The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-29
DIVINE SYMPATHY
DR.. TALMAGE'S PRESCRIPTION FOR
ANXIETY AND WORRIMENT.
He Advises Those i'm Trouble to Fol-
low the Example of the Disciples,
Who went and Told jesus

thousands thronged to hear him
wheresoever he preached, is now on his
way to Norway and Russia, in which
countries he is already we'll known
through the publication of transla-
tions of his sermons. In the following
discourse, which he has sent for pub
LEGATION this week, he gives a pre-
scription for all anxiety and worriment
and illustrates the divine sympathy
for all who are in any kind of strug-
gle. The text is Matthew xiv, u,
And his disciples went and old
Jesus"
An outrageous assassination had
just taken place. To appease a re-
vengeful 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 au-
thority to which they could appeal, and
yet grief must always find expression.
II there be no human ear TO near ii,
then the agonZed soul will cry il aloud
to the winds and the God and the
waters. But there was an ear that was
willing to listen. There Is a tender
pathOs and at the same time a most
admirable picture in the words of my
text, They went and told Jesus He
could understand all their grief, and he
Immediately Soothed IL Our burdens
are not more than half so heavy TO
carry 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 ut
Dry of haraa Uampnr are EXPRESSING
their woe. Raphael, with his skillful
brush putting upon the wall OF a palace
some scene of sacred story, gave not so
skillful a stroke as when the plain
hand of the evangelist writes, They
went and told Jesus"
The old Goths n Vandals once
came down upon Italy from the north
of Europe, and they upset the gardens
and they broke dow the statues and
swept away everything that was good
and beautiful. So there is ever and
anon in the history of all the sons
and daughters of our race an incurSion
of rough handed troubles that come
to plumber and ransaCk and put to
the torch all that men highly prize.
Ther is no cave so deeply cleft into
the mountains as to afford us shelter,
and the foot of fleetest cOurser can
not bear US beyond the quick pursuit.
The arrows they put to the string fly
with unerring dart until we fall pierre
ed and stunned.
! feel that / bring you a most APP
ipropriate message. l mean to bind
up all your griefs into a bundle and
set Them on fire with a spark from Gods
altar. The prescription that cured the
sorrow OF the disciples will cure all
your h~eartaches. 1 have read that
when Godfrey and his army marched
out to capture Jerusalem, as they
came over the hills, at the first flash
- - 80 +An+ AAa,,riT,1 airy-
the army that had marched in silence
lifted a shout that made the earth
tremble. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus
Christ, marching on toward heaven.
/ would that today, by some CLEAN
from the palace of Gods mercy and
God strength. you might be lifted
into great rejoicing, and that as the
prospect of it's peace breaks on your
enraptured gaze you might raise o.
glad hOsanna to the Lord
DISCIPLES CONDUCT COMMEND
ED.
In the first place, 1 commend the be-
haviOr of these disciples to all burd-
ened souls who are u~npardOned. There
comes a time in almost every mans
history when he feels from some source
that ne 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 a very
hot summer day. One man to get rid
of that impression will go To prayer
hottie will stimulate himself by ar
dent spirits, and another man Will dive
deeper in secularities. But sometimes
am ma cannot get rid OF these impress
sions. The fact is, when a man finds
out that his eternity is poised upon a
perfect uncertainty and that the next
homer his foot may slip, he must do
something violent to make himself
forget where he stands or else fly for
refuge.
Some of you crouch under a yoke,
and you bite the dust, when this mo-
ment you might rsie up a crowned
conquerer. Driven and perpleXed as
You have been by SIM, 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
tortues of the bloody mount transfix
him. With the beam of his own cross
he will break down the door of your
dungeon. From the thOrnS OF his own
crown h will pick enough gems TO
make your brow blaze With eternal
victory. In every tear on his wet
cheek, in every cash of his side, in
every long, blackening mark of lace
tration from TO shoulder, in
the grave shattering. heaven storm
ing death groan 1 e him say, Him
that cometh unto me l will in nOwiSe
cast out"
oh" but you say, instead of cur
ing my wound you want to make an
other wound-namely, that of convic-
toni" Have you never known a sur
geon to come and find a chronic dis
ease and then with sharp caustic burn
it all out? So the grace of God comes
to the old sore of sin. + has long
been ranking there. but by divine
grace it is burned out through these
fires of conviction, 1.-The flesh coming
~gain as the flesh of a little child,
where sin abounded, grace much more
aboundeth." With the 10000 unpar-
Idoned sins of your life, go and tell
Jesus.
THE BROAD INVITATION.
You will never get rid of your sins
in any other way. And remember that
b broad invitation which I extend
to you will not always be extended.
King Alfred, before modern timepieces
were invented, used to divide the day
into three parts, eight hours each, and
then had three wax candles. By the
time the first candle had burned to
the socket eight hours had gone, and
-bor Hha Sapnnd candle hoI h1rpod RI