Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-06-22
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIvlNE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: Christ Our Refuge "A Message
OF Comfort, Commencing the Behav'
Tor OF the Disciples to Those Who Are
Eurdened With Sorrow.
copyright 1901

Burdened With Sorrow.
copyright 1901
WASHINGTON, d. CDR. Talmage, IN
The following disc >urse, which he has Sc !
for publication this week, gives prescrip,,
ton for all anxiety and worriment,. and
illustrates the divine sympathy for all who
are in any kind of struggle. The text IS
Matthew xiv, IL, "And His disciples went
and told Jesus
An OUTRAGEOUS ASSASSINATION had gust
taken place. To appeasc revengeful
woman King Herod ordered the death OF
that noble, self-sacrihu.ng prophet. John
the Baptist. The group of the disciples
were thrown into grief and dismay .dhcy
felt themselves utterly defenseless. There
was no authority to which they could ap'
peal, and yet grief must always ind ex'
preston. If there be no human ear to
hear it, then the agonized soul will cry 1T
aloud TO the winds and the woods and the
waters. But here was an ear that was
willing to listen. There is tender pa
thos and at the same time most admir-
able picture in the words of my text,
They went and to Jesus" He could
understand all their grief, and He imme-
dately soothed it. 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
shadowed with grief standing amid the
group of disciple who, with tears am
violent gesticulatiCns and wringing oil
hands and outcry of bereavement, are ex'
pressing their woe. Raphael, with his
skiIifuI brush. putting upon the wall of
palace some scene of sacred story, gave
not so skillful stroke as when the plain
hand of the evangelist writes, They went
ana told Jesus
The old Goths and Vandals once care
down upon Italy from the north Eu.,
rope. and they upset the gardens, and
they broke down the. statues and s, ut
away everything that was good and beau
tifui. So there is ever ana anon IN he
history of all the sons and daughters OF
our race an incursion of rough handed
troubles that come to plumber and ran
sack and put to the torch all that men
highly prize There is no cave so deeply
cleft into the mountains as 20 afford us
shelter and the foot of feetest courser
cannot bear us beyond the quick pursuit.
The arrows they nut to the string ny with
unerring dart until we fall pierced and
stunned
feel that / bring to you most appro9,,
priate message. ] mean to bind up all
your grlefs into a bundle and set them no, on
fire with a spark from Gods altar. The
prescription that cured the sorrow OF the
disciples will cure all your heartaches. |
have read that hen Godfrey and his
army marched out to capture Jerusalem,
as they came over the hills. at the first
fash of the pinnacles of that beautiful
CITY. the army that had marched IN ST.
lence lifted a shout that made the earth
tremble. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus Christ,
marching N toward heaven, / would that
to-day, by some CLAM from the palace OIL
Gods mercy and Gods strength, YOU might
be lifted into great rejoicing and that as
the prospect of its peace breaks o. yoni
enraptured gaze you might raise one GLAD
hosanna to the Lord!
In the first place / commend the beha,;
vior of those disciples to all burdened
souls who are unpardoned. There comes
a 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 fash in an evening cloud Just after
a very hot summer day. One man to get
rid of that impression will 60 to PRAYER,
another will stimulate himself by ardent
spirits. and another man will dive deeper
in secularities. But sometimes a man can
not get rid of these Impressions. The tact
is. when man finds out that his eternity
is poised upon perfect uncer salnty, ano
that the next moment his foot may slip
he must do something violent to make HIM
self forget where he stands or else fiy fol
refuge.
Some of YOU crouch under yoke, ant
YOU bite the dust when this moment .yo'
might rise up a crowned conqueror. Driver
and perplexed as you have been by sin, 9!
and tell Jesus. To relax the grip OF deatl
from your soul and plant your unshacklet
feet upon the golden throne Christ lei IN
tortures of the bloody mount transh1
Him. With the beam of His own eros
He will break down the door Ct your dun
geon. From the thorns of ms own crow
He will pick enough gems to make you
brow blaze with eternal victory. In ever
tear on His wet cheek, in every cash
His side. in every long, blackening mari
of liberation from shoulder to shoulder
in the grave SCATTERING. heaven stormin
death croan | hear Him say, He tina
cometb unto Me will in nowise cast out.
ooh" but you say, instead OF culln
my wound you want 20 make an4the
wound-namely. that of convictlo-! Hav
YOU never known surgeon to come an
find chronic disease and then with snar
caustic burn it all ont! 30 the grase
God comes to the old sore Of sin. 1t la
long been ranking there; but, by dlvln
grace. it is burned out through these fire
Of conviction. "thc flesh coming again a
the flesh of a little child" where 81
abounded, grace much more aaboun1deth.
With the ten thousand objectionable SIN
of your life, go and tell Jesus. g.
You will never get rid OF your SINS Il
any other way, and remember that tn
broad invitation which l extend TO 20
will not always be extended. Ming A
fred. before modern timepleces. were II
vented used to divide the day into thre
parts, eight hours each, and then had thrG
wax candles. By the time the first candl
had burned to the socket eight hours ma
gone. and when the second candle ha
burned to the socket another eight hour
had gone. and when all the three candle
were gone out then the day had passed
Oh. that some of US, instead of calculatin
our DAYS and nights and years by an
earthly timepiece, might calculate thel
by the numbers of opportunities and me
cies which are burning down and 6urnln
out. never to be relighted, lest at last "
be amid the foolish virgins who crie'
"Our lamps have gone OUT ,
Again. I commend the behavior of II
disciples to all who are tempted. hay
heard men in mid-life say they had new
'--<Aeen led into temptation. If you hay
not felt temptation, it is because you ha'
not 1. led to do right. A man hoppled an
handcuffed, as long as he lies quietly. do
not test the power of the chain. but whe
he rises up and with determination r
solves to snap the handcuff or break. Il
hopple then he finds the power, OF the iro
And there are men who have been for te
and twenty and thirty years bound har
and foot by evil habits who have new
felt the power of the chain because the
have never tried to break it. 1t is vel
EASY to 90 on down with the stream an
with the wind lying on your oars, but j.,
wind and the tide, and YOU will find it
different matter. AS long as we go dow
!, the current of our evil habit we seem
get along qulte smoothly, but if after
While we turn around and h. I the 9TH
way. toward Christ and pardon, IN
hoa,,on oh thnn how we have to Law