The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
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 DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
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THE FRANK DEWITT TALAIAGE, D. D.
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and whimper, We saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of giants"
 They Were Not Pysmies.
 In the first place. these Hebrew spies saw men of tremendous physical propor tions. The inhabitants of the promised land were not pygmies, such as Stanley found in the heart of Africa. They were the sons of Anak. They loomed up be- fore the Hebrew spies like some of the Kentucky men who are six or seven feet in height They were like Goliath whom David, the shepherd boy, fought. They were formidable human monsters of bone and sinew and muscle. They were men of mighty physical proportions The same kind of giants are inhabitng the Judaean hills today When the tourist travels through the Holy Land and sees a long line of Bedouins riding past upon their beautifully caparisoned Arabian thor oughbreds, they loom up so big that it seems as though they could take you up as a child and with their mighty arms crush you as easily as @ huge boa con strictor could strangle a Title fawn. There are living today in Palestine among the Bedouin tribes men just as great and strong as was the Philistine adversary whom David heard taunting and defying Saul's army.
 Do you. as wise men, think it was
  a true measurement of the physical proportions of these giants? l do not. If l had been one of thos spies l would said to Moses and the people waiting for my report as l would say now to the Christian young man going into the temptations of the world: You are go- ing to have giants to fight in this world. You are not going to fight lot of pyg- mies You must develop your brain. You must develop the strength of your arm. You must clean your weapons and put them in the finest trim. No man is ever able to successfully triumph over the mighty giants of life unless he fully draws upon all his resources of body, mind and soul" He would be a fool hardly David who went forth to battle against Goliath who was a son of Anak unless his sling was in perfect condition, unless he chose the smoothest and round- est stones from the brook and unless he had practiced at a target week in and week out until he can hit the smallest mark with the accuracy of a William Tell shooting the apple off the head of his son.
 No False Reports.
 Moses did not want his spies to bring back false report of the giants dwelling in the land of Canaan any more than God wants mother and a father to belittle the temptations and the struggles which are ahead of their children in the bat tie of life And one reason why so many children go morally and spiritually astray is because their own parents do not take those children lovingly and tenderly aside and tell them how powerful are the temptations that may come to them and the necessity of those children throw ing thenfselves upon the divine power in order to. resist those temptations.
 Let me see. Your boy is about fifteen years old, Is he not? He is just verging on young manhood. He has grown up under your protecting love and care You have taught him the Bible. You have sent him to Sunday school You have sur rounded him with noble uplifting influ- ences. You have been so careful of him that you would not allow him to stay away from your home at night. But tell me, what have you taught your boy about the secret sins of life? What have you told him about immoral acts and thoughts? "Oh, no,' you answer T never told my son about the evils of this world, because l did not want him even to think of evil. He is as innocent as a little child. He Is too young yet to know. , Is Ee too young? The enemy does not think so. Why last week one of his classmates showed him a vile picture and told him what it meant You say he is innocent? Yes. but do you not know thlt his very innocence may be the oc- cason of his moral overthrow? Do you not know. o mother. that many an inno- cent young girl has been led astray through her mothers neglect to warn her of the snares that may be laid for her feet? Those young girls did not in- tend to do wrong. They thought they were trifllng with a pygmy, and they sud- denly awolSe to find out they were in the grasp of mighty giant. If fathers and mothers should not warn their chil- drel against the nature and power of temptation, who should? Yes yes, the spies were right when they reported to Moses that the Israeltes had to fight giants. When we warn a friend against dangers we do not destroy the friend but we may save him by putting him upon his guard.
 Be Giant Killer.
 again, I notice that these spies re- ported other giants in .he land besides