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Also a store on the West side ot Water Street, be tween Main and Mathews Possession rfve0ton.RF.is.8.LAMBi- Attorneys. LIGHT IX DAEKXESS. DR. TALM AGE COMFORTS THE SICK AND HELPLESS. Like 5oaa In the Ark, Ther Are Safe From Ootalde Perlla Shut la bf the Lord For an All Wlae Parpoae. The "Wlthonta" and "Wlthlna." tCopyrlht. 1&3S. by American Press Aaso clatlon.1 . WASHDraTON, Dea 11. This dis course of Dr. Talmage, which is helpful to all who find life a struggle, is es pecially addressed to a class of persons probably never -before addressed in a sermon. The text is Genesis vii, 16, The Lord shut ktya in." .Cosmogony haa no more interesting chapter than the one which speaks cf that catastrophe of the ages, the submer sion of our world in time of Noah, the first ship carpenter. Many of the nations who never saw a Bible have a flood story Egyptian flood story, Grecian flood tory, of which Ducal ion was the Noah; Hawaiian flood story, New Zea land flood story, Chinese flood story, American Indian flood story all of which accounts agree in the immersion of the continents under universal rains,' and that there was a ship floating, with a select few of the human family and with specimens of zoological and or nithological and reptilian worlds, al though I could. have wished that these last bad been shut out of the ark and drowned. All cf these flood stories, represent the ship thus afloat as finally stranded on a mountain top. Ilugh Miller, in his "Testimony of the Rocks," thinks that all these flood stories were infirm tradi tions of the Biblical account, and I be lieve him. The worst thing about that great freshet was that it struck Noah's Greai Eastern from above and beneath. The seas broke the chain of shells and crystal and rolled over the land, and the heavens opened their clouds for fall ing columns of water which roared and thundered' on the roof of the grmt ship fnr n month and ten days.' There was one door to the ship, but there were threorartato that door, one part for each of threp stories. The Bible account 6ays nothing about parts cf the door be longing to two cf the stories, and I do not know on which floor Noah and his family voyaged, but my text tells us that the part of the doer of that partic ular floor, on which Noah staid was closed after be had entered. "The Lord shut him in." So there are many peo ple now in the world who aro as thor oughly shut in, some by sickness, some by old age, some by speciaj duties that will not allow them to go forth, some surrounded by deluges of misfortune and trouble, and for them my sympathies are aroused, and from them I often re ceive messages, and this sermon, which I hope may do good to others, is more especially intended for them. Today I address the shut in. "The Lord shut him in.". . The Dklne Hand. Notice, first of all, who closed the door so that they could not get out Nnah did not do it. nor his son Shem, nor did Ham, nor did Japheth, nor did either of the four married women who were cn shipboard, nor did desperadoes who bad scoffed at the idea of : peril which Noah had been preaching close that door. They bad tnrned their backs on the ark and bad in disgust gone away. I will tell you how it was done. A hand was stretched down from heaven to close that door. It was a divine hand as well as a kind hand. "The Lord shut him in." - And the same kind and sympathetio being has shut you in, my reader or my hearer. . Ton thought it was an acci dent, ascribable to the carelessness or misdoing9 of others, or a mere "happen so.M No.no! God had gracious design for your betterment, for the cultivation of your patience for the strengthening of your faith, for the advantage you might gain by seclusion,. for your eter nal salvation.. He put you in a school room where you could learn -in , six months or a year more than you could" have learned anywhere else in a' life time. He turned the lattice or pulled down the' blinds of the sickroom, or put your swollen foot cn an ottoman, or held you amid the pillows of a couch which you could -not leave, for some reason that you may not now under stand, but. which he has promised, he will explain to you satisfactorily, if not In this world, then in the world to come, for he has said, "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter 1" ' The world has no statistics' as to the number of invalids. The physicians know something about it, and the apothecaries and - the pastors, but who can tell us the number of blind eyes,' and deaf ears, and diseased lungs, and congested livers, and jangled nerves, and neuralgic temples, and rheumatic feet, or hbw'mauy took no food this morning because they,had no appetite to eat, or digestive