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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. JANUARY 30, 1890. POWER OF EXAMPLE. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE LESSON OF ABIMELECH. The Folly of Depending Vpon One Form of Tactics- The Advantage of Concerted Action —The Danger of Falne Kefuge*—A I Safe Tower. Washington, Jau. 2G.—In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Tahuage took for his subject ‘‘The Power of Example. ” The text selected was Judges 9, 48: “And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees and took it aud laid it on his shoulder and said unto the people that were with him, What yo have seen me do make haste and do as I have done. And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough. ” Abimelech is a name malodorous in Bible history aud yet full of profitable suggestion. Buoys are black and un comely, but they tell where the rocks are. The snake’s rattle is hideous, but it gives timely warning. Fntn the pi azza of my summer homen’iht by night I saw a lighthouse 15 miles away, not placed there for adornment, but to tell mariners to stand off from that danger ous point. So all the iron bound coast of moral danger is marked with Saul and Herod and Rehoboam and Jezebel and Abimelech. These bad people are mentioned in the Bible not only as warnings, but because there were some times flashes of good conduct in their lives worthy of imitation. God some times drives a very straight nail with a very poor hammer. The city of Shechem had to be taken, and Abimelech and his men were to do it. I see the dust rolling up from their excited march. I hear the shouting of the captains aud the yell of the besieg ers. The swords clack sharply on the parrying shields, aud the vociferation of two armies in death grapple is horri ble to hear. The battle goes on all day, and as the sun is setting Abimelech and his army cry “Surrender!” to the beat en foe, and, unable longer to resist, the city of Shechem falls, and there are pools of blood aud dissevered limbs and glazed eyes looking up beggingly for mercy that war never shows, and dying soldiers with their head on the lap of mother or wife or sister, who have come out for the last offices of kindness and affection, and a groan rolls across the city, stopping not, because there is no spot for it to rest, so full is the place of other groans. A city wounded! A city dying! A city dead! Wail for Shechem, all ye who know the horrors of a sacked town. A Strange Army. As I look over the city I find only one building standing, and that is the tem ple of the god Berith. Home soldiers outside of the city in a tower, finding that they can no longer defend Shechem, now begin to look out for their own personal safety, aud they fly to this temple of Berith. They go within the Idoor, shut it, aud they say: “Now we are safe. Abimelech has taken the whole city, but he cannot take this temple of Berith. Hero wo shall be under the pro tection of the gods.” O Berith, the god, do your best now for these refugees. If you have eyes, pity them. If you have hands, help them. If you have thunderbolts, strike for them. But how shall Abimelech aud his army take this temple of Berith and the men who are there fortified? Will they do it with the sword? Nay. Will they do it with the spear? Nay. With the battering ram rolled up by hundred armed strength crashing against the walls? Nay. Abim elech marches his men to a wood in Zalmon. With his ax he hews off a limb of a tree aud puts that limb upon his shoulder, and then he says to his men, “Yon do the same.” They are obedient to their command er. There is a struggle as to who shall have axes. The whole wood is full of bending boughs, and the crackling and the hacking, and the cutting, until ev ery one of the host has a limb of a tree cut down, and not only that, but has put it on his shoulder just as Abimelech showed him how. Are those men all armed with the tree branch? The reply comes, “All armed.” And they march on. Oh, what a straugo army, with that strange equipment! They come up to the foot (jf the temple at Berith, aud Abimelech takes his limb of a tree and throws it down, aud the first platoon of soldiers come up, and they throw down their branches, and the second platoon, and the third, until all around about the temple of Berith there is a pile of tree branches. The Shechomites look out from the window of the temple upon what seems to them childish play on the part of their enemies. But soon the flints are struck, and the spark begins to kindle the brush, and the flame comes up all through the pile, and the red ele ments leap to the casement, and the woodwork begins to blaze, and one arm of flame is thrown up on the right side of the temple, and another arm of flame is thrown up on the left side of the tem ple, until they clasp their lurid palms under the wild night sky, and the cry of “Fire!” within aud “Fire!” without announces the terror, and the strangula tion, and the doom of the Bhecbemites, and the complete overthrow of the tem ple of the god Berith. Then there went up a shout, long and loud, from the stout longs and swarthy chests of Abim elech aud his men as they stood amid the ashes and the dust crying, “Victory, victory!” Forms of Tactics. Now I learn first from this subject the folly of depending upon any one form of tactics In anything we have to do for this world or fur God. Lx>k over the weaponry of olden times—javelins, battloaxos, habergeons, and show^oe a •ingle weapon with which Abj aud his men could have ga ccmplete triumph. It is no el to take a temple thus armed seen a house where, during R ary times, a man-and hi re, ““ house. Yet hero Abimelech and his army come up, they surround this tem ple, aud they capture it without tho lu:-s of a single man on the part of Abime lech, although I suppt;.