Connecticut western news., 1898-08-18
RISE INTO SUNSHINE.
t,Ev. OR. TALMAGE BREACHES A SER MON TO THE TROUBLED.

Seek Christ For Cancellation When Sorely
 Pressed by the Trials of Life--A Help
 ful Lesson Drawn From Jonathan's vic-
 tory Over Difficulties.
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 ciation.1
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-This dis course of Dr. Talmage is full of enoour- 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 sharp rock on the other side. y
 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 know that Da- vid cracked the skull of the giant with a few pebbles we'll slung, and that 300 Gideonites scattered 10, 900 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; on the other side is rock called SeReh. These two were as fa- 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, I 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 olinging see the head of Jonathan above the hole in the mountain, and there is challenge and a fight and a supernatural consterna- tion. These two men, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks and open a campaign which demolishes the ene- 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 a sharp rock on the other side."
 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 jn the strength of God or by his own natural determination goes through t. 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 1t, 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 a sharp rock on the other side.
 In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants capsize in business before they come to 45 years of age. There is come collision in commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as if every man must put his name on the back of note before he learns what fool man is who risks all his own property on the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as if a man must have large amount of unsalable goods on his own shelf before he learns how much easier 1t is to buy than to sell It seems as if every man must be completely burned out before he learns the importance of always keeping fully insured. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in financial tempest before he learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden euroclydon.
 When the calamity does come, it is awful. The man goes home in despair, and he tells his family, "We'll have to go to the poorhouse. He takes dolor ous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But little time passes, and he says, "Why, I am not so badly of after all; have my family left"
 Before the Lord turned Adam out of paradise he gave him Eve, so that when he lost paradise he could stand it. Per init one who has never read but few novels in all his life, and who has not a great deal of romance in his compost tion, to say that if when mans for tunes fail he has good wife-a good Christian wife-he ought not to be de- spondent. "Oh," you say, "that only increases the. embarrassment, since you have her also to take care of" You are l,,c Ao~, <>fk ports the man as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God.
 A New Chapter.
 We'll, this man of whom l am speak Ing looks around, and he finds his fami- 1y is left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to his face. and the courage to his heart. In two years he is quite over 1t. 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 la 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 financial embarrassmentl l When the fortune failed, it broke the mans spirit. His nerves were shatter- ed. His brain was stunned. can show you hundreds of men in our cities whose fortune and health failed at the same time. They came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled with dncipient paralysis They never saw a well day since the hour when they call cd their creditors together for a com promise. If such men are impatient and peculiar and irritable, excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met successfully. If, when ths Aealth went, the fortune had been retained, 1t would not have been so bad. The man could have