The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-12-17
THE LORDS SHUT IN
Computations Of Sickness a. Seen
by Dr.. Talmage.
A sermoR for Invalids from the story
Of Noah and the Ark-Goas
Designs for Our Bet
terment.

(waahinston. Dec. IL Copyright. IssSl
This discourse Of DR.. Talmage, which
il helpful 10 all who find LIE a struggle,
d especially addressed to q class OF per-
sons probably never before addressed
In q sermon. The taxi is Genesis vii, 10.
The Lord shut him In"
CosInogony has no more interesting
chapter than the one which speaks OF
that catastrophe Of the ages. the sub
msrsdon of our world in time Of Noah,
the frs, ship carpenter. Many Of the
nations who level saw q Bible have a
Good story - Egyptian food story,
GreciAn Hood story. OF which Ducalion
was the Noah: Hawaiian food story,
New Zealand food story, Chinese food
story, AmercAn Indian food story-all
Of which accounts agree In the INNER
sion OF the continents under universal
rains, and that there vase ship floating
With = select few OF the human family
and with specimens Of geological and
archaeological and reptliAn worlds, al.
though | could have wished that these
last had been shut out Of the ark and
drowned,
AL Of these hood stories represent
the ship thus aBoat a. finally stranded
on a mountain top. Hugh Miller in his
. Testimony Of the Ro.ks' thinks that
all these food stories were infrm tradi-
3 ,ians of the Bi6lical aceennt. and / be-
Hsve him. The worst thing about that
great frexfsst Yves that Il struck Eoah's
Great Eastern from above and beneath.
The seAs broke the chain OF shells and
crystal and rolled over the land, and the
heavens opened their clouds for falling
columns Of water which rcared and
thundered on the root Of the great<hip
for q month and ten days. There was
one door 70 the ship, but there were
three parts 10 that door, one part for
each Of the three stories The Bible &C.
count says nothing about parts Of the
door belonging to two Of the stories,
and 1 do not know on which Aoor Noah
and his family voyaged, but my next
tells US that the part Of the door of that
particular floor on which Noah staid
was closed after he bad entered. The
Lord shut him IN" So there are many
people now in the world who are a.
thoroughly shut in, some by sickness,
some by old age, kome by special duties
that will not allow them TO 60 forth,
some surrounded by deluges Of misfor-
tune and trouble, and for them I often
receive messages snd tins sermon
winch nope may 90 good 10 otherhh
mor, esPsciAhy 'n'enoeo 10
%! soo1s une 'nu' In Ahe LORD
NUT nm IN
Notice first Of al who closed the door
SO that they could not get out. Noah
did not do II, nor his son Ehsm, DOR did
Ham, nor did Japbsth, o did either Of
the four married women who were on
shiPboard, nor did desperAdossw ho had
seoffed at the idea of peril which Noah
had been preaching Close that door.
They had turned their baeLs on the ark
and had In disgust gone away. ] will
tell you how &, was done. Ahand was
stretched down from heaven 10 close
that door. II wa o divine hand a. well
{ Kind hand. The Lord shut HMM"
The world b,, M ,.,,,.,,.,.n,E.
number Of irralids. The physieisu.
know something shout Il, ana the
s~pothecsres and the pastors, but who
can tel - the number Of bind ayes.
and deaf earn. and di,eaeaA iungs anI