St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-16
DECEIT IN LIFE.
Rev. d.. Talmage Says God win
Tear on tho Mask

Rev. d.. Talmage Says God WIN
Tear on tho Mask
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Based - the biblical sesry
- JeFsbosn's wife.
The. following sermon by Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage was delivered before his
Warrington congregation, being based
on the text:
Why ngurest thou thysef to b anotherl-
Kings. XIV. &
In the palace Of wicked Jeroboam
there 10 sick child, . very sick child.
Medicines have failed; skill is ex-
hausted. Young Abijsh, the prince,
has lived long enough to become very
popular, and yet he must die unless
some supernatural aid be afforded.
Death comes up the broad stairs of
the palace and swings back the door
of the sick room Of royalty, and stands
looking At the dying prince with the
dart uplifted. Wicked Jeroboam
knows that he has NO right to ask
anything Of the Lord in the way of
kindness. He knows that his prayers
would not he answered. and SO he
sends his wife on the delicate and ten
der mission to the prophet of the Lord
in Shiloh. Putting aside her royal at
tire, she puts on the garb of . peasant
woman and starts on the road. In
stead Of carrying gold and gems, -
she might have carried from the pal
ace, she carries only those gifts which
seem to indicate that she belongs to
the peasantry-a few losves Of bread
and few cracknels and = cruise of
honey. Yonder she goes, hooded and
yelled, the greatest lady in all the
kingdom, yet passing unobserved. No
one that meets her on the highway
has any idea that she is the first lady
in all tho land. She is queen in dis
guise. The fact is that when Peter
the Great WAS working in the dry
docks Of Saardam the sailors hat and
the shipwrights * gave him no more
thorough disguise than tho garb
Of the peasant woman gave to
the Queen OF Tirzah. But the
prophet Of the Lord saw the de.
ceit Although his physical eyesight
had failed. He was divinely ilIumina-
ted, aud At one glance looked through
The imposition, and He cried out:
Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam.
Why feignest thou thy self to be
another? Ihave evil tidings for thee.
Get thee back to thy house, and when
Thy feet touch the gate of the city,
Tho child shall die" She had . right
70 ask for the recovery of her son; she
had no right to practice an imposition.
now, she started on
The way. the tears falling on the dust
IF the road all the way from Shiloh to
rirzah. Broken-hearted now. she IS
not careful any moro to hide her
aueenly gait and manner. True to the
prophecy, the moment her feet touch
he gate of the city the child dies. As
The goes in. the soul of the child goes
put. The cry in the palace 10 joined |
2y the lamentation of . nation, and |
v they carry good Abijah to his grave
he air 10 filed with the voice Of |
.ulogy for tho departed youth, and
Inc groan of an afflicted kingdom.
1t is for no Insignificant purpose that |
present you tho thrilling story of the |
ext In the first place, learn that |
involves others, trying to
make them its dupes, its allies, and it |
'cxpegoats. Jeroboam proposed to
,oodwipk the. Lords prophet How
lid he do it7 Did he 60 and do the |
work himself? No. He sent his wife
o do 1t. Hers the peril Of exposure,
,ers the fatigue Of the way, hers the
of the plot His, nothing.
niquity 10 . brag. but it is = great
oward. 1t lays the plans, gets some
me else to execute it-puts down the
:unpo WIDER train. gets some one else
o touch it off-eOntrives mischief,
,ets some one else to work it-starts .
ie, gets some ono else to circulate it.
n nearly all the great crimes Of the
world it is found out that those who
tanned the arson, tho murder, the
heft, the fraud, 60 free, while those
rho were decoyed and cheated
nd hoodwinked into tho coDspir.
cy clank the chain and mount the
SA1VWos AOIO0 OVSIs Win 0c0SS
lied with impurity and ambition,
lots for the overthrow of the United
'tates government, and gets of with
few threats and little censure, while
the learned Blenner-
asset, the sweet-tempered Blenner-
asset, il decoyed by him from the
richards, and the laboratories, and
he home ON the banks Of the Ohio
ivcr, and his fortunes are scattered,
nd he i thrown into prison, and his
amily, brought up in luxury, il turned
ut to die. Accountable Aaron Burr
~ 1t comparatively easy; sweettem-
cred Blennerhassctt has it hard.
Arnold proposed to sell out
he forts of tho United States, to
urrender the revolutionary army
nd to destroy the United States
overnment lie gets OF with
is pockets full Of pounds ster-
ing, while Maj. Andre. the brave
nd the brilliant. e decoyed into the
and suffers on the gibbet
n the banks Of the Hudson; 20 that
ven the literature-the marble tabla-
ure that commemorated that event
~ been blasted BY midnight despera-
oes. Benedict Arnold has 1t easy;
TAI Andre has 1t hard. ! have NO
iced that ninc-tenthss Of those Who
ufter for crimes are merely the sstel-
ties of some great Williams. Ignomin-
ous fraud is juggler which BY
and legerdemain makes
he gold that 1t stole appear in some.
ody elses pocket JerOboam plots the
Ie. contrives the imposition, and gets
10 wife TO execute it. Stand Of from
II imposition and chicanery. Do not
On2ent to be any bOdy's dune. any.