Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-13
RISE INTO SUNSHINE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches SER.
MON TO THE TROUBLED.

Seek Christ For Consolation When Sore1v
Pressed by the Trials Of Life-A Help
full Lesson Drawn From Jonathan's VIC
tory Over Difficulties.
Copyright. 1893. by American Press Asso-
ciation.1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-This dis
course OF DIR. Talmage is full of encour-
agement for those who know not which
way to turn because Of accumulated
misfortunes; text, I Samuel xiv, 4,
There was sharp rock on the one
side and a sharp rock on the other side"
The cruel army of the Philistines
must be taken and scattered. There is
just one man, accompanied by his body
guard, to do that thing. Jonathan is
the hero OF the scene. l know that Da-
vid cracked the skull Of the giant With
a few pebbles we'll slung, and that 800
Gideonites scattered 10000 Amalekites
by the crash of broken crockery, but
here is more wonderful conflict. Yon-
der are the Philistines on the rocks.
Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard
in the valley. On the one side is rock
called Bozez Oh the other side is rock
called Seneh. These two were as IA
nous in olden times as in modern times
are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar.
They were precipitous, unscalable and
sharp. Between these two rocks Jona-
than must make his ascent. The day
comes for the scaling of the height.
Jonathan on his hands and feet, be-
gins the ascent. With strain and slip
and bruise, 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 I see the head
Of Jonathan above the hole in the
mountain, and there is a challenge and
fight and supernatural consterna-
ton. These two men, Jonathan and his
bodyguard, drive back and drive down
| the Philistines over the rocks and open
campaign which demolishes the enc
mics of Israel. suppose that the over
| hanging 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 sharp
rock on the one side and sharp rock
on the other side. a"
When Calamity Comes.
My friends, you have been or are now
some of you in this crisis of the text
If man meets one trouble, he can go
through with it, He gathers all his en-
ergies, concentrates them on one point,
and in the strength of God or by his
own natural determination goes through
it. But the man who has trouble to the
right Of him and trouble to the left OF
him is to be pitied. Did either trouble
come alone he might endure it, but two
troubles, two disasters, two overshadow-
ing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh.
God pity him. There is sharp rock
on the one side and sharp rock on the
other side"
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him al
the same time. Nine-tenths Of all oul
merchants capsize in business before
they come to 40 years of age. There Ii
|
aud they stop payment. 1t seems as !.
every man must put his name on tn
hack of q note before he learns what
fool a man is who risks all his owl
property on the prospect that some maj
will tell the truth. 1t seems as II MAJ
, must have a largo amount OF unsalabl'
goods on his own shelf before he learn
10
, sell, It seems as if every man must b.
comnletely burned out before he learn
the Importance CT always keeping full.
insured. 1t seems as if every man mus
, be wrecked in financial tempest Defor
he learns to keep things snug III case U
a sudden euroclydon.
When the calamity does come II
n awful. The man goes home IN despair
& and he tells his family, "Well have
o 90 to the poorhouse. He takesa dolol
= ons view of everything, 1t seems as
he never could rise. But little tim
masses, and he says, "Why, am not s
"a badly off after all; have my famli
a left"
=. - Before the Lord turned Adam out
t. naradise he gave him Eve so that whe
a. La lost naraliso he could stand IL. rel
K NIT one who has never read put 40
! novels in all his life, and who has 1T
ii great deal of romance III MS colipos
n tion. to say that if when a man lo
r, times fail he has good wlfc-a ~,
I'd C,,riSt;on wife-ho ought not to be a
snoudent. "Oh, you say, 'that ON
h increases the embarrassmeht' slilro -
n. hoyo her also to take care Of - You ID
IN ~ ;ngrate. for the woman as often SUI
81 norris the man as the man supports I. =,
s 10 woman. The man may BRING an "
d, dollars. but the woman generally prln'
tho courage and the faith i'll Co..
A New Chapter.
We'll this man of whom l am spea
;,, lacks around, and he finds his IAN
Iv Is left. and he rallies, and inc ny
co,nes to his eyes, and the smile 10
face. and the courage to ms he"iV.
two years he is quite over II. Ile hn" a..
ii, h;s financial calamity the first clapt
nd ~ a new era of prosperity. he met VI
M, nno tronble-conquered it. lie sat GOV
Gov a little while under the grim shaol
'eS If the rock Bozez, yet he soon ros0' ~ q,
. Iegan like Jonathan, to cilmo: -
,as' nften is it that physical allme
comes with financial emoarr ,s1,n ,
- Wbel the fortune failed 1t or1 '1"t = ,
mans spirit His nerves were oa sn'' sh'
2 na His brain was stunned can sii'
uo,, hundreds of men in our O..
you n snntrno and health failed at
same time They came prematurely
ia yrl>o;r hand trcmDlGu w