-e seme of the old Israelitish heroes told Ahimelech, “Y< ti are only going np t’icte to b,: at to pieces.” Yet you arc willing to t ify today that by no t!;cr mode—c< . uonly not by ordinary m dcs—could that tem ple so easily, so thoroughly, have b»: n taken. Fathers aud mothers, brethren and sisters in Jesus Christ, what the church must wants to learn this day is that any plan is right, is lawful, is best, which helps to overthrow the temple of sin aud capture this world for God. We are very apt to stick to tho old modes of attack. We put on the old stylo coat of mail. We come up with the sharp, keen, glittering steel spear of argument, ex pecting in that way to take the castle, but they have a thousand spears where we have ten. Aud so the castle of sin stands. Oh, my friends, we will never capture this world for God by any keen saber of sarcasm, by any glittering lances of rhetoric, by any sauping and mining of profound disquisition, by any gun- powdery explosions of indignation, by sharpshootings of wit, by howitzers of mental strength made to swing shell five miles, by cavalry horses gorgeously caparisoned pawing the air. In vain all the attempts on the part of these ecclesi astical foot soldiers, light horsemen and grenadiers. My friends, I propose a different style of tactics. Let each ono go to the forest of God’s promise and invitation aud hew down a branch and put it on his shoulder, and let us all come around those obsti^deiniquities, and then with this pile kindled by the fires of a holy zeal aud tho flames of a consecrated life we will burn them out. What steel can not do, fire may. And I announce myself in favor of any plan of religious attack that succeeds—any plan of religious at tack, however radical, however odd, however unpopular, however hostile to all conventionalities of church and state. If one stylo of prayer does not do tho work, let us try another style. If the church music of today does not g< t tho victory, then let us make the assault with a backwoods chorus. If a prayer meeting at half past 7 in tho evening does not succeed, let us have ono as early in the morning as when tho angel found wrestling Jacob too much for him. If a sermon with tbreo authorized heads does not do the work, then let us have a sermon with 20 heads or no heads at all. We want more heart in mu- song, more heart in our almsgiving, more heart in our prayers, more heart in our preaching. A Blood K(>d Fact. Oil, for less of Abimelech’s sword and more of Abimelech’s conflagration! I had often heard There is a fountain iilletl with blood sung nrlistically by four birds perched on their Sunday roost in tho gallery un til I thought of Jenny Lind and Nilsson and Sontag and all the other warblers, i but there came not ono tear to my eye nor ono master emotion to my heart. But one night I went down to the Afri can Methodist meeting house in Phila delphia, and at tint close of tho service a black woman in the middle < f I ho au dience begun to sing that hymn, and all the audience joined in, and we were floated some tim e or four miles nearer l heaven than I have over been since. I saw with my own eyes that “fountain filled with blood”—red, agonizing, sac rificial, redemptive—and 1 la aid the I crimson plash of the wave a.; we all went down under it. For sinners plunged beneath that flood Loso all their guilty stains. Oh, my friends, tho gospel is not a syllogism; it is not casuistry; it is not polemics, or the science of squabbles. It is blood red fact; it is warm hearted in- ; vitutiou; it is leaping, bound, ig, flying good news; it is ollloresceut with all light; it is ruluscent with all summery glow; it is arboimceut with all sweet shade. I have seen the sun ri: non Mount Washington, and front thi)Tii,!i.p House, but there was no beauty in that com pared with the dayspring from on high when Christ gives light toasoul. .1 have heard Parepa sing, but tluro was no music in that compared with tlie voice of Christ when he said, “Thy sins are forgiven thee; go in peace.” Good news! Let everyone cut down a branch of this tree of life and w ave it. Let him throw it down and kindle it. Let all tho way from Mount Zalmon to Shechem be filled with tho tossing joy. Good news 1 This bonfire of tho gospel shall consume the last temple of sin, and will illumine tho sky with apocalyptic