organs to assimilate, or have Inngs so delicate they cannot go forth when .'the wind is in the east, or there, is a fog rising from the river, or there is a dampness on the ground or pavement because of the frost coming out? It would be easy to count the peo ple who every day go through a street, or the number bf passengers carried by a railroad' company in a year, or the number of those who cross the ocean in ships, but who can give us the statistics of the great multitudes who are shut in? I call the attention of all such to their mperior opportunities of doing good. Those bf tos who are well and' can see clearly; and hear distinctly, and par take of food of all sorts, and questions of digestion never occur to us, and we can wade the snowbanks and take ah equinox in our faces, and endure the thermometer at zero, and every breath of air is a tonic and a stimulus, and sound sleep meets us within five min utes after our head touches the pillow, dd not make so much of an impression when we talk about the consolations oi religion. The world says right away: "I guess that man mistakes buoyancy cf natural spirits for religion: What does he know alont it? He has never Jbeen tried." But when one goes out and reports to the world that that morning on his way to business he called to see you and found you, after being kept in yonr room for two months, cheerful and hopeful, and that you bad not one word of complaint, and asked all about everybody, and rejoiced in the success cf your business friends, although your own business had almost come to a Standstill through your absence from store cr office or shop, and that you sent your love to all your old friends, and told them that if you did not meet them again in this world yen hoped to meet them in dominions seraphic, with a quiet word of aavice from you to the man who carried the message about ytbe importance of his not neglecting his own soul, but through Christ seeking something better than this world could give him why, all the businessmen in the counting room say: "Good! Now, that is religion!"- And the clerks get ib old of the story and talk it over, so that the weigher and cooper and hack man standing on the doorstep say: "That is splendid! Now, that is what I call religion!" - effective Sermons. It is a good thing "to preach on a Sun day morning, the people assembled in most respectable attire and seated on soft cushions, the preacher standing in neatly upholstered pulpit surrounded by personal friends, and after an inspiring hymn has been sung, and that sermon if preached in faith will do good, but the most effective sermon is preached by .one seated in dressing gown in an arm chair into which the invalid has with much care been lifted, the surrounding shelves filled with medicine bottles, .some to produce sleep, some for the re lief of sudden paroxysm! some for stim ulant, some for tonic, some for anodyne 'and some for febrifuge, the pale preach er quoting promises of the gospel, telling of the glories of a sympathetio Christ, assuring the one or two or three persons who hear it of the mighty re-enforce: ment9 of religion. You say that to eucn a sermon there are only one or two or three hearers. Aye I Bat the visitor call ing at that room, then closing the door softly and going away, tells the story, and the whole neighborhood hears it, and it will take all eternity to realize Lthe grand and uplifting influence of that sermon about Uod ana tne soui, though preached to an audience of only one man or one woman, ine jora nas ordained all such invalids for a style of usefulness which . athletics and men of '200 healthy avoirdupois cannot affect. It was not an enemy that fastened you in that room or sent you on crutches, the longest jcPTUy yoa have made for many weeks bjiug from bed to sofa and from sofa to looking glass, where you are shocked at the pallor of your own cheek and the pinchedness f your, fea tures, then back again from mirror to sofa and sofa to bed,-with a long sigh saying, "How good it feels to get back again to my old place on the pillow," Remember who it is that appointed the day when for the first time in many .a a years you could not go to Dusmess, ana who has kept a record of all the weary days and all the sleepless nights of your exile from the world. Oh, weary man 1 Oh, feeble woman ! It was te Lord who shut you in. Do you remember that some of the noblest and best of men have been prisoners? Ezekiel a prisoner, Jeremiah a prisoner, Paul a prisoner, St. John a prisoner, John Bunyan a prisoner. Though human hate seemed to have all to do with them. really the Lord Ehut them in. . ' r : Koah'a Voyage. J" No doubt while on that voyage Noah and his three sons and all the four ladies of the