Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-10
Caln1aQe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage, d. d.

Journey ana inc world rs II great tCln-
porary camping ground and shows
what preparations and precautions are
necessary to avoid its snarcs and pit
falls. The text is Luke ii. "A, went
4 days journey"
In olden times man could live with
less dependence than now on his fell
low men. Yet there were certain ncces-
stiles it was imperative for him to take
along when he went on a long journey.
So essential were these necessities that
no man in the east ever broke away
from civilization until he had first
made sure that he had them all along
for when the home cities had once
been left behind the hills and the jour
nrv had commenced there was no way
of procuring these necessities. Thus in
Palestine. when Il caravan or party
of travellers were about TO Journey
from one region into another region
and go through wilderness of rocks
and trees infested by wild beasts and
brVands. they would always start
their fir. days Journey about 4 or ,
o'clock in the evening. Then they
would journey five or oi@ht mics and
pitch camp. Then they would over
haul their baggage and look to the
trappiugs Of The horses ana see that
their spears Hua t. r. bows and arrows
ana swords and hunting weapons were
at hand und in good order. Then they
would count noses and find out whcth
or all the members Of the families were
present. Then if anything or anybody
was absent or forgotten. and there was
almost sure to hp something or some
body left behind. n messenger could re
turn to town and rcpenish what was
npedful or hriu. back the person who
was inadvertently lost. A wise camp
ING party going to the woods for Il
summer vacHti0n in this country does
VOL to practice the same custom. Al
ways start YOUR first days journey in
the morning. Almost without cXccp-
ton careful rs you may be, you will
find that some essential upon which
the happiness of your SIMMER trip il
more or less dependent has Ocen left
behind.
Now, when Joseph and Mary, after
the feast of the Passover at .Terusalcm,
had turned north for their home city
of Nazareth they followed this custom
of the east. They started in the even
ing. After they had pitched camp
with the other members of the travel
ing party they began to overhaul their
goods to see if they had forgotten any
thing. They were going through a wild
region, not only infested by robbers
and wild beasts, but by their unfriend-
| ly nelghbors, the Samartans. After
they had looked over their clothes and
food supplies Mary turned to her hus-
| band and said, Joseph, dear, where is
Jesus" "Oh," answered Joseph, ~
think he is all right in the camp.
saw him when we were in Jerusalem,
and l supposed that he was with
friends. But l have not seen him
since we started" AS the night had
almost fallen, Mary, motherlike, be-
came anxious. She went from tent to
tent and from campfire to campfire.
Everywhere she kept asking the ques-
tons: "IIave YOU seen Jesus? Have
you seen my boy: Did be not leave
the Jerusalem walls with us? I can't
find my Jesus anywhere" Well,
Mary" said an old Hebrew, never
mind. 1t is only few miles back.
We have only travelled our first days
| journey. We will wait for YOU day,
and you go back and YOU will find him
Nearly always somebody is left be-
hind. That is the reason VIC always
start our first days journey in the
evening hour"
Life as Camping Journey.
AS one who has campcd a good dca'
in life and spent many months in the
open, this text has taken a firm hold
upon my mind and heart. Life always
seems to me to be camping journey
When we plunge into the woods we
break away from the old homestead
Then we have to be surrounded by
new faces and depend upon the
strength of our own hands for our sue
cess or failure. Now, some people start
forth on this journey of life in hap
hazard way. They do not seem tC
'HAS NHhl IVY nave III tuIlip OF WDul
they have left behind They start of
on their journey of life early in the
morning, and when they pitch camp
at night they are so far away from
the home city that they cannot e
back and procure what they lack
O-hers start their journey of life II
the evening. Then If anything is los
they return for the necessary supply
SO may it be with us. AS some of u.
are Just pitching camp a few miles
away from the old homesteads, ] wan
YOU to take an inventory and find on
what essentials you lack and go bacl
and procure them.
| want you. in the first place. for this
Journey of life to overhaul your men
tai equipment. | am not asking yOl
whether you have mind. There is no
Il man or q woman here who has no
gray matter enough to make a success
in life If that brain is used Alright Blu
what | am asking you IS this: Hav,
you developed and educated brain
Have you brain capable of accom-
plishing results Have you brail
that has been taught and trained so a
TO enable you to excel in some depart
ment of the worlds work? We canno
all be lawyers or physicians. but ever,
man before he sets out on his journe,
in active life should have found on
what is his specially and should hay,