The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-12-14
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NoTsc
DIVINE.
Subject; a Way over Jordan - The Lord
VIII send = Boat - From the Other
shore It VIII Come tn Transport the
Faithful to Eternal Life.
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VIII >end - Hoat FROM the tthei
shore u VIII Come to Transport tn,
Faithful to Eternal Life.
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WASHINGTON, ID. C.-From an unnoticed
incident OF olden time DR.. Talmage IN tins
discourse draws some comforting and rap
turous lessons The text is Ill Samuel xix,
Is, And there went over ferryboat IL
carry over the kings household
Which OF the crowd is the king That
short man, sunburnt and in fatigue dress
L, is David. the exiled king He has de
feated has enemies and Is now going home
10 resume his palace Good l always
like 20 see David come out ahead But be.
tween hun and his home there is the celc-
brated River Jordan, which has TO be
passed, The king is accompanied to the
bank OF the river by an aristocratic Old
gentleman OF eighty years, Barxillsi by
Rogelim. Besides that. David has his fam.
lily with HIM But how shall they get
across the rlverf While they are stand.
lng there | see a ferrybost coming from
the other side, and a. Il cuts through the
water | see the faces Of David and his
household brighten up al the thought of
so soon getting home. No sooner had the
ferryboat struck the shore than David and
his family and his old friend Barzillai.
Either with splashlng oars at the side or
with one oar sculhng at the stern of the
boat they leave the eastern bank OF the
Jordan and start for the western bank
That western bank is black with crowds
OF people, who are waving and shouting at
the approach of the king and his family.
The military are all out. Some of those
who have been David's worst enemies now
shout until they are hoarfe at his return
y baa Ia, o, y.
on the western side than the earth quakes
and the heavens ring with cheers OF vel.
come and congratulation. David and his
family and Barzillal from Rogehm step
ashore. King David asks his old friend
TO 20 with HIM aud live at the palace, but
Barzllal apologies and intlmstes that he
IS inhrm with age aud too deaf 10 appre-
clate the music, and has delicate appc-
tite that would soon be cloyed with luxu.
rlous living, aud so he begs that David
would let him go back To hts country seat
once heard the father OF a President
OF the United States say that he had Just
been TO Washington to see his son IN the
White House, and he told me OF the won
derful things that occurred there and of
what Daniel Webster said TO him, but he
declared Il was glad to get home. There
was too much going on there for me My
father, an aged man, made his last visit
at my house in Philadelphia, and after the
church service was over and we went
home some one IN the house asked the
aged man how he enjoyed the service
We'll, | enjoyed the service, but there
were too many people there for me, Ii
troubled my head very much The fact
is that old people do not like excitement
II King David had asked Barzillai thirty
years before to go TO the palace the prob.
ability is that Barzllai would have gone,
but not now. They kiss each other good.
bye, a custom among men Oriental, but
IN vogue yet where two brothers part or
an aged father and a son go away from
each other never to meet again. No won.
der that their lips met az King David and
old Barzllai, at the Prov oi the ierryboat,
parted forever.
This River Jordan, in all ages and
among all languages, has been the sym
Dol OF the boundary line between earth
and heaven, yet when, on "A former occa.
sion, preached TO you about the Jordanc
passage / have no doubt that some of YOU
despondingly said: The Lord might have
divided Jordan for Joshua, but not for
poor me- Cheer up | want TO show
you that there Is a way over Jordan az
well as through It. NV text says, And
there went over a ferrybOat 10 carry over
the kings household"
All our cities are familiar with the ferry.
boat. IL goes from San Francisco TO Oak.
land and from Liverpool To- Blrkenhcad
and twice every secular day of the week
multitudes are on the fcrTyboats Of our
great cities, so that you viii not need 10
hunt up classical dictionary 60 hud out
what | mean while am speaking 10 you
about the passage OF David and bis family
across the River Jordan.
My subject, IN the first place mprosscs
me with the fact that when we cross over
from tins world TO the next the boat will
have 10 come from the other side The
tribe of Judah, we are Informed, sent this
icrryboat across to get David and his
household. ] stand on the eastern side OF
the River Jordan, and find no shipping
at all, but while | am standing there ]
see boat pIowlng through the river. and
"a ! hear the swirl OF the waters, nd
the boat comes 20 the eastern side OF the
Jordan, and David aud his family and hig
old friend step on board that boat, ! am
nightly impressed with the fact that
when we cross over from this world 90 the
next the boat viii have to come from tile
opposite shore
Every day ! find people trying to ox-
tempOrlze a way from earth 90 heaven.
They gather up their good works and some
sentimental theores, aud they make a
raft, and they go down. The fact il that
skepticsm and inGdclity never yet helped
one man 90 die. ! invite all the ship
carpenters Of worldly philosophy 20 come
and build one boat that can safely cross
this river. ! invite them all 10 unite their
sl;ill, and B,lingbrolc shall lift the stan.
chions, and Tyndal shall shape the bow.
spirit, and ~pinOza shall make the main.
tOpgalIant braces and Rcnau shall go 90
tacking and wearing and boxing the ship
All together in 1000 years they viii never
ha 4ltl IL 10 lss Lf.. hot
Jordan. Why was IT that Spinoza aud
BlOunt and ShaftcsDury lost their souls
IL was because they tried to cross the
stream IN boat Of their own cOnstruc.
ton. What miserable work they made Of
dying, DiO1orus died Of modification be.
cause he could not guess conundrum
which had been proposed 10 him at a
public dinner; /euxi-, the philosopher,
died Of mIrth. laughing at n caricature
OF an aged woman, carcature made by
his own hand, while another Of their
company and OF their kind died saying.
Must I leave all these beautiful PIC.
lures" and then asked that he might be
bOlstercd up in the bed IN his last mo.
ments and be shaved and painted and
rOuged. OF all the unbelievcrs Of al ages
not one died well Some Of them sncaked
out Of life, some blasphemed and raved
and tore their bed covers 20 tatters. This
- the way worldly philosophy helps a
man % die.
guide az Niagara Falls said 10 me.
DO you see that rock down in the rap.
IDS" said. YES" Well" he said,
some years ago man got into the rap.
i1s and Aoated down until he came %
that rock, and he clutched that and held
on. We sent FIVE lieb0ats az different
times out 20 him, and they were all brDk.
cn % splintefs After awhile we got him
some food but he could not eat u. he
seemed % have no appetite. lie wanted