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en CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1889. V a $: Si' ft 1 wai vsv r7 - (.' J . m iflSJ H "ft . 'fa : 1 .' i' -,. j- ! iik .i S P 1 m f !, ?. iU-'! ins '. 4 . wnvM noncAS mm OR. TALMAQE PniiACHE9 AN ELO QUENT SERMON IN JOPPA. A Hnrnl drawn frnin tlin llnlliiwiil Amu cIaIIiiii of tlm Aiielrnt City Tine Clinr Hjr Wlml It I niul Wlmt It MriitK. Joita, Dec. 1. Today is tncnioniblo In tlio micrcd history (if Jontm, tlio Rov. T. Do Witt Tnlnmiro, 1). D.. preaching hero to n company of Christian iraoplo of various dononiiiin ions on "Tlio Hirthplncoof SowiiifrSo iotios." IIo took for his text Acta ix, 3D: "And nil tlio widows stood by liim weeping, and showing tho ooata and garnit'iiU which Dorcas mado whiloslio wits with thom." Tho preacher said : unristnins or Joppal Impressed as 1 am with your mosnuo, tho drat I ovor caw, and btirrcd as t am with tho fact tfnt your harbor onco floated tho great rafts of Lebanon cedar from which tho temples at Jerusalem wero buildcd, Solomon's oxen drawing tho logs through this very town on tho way to Jerusalom, nothing can niako mo forget that this Joppa was the birthplace of the sowing society that lias blessed tho poor of nil succeeding ages in nil lands. Tlio disasters to your town whon Judas Maccabouis Mt it on (ire, and Napoleon had llvo hundred prisonors massacred in your neighborhood, cannot make mo forgot pint ono of tho most magnificent char itios of the centuries was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a woman with hor needlo embroidering her iiainu in cflucoably into tho bonollccnee of tlio world. I sco hor sitting in yonder homo. In the doorway, and around about the building, and in tho room whorosho sits, nro tho palo faces of tho poor. Sho listens to their plaint, sho pities their woo, she makes garments for them, she adjusts tho manufactured articles to suit tho bout form of this invalid woman, and to tho cripple that comes crawling on his hands and knocs. Sho gives a coat to this ono, alio gives sandals to that one. With tlio gifts sho, mingles prayers and toars and Christian encouragement. Thon sho goes out to bo greeted on tho street corners by thoso whom sho has blessed, and nil through tho street the cry is heard: "Dorcas is coming I" The rick look up gratefully in her face as alio puts her hand on tho burning brow, and tho lost and tho abandoned start up with bono as they hear her gcntlo voico, as though an angel had addressed them; and as sho goes out flio lauo, oyes half put out with sin think thoy sco a halo of light about her brow, and a trail of glory in her pat 1 1 way. mat night n null nam snip Wright climbs tho hill and reaches homo, and sees his littlo boy woll clad, and says: "Where did these clothes oonio from?" And thoy tell him, nDorcus has boon hero." In another gaco a woman is trimming a lamp; 3rca3 bought tho oil. In another ylaco, a family that had not been at tablo for many a week are gathered uow, for Dorcas has brought brcutl. DEATn AND RKSUllKKOTlON Of DOIIOAB. But thcro is a sudden pause in that woman's ministry. Thoy say: "Whero is Dorcas? Why, wo haven't seen hor for many u day. Whero is Dorcas?" And ono of these oor peoplo goes up and knocks at tho door and finds tho mystery solved. All through tho haunts of wretchedness, tho nows comes, "Dorcas is sick I" No bulletin flashing from tho palaco gate, telling tLo stages of a king's disease, is mora anxiously awaited for than the nows from this sick benefactress. Alas I for Joppa I there is wailing, wailing. That toico which has uttered so many cheer ful words is hushed; that hand which and mado so many garments for the poor is cold and still; tho star which had poured light into tho mid night of wretchedness is dimmed by ftio blinding mists that go up from tho river of death. In every God forsaken place in this town ; wherever thcro is a sick child and no balm; wherever tioro is huugornnd no bread; wher ever there is guilt and no commisera tion; wherovor thcro is a broken heart and uo comfort, thcro are despairing looks and streaming eyes, and frantic iesticulutions us thoy cry: "Dorcas is cadi" They send for tho apostle Peter, who happens to bo in the sub urbs of this place, stopping with n tan nor by tho name of Simon. Peter argos his way through the crowd around the door, and stands in tho prosouco of tho dead. What expostu lation and grief nil about him I Hero stand some of tho poor people, who show the garmonts which this poor woman had mado for them. Their