The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-23
CURE FOR ANXIETY.
DR.. Talmage Prescribes for Those
in Trouble.
Advises Them to Follow the Example
of the Disciples, Who event
and Told Jesus"-ComfOrS
for the
Copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington

bI. ldlIfdSt, WHO mas nnlSneu nls
tour of England and Scotland, where
thousands thronged to hear him
wheresoever he preached, is now on
his way to Norway and Russia, in
which countries he is already well
known through the publication OF
translations of his In the
following discourse, which he has
sent for publication this week, he
gives a prescription for all anxiety
and worriment and illustrates the Di-
vine sympathy for all who are in any
Kind of struggle. The text is Mat
thew IA, 70: And His disciples went
and told Jesus"
An outrageous assassination had
just taken place. 70 appease a re-
vengeful woman King Herod ordered
the death of hat noble, self s%acriic-
ing prophet. John the Baptist. The
group of the disciples were thrown
into grief and dismay. They felt
themselves utterly defenseless. There
was no authority to which they could
appeal. and yet grief must always find
expression. If there be no human
ear to hear il, then the agonized soul
will cry it aloud to the winds and the
woods and the waters. But there
was an ear that was willing to listen.
There is a tender pathos and at the
arm 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 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 Swallowed with grief,
standing amid the group of disciples,
who. with tears and violent gesticula-
tions and %wringing of hands and out
cry of bereavement, are expressing
their woe. Raphael. with his skilled
brush putting upon the wall of a pal
ace some scene of sacred story, gave
not so skillful a stroke as when the
plain hand of the evangelist writes:
"They went and told Jesps."
The old Goths and Vandals once
came down upon Italy from the north
of Europe, and they upset the gar
dens, and they broke down the statues
and swept away everything that was
good and beautiful. So there is ever
and anon in the history of all the
o n and daughters of our race an in
cursion of rough-handed troubles that
come to plumber and ransack and put
to the torch all that men highly
prize. There is no cave so deeply
cleft into the mountains as to afford
us shelter, and the foot of feetcst
courser cannot bear us beyond pur-
suit. The arrows they put to the
string fly with %unerring dart until
we fall pierced and stunned.
l feel that l bring to you a most
appropriate message. | 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 heartaches. have read
that when Godfrey and his army
marched out to capture Jerusalem, as
they came over the hills, at the first
flash of the pinnacles of that beauti-
full city, 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, l would that to-day, by some
CLEAN from the palace of Gods mercy
and Gods strength, you might be
lifted into great rejoicing, and that
as the prospect of its peace breaks
on your enraptured gaze you might
raise one glad hosanna 10 the Lord.
In the first place, l commend the
behavior of these disciples to all bur
dened souls who are unpardoned
There comes a time in almost every
mans history when he feels from
some source that he has an errine
nature. The thought may not hav,
such heft as to fell him. 1t may b.
only ike the fash in an evening clouC
just after a very hot summer day. 0n'
man to get rid Of hat impression vii
go to prayer, while another will slim
ulate himself by ardent spirits, ant
another man will dive deeper in sec
ularities. But sometimes a man can
not get rid of these impressions. Thu
fact is, when a man finds out that hi
eternity is poised upon a perfect I'm
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his foot may slip, he must do some
thing violent to make himself forge
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 rise up a rowne
conqueror. Driven and perplexed a
you have been by sin, go and tel
Jesus. To relax the grip of dealt
from your soul and plant your un
shackled feet upon the golden throne
Christ let the tortures of the blood
mount transix Him. With the bear
of His own cross He will break dow
the door of your dungeon. From tn
thorns of His own crown He will pic
enough gems to make your brow blaz
with eternal victory. In every tear o
His wet cheek, in every cash of Hi
side. in every long, b%lackening mar
of laceration from shoulder to shou
der, in the grave-shattering, Heaver
SCATTERING death groan, / hear Hi