Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-18
CHRISTOuR IREFUGE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.S SERMON A MES
SAGE OF. COMFORT.

Commends the Be1lQSSior of the Dis
cipIes to Those Who.Are Burdened
with SOrrOw-II1tsttsst es the Power
of Divine sympathy.
WASHINGTON, June 1I.-.=Dr. Talmage,
who has finished his tour in England
and Scotland, where thousands throng-
ed to hear him whereSOeyer he preach
ed, is now on his way tic Norway and
Russia, in which counties he is al
ready we'll known through the publica-
ton of TRANSACTIONS Of his sermons. In
the following discourse, which he has
sent for publication this week, he gives
a prescription for all anxiety and wOr-
riment and illustrates the divine SYM
patty for all who are in. any kind Of
struggle. The text is Matthew xiv, II,
"And his disciples went and told Je-
sus."
An outrageous assassinatfon-aad just
taken place.. To appease reyengefui
woman King Herod ordered the. death
of that noble, self sacrificing prophet
John the Baptist. The group Of the
disciples were thrown into grief and
dismay. They felt themselves utterly
defenseless. There was no authority
10 which they could appeal, and yet
grief must always find expression. IF
there be no human ear to hear it, then
the agonized soul will cry it aloud to
the winds and the woods and the wa
tiers. But there was an ear that was
willing to listen. There is a tender
pathoS and at the same time a most
admiral BILE picture in the words Of my
text, ''They went and told Jesus" He
could understand all their grief, and he
Immediately soothed it. Our burdens
are not more than half SO heavy to car
~ if another shoulder is put under the
other end of them. Here we find
Christ, his brow Swallowed with grief,
standing amid the group of disciples,
who, with tears and violent gesticula-
tions and wringing of hands and out
cry of bereavement, are expressing
their woe. Raphael, with his skillful
brush, putting upon the wall Of a pal
ace some scene of sacred story, gave
not so skillful stroke as when the
plain hand of the evangelist writes,
''They went and told Jesus"
The old Goths and VandalS once came
down upon Italy from the north of Eu,
rope, and they upset the gardens, and
they broke down the statues and swept
away everything that was good and
beautiful. So there is ever and anon ia
the history of all the sons and daugh-
tiers of our race an incursion Of rough
and ransack and put to the torch all
cave so deeply cleft into the mountains
lis to afford us shelter, and the foot of
feetest courser cannot bear us beyond
the quick pursuit. The arrows they
put to the string fly with unerring dart
until we fall pierced and stunned.
A Message of Comfort.
l feel that bring TO you i most ap-
prOpriate message. | mean to bind up
all your griefs into q bundle and set
them Oh fire with a spark from Gods
altar. The prescription that cured the
sorrow Of the disciples will cure all
your heartaches. ] have read that
when Godfrey and his army marched
out to capture Jerusalem, as they came
over the hills, at the first flash of the
pinnacles Of that beautiful city, the
army that had marched in silence lift
ed Il shout that made the earth trem-
BILE. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus Christ,
marching on toward heaven, l would
that today. by some CLEAN from the
palace of Gods mercy and Gods
strength. you might be lifted into great
rejoicing and that as the prospect Of
its peace breaks on your enraptured
gaze you might raise one glad hOsanna
to the Lord
In the first place, I commend the be-
haviOr of these disciples to all burden
ed souls who are unpardoned. There
comes time in almost every mans
history when he feels from some source
that he has an erring nature. The
thought may not have such heft as to
fell him. 1t may be only like the flash
in an evening cloud just after very
hot summer day. One man to get rid
of that impression will go to prayer,
another will stimulate himself by ar |
dent spirits, and another man will dive
deeper in secularities. But sometimes
i man cannot get rid of these impress
sions. The fact is, when man finds
out that his eternity is poised upon a
perfect uncertainty and that the next
moment MS loot may slip, he must do
something violent to make himself for
get where l.e stands or else fly for
refuge.
Some of you crouch under a yoke,
and you bite the dust when this mo-
ment you might rise up a crowned con-
QuerOr. Driven and perplexed as you
have been by sin, go and tell Jesus.
To relax the grip of death from your
soul and plant your unshackled feet |
upon the golden throne Christ let the |
fortunes of the bloody mount transfix |
him. With the beam of his own CROSS |