The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 31, 1895, Image 5
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TITE TVEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 31, 1895.
HEAVEN LOOKING ON.
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God’s armory. Tin’ sword of flio Ppirit.
With that thou muyest drivo him hack
AD(1 couquev!
But \. hy.spec fy when overy man rml
wnu:; :i has a l.tn to tiv’it? K tiuio i f
• » Tiornhlo Ur. S'^ihIpt-
::f V/!*tiv».m'S In the
IVht'io ICvi-ry Ct-.rUllan
Arms.
m sympa-
wo a iso
great u
HU Trib-le tol’i
lnn<1 —A fin-.it (
Anselic Gaiter
Flghtn IIU Linn In the
W AAiTTh'GTON, Oot. 27.—Those who
know that no clir’th in this or foreign-
eonntries has hern ablo to hold tho au
diencos that havo assembled when it
waa announced that Dr. Talmage would
preach will not bo finrprised that vast
mnltitndcs attempted in vain to hear
hie first sermon as pastor in Washington.
The subject of his opening sermon at
the national capital was, “All Heaven
Looking On," the text selected being tho
famous passage front Hebrews xii, 1,
“Seeing we also are campus-cd about
with so great n cloud of witiuv -es. ”
In thi.-i my opening sermon n tho na
tional capital I give yon hearth” t Chris
tian calmation. I bethink myself of the
privilege of standing in this historic
church, to long presided over by one of
the most remarkable men of tho cen
tury. There nro p!< nty of good ministers
beside Dr. .Sunderland, but I do not
know of any man except himself with
enough brain to havo stood successfully
and triumphantly -13 years in this oou-
■picucus pulpit. Long distant be tho
year when that gosp 1 chieftain shall
put down tho silver trumpet with which
be has marshaled the hosts of Is-ael or
ftheathc tho sword with which he has
•truck such m'ghty blows for God and
righteousness. I come to you with tho
same gospel that ho has preached and to
join 3*ov. in ail kinds of work for mak
ing tho world hotter, ai d I 1m no to see
yon all in your own In nics ni i have yon
all come m l sea mo, hut don't all como
at once. And without any preliminary
disccursec as to w hat I propose to do I
begin lo re and now to cheer 3*1 u with
the thought that all he:iv‘ n
theticaliy locking t n. “^•'oin*
are eompu.'- d about wit.i so
cloud of wi-nesses. ’’
At the Air.phithc~.tfT.
Crorsujg iho Air:-: by li e Mont Cents
pass, or linuugh tho Mcnt Cents tunnel,
you are in a few hours set down at
Verona. Italy, and iu a few m antes
begin ernminiug one of tho grandest
ruins oi the world—tin; uni] h theater.
The whole building sweeps ar iuml yon
in a ci’cle. You stand iu the arena
where t' o con 1 t was once fought or
tho race inn, etui on all sides the seats
rise tier above tier until 3*011 count 40
elevations or galleries—us I s-h. 11 see fit
to call them—in which sat the senators,
the kings and tho 85,000esc ted specta
tors. At the sides of the arena and un
der the galleries are the cages in which
the lions and tigers are kept without
food until, frenzied with hunger and
thirst, they are let out upon some poor
victim, who, with his sword and alone,
is condemned to meet them. I think
that Paul himself once stood in such a
place, and that it was not only figura
tively, bnt literally, that he had “fought
with hearts at Ephesus. “
The gala day has come. From all tho
world the people are pouring into
Verona. Men, women r.ud elTildren,
orators ami reunion;, great men smd
small, then, amis np;>u thousands come,
until the first gallery is full, and the
second, tho third, the fourth, tho fifth—
all the way up to the twentieth, all the
way up to tho thirtieth, till the way up
to i'.-.r f ly-'-y tdfiee is filled. |
Immensity cf audience sweeping (he
great circle. Silence! The time for tho
contest 1ms come. A Reman official
leads forth the victim into the arena, i
Let him get his sword, with liiin grip,
into his right hand. The 25,000 sit
breathlessly watching. I hear the door
at the side of the arena creak open. Out
plunges the half starved lion, his tongue
athirst for blood, and with a roar that
brings all the galleries to their feet he
rushes against the sword of tho combat
ant. Do yon know how sirong a stroke
a man will strike when his life depends
upon the first thrust of his blade? Tho
wild beast, lame and bleeding, slinks
hack toward tho side cf tho arena.