joy, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sin ners. Any new plan that makes a man quit his sin, aud that prostrates a wrong, I am as much in favor of as though all the doctors, aud tho bishops, and the archbishops, and the synods, aud tho academical gownsmen of Christianity sanctioned it. The temp 1 of Berith must como down, aud I do r .ire how it conies. The Power of ExHiupltt. Still further I learn from this subject the power of example. If Abimelech had sat down on the grass and told his men to go and get the boughs and go out to the buttle, they would never have gone at all, or if they had it would have been withou any spirit or effective re sult, but when Abimelech goes w ith his own ax and hews down a branch and with Abimeleeh's arm puts it on Abim- elech’s shoulder and inarches on, then, my text says, all the people did tho same. How natural that was! What made Garibaldi aud Stonewall Jackson tho most magnetic commanders of this century? They always rode ahead. Oh, tho overwhelming power of example! Here is a father on tho wrong road. All his boys go on the wrong road. Here is a father who enlists for Christ. His children enlist. 1 saw in some of tho picture galleries of Europe that be fore many of the great works of the masters, tho old masters, there would be ■ometiines four and five artists taking Copies of t he pictures. These eo; ies they ^mig to carry with them, perhaps n hinds, and I have tli^gjit r life and character tcrpirce, and it is being copii d, atid long after you are gone it will bloom or blast in the homes of those who knew you aud be Look oat \v! you do. lit The best s- life. The i. cou.-i; tent walk serve God, s< i v a Gorgon or a I 1 ma. it you say. Look • hat ruity w ill hear ti. echo. a ever preached is a holy :,t music i ver chanted is a s to YOU If you want ofhe him yourself. If want others to si: aider their duty, uhou'.der yours. Where Abimelech goes his troops go. Oil, start out for heaven today, and jour family will come after , you, and your business associates will come after you, and your social friends will join you. With ono branch of the tree of life for a baton, marshal just as many as you can gather. Oh, the infi nite, the semiomuipotent power of a good or bad example! I saw last summer, near tho beach, a wrecker’s machine. It was a cylinder with some holes at tho side, made for the thrusting in of some long poles with strong leverage, and when there is any vessel in trouble or going to pieces in tho offing, the wreckers shoot a rope .out to the suffering men. They grasp it, and tho wreckers turn the cylinder, and tho rope winds around the cylinder, and those who are shipwrecked are saved. So at your feet, today, there is an influ ence with a tremendous leverage. The rope attached to it swings far out into tho billowy future. Your children, your children’s children, and all the genera tions that are to follow will grip that influence and feel the long reaching pull long after the figures on your tomb stone are so near worn out that the vis itor cannot tell whether it was 189G or 179G or 1G9G that yon died. Concerted Action. Still further I learn from this subject tho advantage of concerted action. If Abimelech had merely gone out with a tree branch, the work would not have been accomplished, or if 10, 20 or GO men had gone, but when all the axes are lifted and all tho sharp edges fall, and ail these men carry each his tree branch down and throw it about the temple, the victory is gained—the temple falls. My friends, where there is one man in the chr.reh of God at this day shoulder ing his whole duty there are a great many who never lift an ax or swing a hough. It seems to mo as if there were ten drones in every hive to one busy boo: as though there were 20 sailors sound asleep in tho ship’s hammocks to 4 men on tho stormy deck. It seems as it there were 50,000 men belonging to tho reserve corps, and only 1,000 ac tive combatants. Oh, we all want our boats to get over to tho golden sands, but tho must of us are seated either in the prow or in tho stern, wrapped in our striped shawl, holding a big handled sunshade, while others are blistered in the beat and pull until the oarlocks groan and the blades bend till they snap. Oh, you religious sleepyheads, wake up! You have lain so long in ono place that the ants and caterpillars have begun to crawl over you! What do you know, my brother, about a living gospel madoto storm the world? Now, my idea of a Christian is a man on lire with zeal for God, and if your pulse ordinarily beat.; GO times a minute when you think of other themes and talk about other themes, if your puLe does not go up to 75 or SO wl; n yon come to talk about Christ and l eaven, it is because you do not know the one, and have a poor chance of g. ting to tho other. In a former charge one Sabbath I took into tli.' pulpit the church records, aud I laid i in on tho pulpit and open ed th-ni and said: “Brethren, here are the church records. I find a great many of yon whoso names are down here are off duty, ” Some were afraid 1 would read tho names, for at that time some of