antediluvian world often thought of the bright hillsides and the green fields where they had walked and of the homes where they had lived. They had had many years of experiences. Noah was 600 years old at the time of ..this convulsion of -nature. He had seen 600 'springtimes, 600 summers, 600 au tumns, 600 winters, we are no5 sum i how old his wife was at this wreck of earth and sky. The Bible tells the age of a great many men, but only once gives a woman's age. At one time it gives Adam's age as 130 years and Jared'sageas 1G2 years and Enoch's age as 365 years, and all up and down the Bible it gives the age of men, but does not give the age of women. Why? Because, I suppose, a woman's age is none of our business. But all the men and women that tossed in that oriental craft had lived 4 long enough to remem ber a great many of the mercies and kindnesses of God, and they could not blot out, and. I think they had no dis position to blot out, the memory of those brightnesses, though now they were shut in. Neither should the shut In of nnr time' foraet the blessings of . the past Have yon been blind for ten years? Thank God for tne time wnen you saw ns nlparlv as anr of us can see and let the pageant of all the radiant landscapes and illumined skies wnicn you ever looked upon kindle your rapturous grati tude. I do not see Raphael's "Madonna di San Sisto" in the picture gallery of rwdfn nor Rubens' "Descent From the Cross", at Antwerp, nor Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment" on tne ceil ing of the Vatican nor St Sophia at Constantinople, nor the Parthenon on fhA Armtiolis. nor the Taj JIahal of In dia, but shall I not thank God that I have seen them? Is itpossible tnat sucn mirfnicht darkness shall ever blast my vision that I cannot call them up again? Perhaps you are. so deaf that you cannot hear the chirp of bird or solo oi cania trico or even -orcan in full diapason, though'you feel the foundations tremble under its majestic, roll, or even tne thunderstorm that makes Mount wasn intnn echo. But are yon not grateful that once vou could hear trill and chant and carol doxology? I cannot this hour bear Jenny Lind sing "Comin lhrougn th Rva"or Ole BuII'm enchanted viol. or Parepa BoEa's triumphant voice over many thousands oi voices ana many )(..Micina rt instrnmpnts in the natiOU- tJUUuuu - - . - - . peace juhilee of 33 years ago, all these souads accompanied by the ring in t? of bells and the guns on Boston Common, but can I ever have my ears so silenced that I will not remember that I did hear them? Are you chained to your room now, your powers of loco- i motion all gone, or il coming to tne house of God every Etep is a torture? Do you forget when, in childhood, you danced and skipped because you were : so full of life you had not patience to walk, and in after years you climbed the mountains of Switzerland, putting nnri nlnpnKtnr.tr hiffh nn on clacierS which few others ever dared and jump ed long reaches in competition ana alter a walk of ten miles you came in jocund as the morning? O you shut ins, thank God for a vivid memory or. tne times when you were free as, the chamois on the rocks, as the eagle going straight for the sun!. When the ram pounded tne roof of the ark. the eight voyagers on that Craft did not forget the time when it gayly pattered in a summer snower, and when the door of the ark shut to keep out the tempest they did not forget the time when the door of their home in Armenia was closed to keep out the spring rains which came to fill the cups of lily and honeysuckle' and make all the trees ot the wood clap tneir nanas. ! . ' Safe From Temptation.. Aeain. notice that during that 40 days of storm which rocked that ship on that universal ocean of . Noah's time the door which shut the captain of the ship jinside the craft kept him from many outside perils. How those wratn fnl RpflR won Id like to have cot their wet hands on Noah and pulled him out and sunk him I And do all oi you oz tne great army of the shut in realize tllat, though you have special temptations where you are now, how much of the outside style of temptation you escape? Do you, the merchant incarcerated in the' sickroom, realize that every hour of the day you spend looking out of the window, or gazing at the particular fig: ure on the wall paper, or listening to the clock's ticks men are being wrecked by the allurements and uncertainties of business life? How many forgeries are committed1, how many trust f unda are swamped, how many public, moneys are being misappropriated, how many bank ruptcies suffered! It may be, it is, very uncomfortable for Noah inside the ark, for the apartment is crowded and the air is: vitiated with the breathing of so much4 human and animal