Then, rallying his wasting strength, ho
comes up with fiercer eye and more ter
rible roar than ever, only to be driven
back with a fatal wound, whi’e the •
combatant comes In with stroke after
stroke, until the monster is dead at hia
feet,and tho 25,1)00 people clap their
bauds and utter a shout that makes the
city tremble.
A Lion to fight.
Sometimes the audience came to see
a race, sometimes to m o gladiators fight
each other, until tho people, eompas-
niouato for the fallen, turned their
thumbs up as an appeal that the van
quished he spared, and sometimes the
combat was with wild beasts.
To an nmphitheatrical audience Paul
refers when ho says, “Wo are compassed
about with so great a cloud of wit
nesses. ’ ’
The fact is, that every Christian man
has a lion to fight. Yours is u bad tem
per. Tho gates of tho arena have been
opened, and this tig r has come out to
destroy your sonl. It has lacerated yon
with many a wound. You have been
thrown by it time mid again, hut iu the
strength of God you havo arisen to drive
it back. I verily believe you will con
quer. I think that tho temptation is
getting v.eater and weaker. You have
given it so many wounds that tho pros
pect is that ii will die, and you shall be
victor, through Christ. Courage, broth
er! Do not let tiie sands of the arena
drink the blood of your soul!
Your lion is the pai-siou for strong
drink. Yon may have contended against
it 20 years, but it is strong of body and
thirsty of tongue. You have tried to
fight it hack wi h broken hot tie or empty
wine fla-k. Nay, that is not th** weapon !
With oho horrible roar he w ill sc 7,0
thee by the throat and n ml thee limb
front hiub. Take this w< ipon, sharp
and ken—rtooh up and get it from
one here
him spn
If you hi
cause vo
w ho h
as no bisetfi
k out, foi him have
.vo not fo’,; ; ,Iit tho l'l
a have let the lion
ig
about lions. Paul fought with beasts at
Ephcfus.
The Api>1ruf.o of tt:o Prophet*.
In the ancient am] Loti cater the poo-
itp or! ri 1 p' oited t] ;,! to- ’
ilerica to the
They are keeping places for us. After
we have slain tin
k';"; to f ail ns, s.
This vt ry moment ti c oi mr t goes on.
Tho Trajan celebration, where 10,000
gladiators fought and 11,000 w ild boasts
were slain, wits not sotniifica struggle
as that which at this moment goes on
iu many a soul. That combat was for
the life of the body; this is for the life
of tho soul. That was with wild Leasts
from the jungle; this is with tho roar
ing lion of hell.
Men think, when they contend against
an evil habit, that ’hey have to fight it
nil alone. No! They stand in the center
of an immense circle of sympathy. Paul
had been reciting tho names of Abel,
Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, I.-aac,
Joseph, Gideon and Barak and then
Says, “Being compa t d about with m-
great a cloud (if witnesses.”
A Cloud of VVltnrFse*.
Before 1 get through I will r’mw you
that you fight in an arena around w hich
pie get r.o e:
from tho p:
aicua: "A it
“One more . *v< 1
back!’' “E
pre
aid sin
■11 in t :
T
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t:
H;
j < vw*n
e!” “Look out!”
