The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-03-18
BITTERNESS OF LIFE.
Dr.. Talmage Draws a Contrast Be-
tween Selfshness and Kindness.
should Make the world q Pleasant
'PLAee-seatterers Of worAwOOa
Are Likened to Attila
the Hun.

washington. March Il Copyright. isss.l
The contrast between = life Of self
ishness and a life Of kindness is set
forth by DR.. Talmage while diScours-
ing upon the baleful character Of q
conqueror Of olden time; text Rev
elation viii. 10, II; "There fell 4 great
Etar from heaven. burning as Il we're
. lamp, and it fell upon the third part
Of the rivers and upon the fountains
Of water, and the name OF the star II
called Norwood"
Patrick and Lowth. Thomas Scott,
Matthew Henry. Albert Barnes and
ONE other Commentators say that
the star Wormwood Of my text was a
type Of Attila. king Of the Huns. He
was so called because he was brilliant
asa stAr. and, like wormwood, he en-
bitaered everything he touched. We
have studied the Star Of Bethlehem
and the Morning Star Of Revelation
and the Star Of Peace, but my subject
calls US TO gaze at the star Norwood,
and my theme might be called Bril-
liant Bitterness"
A more extraordinary character his
tory does not furnish than this man
AttilA. the king of the Huns. The
story goes that M day a wounded
heller came limping along through the
fields, and a herdsman followed its
bloody tracks on the grass 10 e
where the heifer was wounded, and
went on back farther and farther IN
til k5 came TO q sword fast In the
earth, the point downward. as though
IL had deopped from the heavens and
againa the edges Of this sword the
hsifer had been cut. The herdsmAn
pulled up that sword and presented
1t to Attila. AtHla said that sword
must have dropped from the heavens
from the grasp of the god Mars, and
its being given to him meant that At
tia should conquer and govern the
whole earth. Other mighty men have
been delighted at being called liber-
ators, or the Merciful, or the Good,
but Attila called himself and demand
ed that others call him "the ScourYe
Of God"
Al the head Of zoo, 900 troops, mount
"a on C~appadoeisn horses, be swept
everything from the Adriatic 10 the
Black sea. He. put his iron heel on
Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He
made Milan and PRyiA and PSdua
and Verona beg for mercy, which he
bestowed not. The Byzantine castles,
10 meet his ruinous levy, put up al
auction massive silver tables and vases
Of solid gold. When q city was cap
tured by him, the Inhabitants were
brought out and put into three classes
The first class, those who could bear
arms, must Immediately enlist under
Attla or be butchered; the second
class, the beautiful women. were made
captives 10 the Huns; the third class
the aged men and women, were robbed
OF everything and let 90 back TO the
city TO pay q heavy tar.
II was a common saying that the
grass never grew wharf the hoof OF
ATLAS horse had trod. His armiei
Redeemed the waters Of the Seine and
The Moslle and The Rhine with ear
mage and fought on the CataloDian
plains the hereest battles since the
world stood-3Oo, 900 dead left on the
field. On and on until all those who
could not Oppose him with arms LAY
pratrate on their faces in prayer,
then a cloud Of dust was seen In the
distance, and a bishop cried: 1T Ia
the aid Of God" and all the people
took up the cry: sit Is the aid Of God"
As the cloud Of dust was blown aside
the banners Of reinforcing armies
marched in TO help against Attla,
"the Scourge OF God" The most un.
important occurrences be used a. q
supernatural resource. After three
months OF failure TO capture TIE city
Of Aquileis, when his army had given
up the Siege, the fight Of . stork and
her young from the tower Of the city
was taken by him as a sign that he
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