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LESSONS FBOM EHUD. . Dr. Talmage on the Subject of Is rael's Deliverer. Bla Dlrlae Commiitloa to Destroy a Oppreaanr Denaaclatloa of TVorahlpers of Mammoa, Who Soot, at Bin. Washington, Jan. a. Copyright, 189. v From a scene in ancient story Da. . Talmage la thii discoust draws lea aou as appropriate for this time as I' tliey were appropriate for the time , when the event occurred many cen ' turies ago; text. Judges, 3:15, "But when the children of Israel cried un,to " the Lord, the Lord raised them up a de liverer. Ehud, the son of Oera, a Ben jamite, a man left-handed; and by him the children of Israel sent a present un to Eglon, the king otMoab." Ehud was a ruler in Israel. Be was left-handed, and what was peculiar about the tribe of Benjamin, to which h belonged, there were in it 700 left handed men, and yet so dextrous had they all became In the use of the left j hand that the Bible says they could uling stones at a hairbreadth and not . miss. Well, there was a king by the , same of Eglon, who was an oppressor of Israel. He imposed upon them a most outrageous tax. Ehud, the man of whom I first spoke, had a Divine com mission to destroy that oppressor. He came pretending that he was going to pay the tax, and asked to see King Eg lon. He was told hewasinthesummer house, the place to which the king re tired when it was too hot to sit in the palace. This summer house was a place surrounded bv flowers and trppn nnA springing fountains, and warbling birds. Eh ud entered the summer house end said to King Eglon that he had a secret errand with him. Immediately all the attendants were waved out of the royal presence. King Eglon rises up to receive the messenger. Ehud, the iu,-uauucu wait, puis iiia icib iiuuu to hls right sdde, pulls out a dogger and thrusts Eglon through until the haft went in after the blade. Eglon falls and Ehud comes forth to blow a trum pet of liberty amid the mountains of Ephraim, and a great host is marshaled, and proud Moab submits to the con queror, and Israel is free. So, 0 Lord, . let all Thine enemies perishl So, 0 ' Lord, let oil Thy friends triumphf ' I leanT first from this subject the power of left-handed men. There are some -men who, by physical organiza tion, have as much strength in their left hand as in their right hand, but there is something in the writing of ' this, text which implies that Ehud had some defect in his right hand which compelled him ta" use his left. Oh, the power of Jeft-handed men! Genius is clten self-observant, careful of itself, not given, to much toil, burning incense to its own aggrandizement, whilrfmany uian,wun no natural endowments, actuary qeiectjve m poyslcal and men ' tal organization, has an earnestness for the riirht. natient Industry, nn nllnn. ' suming perseverance, which achieve ,marvels for the kingdom of Christ. Though,Ji.f t-handed, as Ehud, they can strike down a sin as great and imperial as Eglon. , -'1 have seen men of wealth gathering bout them all their treasures, snuffing at the cause of a world lying in wicked ness, roughly ordering Lazarus , oil their doorstep, sending their dogs, not to lick his sores, but to hound him off their premises; catching all the pure rain of God's blessing into the stag nant, ropy; frog-inhabited pool of their own selfishness right-handed 'men, . worse than useless while many a man with large heart and little purse has out of his limited means made poverty leap for joy and started an influence that overspans the grave and will swing round and round the throne of God world without end. Amen. 'Ah. mel It is high time that you left handed men, who have been longing for this gift and that eloquence and the other man's wealth, should take you left hand out of your pockets. Who1 mdde all these railroads? Who set up all these cities? Who started all these churches and, schools and asylums? Who has done the tugging and running and pulling? Men of no wonderful en dowments, thousands of them acknowl edging' themselves to be left-handed, and yet they were earnest, ' and yet they were determined, and yet they were triumphant. . ' But I do not suppose that Ehud, the ' first time he took a , sling in his left hand, could throw a stone at a hair breadth and not miss. I suppose it was practice that gave him the wonderful dexterity. Go forth to your spheres of duty and be not discouraged if, in your first attempts, you miss the mark. Ehud missed It, Take another stone, put it carefully into the sling, swing It around your head, take better aim, and the next time you will strike the center. The first time a mason rings his trowel upon the brick he 'does not expect to put up a perfect wall. The : first time a carpenter send the plane over a board or drives a bit through Roam Ym f?rwi tint avnanr ts rnaba nai. feet execution. ,l The first time k boy tempts a rhyme he does not expect to chime a:"LIla Kookh",or a "Lddy of the Lake," Bo not be surprised if in yoor' first efforts at doing good you are, notyvery largely sucaeasful. llnder stand that usefulness is , an fert ; a science, a trade. There Was an oculist performing a very difficult operation on the human eye A young doctor stood by and said: "How easily you do that; it don't seem to cause you any trouble at all." "Ah; said the bid ooulist, "it ( 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1.1 u very easy nuw, oui i spouea a pauui of eyes to learn that." Ba not surprised If it takes some practice before we can help men to moral eyesight and bring them to! a vision of the cross. '. When Garibaldi was going out to bat tle he told his troops what ha wanted them to do, and after be had described what he wanted them to do they said: "Well, general, what are you going to give us for all th?" 