a!” t > in that
nsfolic, they
Daniel crus
“T..v < iod will deliver thee from
»i:r* **r. ttzza! Ihr/.v
g lleiy, prophetic and
cannot keep their puce
out,
aren
and ; 01 1 < u t ipt
right hand io cl.. ;
hr ink hi king, v bill
rii:a ug dov. u Bom
lion they expect the
ng, “Come up high-
la d stnr gins in the
.cut fir::. 11!} brow
r;e. reach.i g up my
1 tk- its iu i.ip arcus
• their voices como
the gallfly, eying,
Scrofula, Sak ' tin
R. S. LIPSCOMB,
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circle,
in gailer.es above each other,
the kindling eyes and all the syrrpa-
thclio hearts of the age. , and at eve: y
victory gained there comes down lie
thundering npplae.etf a great multi
tude that no man can number. “Bei: g
compassed about with so great a cloud
of witnesses. ”
On the first elevation of tho ane’ent
nmphiibeater, on the day of a celebra
tion, sat Tiberius, or Aupustr. : , or tl 0
reigning king. Lo in the gnat airna of
spectators that watch our stru; gl and
in the lim divine gallery, as 1 sh .ll c. 1
it, sit : (jur king, one Jc-us. On 1: 1.: ;. i
are usury crowns! T!:n ihman 1 rip : r
g- * his place by cold ’..bunded co::<:i’.c. - ,
but Oiir kin hath come to Isis pkiae Ly
tins laoken lausds healed, and the tr:."-
W’prd uv>ay, and the souls ttd (laid
Tl.o R. ii.an empen.r sat, ; ih fob'- 1
arms, uiditTou'Mt us to whetlar t. •
swordsman or the Ion bo:.’, but <
king’s syi. pa. hi( s arc all with ns. 1*
unheard of e ndc (t u. i-
from the g
t
e an' d iv n
au ra t(; he
until all v
heard: “Ft
will .itrengt
Cif my ],ow er : ■
Tl’f y gave to the men in t’-o arena,
in t!io (,bh n lime, fond to thicken th-’ir
bit • d. so tin 1 it v.t aid fe w tdowly, nr- 1
that for a i agtr time the j.c pie 11.':
gloat ov! r the scene But our king h
no pirn: arr in our wounds, for we arc
blood
Tj
t .
into
■ us in the fight, tb utiug,
i and down lbs voice i-
m
t
I w ill he Ip thee! 1
a n thee by tho right hand
ti e mouth tf tic lions!” David ex
claims, “He will not sufi’er thy foot to
bo moved!” Isaiah calls cut: “Fear
not! I am with tl.eo! Bo not dis
mayed!” Paul exclaims, “Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ!” That
throng of prophets and apostles cannot
keep still. They make the welkin ring
with shouting and halleluiahs.
I look again and I see the gallery of
tho martyrs. Who is that? " T ngh Lati
mer, sure enough! He would not apolo
gize for th- tiuth preached, and so ho
died, the night before swinging from
the bed po: t inn Heet g he a! Tie I In dit
of emancipation. Who aie ti at aim, of
G.OOti? They* are tbo r l bebau hg *’
who died for tic failh. Ib re is a hug c
host in magnificent array—' ‘ 1 000—
v ho pcrisln d forChiist i:i the pt rsten-
t > us < f I’m cb ti: n. N ' m’« r is a family
gioup—I < bcitj.s t f Borne n:d ht relbl-
c! t u. While tiny ware dying for t!i )
f...ih she stt od diconnig ng tla in. On
s<n was whi’ptil totitaih by thorns,
am 'her was Ih.ng from a tot k, rnotln r
v : la lieadt (1. At la tile motlarle-
caine a imir;yr. There liny : 1 ■, ii g< ;h-
e: —a family grt up 111
in John Brack id, v, • o
“ V, o sball ha >0 a n.e
t! e Lord ti n glit. ”
V • os, w ho t .a hi mod i
1: i ti 1 lit. (is, 1 ;h y s 1 :'
i i r Christ. ” Tiie p. -
| 1: i;(yr.s! f J lit y had
d> v, n t!k ir 1 hn .its. In ;
to the r hand:; and olin
f 't, cud t!:::>- tin y \ (
T. ty had ill r tongi •
it .ih t piu mm; ti.i y ■
the sk ns ot a:: nials
the di gs; ti y weir «!
bm,;ibies and s-t on 1
tyrs’ sokes <1
could be a-; at
t ould make tin
over bright s;s t
e.t yombT in tl
ihon b.nbful unto death, and you
have a crown!”
CcnqinToi'* Ttirougli Christ.
But here I pan. e, overwhelmed with
the majesty and the joy of the scene!
Gab', ly of the king! Gallery of angels!
Galiciy of propla is and apostles! Gal
lery t f martyrs! Gallery of saints! Gal-
leiy cf friends and kindred! Oil, majes
tic circles ot light and love! Throngs!
Throngs! Thiongs! How shall we stand
the gaze of tho universe? Myriads of
eves beaming on us! Mvriadsof hearts
beating in sympathy for us!
shall we ever dare to tin aga nr
shall v e ever 1 ccome (liscourag
II .w si. .11 v.ecver f((d lorn lx*
With God for ua. and aimois t r
prophets and apostles i >r us, i.
grc..t m uIs ■ t ti e ages for u ;. a
glorified kindred im* r -’, sbml ’
up the i: i*t i (1 <bc? No, ; < .1 <
who (i(..i ( i •! isave us! No, ye
win - x. in,":i me ; pre. d f th to
u '. No, ye pr-i he is a. d r.p;.: i.ls
wa: u !!; ; it. r. io us. No, ye 1 a >
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In nil tlio rrortrh cf err hosrt,
Tht‘ Man of Sorrow.i Loro a 1 irt.
