Woodruff County news., 1901-11-23
Dr. Talmage Would Lift People
 Out of Dependency.
Shows Some of the Future Joy Which May He the Portion of Every bOdy-Assurances from
 Heaven,

J into earthly depression. The text is Hebrews 6:19, Which hope"
 There is an Atlantic ocean of depth and fullness in the verse from which my text is taken, and I only wade into the wave at the beach and take two words. We all have favorite words expressive of delight or ab horrence, words that easily find their way from brain to lip, words that have in them mornings and mid nights, laughter and tears, thunder bolts and dewdrops. In all the leXi- cons and vocabularies there are few words that have for me the attrac- tions of the last word of my text: (Which hope"
 There have in the course of our life been many angels of God that have looked over our shoulders, or met us on the road, or chanted the darkness away, or lifted the curtains of the great future, or pulled us back from the precipices, or rolled down upon us the rapturous music of the heavens, but there is one of these angels who has done so much for us that we wish throughout all time and all eternity to celebrate 1.-the angel of Hope. St. Paul makes it the center of a group of three, saying: "Now abideth faith, hope, charity" And, though he says that charity is the greatest of the three, he does not take one plume from the wing, or one ray of luster from the brow, or one aurora from the cheek, or one melody from the voice of the angel of my text: (Which hope"
 That was great night for our world when in a Bethlehem caravan sary the Infant Royal was born, and that will be a great night in the darkness of your soul when Christian hope is born. There will be chanting in the skies and star pointing to the nativity. I will not bother you with the husk of a definition and tell you what hope is. When we sit down hungry at a table, we do not want an analytical discourse as to what bread is. Hand it on; pass it round; give us a slice of it. John speaks of hope as a ''pure hope" Peter calls it ''lively hope" Paul styles it "good hope" a "sure hope" Gre joicing hope" All up and down the Bible it is spoken of as an anchor, as a harbor, as a helmet, as a door.
 When we draw a check on a bank, we must have reference to the amount of money we have deposited but Hope makes a draft on a bank in which for her benefit all Heaven has been deposited Hope! May it ECh l>1y every sickbed, lend a helping hand to every orphanage, loosen every chain, caress every forlorn soul and turn the unpictured room of the almshouse into the vestibule of Heaven! How suggestive that my thology declares that when all other deities fled the earth the goddess Hope remained
 No better medicine did a man ever take than hope. It is a stimulant, febrifuge, tonic, catholicon. Thou sands of people long ago departed this life would have been living to- day but for the reason they let hope slip their grasp. I have known peo- pie to live on hope after one lung was gone and disease had seemed to
  and artery and bone.
 Alexander the Great, starting for the wars in Persia, divided his prop erty among the Macedonians. He gave a village to one, a port to an other, field to another and all his estate to his friends. Then Perdic- cas asked: ''What have you kept for yourself?' He answered triumphant ly, Hope" And, whatever else you and I give away, we must keep for ourselves hope-an comforting, all cheering hope. In the heart of every man, woman and child that hears or reads this sermon may God implant this principle right now.
 Is your health gone? Then that is sign that you are to enjoy 7seles- tial health compared with which the most jocund and hilarious vitality of earth is invalidism. Are your for tunes spent? Remember you are to < be kings and queens unto God and how much more wealth yGu will have when you reign forever and ever. I want to see you when you get your heavenly work dress on. This little bit of speck of world we call the earth is only the place where we get ready to work. We are only jour neymen here, but will be master work men there. Heaven will have no loaf CTS hanging around. The book says of the inhabitants: "They rest not day or night" Why rest when they work without fatigue? Why seek pillow when there is no night there?