grief cannot bo appeased. Tlio nposllo Peter wants to perform a miriiclo. IIo will not do itamidst tho oxcited crowd, so ho kindly orders that tho wholo room ho cleared. Tho door is shut against tho populace. Tho apostlo stands now with tlio dead. Oh, it is a serious moment, you know, when you aro nlouo with a lifeless body I Tho apostlo gels down on his knees and prays, aiid then ho comes to the life less form of this ono all ready for tho sopulcher, and in tho strength of him Wiio is tho resurrection ho exclaims: "Tahitha, arisol" Thoro is a stir in tho fountains of life; tno heart flutters; tlio nerves thrill; tho cheek Hushes; tho oyo opens; sho sits up I Wo seo in this subject Dorcas tho disciple; Dorcas tho bouofactrcss; Dor cas tho lamented; Dorcas tho resur rected. If 1 had not seen that word disciplo in my text, I would have known this woman was a Christian. Such inusio as that uover came fitnn a heart which is not uhoided and blriiug by divine graco. Boforo 1 show you the needle work of tin's woman, I want to show you her regenerated heart, tho bourco of a puro life and of all Christian char ities. I wish that the wives and mo thers and daughters uiid sisters of nil tho earth would imitate Dorcas in her discipleship, JUioro you cross the threshold of tho hospital, before you enter upon the temptations and trials of to-morrow, I chargo you, in tho mime of God. and by thu turmoil and tumult of tho judgment day, oh women I that you attend t thu first, last and greatest duty of your life CTlo seeking for God and being at ponco with him, When the trumpet shall sound, there will bo an uproar, and a wreck of mountain and continent, and no human arm can help you. Amidst tho rising of the dead, and amidst thu boiling of yonder sen, and amidsttlie live, leaping thunders of tho flying heavens, calm and placid will bo every woman's heart who hath put her trust in Christ; calm notwith standing all tho tumult, as though tho firo in the heavens wero only the gild iugs of an autumnal sunset, as though tho peal of tho trumpet were only tho harmony of mi orchestra, as though tho awful voices of tho sky wore but a group of friends bursting through a gatoway at oventimo with laughter, and shouting "Dorcas, the disciplo I Would God that every Mary and every Martha would this day sit down at the feel of Jesus I Till'. ritAlHlCH OK T1IK NKKDI.K. Further, wo sco Dorcas the benefac tress. History has told tho story of tho crown; tlio epic poet has mine of tho sword; tho pastoral poet, with liis verses full of tho redolence of clover tops, and a-rustlo with tho silk of tho corn, has sung tho praises of tho plow. i ien you ine praises oi uiu nucuiu. From tno fig lent rolw prepared in tho S amen ot lMieu to mo lasisiueii taien on io garment for tho poor, tho needle litis wrought wonders of kindness, gener osity and benefaction. It adorned the girdle of tho high priest; it fash ionedlhe curtains in the ancient tnhcr uaclo; it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon ; it provided the robes of Queen Elizabeth; and in high places and in low places, by tho lire of tho pioneer's back log and under the flash of the chandelier, everywhere, it has clothed nakedness, it has preached tho Gospel, it has ovcrcotno hosts of pen ury and want with tho war cry of "Stitch, stitch, stitch l" The opera tives havo found a livelihood by it, and through it tho mansions of tho employer havo bcon constructed. Amidst tho greatest triumphs in all ages and lauds, I set down tho con quests of tho needle. I admit its crimes; I admit its cruelties. It has had more martyrs than the lire; it litis punctured tho oyo; it has pierced tho side; it has struck weakness into tho lungs; it has sent madness into tho brain; it has filled tho potter's field; it hits pitched wholo armies of the mi tier ing into crime and wretchedness and woo. But now that 1 am talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor, I shall sneak only of the charities of tho needlo. This woman was u roprosonUitivo of all those women who niako garments for tho destitute, who knit socks for tho barefooted, who prepare bandages for tho lacerated, who Ax up boxes of clothing for missionaries, who go into tho asylums of tho suffering and destitute bearing that Gospel which is sight for thu blind, and hearing for tho deaf, ami which makes the lame man leap like a hart, and brings tho dead to life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. What a contrast between tho practical benevolence of this woman and a great deal