Milford chronicle., 1906-07-20
Caln1ase
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmase, D. D.

Dasis LOT unlimited invitation TO nj
classes. The text is Matthew xii 10
Inc wedding was furnished wifi
some people are born ascetlcs. They
love to travel the rough roads instead
Vi the smooth. They profess to de-
spise every form of comfort and ease.
Like John the Baptist, they would
ciothe themselves in skins ana banouet
upon Iocusts and wild honey. They
oelleNe mat primitive man in his dur-
ou', eating his raw meat and herbs as
ne hunts them day by day. is a better
type OF the human race than is the
inouern man living in Il dollhouse and
sleeping upon feather bed and pro-
tectlng himself from the rains of sum
mer and the colds of winter with nm
Drellas and rubbers and storm over
coats. Like Emperor William 7 of
germany. they believe that though
they may live in Il palace. vet the body
rests better upon the hard camp cot.
the relic Of many battlefelds. ana the |
coarser the food they eat the more !
physical and mental strength they will
have
The banquet hall may have a bad
name on account of the gourmets ana
gluttons who make out of its table
Shrine, vet one of the most important
Pollucal, social, ecclesiastical, financial
ana literary factors of the world has
been the banquet hall When a Glad
stone Disraeli, a Salisbury and a
Balfour wanted to explain the state
policy of the British governments where I
dld they utter their manifestoes? They :
again and again spoke to the British
empire and TO the world over the ban
quet table, which was spread TO cele- :
Drate the induction of IL new lord may I
or OF London into Office When Henry
W. Grady wanted to bind the new d
north to the new south with the golden .
cords of love, where did he do it? At u
the New England banquet held in New p
York city in 1856 to celebrate Fore IL
fathers day. How did New York and pl
america honor the electrical triumphs
If the inventor of the telegraph. sam
Iel E. B. Morse? BY a public dinner
N Dec. 2I 1863. How did New York no
lonor the cable triumphs of Cyrus w. ha
'leldf In the same way, by public tn
anquet three years later. How does er'
he New York chamber Of commerce on
OF only cement the business interests ev,
the new world together, but also gre
ring before its chief merchants and rel
the greatest fnanciers in
the world, to give them words of Ag
lvice? By their annual banquets toe
nd how did the American pulpit hon ed.
one of its greatest theolOgans a few sat
1ars ago-Rev. DR.. Herrick johnson, Ok
an whom there was not at that time tior
more powerful personality in any befi
ofessorial chair in the west? BY a tate
bile banquet given in Chicago in min
nuary, 1903. The brainy men of wha
S country do not gather in the ban dev,
ct hall for a great feast of material his
-nds nearly as much as for a feast sucl
intellectual, moral and spiritual Aga
IDS. Thus 1 am glad today that this feas
nbol of my text is found in a ban tabl,
It hall. Furthermore, 1t is found in intel
most fascinating of all banquet caus
ls-namely, at a wedding feast banQ
The Guests Were Secured. care
on know this parable without our drinl
lg into details. The king wanted of tn
make great feast to celebrate the his '
ding of his son. The loving father write
tes many guests to the wedding nurse
they all refuse to come. Then the his b
says to his servants. go out into muril
highways and the hedges and COM down
them to come" Then the servants soul
nd bring in the new guests Now, said
my purpose to talk to you about was !
banquet hall and point out for sonnet
the different characteristics and Rudy;
social status of the guests. In emily
King over this parable we often now"
on the direct lesson of the wide not tn
81 invitation it conveys without He is
ing the characteristics of the men, of the
women and the children who were ment
Y persuaded to sit down at the that Il
ing feast of the royal Son of God among
Christ. quet
us find a vantage ground to Son?
on. Let us, in the first place, But
how we can best study the per- the kin
characteristics of these wedding chant
3 Shall we do this by entering tain or
lighted banquet hall and than n
ing the actions of the guests who upon t
athered about the table? Nav is hold
aniiOI tell what man is like won't
ne Is dressed up and out for an riage f,
y entertainment In order to to com
~ ~ what ne truly Is you must go servant
Tx with him at his work. His would
clothes are not the true index me n Il,
life. Many a man has gone 70 nlace !
5ls Iecep'ion III borrowed drive h
~ .l' many woman who is not dar,
",l'e4y ool'''eiy appareled Tor a par pie of "
ga ,elH "nen III her own home, quet is
: 80 10 una out tne different spread I
eiIst.os VI lhe wedding guests for the
uiu Lollo" one or the servants ants ia
oes forth by the kings com. ouet hal
o gather in the guests for the not bav,
groom o.
Those Who Accented. ter on t
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