'Well." h replied. "I don't know what else you will get, but you will get hunger, and cold, and wounds, and death. How do you like it?" His men stood before him for a little while in silence and then-' they threw up their hands and cried: "We are the men! We are.tbe men!" The Ljrd Jesus Christ calls yon to His serv ice. I do not promise you an easy time in this world. You may have persecu tions, and trials, and misrepresenta tions, but afterward there comes an eternal weight of glory, and you can bear the wounds, and the bruises, and the misrepresentations, if you have the reward afterward. Have you not enough enthusiasm to cry out: "We are the men! We are the men!" ' ' I learn also from this subject the dan ger of worldly elevation. This Eglon was what the world called a great man. There were hundreds of people who would have considered it the greatest honor of their life just to have him speak 'to them, yet, although he is so high up in worldly position, he is not beyond the reach of Ehud's dagger. I see a great many people trying to climb up in social position, having an idea that there is a safe place somewhere far above, not knowingr-Uiatth moun tain of fame has a top like Mont Blanc, covered'with perpetual snow. We laugh , at the children of Shinar for trying to build & tower that could reach to the heavens, but I think if our eyesight were only good enough we could see a Babel in many a dooryard. Oh, the struggle is fierce! It is store against store, house against house, street against street, nation against na tion. The goal for which men are run ning is chairs and chandeliers and mir rors and houses aud lands and presi dential equipments. If they get what tbey anticipate, what have they? I Men are not safe from calumny while they live, and worse than that, they are not safe after they are dead, for 1 have seen swine root up graveyards. One day a man goes up into publicity, and the world does him honor, and people climb up into sycamore trees to watch hjm as he passes, and as he goes along on the shoulders of the people there is a wav ing of hats and a wild huzza. To-morrow the same man is caught between the jaws of the printing press j and mangled and bruised, and the 1 very same persons who applauded him be fore cry: "Down with the traitorl down with him!" . ' !, Belshazzar sits at the feast,' .the mighty men of Babylon sitting all around him. Wit sparkles like the, wine and the wine like the wit. Music rolls up among the chandeliers; the chan deliers flash down on the decanters. The breath of hanging gardens floats in on the night air. The voice of revelry floats out. Amid wreaths andtapestry and folded banners a finger writes. The march of a host is heard on the stairs. Laughter catches in the throat. A thousand hearts stop beating. , The blow is struck., The blood on the, floor is richer hued than the wine on the table. The kingdom has departed, Bel shazzer was no worse perhaps j than hundreds of people in Babylon, but his position slew him. Oh, be content with just such a position as God has placed you in! It may not be said of us: "He was a great general," or "He was an honored chieftain," or "He . was mighty in worldly attainments,1 but this thing may be said of you and of me: "He was a good citizen, a faithful Christian, a friend of Jesus." And that in the last day will be the highest of all eulogiums. I learn further from this subject that death, comes to the summer house. Eg lon did not expect to die in that fine place. Amid all the flower leaves that drifted like summer snow into the win dow, in the tinkle and dash of the foun tains, in the sound of a thousand leaves fluting on one tree branch, in the cool breeze that came up to shake feverish trouble out of the king's locks there was nothing that spake of death, but there he died! In the winter, when the snow is a shroud, and when the wind is a dirge, it is easy to think of our mor tality, but when the weather is pleas ant and all our surroundings! are agree able, how difficult it is for us to appre ciate 'the truth that we are mortal! And yet my text teaches that death does sometimes come to the summer house. He is blind and cannot see the leaves.. He is deaf and cannot hear the foun tains. Oh, if death would ask us for victims we could point him to hundreds of people who would rejoice to have him come. Push back the door of that hovel. Look at that little child cold, and sick, an? hungry, it has never heard the siue of God but in blasphemy. Pa rent intoxicated, staggering around its straw bed. Oh, death, there is a mark for-thee! Up with it into the lightl Before those little feet stumble on life's pathway give them rest. Here is an aged man. He has done his work. He has done it gloriously. The companions ct his youth all gone, his children dead, he longs to be at rest, and wearily the days and the nights pass. He says: "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." Oh, death, there is a mark for thee! Take from him the staff and give him the scepter! ' Up with him nto the' light, 'where eyesinever growdim, and. the'; hair