them were deep in tho worst kind of oil stocks and were idle as to Christian work. But -f ministers of Christ today should bring tho church records into tho pulpit mid read, oh, what a flutter there would he! There would not bo fan., enough in church to keep the cheeks cool. I do not know but it would bo a good ibing if tho minister once in awhile shou.d bring the church records in the pulpit and call tho roll, for that is what 1 consider every church record to he—merely a muster roll of the Lord’s army—and the reading of it should re veal where every soldier is and what he is doing. Call the Roll. Suppose in military circles on the morning of battle the roll was called, mid out of 1,000 men only 100 men in tho regiment mis vered. What excitement there would be in the camp! What would tho colonel say? What high talk ing there would be among tho captains and majors and the adjutants. Suppose word came to headquarters that these d< linquonts excused themselves on the ground that they had overslept them selves, or the morning was damp aud they were afraid of getting their feet wet, or that they were busy cooking ra tions. My friends, this is the morning of the day of God Almighty’s battle. Do you not tee ihe troops? Hear yo not all tlie trumpets of heaven and all tho drums of bell? Whii-li side are you on? If you mo on the right side, to what cavalry troop, to what artillery service, to what garrison duly do you bolon ? In other words, in what Sabbath school do you teach? In what prayer meeting do you exhort? To what penitentiary do you declare eternal liberty? To what almshouse do you announce the riches of h Jjp^u? What broken bone of sorrow- huvtfyou ever set? Are you doing noth ing? Js it possible that a man or woman sworn to he a follower of Jesus Christ is doing nothing? Then hide tho horri ble secret from the angels. Keep it away from the book of judgment. If yon are doing nothing, do not lot tho world find it out, lest they charge your religion with being a false face. Do not let your cowardice aud treason be heard among the martyrs about tho throne, lest they forget the sanctity of tho place mid de nounce your betrayal of that, cause for which they agonized and died. May the eternal God rouse us all to action! \s for myself, J feel I would ho atimuiod to die now and enter heaven more decisive for the Lord that bought me. Oh, brethren, how swift)v the time goes by ! It seems to mo as it the years had gained some new power of lo omo- tion—a kind of speed electric. The temple of Berith is very broad, and it is very high. It has been going up by the hands of men and devils, aud no human engineering can demolish it, but if the 70,000 ministers of Christ in this country should each take a branch of the tree of life, and all their congre gations should do the same, and we should march on and throw these branches ainurd the great temples of sin aud world line;:-; aud folly, it would need no match or coal or torch of ours to touch off the pile, for, as in the days of Elijah, fire would fall from heaven aud kindle the bonfire of Christian victory over demolished sin. One Safe Kefuge. Still further, Hearn from this subject the danger of false refuges. As soon as these Shechemites got into the temple they thought they were safe. They said: “Berith will take care of us. Abimelech may batter down everything else. He cannot batter down this temple where we are now hid. ” But very soon they heard the limbers crackling, aud they were smothered with smoke, and they miserably died. I suppose every person in this audience this moment is stepping into some kind of refuge. Hero you stop in the tower of good works. You say, “I shall be safe in this refuge.” Tho bat tlements are adorned; tho steps are var nished; on the wall are pictures of all the suffering you have alleviated, and all the schools you have established, and all the fine things you have ever done. Up in that tower you feel you are safe. But hear you not the tramp of your unpardoned sins all around the tower? They each have a match. You are kin dling the combustible material. You feel the heat aud the suffocation. Oh, may you leap in time, the gospel de claring, “By tho deeds of the law shall no flesh living bo justified.” “Well,” yon say, “I have been driven out of that tower. Where shall I go?” Step into this tower of indifference. You say, “If this tower is attacked, it will be a great while before it is taken.” You feel at ease. But there is an Abim elech with ruthless assault coming on. Death and his forces are gathering around, and they demand that you sur render everything, aud they clamor for your overthrow, aud they throw’ their skeleton arms in tho window, and with their iron fists they boat against the door, and while you are trying to keep them out you see tho torches of judg ment kindling, and every forest is a torch and every mountain a torch and every sea a torch, aud while tho Alps and Pyrenees aud Himalayas turn into a live coal, blown redder and redder by tho whirlwind breath of a God omnipo tent, what will become of your refuge of lies? “But,” says some