Once, in tho ancient aniphilhcntcr, a
lion xx 1;h one jaw enugiit tbo combat-
nut’s sword, and wiili hm otlur paw
caught his shield. Tho man took his
knife from hia girdlo and slrxv the
bea. b The king, sitting in tho gallery,
said: “That was not fair. Tho lien
must bo slain by a sword.” Other lions
were turned out, and tho poor victim
fell. You cry. "fchume, eIuuuo !” at
finch meanness But tho king, in this
case, is our brother, and he will tco
that wo have fair play. Ho will forbid
the nu king out of mure lions titan we
can meet. He will not suffer us to he
tempicd above that wo are able. Thank
God! Th I: ng is in th-gallery! His
eye': arc onus. His In ail is xvith us.
Hia hand will deliver us. “Tib red are
p.B they who put their {tt: t in him
The Auer lie Cx.ii -ry.
I look ag*ain, and I eco tho
gallery*. There they are—'.ho angel that
sxvung the sword at tho gate of Eden,
tho same that Ezekiel Fax? upholding
tho throne of Gud, and from which I
look away, for the splendor is insuffer
able. Here are tho guardian angels.
That one watched a patriarch; this one
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angelic
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n ik ox n t 1
tl w all ci m-
all the 1: a
have bran Inuok 1
is, tiny
) iiun gilt ail t!:c x.c. I
r nday! And noxv th> y
mariyrs’ gallery. F( r
t. em the fires of pcrsccutiun have g : -•
oat. The swords are Eh-ath(d and t -
mob hushed. Noxv tlr y x atcli t:s x na
; 'i nil ol'sCfV’itg Fympatl y. Thty 1 m xv
ail tho pain, sili the hardship, all ti 0
anguish, ail tho injustice, ail the pri\ -
t - n. They cannot keep st.Jl. They ( :
“Courage! The fire will not consume
Tiie 11 >odscannot drown. The lions can
not devour! Courage, down thora i.i
tho arena!”
All Asrr-o In neaven.
What, arc they all looking? This night
wo answer back thcsalutation they give
and ciy, “Hail, eons and daughters < f
tho fire!”
I look again, and I rec another pal
lery, that of eminent Christians. What
ttrikes 1110 strangely is the mixing u
companionship of those who on earth
could not agree. There I see Mart 11
Lather, and beside h m a Roman Cath
olic who locked beyond the supersti
tions of his church and is saved. Tin .0
is Albert Barnes and mound him the
ptv.-bytery which tried him for hetero
doxy! Yonder is Lyman Beecher ami
i the church court that denounced bin.!
I fctranger than all, there arc John Calvin
! and James Armiuius! Who would havo
1 thought they would sit so lovingly to-
! pel her ? There are George Whitefield and
: tho bishops who would not let him
• come into their pulpits because the,*
I thought him a fanatic. There are tho
; fixveet singers—Toplady, Montgomery,
Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts and Mr:,
j Sigourney. If heaven had had no music
1 before they went up, they would have
! started tho singing. And there the band
j of missionaries—David Abed, talking
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Prof. L. D. Edwards, of Preston,
Idaho, says: “I was all run down,
weak, nervous and irritable through
overwork. I sullered from brain fa
tigue. mental depression, cte. 1 be
came so weak and nervous that I
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discouraged and blue.
protected a child; that one lias been , „ , , , , , , ,
pulling a soul out of temptation! All ! o ; V hlDa re ‘ ll ; ei «cd’and John heudder
T. . k . . ™.. I rt Ttulin (.fivcil Mini H.-ivid Rr:iinor.l of
messengers
these arc messengers of light. Those
drove the Spaui -h iamada on tho rocks.
This turned fccnuacherib’rt living hosts
into a heap of 185,000 corpses. Those
yonder chanted the Christmas carol over
Bethlehem until the chant awoke the
shepherds. These, at creation, stood in
tlm balcony of heaven and serenaded tho
newborn world wrapped in swaddling
clothes of light. And there, holier and
mightier than all, m .uichacl, the arch
angel. To command an earthly host
gives dignity, but this one is loader of
the 20,000 chariots of God and of the
ten thousand times ten thousand angels
cf India saved, and David Braiuerd of
the aborigines evangelized, and Mrs.