of the charity of this day 1 This woman did not spend hor tinio idly planning how tho poor of your city of Joppa wero to bo re lioved; sho took her needlo and re lieved them. Sho wns not like i those persons who sympathize with imagi nary borrows, and go out in tho street and laugh at tho boy who has upset his basket of cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on tho benevolent platform, and goes out to kick tho beggar from tho stop, crying: "Hush your miscrublo howl ing I" Tho sufferers of tho world want not so much theory as practice; not so much tears as dollars; not so much kind wishes us loaves of bread ; not so much smiles us shoes; not so much "God bless yousl" as jacketsand frocks. I will put ouo earnest Christian man, hard working, against five thousand mere theorists on tho subject of char ity. There aroti great many who havo fine ideas about church architecture who uover in their lifo helped to build a church. Thcro aro men. who can fivo you thu history of BuddLism and lohammedanism, who uover scut a farthing for their ovangclization. Thcro tiro women who talk beautifully about tho suffering of tho world, who nover had tho courngo like Dorcas to take tho needle ami assault it. DISCIN.ES OF DOIICAB. I am glad that thoro is not a pugo of tho world's history which Is not a rec ord of femulo benevolence. God says to all lauds and people, Como nowand hear tho widow's mite rattlo down into tho poor box. Tho princess of Couti sold all her jewels that she might help tho famine stricken. Queen Blanche, tho wife of louis VIII, of Franco, hearing that there wero some persons unjustly incarcerated in the prisons, wcnlout amidst tho rabbi o anil took a stick and struck tho doorns u signal that thoy might nil strike it, and down went tho prison door and out eamo tho prisoners. Queen Muud, tho wife of Henry I, went down amidst tho poor and washed their sores and ad ministered to them cordials. Mrs. Retson, nt Matagorda, appeared on tho battlellelu wliun tlio missiles or deatli wore flying around, and cared for tho wounded. ' Is thero a man or woman who has over heard of tho civil war in Amorica who has not heard of tho women of thu Sanitary and Chris tian commissions, or tno fact that, before the binoko had gone up from Gettysburg and Soutit Moun tain, thu women of tho north met tho women of tho south on tho battlefield, forgetting all their animos ities while thoy bound up tho wound ed, and closed tho eyes of thu slain? Dorcas tho benefactress. I como now to speak of Dorcas tho lamented. When death struck down that good woman, oh, hew much bor row there was in this town of Joppdl I suppose thero wero women hero with larger fortunes; women, perhaps, with handsomer faces; but there was no grief at their departure like this ut the death of Dorcas. Thoro was not mora turmoil and uptun ing in tho Mediterranean sen, dashing against tho wharves of this seaport, than thcro were burgings to mid fro of grief bo caubo Dorcas was dead. Thcro aro a great many who go out of life and are unmissed Thcro may bo a very largo funeral ; there may ho a great jiany carriages and n plumed hearse; thcro may ho hllt sounding eulogiiims; tho bell may toll nt tho cemetery gatot thcro may ho a very lino tuurblu shnfl reared over tho rcMing places hut tho whole thing may be a falsehood and a rIiiiiii. The eliuivh of God has lost nothing, llir uoi hi has lost nothing, it is oulv a nuisance abated it is only a grumbler censing In llud lault; ills only an idler stupiied .winning; it Is only a dissipated inshionatile parted from hi- wine tellar; while, on the other liatul, no useful UliriMmii leaves i this world without being missed. The church of God cries out like the prophets "Howl, fir tree, for tho cedar has fallen." Widowhood conies and shows the garment which thedcpaited had made Orphans mo lifted up to look into the calm face of the sleep ing benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses tho cold brow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through tho streets of Joppa there is mourning mourning because Dor cas is dead. "TIIKIH WOIIKH DO FOLLOW TIIKM." When Josephine of Franco was car ricd out to her grave, there woio great many men mid women of pomp and pride and position that went out after tier; hut 1 am most affected by tho story of history that on that day there wero feu thousand of tho poor of Franco who followed her eollln, weep ing and wailing until the air rang again, necause, wlien tnoy lost .loscpn ine. they lost their last earthly friend. Oh, who