The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05
DR. 1ALMAGE's N ]
 SERMON.

| .-x&<GSGeSe eSeS:sSSsSe@S
 Washington, Dec as..-while thls dis course of pr. Talpsage rsRuks ss arrog.nce t encourages, hNWaniy and snows now the. the evening ,.I, Rs nay pe 0r!fnseheoi noi him that girdeth oh shis fharncss boast | himself ax hesftfiat fputteth 1t off." | Harness Is the obsolete word for armor It means harness for the man. not har, armor consisted Of helmet for the head, | breas tplate and shield for the heart. | greaves for the feet. The text makes 2 some war and 2. veteran raturntns. the one putting on the arrhor and the other Benhadad. the King of Syria. thought Israel Indeed, the syrian was so sure bellam banalets With thirty-two kings he was celsbfatins what they were going going kings at the .carousaisl and. their condi- ton is described in the Bible, not az convival or .ssttRY1sted asxaltation. but but vilions ions were % sarfonndsd by high mettied horses. neighing and champing and hitched to chariots such as Kings rode in. Benhadad sends officers over to the King of Israel demanding the surrender l of the city. saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy siives and thy gold and thy wives and thy children" and lafterward sends IOIner OHlCeIB, 0dyiHK Lu6t tNe phldCC VI the king will be searched. and every thing Benhadad wants he will take with. out asking. Then the King or Israel called a council of war, and word is enable demands will be resisted. Then Benhadad sends another message to the King of Israel. message full Of ar. s ans a.s,ss eR sss iayaa
 grind Samaria into the dust, but there will not be dust enough to make hand ful -,or. each one of my troops; n Iner I. q r@s prsctieaiiv R ?. saying: % Ss me see you dc what you say; You royal bragsart. you might better have pos,p9a;sa iyrs9sad iyoas pan
 Spreading sp it before the battle. Yor huzza too soon.5 Let not him that gird' eth on his harness boast himself as h'
 Too Much Roasting
 l An avalanche of courage and righteous
 n Benhadad and his host. It WIS ,and to hand light. each israeltte, hew' ng down a Syrian. Benhadad on horse airy. but Is only saved for a worse de feat in which 100000 syrian infantry were slaughtered in one day. Now " see the sarcasm and the epigrammaMas M King of Israel to Benhadad. Let not himself as he that putteth 1t off," i,
 oa All esrly ap ans Soastina a9ma soat the marsha
 f France, was so certain that he would conquer that he had a. Proclamanor printed announcing himself King or For, .or o'clock that afternoon. but befor. hat hour he fled in ignominous defeat
 md Wellington, of the conquering most tat down-at the very oanause tne sIf mSt Charles V. invaded France and was st
 ure that he requested Paul Jovius, thu Historian. to gather together larg' amount of paper on whi;h to write tn,
 tory of his many victories. but diseas, and famine seized upon his troopers, ant he retreated in dismay. So Bennaoao behavior has bsen % % sople6 iS Gs,sst s asss mon, other lessons. to show that he wno put of the armcr. having finished the bat tie, is more to be congratulated than h First, l find encourage nent in this subject for the aged who have so | through the work and strurgle of earthl: life; Ny venerable friends, 1T yGH ,1or ha' o . what you would have to go through Il the thirties and the forties and the nfue
 of your lifetime you would have beel appalled,. Fortunately the bsrsaysments hardships. were curtained from you
 sight. with more or less fortitude yo' passed through the crises h..ot Of pain pna an' fs tigue and still live to recount the al vine help that sustained you. At twenty five or thirty years of your age at tn
 N5w, at sixty. or seventy. or eighty. yo' are peacefully putting 1t on. 1ou woul' not want to try the battle or nfe owe
 again. So many of just vour tempera IS iins a percentage and seemingly witl as much equipoise of character as .yo' had have made complete shipwreck tha
 you would not want again to run tn
 risks. Though you can look back and SCI
 many mistakes, the next time you mlgn make worse mistakes. Instead of beinl depressed over the fact that you ar
 being counted out or omitted In the srea @
 undertakings of the church and tn
 world, reioice that you have right U hang up your helmet and sheathe you
 gauntlets and your feet from the boot
 At the Soldiers Home in the suburb of this city. I often admire the peacefu heroes as they sit under the trees or g in and out the fine abode that our Coy ernment has appropriately provided TO ss Tbey are They n9' do ons not Want undertake another South Mountain. Thei foot does not ache to get into the str rup of the cavalryman. They are no longing for the hardtack of the soldiers breakfast along the Chickahominy: The. have no desire for another ride Tn tn
 ambulance to the field hospital, Whel times wondered if their. rheumatic kne
 would allow them 10 keep step In
 though to see an advancing foeman,. am
 If their ears was alert enough to hea
 the command Charge" But for tn
 most part they are dad that there is n
 more war for them, So let all of tn
 Iged in peace with God. through tn blessed Christ, cultivate eontentmen'
 md thank the Lord their Sedan has heel fought and the war Is oyer. Let no him that girdeth on his harness boas himself as he that putteth It off."
 There are old farmers who cannot d
 they raised in 1870. They knew the TO tation of crops as well as they knev the rotation of the seasons. Under wha
 blisterip~ suns they swung the scyth md the cradle! Through what deel snows they drew the logs or cut thei
 way to the foddering of the cattle! Wha