The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-12-13
TALMAGE's SERMON.
TELLS OF DAVgDsS PASSAGE
OVER THE JORDON.
From Almost Unnoticed Incident OF
OIden Time Are Drawn Lessons OF
Comfort and Hope,uInes. to An Gods
Children.

Children.
Copyright. 1900. Louis K1opsch. N 70 |
Washington. Dec. 9.-From I'M |
noticed incident OF o1den time Dr. |
Talmage in this discourse draws some |
comfortable and rapturous lessons |
The text is II Samuel xix, Is. And
there went over a ferryboat to carry
over the kings household
Which of the crowd is the king?
That short man. sunburnt and in
fatigue dress. It is David the exiled
king. He has defeated his enemies
and is now going home to resume his
palace. Goodi I always like to see
David come out ahead But between
him and his home there is the cele-
brated river Jordan which has to be
passed. The king is accompanied to
the bank of the river by an aristocratic
old gentleman of so years, Barzillai
by name. who owned a fine country
seat at Rogelim. Besides that. David
has his family with him. But how
shall they get across the river? While
they are standing there I see a ferry
boat coming from the other side, and
it cuts through the water see the
faces of David and his household
brighten up at the thought of so soon
getting home. No sooner has the fer
ryboat struck the shore than David
and his family and his old friend
the boat. Either with splashing oars
at the side with one oar scu1ling 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 hoarse at his return No
sooner has the boat struck the shore
on the western side than the earth
| Quakes and the heavens ring with
| cheers of welcome and congratulation-
| David and his family and Barzillai
| from Rogelim step ashore. King Da-
| vid asks his old friend to go with him
| and live at the palace, but Barzillai
| apologies and intimates that he is in
! firm with age and too deaf to appre-
| ciate the music, and has a delicate ap-
| petite that would soon be cloyed with
/ luxurious living, and SO he begs that
David would let him go back to his
| country seat.
| Dislike Excitement.
I once heard the father of a presi-
! dent 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 wonderful things that oc-
| Cured there and of what Daniel Web
| ster said to him, but he declared: Il
| was glad to get home. There was too
| much going on there for me- Ny
| father, 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 "Weu,'' he replied, 81 en-
| joyed the service, but there were too
| many people there for me. It troubled
my head very much The fact is that
4 a moi
| King David had asked Barzil1ai thirty
| years before to go to the palace, the
| probability is that Barzillai would
| have gone, but not now They kiss
each other good-by, a custom among
| men Oriental, but in vogue yet where
| two brothers part or aged father
and a son go away from each other
| never to meet again. No wonder that
| their lips met King David and old
| Barzi1lai. at the PROV of the ferryboat t,
| parted forever.
| An Unstable Craft
Every day L find people trying to ex-
| temporize a way from earth to heaven.
| They gather up their good works and
some sentimental theories, and they
| make raft, showing it from the shore,
| and poor, deluded souls get on board
| that raft, and they go down The fact
| is that skepticism and infide1ity never
| yet helped one man to die. 1 invite all
| the ship carpenters of worldly philoss
| ophy to come and build one boat that
can safely cross that river. 1 invite
| them all to unite their skill. and Boil
| ingbroke shall lift the stanchions and
Tynda1I shall shape the bowsprit, and
| Spinoza shall make the maintopgaI-
| liant braces, and Renan shall go to
| lacking and wearing and boxing the
ship All together in 10 900 years they
| will never be able TO make a boat that
| can cross this Jordan Why was it that
| Spinoza and Blount and Shaftesbury
lost their sou1s2 1t was because they
| tried to cross the stream in boat OF
their own construction What miser-
| able work they made Of dying2 Do
dorus died of modification because he
could not guess a coaundrum which
| had been proposed to him at a public
dinner Zeuxis. the philosopher, died
of mirth, laughing at a caricature OF
an aged woman, a carIcature made by
| his own hand, while another of theiI
compa ny and of their kind died say