Milford chronicle., 1907-02-08
Calmaoe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. D. D.

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb 3.-In tht.
sermon on the sudden rise of Jehu t.
power the preacher shows us that Goo
sometimes uses strange instruments to
accomplish his purposes and that I'm.
expected temporal success is often the
cause of a mans destruction. The text
is II Kings tx, 20, For he driveth
furiously"
The world always makes way for its
intense men, whose hearts are pump
ing arterial blood filed with red cor
puscles. Robert Hall, Richard Baxter
Douglas Jerrold, Edward Payson, Rob
ert McCheyne, John Keats and Alex
ander H. Stephens as valetudinarians
may have won immortal fame, but
they started the battle of life with an
awful handicap. The world pities the
inmates of its hospitals. But pity is
not the armOr bearer standing by the
chariots OF war and waiting to run TO
the bidding of its military heroes. The
stouter the fist, the broader the lungs.
the deeper the voice and the more
dashing the eye Of the king, the more
/. inclined are his subjects to kneeI down
and worship him. When the lion tanner
enters the cage of the wild beasts
his eye must never culver nor his hand
which holds the lash tremble even for
an instant or the powerful beasts will
be leaping at his throat The world
has but little use for weaklings. It
admires chiefly the man who can lead
all his contemporaries in the athletic
arena and strike the hardest blows in
the battlefield and who is ready to face
every emergency and conquer or die.
Such man was the hero of my text.
What he attempted to do he did with
his whole body, mind and soul. Jehu's
spirit was like a foodgate When he
attempted to do anything he opened
his tioodgate and let all the waters
Of his energies rush forth in one ter
rifle onward effort. When he played
he played with his whole heart. When
he worked he worked in the same way.
. This life Of Jehu reminds me a great
deal in its intensity of the great Eng.
fish diplomat, Sir Charles Ewan-Smith.
Some years ago he represented his
queen at the capital Of Fee, in the EN-. .
pire Of Morocco. While there a great :
Moorish uprising against the Chris =
tians took place. A movement like the =
Boxers uprising in China was about to :,
be enacted upon the African shores. :
The sultan hastily sent his messengers y
TO the English embassy, saying: Come n
quickly! Come to my palace, or can A
not protect you! Then in the morning :,
will send my troops to escort you a,
and your family to the coast" Sir n
Charles calmly replied: 81 do not in n,
tend to leave; neither do I intend to II
come to your palace for protection. h,
tbs true, may be killed. and my wife m
and children may be killed, but you in
90 back and tell your sultan that II
I'm killed within one month there will nd
)e another British minister in the cap o.
tai Of Fee, and he will be accompanied os
y British army, and when that Brit 40
sh army comes there will be no Moor Al
sh sultan in Fez." The sultan realiz- -,
d he was dealing with giant At the IN,
oval command the Mohammedan up =
Using against the Christians in Moroc- -.
o instantly ceased. What Sir Charles on
lwan-Smith did in Morocco, Jehu, the 90
lghty soldier, did in Samaria When Ell
Tod selected him as king to succeed ~
le infamous Joram, who was the son 20,
the infamous Ahab he Immediately nv,
ntered his chariot. He gathered his ~
rmy. He swept on to battle. He a.
aimed the throne, scattering all oppo- mo
ton before him even as the winds sio,
after the chaff from Off the thrashing ne
1Ors of the east ooy
Jehu's Energy. hor
All, yes, Jehu was a man of intense a
lergy. When he attempted to do any ma
ing, he was like an exploding car ma
idge burning up every grain of pow Ere
n which it had stored behind the gui
IL. Thus today the figure of my Dai
xt is Jehu flashing his horses into tim
am. On comes the future king to- for
ard the royal palace of Jezreel. As II
rushes on the Waterman in the ing
val tower carefully scans the APP son
Oaching cavalcade. He says to the mel
Xious king beside him, who Is soon som
be murdered, "The driving is like and
J driving of Jehu, for he driveth fu- God
usly." So the king assembled his deat
ny and went forth to meet Jehu. his
d Joram was slain near to the vine gam
I'd Of Naboth, which his father had ben,
len by cOnniving at the murder Of poin
late owner. Such is the story Of erin
advent OF Jehu TO lsraers throne, Will
IN whose life we are going to learn In
sermonic lessons Of this Lords bloc
:. bloc
his biographical sketch, in the first also
ce, teaches us that sometimes God shall
s a very bad man to work out his reel.
poses. He sometimes says to his miss
us: "You, o selfish and sinful men, that
to be the agencies by which 1 will God.
cute my warnings. You are to car all G
ny chalices even though your hands Wicl