The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-12-23
THE LORD'S SHUT INe
compsnsatiors ef Sickness d Seer
By d. Talmags
a Sermon f4r fsvnHda from mr SEER
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so sermon lhc test IS Genesis }iii q
"Ihe Lord stat him i'm
eosmoR1uy tas no more n]tefcstlH
chapter than ihe Que which speaks g
rtat catastrophe on lbe ages, lhe 800
tuFteioh 81 otr world in time Of Moab
che afsi shlp carpenter. Many Of ih
uHfi1us who never tlw q Bible hare
boad story Egyptian Good story
GeteLau Hood story OF which Ducaiio.
4Ha The Noah; Hawaiian flood story
Nem Zealand Hood story Chinese hoo.
tf1ft American indian Hood story al
st which accounts agree iH the Immff
HIhH OF HE contiurnt8 under uniyeraa
aa'ng hud that utrre WasH siip d|outinl
vIth o select few Of lhr human famti}
and With specimens of geological and
gruithulogleHl 1nd ttpdHau worlds al.
though / could have wished chat these
1tai bad breu shut out ef thC urk and
drowned,
AN of those food stories represent
che ship thus aa0at as anally stranded
on a mountain top Hugb Miller On DTS
Testimony nf the Rocks fhluks that
aIf these Hood stories were inftm tradi.
lnus NJ the Biblical Bcrount. uua hes
llrfr him, Tho worst hlne about HAT
great freshpt wRE thalit struck Months
Great Eusterb from above and beneath
1he Frus broke The chain Of shells and.
erErtal and rolled uNertlB land, ard tho
heavens opened their clouds for Falling
ouiRnlua Of water which reared and
Numbered ON the roof at the great ship
Tor O month and ten days. There was
one door 20 tbc ship but there were
three parts 10 that door, one part for
each OF The three stories The Bible ac.
count says nothing about patts Of the
door belonging 10 two &c the storms,
8ui do not know ON which floor NoRh
sind his family yoyaged. but my nest
tella us that the part Of the door Of thai
particular floor en- which Noah staid
was closed after ne had entered, "The
ludI shut him iu" SO here are mahy
people now tn the world who are us
thoroughly shut I'D, some hy sickness,
SOME by old nge some by special duties
thai wtl not allow them to pu forth
s0aae surrounded by dctuges q mislar
tune aud trouble aud for them often
receive messages, add this sermon,
which hope may do good 10 others, IS
utore especially intended for them, To-
dag J address the shut in, "Tbe lord
shut him I'M
Notice drst az an who closed the door
So that they could net get out, NOAH
ajd not do q, nor his sen shem. nor aid
Ham nor aid Tapheth. nor ana eitherof
the four married women who were 9n
..dinboard nor did de~speradocs who had
seoUed Mt the idea Of peril which Noah
aaa been preaching close that door,
They had turued their hocks on the ark
and had in disgust gone away. i will
tEli you how 1t was done. A hand was
stretched down from heaven 10 close
has door uwasa divine hand as ven
asa kind baud, THE Lord shuthtmi ill.,"
The world has no statistics as to Che
number 81 in1aliis, The physicians
Snow something abou, IT, and the
lpathccarjcs and the pastors, hut who
lell us Che number of Blind ewes.
3Hd Deaf ears. and diseased lungs. ana
,ohg ted Iiyers, and tangled nerves.
7nd neuralgic temples aud rheumatic
.cet or how many took ne food this