Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-07-07
TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, DID,.
Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

by Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage in
6. ''He that goeth forth and weepeth,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing. bringing his
sheaves with him."
Almost every home is adorned with
companion pictures. If upon one side
of the room there is hung crucifxion
scene. upon the other side of the room
we want u picture of THE First Easter
Morn" If upon one side we see the
Maynard boy gathering all together
and taking his journey into far coun-
try. upon the other side we want to
see the returning prodigal being well
coined home by forgiving father
If upon one side of the room we hang
n picture of the twilight, upon the
other side we want to see the picture
of the dawn. II John Hevenden paints
1.-THE Breaking of the Home Ties" he
feels that his life would be incom-
plete unless he also paints 1.-THE Bring
ing Home of the Bride" John Mil
toms paradise Regained" is n natural
outgrowth of his Paradise Lost"
Dante's Heaven" is n natural Sc
quence to his 'Purgatory" and his
HELL"
SO this morning the sermon which l
preach from the One Hundred and
Twenty-sixtb Psalm of David is a COM
panion sermon to the one recently de-
ivered upon the text. HE that soweth
to the flesh shall of the flesh reap cor
ruption." 1t has companion text
chosen on account of its vivid con-
trast. The text is selected to prove
that the Christian sower has q right to
expect his gospel harvest fields to be
stacked high with golden sheaves of
many blessings. to expect his seed to
bring forth some thirty. some sixty
and some a hundred fold. 1t is the
picture of Christian worker garner
ing the sheaves of his Christ love. 1t
is the symbol of reward. the symbol
of glorifed hope and joy. 1t is the
sweeter text because in it we hear the
triumphant songs of heaven instead of
the bitter sobs of despair.
A precious sheaf, garnered by the
Christian sower and reaper, is the joy
full realization that by his personal
acts he has been made the human
means in the divine hands through
which immortal souls have been saved
by Christ. There is a natural desire
Unborn In almost every human heart
TO help those who are in trouble and
who cannot help themselves.
The Desire to Help Others.
Al ID. IL, n
vessel. the captain does not have to
compel unwilling sailors to lower the
hfeboat and pull away to save the per-
ishing. No All that the mate has to
do is to call for volunteers. and. though
the sailors may feel the waves are
having their worst fit of temper, they
will lower the lifeboat and pull away
until the last man is taken from the
doomed ship. When the little band of
English men. women and children
were imprisoned. during the Indian
mutiny. In the residency of Lucknow.
Havelock. with his few regiments, had
to fight his way through q hundred
thousand men. He had to march n
thousand miles through a country
swarming with cutthroats. and when
the English soldiers courage and
strength showed signs of wavering
Havelock reused them with this sim
pie sentence: Men, would you dare
stop or turn back when helpless wom-
en- and children are dying and must
be savedr' There is in almost every
mans heart a desire to help those who
cannot help themselves. The same
kind of a desire that drove Henry NJ.
Stanley into the dark continent to
rescue David Livingstone and Emin
Pasha. The same kind of a desire
which made Commander Schley turn
his ships prows northward to rescue
the arctic explorer Greedy and his
companions. 1t is the same kind of
desire which inspired the United States
government to declare war against
Spain in behalf of suffering and bleed
ing Cuba.
Now. as 10y is nothing more or less
than the pleasant emotion produced in
the heart by the qualification of any
desire. as we have shown in reference
to the physical man. that the desire tC
help those who are helpless is i'm
planted in almost every heart. what
greater JOY could come to the Christian
reaper than the realization that he has
been made instrumental in the saving
of soul? What earthly joy can b.
compared TO the holy exaltatiOn tina
comes to us when we realize that by
prayers and pleadings we have beer
able to bring sinner face to face will
cf for low I,or To- Al
fze that our humble efforts have beer
blessed to the saving of u soul which
will live on and on through the comm;
ages, OH and OH through eternities. OF
and on until at last the lights of th
stars shall be snuffed out and tim
shall be no longer? Only the other da
| read OF n man who. Mt great PEI
sonal risk 10 himself. was lowered b
rope from the top of twelve stor
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