life; but it is not half as bad for him as though he were outside the ark. There is not an ox, or a camel, or an antelope, or a sheepinside the ark as badly off as the proudest king outside. While - you are on th0 pillow or lounge you will make no bad bargains, you will rush into no rash Investments, you will avoid the mistakes which thousands; of men as good as you are every day making Notice also that there was a limit to the shut in experience of those ancient mariners. I snppose the 40 days of the descending and uprising floods and the 150 days before the passengers could go ashore must have seemed to those eight people in the big boat like a email eter nity. f'Rain, rain, rainl" said the wife of Noah.v "Will it never stop?" For 40 mornings they looked out and saw not pne patch of blue sky. Floating around amid the peaks bf mountains Shem and Ham and Japheth had to hush the fears of their wives lest they should dash against the projecting rocks. But after awhile it cleared off. Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The ascending mists were folded; up into clouds, which instead of darkening the sky only ornamented it As they looked out of the windows these worn passengers clapped their hands and rejoiced that the storm was over, and I think if God could stop such a storm as thatf he could stop any storm in your lifetime experience. If he can control a vulture in midsky, be can stop a summer bat that flies in at your window, j-At the right time he will put the rainbow on the cloud and the deluge of your misfortunes will dry up. I preach the doctrine of limitation, relief and disenthrallment. At just the right time the pain will cease, the bondage will drop, the imprisoned will be liberated, the fires will go ont, the body and mind and soul will be. free. Patience 1 An old English proverb re ferring to long continued invalidism says, V A creaking gate hangs long on its hinges, " and this may be a protract ed case of valetudinarianism, but you will have taken the last bitter drop, you will have suffered the last misin terpretation, you will feel the gnawing of the last hunger, you will' have faint ed thelllaflt time from exhaustion, you will have felt the cut of the last lancet, you will have wept under the last loneliness. The last week of the Noachi an deluge came, the last day, the last hour, the last moment. The beating of the rain on the roof ceased, and the dashing of the billows on the side of the ship quieted, and peacefully as a yacht moves; out over quiet Lake Cayuga, Como or Luzerne the ark, with ita il lustrious bassengers and important frieght, glided to its mountain; wharf age. i ' -' '; ' Cheer For the Slelc j Notice also that on the cessation of the deluse the shot ins came out, and they built their houses j and cultured their card ens and started a new woria on the ruins of the old world that had been drowned out. Though Noah lived 350' vears after this worldwide acci dent and no doubt his fellow passengers survived centuries I warrant they never trot over talkina about that voyage. Now I have seen Dore's pictures and many other pictures of the entrance into the ark, two and two, oz j tne numan family and the animal creation into that ship whieh sailed between two worlda antediluvian world and j the post diluvian world but I.never aw a pic ture of their coming out ; yet their em barkation was not more important than their disembarkation. Mai a crew nasi entered a ship that never Uaded. Wit ness the steamer Portland,' a few days ago, with 100 souls on board, going; down with all its crew and passengersu Witness the line of sunken ships, reach ing like a submarine cable of anguish across the ocean depths from America tn Enrotia. If anr shiD might expect complete wreckage, the one Noah com manded might have expected it. laoi no ; those who embarked disembarked. Over the plank reaching down the side of the ark; to the Armenian cliffs on which they had been stranded the pro cession descended. No other wharf felt m solid or afforded such attractiveness as that height of Ararat when the eight passengers put their feet on it And no r . ... . . - , . i sooner naa tne last one, ue mvauueu wife of Janheth. been heloed down the plank upon the rock than the other apartments of the ship were opened, ana such a dash of bird music never filled the air as when the entire1' orchestra of robin redbreast, and morning lark, and chafikich, and mocking bird, and house swallow took wing into the bright sky, while the cattle began to. low ana tne sheen tn hleat and the horses to neigh for the pasture, which from the awful submergence had now begun to grow green and aromatic, I tell you plainly nothing interests me more in that trag edy from the first to