Adoniram Jndson, whoso prayers for
Burma took heaven by violence 1 All
these Christians are looking into the
arena. Our struggle is nothing to the rs.
Do we, in Christ’s cause, sutler from
tho cold? They walked Greenland’s icy
mountains. Do \\c suffer from the heat?
They sweltered in the tropics. Do wo
get fatigue 1? They fainted, with none
to care for them bnt cannibals. Are wo
persecuted? They were anathematized.
And as they look from their gallery and
soe us falter in the presence of the lions
1 began taking
Dr. Miles’ Nervine
and now everything is changed. I
sleep soundly, 1 feel blight, active
and ambitious. 1 can do more in one
day now than lused todo in a week.
For t his great good I give Dr. Miles’
Restorative Nervine the sole credit.
It Cures.”
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angel, and the archangel to the sera
phim, and the seraphim to tho cherubim,
until all tho lower orders of heaven hear
the command and go forth on tho high
behest.
Noxv bring on your lions! Who can
fear? All the spectators in tho angelic
gallery are our friends. “Ho shall give
Ins angels charge over thee to keep thee
iu all thy ways. They shall bear thee
up iu their bands, lest thou dash thy
foot against a stone. Thou shall tread
upon the lion and adder; the young bon
and tho dragon t-halt thou trample under
foot.”
Though tho arena bo crowded with
temptations, we shall, with the angelic
help, strike them down iu the name of
our God and leap.on their fallen car
casses 1 Oh, bending throng of bright,
angelic faces and sw ift wings and light
ning foot, 1 hail you today from the
dust and struggle of the arena!
1 look again, ignl I see the gallery of
‘the prophets and apostles. Who are
those mighty ones up }*ouuer? Hosea
and Jeremiah and Daniel and Isaiah and
Paul and Peter and John and James.
There sits: Noah, waiting for all the
world to como into tho ark, and Moses,
waiting till the lust Red e a shall di
vide, and Jeremiah, waiting for tin
Jews to return, and John of the Apoc
slypso, waiting fur iho swearing of tin
angel that time shall ho no longei
Glorious spirits! Ye were howled at ; y>
were sti.ned ; ye were sp t u, on ' 'l hey
have hi cn in 1I10 ti lit themselves, and
key uro all with us. Daniel knows uli
iu his old hymn, only a little changed:
Must you be curried to the skies
On fioxvery beds of ease,
While others fought to win th" prize,
Or sailed through bloody sous?
Toplady shouts iu his old hymn:
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows t .ko.
Loud to the praise of love divine,
Bid overy string awake.
While Charles Wesley, tho Methodist,
breaks forth in his favorite words, a lit*
tlo varied:
A charge to keep you have,
A Cod to glorify,
A never dying soul to save,
And lit t; for the sky I
I look again, and I see the gallery of
enr departed. Many of those in iho oth
er galleries wo Lave beard of, but these
we knew. Ch, how familiar their faces!
They sat at our tables, and we walked
to the house of God in company. Have
they rorgotteu us? Those fathers and
mothers stiu*ed us on the road of life.
Are they careless as to what becomes of
us? And tho:,o children, do they look
on with stood indifference as to wheth
er wo win or lose this battle for eter
nity? Nay; I see that child running his
baud over your brow and saying: “Fa
ther, do nut fret.” “Mutlnr, do not
worry.” They remembir tho day they
left ns. They ren ( tuber tho agony of
the last farewell. Though years in heav
en, they know our f.;c(.s. They remem
ber our sorrows. They speak our names.
They watch this tight for heaven. Nay;
I Bee them r.so up and lean over and
Wave before us their rniignition and
tucourugemcLL 1 hat gallery is not full.
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Oa Stives, Heaters, Raa^s, Grates, Etc., and bm
now 03 exhiWtio:! the largest and most varied liu
ever carrle 1 by any hoiiso i 1 the State, ranging tier
some twenty-five different prices, and we will be glad
to have you see them before yon bay.
ARE just in receipt of letters from several fonadries ad
vancing prices cans! ierably, so we think yon mid di
well to bnj before o:ir present stock is exhansted.
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