Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-09-26
SERMON
Rev. Dr.. Calll,:...

Subject: Nations Are Judged-God Re-
wards and Punishes Them on Earth
God's JudSmsnts LikeDed to tn Swift
Sweep Of . Razor. -.-.
...-..-. Copyright lsoal.
WASHINGTON, D. Cdr Talmage in
his journey westward through Europe, has
recently visited scenes of thrilling his
toric events. He sends this sermon, in
which he shows that nations are judged
in this world, and that God rewards them
for their virtues and Furnishes them for
their crimes. The text is Isaiah vii, 20,
''In the same day shall the Lord shave
with a razor that is hired, namely, by
them beyond the river. by the king of
Assyria."
ten. There are no similitudes in OssiaH
or the Iliad or the Odyssey so daring. Its
imagery sometimes seems on the verge Of
the reckless, but only seems so. The fact
is that God would startle and arouse and
propel men and nations. A tame and
limping simihtude would fail to accom-
.plish the object, While there are time3-
when He employs in the Bible the gentlJ
dew, and the morning cloud, and the dow
and the daybreak in the presentation oi
truth, we often find the iron chariot, .thd
lightning, the earthquake. the spray, the
! sword and in my text the razor. Thi1
Keen piaoeo instrument mas a~1nahcea advanced ny
nseiuihess with the ages. In binie times
ana Iahds tne peard renamed uncut save
| in the seasons of mourning and .humilia-
, ton, but the razor was always a sugges-
tive symbol. David said of Doeg. his an
eag0nist, my Tongue Is sharp razor
workihg deceitiuiiy -that is, NJ pretenas
to clear the lace, but Is really used Tor
deadly incision.
In this striking text this weapon of the
toilet appears under the following CIR
| cumstances: Judea needed to have some
OF Its prosperities cut off, and God sends
against it three Assyrian kings-first Sen.
HasherlS then Esarhaddoh ha ,ha and aiserward
sions that cut down the glory of Judea
are compared to SO many sweeps of the
| razor across the face of the land. And
these devastations were called hired
razor because God took the kings OF As
syria; with whom He had no sympathy, to
do the work, and paid them in palaces
and spoils and annexations. These kings
were hired to execute the divine behests.
And now the xt,..whieh on Its first read
ing may have seemed TRIVIAL or mapt, is
charged with momentous import In the
same day shall the Lord shave with a razor
fthat Is hired, namely. by them beyond
tine river py the lng OF Assyfia.
| Well II Gods Judgments, are razors,
we had better be careful how we use
| them on other people. In careful sheath
these domestic weapons are put away,
where no one by accident may touch them
and where the hands OF children may not
carefully handled or not handled at all
j put now reeklessiy some people wleid the
judgment OF &od. II man meets with
business misfortune now many there are
ready to cry out: That is Judgment OF
God upon hm because he was unscrupu-
1 lous or arrogant OF over-reaching or ms
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i y eleen seeeR eof evefyEnmes aif Hif
CITY mouse ana country nouse gone. m
seaoies emPtieo OF an tne me pays aho
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na.stv .nd aTu sor,a No of tbe most honest and
anu so -, . ;rto hantr,,r,tn,,
Perbans the mns,,ccessfuL mans manner
nu ta amS ha vas not really as
proud as he looked to be- Some of those
! Nh, narry tbs;r heaSS eract and jooL, i'm.
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priue OF your OWL near ~ ~ So 81, u"s 80 W
yer. Ialui % nov sJu P.i;,,a @ tha hIba,,;e,
| on UIue1S' ~" W w -
OF tnose persons Mho, wnem peop.e ta,e
unlorSuna'e, say; toiu you SO ee''.i
punished; served MN right n those
told You so got thelr desert the! "9tiu
long ago have been pltehed over the pat
| Elements. Inc mote IN their helshoor
| eyes, SO small that 1T takes microscope
TO hnd 1t, gives them more trouole thah
! the beam which obscures their own opiifs
With air sometimes superciliOus and some
times pharisaical and always blasphemous
they take the razor OF Irvine judgment and
| sharpen it on the bone OF their own hard
hearts, and then 60 to work on men
| sprswled out at full length under disaster
| cutting mercneSsly. 1ney DeRin Dg soli
expressions of sympathy and pity, anC
! half praise and lather the victim all over
before they put on the sharp edge
| Let us be careful how we, shoot at 9th.
ers. lest we take down the wrong one
remembering the servant of King William
Rufus who shot at deer but the arrow
| glanced against a tree and killed the king
| Instead Of going out with shafts to pierce
and razors to cut. we had better imitate
the friend of Richard Occur de Lion
Richard in the war of the Crusades. was
cantnred and imprisoned. but none of his
friends knew where. so his Ioyal fricrd
| went around the land from stronghold to
strnnohold and sang at each window a
snatcb Of song that Richard Occur de
IT, Nd t.,oht him in other days And
n1,e da,s romina before a ,iail where he
tmsnected hrs king might, be incareer-
etsd he sang two lines Of song and immc-
diately King Richard responded from his
cell with the other two lines, and so his