the last act than the "exit" and the "exeunt ' than tne fact that the "shut Ins" became the "cot onta." .And I now cheer wltn tnis story all the inmates of sickrooms and hosnitals. and those prisons were men and .women are unjustly endungeoned, and all the thousands who are bounded on the north and - south and east and west by floods, by deluges of misfortune and disaster. The ark of your trouble, if it does not land on some earthly height of vindication and rescue, win land on the heights celestial. Put Yonr Trnat-In God. If you have put your trust in God, you will come out in the garden of the Kins, among orchards bending with 12 manner of fruits and harvests that wave in tha light of a sun that never sets. As the eight passengers of that craft or Captain Noah I never got over talking about their seafaring experiences, so you who have been the shut ins of earth will add unbounded interest to the conversation of heaven by recalling and reciting your earthly experiences, and the rougher those experiences tne more thrilling will they be to yourself and others who listen. As when we sit amid a group of soldiers and hear their story of battle or a group of sailors" and hear their story of cyclones we feel stupid because we have nothing in our me worth telling,; how uninterestingwiu be those souls in heaven who had smooth sailing all their lives and no accidents, while Noah tells his story of the deluge and Lot his story of escape from - de stroyed cities and Paul his story of the Alexandrian corn sbip and you tell your story of the days and nights and years of the times when you were shut o! You will be interesting and sought after in heaven in proportion as you are mar tyrized of persecution and pain on earth. And surely you do not want to ge me advantage of heavenly association and consideration without yourself adding some interest to the interview. I hail all the shut ins because they will be the come outs. Heaven will be all the brighter for your earthly privations and environments. For a man who has al ways lived in aj mansion and walked in fine gardens and regaled his appetite on best fruits and had warmest zurs iox winter attire and coolest linens for Au gust heat and; brilliant earthly sur roundings heaven will not' be so much a change of scene. He will be disposed Ito say: "Why, ; I am used to this!-Don t show me the gardens! wny,- n was brought up at Chatsworth. Don't invite me into a chariot ; I always had a splen did turnout Don't invite me to the feast I. have been accustomed to Bel shazzarian banquets. It would be a re lief to me if I could leave heaven a lit- tia Tchiln and ronch it in some other world. V . . Bntwhat a heaven it will be for those whose limbs were so rheumatic they could not take a step when they get wings! ' What a heaven it will be for those who were always sick, when they are always well, and -after 20 years pf rutin tn have millions of years of health J What a light will be the light of heaven frf fhnao who On earth could not see wmwww . - their hand before their faces! And rht will the1 mnsio of heaven be to those the tympanum of whose ears for many years had ceased to vibrate 1 De nioA nn erth the rjleasure of listening to Handel and Haydn and Mendelssohn s -" : I ' 1 cmrhnn pa. nt last reacmng a woriu where there has never been a discord, and hearing singing where all are 'per font anncRterg. iand oratorio's in which oil fha notions of heaven chant! Great it vill he for all who get there, hnt nhr clred times more of a heaven for those ..'ho were shut in. ; . DWIne Sjrmpntkr. Kfpanv7h;: von have all divine and i s , ... .otK. in nnr infirmities. HU&QllU I , J That sat; thoroughly understood poor human r. plotting! master cy. every otb man, pr-: then the re was evidenced when m make Job do wrong the great il. after having failed in way to overthrow the good nseri nhvsical distress, and nils came which made him swear right out. - The mightiest test or character is nhvsical suffering. Critics are inpatient at the way Thomas Car lyle scolded at everything. His 70 years of dyspepsia were enough to make any man scold- When you see-people out of patience and irascible and lachrymose. innnireinto the case, and; before you pet throueh with the , exploration your hypercriticism will turn to pity, and to the divine andi angeno sympainy.wjii be added your own. The clouds of your indisrnation.. which were full of thun Herhnlts. will beein- to rain tears of. pity. Rv a stranee providence, for which I shall be forever grateful, circumstances with which I think 'you are all fa miliar, I have admission through the nowcTianftr nress week bv week to tens of thousands of God's dear children who cannot enter church on the Sab bath and hear their