St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-06-30
o.. Talmage Discourses On the Re-
'io wards Of Faithful Endeavor.

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ae.soa Of cArist IN ovesesnins Oh
! stacles which Beset His Followers
'F4 a-satlsfastien In Completion
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safCspyright. 1sao. by I.oxis Klopsch.l y.
| Washington, eyes
| In this discourse DIR. Talmage shows
In IN unusual way the antagonisms
that Christ overcame and finds a ball
sam for all wounded hearts; text,
John II: 4: 81 have finished the
work which Thou gavest Me to do" q
There is q profound satisfaction. in
I the completion of anything we have
undertaken We lift the capstone
| With exultation, while, ON the other
hand, there il nothing more disap-
pointing than after having toiled in q
certain direction to find that our time
IL wasted and our investment profit
less. Christ came to throw up a high
My On WhicaI the whole worlA might,
il it chose, mount into Heaven. He
did it. The f6ulmouthed crew who at
tempted to tread on Him could not
extinguish the sublime satisfaction
which He expressed when He said: Il
have finished the work which Thou
gavest Me to do" sa@ sY
i Alexander the Great was wounded,
and the doctors could not medicate
Lis wounds, and he seemed to be dy-
| ing, and in his dream the sick nao
saw q plant with . peculiar flower,
and he dreamed that the plant was
put upon his wound and that imme-
diately IL was cured. And Alexander
waking from his dream. told this 70
the physician. and the physician wan
dered out until he found just the kind
Of plant which the sick man had de-
scribed,- brought il to him, and the
wound was healed. Well, the human
race has been hurt with the ghast-
Hest Of all wounds-that Of sin. 1t
was the business of Christ to bring .,
balm for that .wound-the balm of Di-
vine restoratioa. In carrying this
business to. . successful issue the di1-
1culties were stupendous. -,cs,H ,,.rs
In many Of our plans we have our
friends to help us; some to draw q
sketch Of the plan, others to help us
In the execution. But Christ fought
every inch of His, way against bitter
hostility and amid circumstances all
calculated to depress and defeat. !
aauIn tho first place, His worldly oc-
eupation was against Him. / find that
He earned His livelihood by the car
penter's trade-an occupation always
to- be highly regarded and respected.
But you know rs well as do that in
order to succeed in any employment
one must give his entire time to Il,
and ! have to declare that the IA
tigues. Of carpentry were unfayorable
to the execution of mission which
required all mental and physical fac.:
ultieA Through high. hard dry,
husky, insensate Judaism to hew. .
way for . new and glorious dispensa-
ton was . 'stupendons undertaking
that was enough to demand all the
concentrated energies even Of Christ.
We have . great many romantic stor-
les about what men with physical toll
have accomplished in intellectual De-
partments, but You know that after .
man has been toiling all day with
adj and saw and hammer, plane and
~, about AL he can do Is to rest.
A weary body is an unfavorable ad-.
junct to . toiling mind. You, whose
life is purely mechanical, if you were
called to the upbuilding Of . king
dom,s or the proclamation of q new
code of morals, or the Starting of q
revolution which should upturn an M.
tions, could get some idea Of the In
coherence of Christ's occupation with
His heavenly mission.
In His fathers shop no more inter.
course was necessary than il ordi-
narily necessary in bargaining with
men that have work to do; yet
Christ, with shani1s 4ard from use of |
tools of trade, was called forth to be-
come = public speaker, to preach in |
the face of mobs, while some wept
and some shook their fists and some |
gnashed upon Him with their teeth,
and many wanted Him out of the way. |
To address orderly and respectful as
0C"OAdKCS 10 0OG ~ C0oy - ~ 4noy
seem, but it requires more energy
and more force apd more concentra-
tion to address an exasperated mob.
So also His habit Of dress and diet |
were against Him. The mighty men
Of Christ's time did not appear in ap-
parel without trinkets and adorn-
hents. None of the Caesars would |
have appeared in citizens apparel.
Yet here was q man, here was pro-
fessed king, who always wore the
same coat. Indeed, it was far from |
shabby, for after He had worn It .
long while the gamblers thought It
worth raining about, but still it was |
far from being an imperial robe. It
was a coat that any ordinary man |
might have worn ON an ordinary oc-
casion. has
Neither was there any pretense in
HIS diet. No cupbesrer with golden
ebalice brought Him wine to drink.
On the seashore He ate fish, first hav- !
ing broiled it Himself. No one
fetched Him water to drink: but.
bending over the well in Ssmaria, he
begged a drink. He sat at only one
banquet and that not at all sumptu-
ous, for to relieve the awkwardness
Of the host one Of the guests had to
prepare wine for the company.
Other kings rode in q chariot; He
walked. Other kings rs they advance
have heralds and applauding sub
jects behind: Christ's retinue was
made up of sunburned fishermen.
Other kings sleep under embroidered
canopy; this one ON shelterless hill. I
Riding but once, an TAR as I now re-
member, ON . colt-and that bor-
rowed.
His poverty was against Him. Il
requires money to build great enter
prises. Men of means are afraid Of .
penniless protector. lest loan be de-
II requires money to print
books, to build institutions, to pay In
struetors. No wonder the wise men
Of Christ's time laughed At this penni-
less Christ. 'sWhy," they said, "who Il