman hill tho queenly chal
~ acter of this woman of Tirzah. Nobody sus
pected that she was queen or princess a
she passed by, but she was just as much
queen rs though she stood :E the palace, he
CO robes iDcrusted with diamonds. And so a
around about Us there are princesses an
queens whom the world does not recognz,
RI They sit on no throne OF royalty, they rio
ed The grave, but always side by side, soothin
.e, your little sorrows and adjusting your liitl
IN quarrels, listening TO your evening praye
= toiling with the needle or nj tho spnnin
es wheal, aud on cold nights tucking you Il
RI snug and warm. And then on that dark DE-
OF when she lay a-dying, putting those thi
. ;, bands that had toiled for you SO long, pu
:, ting them together in a dying prayer con
lis mendingyou 10 that God in whom sha la
he taught you TO trust. Oh, she was the quec
she was the Queen! You cannot think of H.
:, now without having the deepest emotions
en- your soul stirred, and You feel rs II We
lp- could cry as though You were now sittins,
nc infancy on her lap. and II you cali her ba:
=, TO speak your name with thetenderness Wi
eii which she once spokeyou wouli be wiiiii
Ter now 10 throw yourself on the sod that cove
her grave. crying. Mother, moiher" Al
she was the queen! Your father knew
You knew it, She was the queen. but Il
queen In disguise. Tae world did not r
cognize II.
But there was grander Disgusting. III
favorlte of a great house looked out OF Il
window OF His palace, and He saw that Il
people were CARRYING heavy burdens. ar
that some OF them We're hobbl.ny {
crutches and He saw some lying at the gu
no exhibiting their sores. and then He hea
lot their lamentations an1 He said: 81 will in
her put on the clothes OF those poor people. al
] will go down aud see what their sorro'
are, and l will sympathize with them. AMI
OF will be one of them, and will help them
of Well, the day came for Him 10 start. "
- lords OF the land came to see Him on. !
/, who could sing joined in the parting son
o.e which shook the hills AMI woke mp the she
Die herds. The first few nights He has be-
nd Il eping with the hostlers and the can
nj drivers, for no ona knew there was
A-N King in fn.vo Ha want amnnp I'll