The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-15
PEOPLE OF MANY TROUBLES.
DIsCOURsE FULL OF ENCOURAGE
MENT TO THE UNFORTUNATE.

than. Climb Into the Sunlight
of Gods Favor and Consolation.
DiAicuIties of the wealthy to Feel
Dependence in GOd-FOrtune and
NenIth Alone Not Sufficient to Pro-
duee Pure Hnppiness-A sermon
With Lessons Beneficial TO All
Classes.
WASHINGTON. Aug 14-This discourse Of
DR.. Talmage is full of encouragement for
those who know not which way 70 turn
because of accumulated misfortunes.
Text: l. Samuel 14;4: There was a sharp
rock on the one side, and sharp rock on
the other side.
The cruel army of The Philistines must
he taken and scattered. There is just one
man. accompanied by his body-guard, to
do that thing jonathan is the nero OF
the scene. know that David
cracked the skull of the giant with
a few pebbles well slung, and that three
hundred Gideonites scattered ten thou
sand Amalekites by the crash of broken
crockery; but here is more wonderful
conflict. Yonder are the Phiisines on
the rocks Here Is jonathan with his
bodyguard in the valley. on the one slde
is a rock called Bozez; on the other side
IS rock called Seneh. These two were
as famous in olden times as In modern
times are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar
They were precipitous, upscalable ana
sharp. Between these two rocks Jona-
than must make his ascent The day
comes for the scaling of the nights Jona-
than. on his hands and feet, begins the
ascent. with strain and slip and brulse,
suppose, but still on and up first goes
Jonathan. and then goes his bodyguard.
Bozez on one side, Seneh on the other.
After sharp tug, and push, and clinging,
see the head Of jonathan above the hole
in the mountain and there is a challenge,
and a fight and a supernatural consterna-
ton. These two men, Jonathan and his
bodyguard, drive back and drive down the
Philistines over the rocks, and open
campaign which demolshes the enemies
of Israel l suppose that the overhang-
ing and overshadowing rocks on either
side, did not balk or dishearten Jonathan
or his bodyguard, but only reused and
filled them with enthusiasm as they went
up. There was a sharp rock on the one
side, ana sharp fOck on the OlneA sue.
MY friends, you have been, or are now,
some of you in this crisis of the text If
a man meets one trouble he can go
through with It, He gathers all his ener-
gies concentrates them on one point, and
In the strength of God, or by his own
natural determination, goes through il.
But the man who has trouble to the right
of him, and trouble to the left of him,
is to be ptied. Did either trouble come
alone he might endure it, but two trou-
bles. two disasters, two overshadowing
misfortunes, are BozeZ and Seneh. God
pity himl There is a sharp rock on the
one side, and a sharp rock on the other
side"
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose furtune and health fail him at the
same time. Nine-tenths of all our mer-
chants capslze I'm business before they
come to forty-five years of age. There is
some collision in commercial circles, and
they stop payment. 1t seems as if every
man must put his name on the back of a
note before he learns what a fool man is
who risks all his own property on the
prospect that some man will tell the
truth. 1t seems as If a man must have
a large amount of unstable goods on his
own shelf before he learns how much cas-
Ter IL is to buy than to sell. 1t seems as
IL every man must be completely burned
out before he learns the Importance of
always keeping fully insured 1t seems
as IL every man must be wrecked in a
financial tempest before he learns TO
keep things snug in case Of a sudden euro
clydon.
When the calamity does come. it is aw-
full The man goes home in despair, and
he tells his family, "We'll have to go to
the poor house" He takes a dolOrous
view of everything. 1t seems as If he
never could rise But a little time pass
es and he says, "Why I am not so bad
IL off of al for 1aft D
Before the Lord turned Adam out of
Pardise, he gave him Eve, so that when
he lost Paradise he could stand it. Per-
init one who has never read but q few
novels in all his life, and who has not a
great deal of romance in his composition
10 say, that it, when a mans fortunes fail
he has a good wife-a good Christian Wife
The ought not TO be respondent On
you say, that only increases the embar-
rassment, since you have her also to take
care Of" You are an migrate, for the wo-
man as often supports the man as the man
supports the woman. The man may bring
all the dollars, but the woman general
brings the courage ana the faith in God.
Wen, this man Of whom l am speaker z
looks around, and he finds his family is
left, and he rallies, and the light comes 10
his eyes, and the smile to his face q a.
the courage to his heart. In two years ne
is quite over it. He makes his financial
calamity the first chapter in a new era of
prosperity. He met that one trouble
conquered it. He sat down for a little
while under the grim shadow of the rock
Bozez; yet he soon rose. and began, like
Jonathan, to climb But how often is 1t
that physical ailment comes with finan-
cial embarra ssment! When the fortune
failed it broke the mans spirit Ills
nerves were shattered. His brain was
stunned. l can show you hundreds of
men in our cities whose fortune and health
at Ia Fb,av 90 rarts-
maturely to the staff Their hand trem-
bed with incipient paralysis. They never
saw a wen day since the hour when they
called their creditors together for a com
promise. If such men are inpatient and
peculiar and irritable. excuse them. They
had two troubles; either one of which
they could have met successfully. If,
when the health went, the fortune had
been retained. it would not have been so
bad. The man could have bought the
very best medical advice and he conld
have had the very best attendance, and