Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-01
SERMON
Rev. DR.. Calf1age
Subject: Lay Hold Of Christ-The Help
fulness "f Religion in Fighting Life's
Battie-Be Bold For the Right and
Trust in the Son of God.

Subject: Lay Hold Of Christ-The Help
fulness "f Religion in Fighting LIES
BattIe-Be Bold For the Right and
Trust in the Son of God.
tCopyright. Louis Klopsch. 1ss9I
WASHINGTON, d. C.-In this discourse DR.
Talrage employs a very bold figure of the
Bible to bring out the helpfulness OF re-
ligion for all those In any kind OF struggle.
The text Is Isaiah XIV, II, HE shall spread
forth his hands In the midst of them as he
that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands,"
In the summer season multitudes OF peo-
pie wnde into the ponds and lakes and
rivers and seas to dive or float or swim. In
q world the most of which is water all men
and women should learn to swim. Some Of
you have learned the side stroke intro
duced by George Pewters in 1850, each
stroke OF that kind carrying the swimmer
distance OF six feet, and some of you may
use the overland stroke invented by Gar
dener, the expert who by 1t won the 500
yard championship in Manchester in 1862.
the swimmer by that stroke carrying his
arm in tt 9 air for a more heightened reach,
and some OF you may tread the water as
though you had been made to walk the sea,
but most OF you usually take what is call
ed the breast stroke, placing the hands
with the backs upward, about five inches
under the water, the inside of the wrists
touching the breast, then pushing the
arms forward coincident with the stroke of
possible, and you thus unconsciously illus
trate the meaning of my text, HE shall
spread forth his hands in the midst of them,
| as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his
hands to SWIM"
The fisherman seeks out unfrequented
hooks. You stand all day on the bank of
| q river In the broiliDg sun and fling out
your line and catch nothing. while an ex-
| pert angler breaks through the jungle and
. goes by the shadow OF the solitary rock
and, in a place where no fisherman has
been for ten years, throws out his line and
comes home at night. his face shining and
his basket full. I do not know why we
| ministers of the gospel need always be
fishing In the. same stream and preaching
! from the same texts that other people
preach from. I cannot understand the
| policy of the minister who in Blackfriars,
| London, England, every week for thirty
years preached from the Epistle to the
| Hebrews. It Is an exhilaration to me
| when I come across theme which 1 feel
no one else has treated. and my text is one
word that are well beaten by Christian
| feet. When men want to quote Scripture,
| they quote the old passages that every one
\ has heard. When they want chapter
read, they read chapter that all the other
people have been reading, so that the
| church to-day Is ignorant of three-fourths
| Of the Bible.
! You go into the Louvre at Paris. You
| conflne yourself to one corridor of tha,
opulent gallery OF paintings. As you come
out your friend Gays to you, did you see
| that Rubens?'' ''No." "Did you see that
Titian2' "No." 'Did you see that Raph.
ael?'' ''No." ''WelI," says your friend
"then you did not see the Louvre" Now
my friends, l think We are too much apt tc
confine ourselves to one OF the great corri-
dors of Scripture truth, and SO much &c
| that there Ia not ono person ont of n mil
lion who has ever noticed the all sugSes
tive and powerful picture in the words o.
| my text.
This text represents God as q strong
= 3. Ftospnsh down inia,
uity and so