whitens not through the long years of eternit. "Ah! death will not do that. Deathjjturns back 'from., theistraw bed and frdjm the aged man ready for the'skles and comes to the summer; house., What ddesl thou here, thou bony, ghastly monsterji amid this waving grass and under this sun light sifting through the tree branches? Children are at play How quickly their feet go and their locks toss in the wind. Father and mother stand at the side of the room looking on,' enjoying their 'glee. It does not seem possible that the wolf should ever breakinto-tba. fold and carryj off a lamb. Meanwhile an old archer stands looking through the thicket-. He points his arrow at the brightest of the group he is a sure marksman the bow bends, the arrow speeds! Hush now. The quick feet have stopped and tb locks toss no more in the wind. Laugh ter has gone out of the hall. Death in the summer house! Here is a father in midlife. His com ing home at nlgbt is the signal for mirth. The children rush to the door, and there are books on the evening stand, and the hours pass away on glad feet. There is nothing wanting in that home. Religion is there and sacrifices on the altar morning and night. You look in that household and say: "lean not think of anything happier. I do not really believe the world is so sad a place as some people describe it to be." The scene changes. Father is sick. The doors must be kept shut. The death uuch chirps dolefully on tha hearth. The children whisper and walk softly where once tbey romped. Pass ing the house late at night,' you see the quick glancing of lights from room to room. It is all over! Death in the sum mer housel Here is an aged mother aged, but not infirm. You think you will have the joy of caring for her wants a good while yet-. As she goes from house to house, to children and grandchildren, her com ing is a dropping of sunlight in the dwelling. Your children see her com ing through the lane, and they cry: "Grandmother's come!" Care for you has marked up her face with many a deep wrinkle, and her back stoops with carrying your burdens. Some day she is very quiet. She says she is not sick, but something tells you you will not much longer have a mother. She will sit with you no more at the table nor at the hearth. Her soul goes out so gently you do not exactly know the moment of its going. Fold the hands that have done so many kindnesses for you right over the hfart that has beat with love toward you sinca before you were born. Let the pilgrim rest. She is weary. Death in the summer housel Gather about us what we will of com fort and luxury. When the pale messen ger comes he does not stop to look at the architecture of the house before he comes in, nor, entering, does he wait to examine the pictures we have gath ered on the wall, or, bending over your pillow, he does not stop to see whether there is color in the cheek or gentle ness in the eye or intelligence in the brow. But what of that? Must we stand forever mourning among the graves of our dead? Nol No!; The people in Bengal bring cages of birds to the graves of their dead, and then they open the cages, and the birds go singing heavenward. So I would bring to the graves of your dead all bright thoughts and congratulations and bid them sing of victory and redemption. I stamp on the bottom of the grave, and it breaks through into the light and the glory of Heaven. The ancients used to think that the straits entering the T.ed sea were very dangerous places, and they supposed that every ship that went, through those straits would be destroyed, and they were in the habit of putting on weeds of mourning for those who had gone on that voyage, as though they were actually dead. Dd you know what they called those straits? They called them the "Gate of Tears." I stand at the gate of tears through which many of your loved ones have gone, and I want to tell you that all are not shipwrecked that have gone through those straits into the great ocean stretching out beyond. The sound that comes from that other shore on still nights when we are wrapped in prayer makes me think that the de parted are not dead. We are the dead we who toil, we who weep, we who sin we are the dead. How my heartaches for human sorrow this sound of break ing hearts that I hear all about me, this last look of faces that never will brighten again, this last kiss of lips that never will speak again, this widowhood and orphanage! Oh, when will the day of sorrow be gone! After the sharpest winter the spring dismounts from the shoulder of a south ern gale and puts its warm hand upon the earth, and in its palm there comes the grass, and there come the flowers, and God reads over the poetry of bird and brook and bloom and pronounces it very good. What, my friends, if every winter had not its spring, and every night its day, and every gloom its glow, and every bitter now its sweet here after! If you hare been on the sea, you know, as the ship passes in the night, there is a phosphorescent track left behind it, and as the waters roll up they toss with pnimaginable splen dor. Well, across this great ocean of human trouble Jesus walks. Oh, that in the phosphorescent track of His feet we might all follow and be illumined I There was a gentleman in a rail car who saw in that same car three passen gers of very different circumstances. The first was a maniac. He was care fully guarded by his attendants. His mind, like a ship