excellent pastors heransaof the ace of the sufferers, or their illness, or the lameness of foot, or their incapacity to stay in one position n hour and a half, or their poverties, or their troubles of some" sort will not let them go out of doors, and to them TTnh am tn thnso who hear me I preach this sermon, as I preach many of my sermons, the Invisible audience always vaster than the visible, some of them -tossed on. wilder seal ihan those that tossed the eight members of Noah'e familY. and instead of 40 days of storm and five months of being shut in. as .a1. a they were, it baa been witn tnese in. Valida five years of "shut in, " or ten years of "shut in. - cr aru year- o "shut In." Oh, comforting Godl Help me to comfort them"! Give me two hands full of salve for their wounds. When we were 300 miles ont at sea, a , hnrrimne struck os. and the lifeboats were dashed from the davits and all the lights in the cabin were put out by the rolling of the ship and the water which through the broken sayi ignis naa pourou in. Captain Andrews entered and said to the men on duty: "Why don't you iioht nn nA mutrA thine brighter, for we are going- o outride this storm? Passengers, cheer up! Cheer up!" And be! struck a match and began to light. the burners. He could not inenceeiiuer -the wind or the. waves, but by the striking of that match, accompanied by encouraging words, we were all helped. - LlgM Ia,Darkata. And as I now find many in hurricanes of trouble, though I cannot quiet the a a a storm, I can strike a matcn to iignt up the darkness, . 'and I 6trike a match. ' "Whom the Lord lovethhecbasteuetb. . I strike another match. "Weeping may . endure for a night but joy comet h in . the morning." .1 strike enoiner ma ten. We have a great High Priest-woo can be touched with .the feeling of our In firmities, and he was in all points tempi-. ed like as we are. " ' Are you old? Oae breath of heaven will make you ever- latJtiuclv vouuc again. Have you acbee and pains? They insure Christ's presence.- and sympathy througd tne aaraeai w cember nights, which aro the longest, nights of the year. Are yon bereft? Here is a resurrected Christ, Vbose voice is full of resurrectionary power. ... a a Art yea lonaly? All anfeis el nter en are ready lo swoop into; your cot paninqship." Here is the Christ of Mnry ami Martha when they bad loat Lazarus, and of: David when be had lost his ton. and of Abraham when ho had lost Snrau, and of your father and mother when ia time of old apo they parted'at the gates ' t Incfc f jTAa in RttYfin CM lUO IUU1 U ao a- a riah, at the cloeo of . the Sabbath morn-! ing service, I was asked to go and see a Christian wowan, for many years an iu-j valid, i I went I had not in all that heantifnl citv of splendid men and gra-1 cious women seen a face brighter than, hers. Reaching hcr bedfldo, I put out my hand, but she could not shake hands, for her hand was palsied. I snid to her,! "How long-nave you oeen uowa on this bed?" Shp smiled and made no answer, for her tongue had been palsied,! . but those standing, around saia, "jx-i - teen years. ". I said to her, -Have you' been ableto keep your courage up an that time?" She gave a very little mo-, tion of her head in affirmation, for her whole bodv was naralvtio. The sermon I had preached that morning had no power on others compared witn tne power that silent 6ermon had on me. Wnat was the secret of her conquest over pain and privation and incapacity to move? Shall I tell you the secret? I will tell you. The Lord shut ner in. i Lather' Faith. There' is a eood deal of fanaticism abroad about the recovery of the sick, but if we had as much faith as Martin (Continued on Fourth Page.) KAAA wc never did: but we have seen the clothing at this time hm vfme an roverfid With dandruff that it looked as if it had been out in a regular snow storm. : ' . ' ; I' No;need bf this anowstorrn. A the summer sun would melt the filling snow so will melt these flakes of dandruff In the scalp. It goes' further than this: it prevents their formation. It has still other properties: it will restore color to gray hair in just ten times out of every ten'cases.- And it does even more : it feeds and nourishes ' the roots of the hair. Thin hair becomes thick hair; and short hair be comes longhair. We have a book on the Hslr and Scalp. It is yours, for the asking. If yoo do not obtain au the baneata JO exited tram the ua , oi wnu uxm ooewr wu. there 1 1 tome dlfflculty with yoar gen jatem which mar be eaally re- id. Addrest, ! r t&. J. c. AT.EB, ZAnran, ICaaa. ... era! sj . DB. i' C. AIEB, ZiOwen, Mase. 1 itailf . .JL.
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Dec. 16, 1898, edition 1
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