one, “you are en gaged in a very mean business, driving ns from tower to tower. ” Oh, no. I want to tell you of a Gibraltar that never has been and never will bo taken, of a wall that no satanic assault car scale, of a bulwark that tho judgment earthquakes cannot bndge. The Bible refers to it when it says, “In God is thy refuge, and underneath thee are tho everlasting arms.” Oh, fling yourself into it. Tread down unceremoniously everything that intercepts you. Wedge your way there. There are enough hounds of death aud peril after you to make you hurry. Many a man has per ished just outside the tower with his foot on the step, with his hand on the latch. Oh, get inside. Not one surplus second have you to spare. Quick! Quick! Quick 1 Weather Almanacs. Some of those almanacs rose to a great popularity on tho strength of ono lucky guess, aud 1 think it is told of Par tridge’s almanac, or some other of the class, that it owed its reputation to a curious prophecy of extraordinary weath er for July 111, when hail, rain, snow, thunder, etc., were freely indicated. Forgetting that the mouth had 81 days, tho almanac maker had omitted to in sert tho weather prediction for the last day, and a boy was sent from tho print ing ofiico to know how the space was to bo filled up. Tho weather prophet was too busy to attend to him, but at last in a passion said, “Put down hail, rain, snow, thunder, anything,” and tho boy, taking it literally, told the compositor, whodulysot into typo tho extraordinary prediction, and which by a freak of na ture came true and made tho fame aud fortune of the almanac maker. This story, if not true, is at Hast hen trovato and shows tho force of tho bard’s state ment : Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well When our deep plots do pall. Patrick Murphy published a popular weather aim .nac, aud his fame is said to have commenced by a lucky hit in ono of the earlier issues by which he in dicated which would bo the coldest day of tho year. There is a copy of this al manac for 1838 in the library of this so ciety, aud some former owner has evi dently taken tho trouble to pencil in the actual weather opposite to that predict ed. There were, according to this anno tation, 89 ii.correct forecasts, 91 doubt ful and tho rest correct. This Patrick Murphy was not a mere charlatan. He had a system, and, though he differed from Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Astronomical society, he gave much study aud research to the subject of meteorole ty, as sbov/n by his various books. The.owasan Astro-Meteorolog ical society as late as 1801.—Nature. TRIMMING HIDES. The Tanner’ii Trim as Adopted by the Tanners’ Hide and Leather Association. The hide houses are crowded with country hides which the tanners refuse to take because they are not properly trimmed. Tanners, butchers and dealers ought all strive to improve the condi tion of hides and skins for market. With a view to assisting in this improvement is here reproduced from the Chicago Hide and Leather an illustration show ing the usual form and trim of a hide taken off by country butchers, along with directions for the tanner’s trim. The “tanner’s trim,” as adopted by the Tanners’ Hide and Leather associa tion of the United States, is shown by Heart Trouble Qul A Convincing Test A COUNTRY HIDE. tho dotted lines, indicating what should bo taken off, and the letters a and b show bad form in skinning. In tho tan ner’s trim these instructions are ob served : Take off lower jaw anil upper lip behind the nostrils. The pato between the eyes. The horns and ears. The cheek, when throat is cut across. Tlie fore lea’s at the knee. The hind le;,’s midway between knee and dew daws, or higher up when cut across. All tags caused by unskilled skinning. (See dotted lines.) The points marked “a” should appear at “b” if properly skinned. The parts marked to be out off are worthless to the I aimer, but have a value for glue stock, yet from distant points this value would not equal the cost of freight. Butchers will see how a large part of the trim on this Irde would ho avoided by care in skinning. The trim is nearly the same as has been made in Now York for years. All foreign hides aud some western are trimmed even closer than this. It will increase tlie popularity of any regular shipper to put them in this shape, and a considerable saving of freight will be made and risk of damage avoided. The tanners are demanding it shall be done. Some other points of importance may be mentioned here. Sunburned hides cause much loss. It is believed that this occurs in the first 24 hours after a hide is taken off. If butchers will leave hides spread out in shade for that time before hanging up, it may be avoided. Scored, grubby, fallen and badly branded hides are more and more avoided by tanners. In New York all such hides go at one- third off. The western hides will soon have to conform to some rule Miss Ella Kurtz. ‘‘For 19 years I suffered from heart trou- ble. During that time I was treated by five different physicians. 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