dismasted, was beat ing against a dark, desolate coast, from which no help could come. The train stopped and the man was taken out into the asylum, to waste away perhapi through years of gloom. The second passenger was a culprit. The outraged law had seized on him. ,As the can jolted the chains rattled. On his fact were crime, depravity and despair. Tht train halted and he was taken out tc the penitentiary, to which he had been condemned. There was the third pas senger, under far different cireum stances. She was a bride. Every houi was gay as a marriage bell. Life gilt tered and beckoned. Her companioi was taking ber to his father's house The train halted. The old man woi there to welcome her o her new home and his white locks snowed down upoi her as he sealed his word with a father') kiss. Quickly we fly toward eternity We will soon be there. Some leave, jthif life condemned culprits, and they re fuse a pardon. - Oh, may it be with ui that, leaving this fleeting life for thi next, we may find our Father ready U greet us to our new borne with Him for everl That will be a marriage banquet! Father's welcome! Father's bosoml Father's kiss! Heaven! Heaven, NEWS OI OHIO. Gathered by Telegraph From All Parts of the" State. PosfOfHoe Robbed. Napoleon, Jan. 21. Burglars tooted the post office here early Friday morn ing. Entrance was gained by cutting out a panel of the door leading Into an alley. . Tools were stolen from a blacksmith shop, tot the entire job was done with a. email ttledgefoammeT and some powder. The handles of the vault were pounded in until em open ing was made in the caning, into which powder was .poured. Inside the vault was a amall safe, both doors of whioh wwe forced. The comiblnation was broken off itfoe vault dbor, and he ourt. er door of the safe was idown off and twisted beyond repair. The anioamt of cash and stamps stolen is under stood to be in the neighborhood of $1,100. . A Toledo Woman Crime. Toledo, Jan. 23. Mrs. S. J. McCol. lough, wife of a well-known iman of ithis city, committed suicide Saturday night and attempted to kill her'thret chMdren. The woman was Aindoubt edly insane. Four of the children were taken violently ill, 'having ratten dis eased meat. One child died ami the mother attempted to give he living cniKiren, an or wnom were in a critical condition, a dose of carbolic acid. She was prevented by people in the house, but she slipped away and was found later in a dying condition, having tak. en the ipoison herself. She survived but a few minutes. 1 Kalaed the Price of Lime. Toledo, Jan. 24. The western lime manufacturers met in this city Moa day and agreed on a scale of prices. They claim no trust was formed, but prices were fixed which they claim will be maintained throughout the west at least. Peter Martin, of Hunt ington, Ind., is the president of the organization and George B. Christian, of Marion, O., secretary. The manu facturers present represented an an nual output of 2,500,000 barrels. The companies represent a capital of $3, 000,000. The advance made is under stood to be from 25 to 35 cents a bar rel. Arraignment Postponed. Canton, Jan. 24. Mrs. Anna E. George was taken into court yester day for arraignment on the indiqtmenit for the murder of George D. Saxton. Attorneys John C. Welty and James S, Sterling, who have represented her without direct authority of court up to this time, were assigned to defend her. They objected to arraignment at this time, claiming there were feat ures of the indictment they wanted to investigate oefore nllowing their ell ent to recognize it by pleading to it. A continuance was granted, no date being set. . fitw Enterprlaes In A ill tabula County-, AsTiWhiila,' Jan." 20. Ashtaibula and Connennt are 'beginning to feel the wave of prosperity. . Oryickshank Bros., canners and picklers of Alleghe ny, ore to locate a (plant at Ashtabula, promising an expenditure of $150,000 to $200,000 yearly and employing sev eral hundred hands. The Rover .Tan ning Co. will increase its plant 50 per cent, nnd the Ashtabula Telephone Co. will increase its capital stock from $15,000 to $25,000 to meet its business. Connealut exipects to start a bicycle .factory and a $30,000 paving brick con cern. ! . Almoat Aaphy xlated. (Bucyrus, Jan. 21. Six persons were almost fatally asphyxiated ait am early hour Friday morning at the residence of Conductor Adoim. Conkle, by gas es caping fnoin a hard coal base buimer. The most seriously affected are Mrs. Conkle and t wo children and Mrs. Cfl,rroll, of Charleston, W. Va., and two children who are visiting ait the Conkle hone, who were all in a state of partial collapse when dtacovered. Soldlera Arreated. Columbus, Jan. 21. Five privates of the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry were arrested Thursday at the in stance of Quartermaster Donavin and slated "suspicion" wt the city prison. AH were released as soon as Ohief of Police Kelly discovered that they had lieen incarcerated 'because they had nt repaid loans and credits to officers of the regiment. Dtllenbaugh Ifluat Stand Trial, Olevelond, Jan. 24. The circuit court yesterday overruled the demur rer to the charges against Judge Del lewbaugh; In answer to the points raised by the defense the Turt held that it lincl jurisdiction in the cose and that tlhe charges were sufficient, if proved, to justify Judge Dellenoaugh's disbarment. 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