would not rather have such obsequies than all tho tears that wero over poured in the lachrymals that have been exhumed from ancient cit ies. There may bo no mass for tho dead; thero may be no costly sarcopha gus; there may be no elaborate mauso leum; hut in the damp cellars of tho city, and through the lonely huts of tho mountain cleii, thero will bo mourning, mourning, mourning, be cause Dorcas is dead. "Blessed aro tho dead who die in thoIi'd; thoy rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." I speak to you of Dorcas tho resur rected Tho apostlo came to whero sho was and said: "Arise; and sho sal up I" In what n short compass the great writer put that "Sho sat tip I" Oh, what a time thero must havo been around this town, when thu apostlo brought her out among her old friends! How the tears of joy must havo started! What clanpingof bauds thero must have been I Whatsingiiigl What laughter I Sound it all through that lane! Shout it down that dark alloy I Let all Joppa hear itl Dorcas is res urrected 1 noop nr.nim live aiavayh. Yon mid I havo seen tho s-inio thing many a time; not a dead body resusci tated, but tho deceased coming up again after death in tho good accom plished. If a man labors up to fifty years of age, serving God, and then dies, wo aro apt to think that his earth ly work is done. No. His inlluenco on earth will continue till thu world ceases. Services rendered for Christ iioverstop A Christian woman toils for the upbuilding of a church through many anxieties, through many self denials, with pravers and tears, and then she (lies. It is fifteen years since she went nway. Now the spirit of God descends upon that church; hundreds of souls stand up and confess the faith of Christ Has that Christian woman, who went away fifteen years ago, nothing to do with these things? I sco the flowering out of hor noble heart. I hear the echo of her footAteps in all tho songs over sins forgiven, m all the prosperity of the church. Thu good thatscemed to bo buried hnscomu up again Dorcas is resurrected. After a while all these womanly frionds of Christ will put down their needlo forever. After making gar ments for others, soino ono will mako a garment for them; tho last robo wo over wear the robo for tho grave. You will havo heard tho last cry of pain. You will havo witnessed the last orphanngo. You will havo como in worn out from your last round of mercy. J tto not itnow wnero you will slcop, nor what your opitaph will bo; but there will bo n lamp burning at that tomb und nc angel of God guarding it, mid through all tho long night no rude foot will disturb tho dust. Sleep on, sleep on I Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undisturbed roposol Sleep on I AbIitI Jwus1 nlesscilBleopI I'rom wlilcli none cvor wnko to woep. Thou one day thcro will bo a bW rending, and u whirl of wheels, and tho Hash of a pageant; armies march ing, chuinsrliinkiiig, banners waving, thunders booming, and that Christian woman will arise from tho dust, nnd sho will bo suddenly surrounded btir roui.dcdhy tho wundoiers of tho street whom sho reclaimed, surrounded by tho wounded souls to whom she had administered I Daughter of God, so strangely surrounded, what means this? It means that reward has como. that the victory is won, that the crown is ready, that tho banquet is bprcad. Shout it through all tho crumbling earth. Sing it through all tho flying heavens. Dorcas isrosurrcctedl CHH1STH aitKAT 01KT. In lSSn. when some of tho soldiers camo back from tho Crimean war to Loudon, tho Queen of England dis tributed among tlieni beautiful medals, called Crimean medals. Galleries were erected for tho two houses of par liament and the royal family to sit in. Thero was a great uudienco to witness thu distribution of tho medals. A colo uol who had lost both feet in the battlo of Iukermaii was pulled in on a wheel chair; others camo in limping on their crutches. Then tho queen of Fnglaud arose before them in the nauio of her government, and uttered words of commendation to the olllcors and men, and distributed these medals, in scribed with the four great battlefields, Alma, Bahiklava, Iukcrinnii and So bastopol. As tho queen gave theso to tho wounded men and tho wounded nillccrs, the bands of music struck up tlio national air, and thu peoplo with d reaming eyes joined in the bong: doit Km our (,'raclom queen I long llvo our noblo queen I CoJ wvo tlio qillHMll And then thoy shouted "Huzza! Nil. 0117. Nilincilritl Ciiluiiiik. 1 mil roliiHse(l of 111 litt(il'. My l'J, 0, :i In n Hnouul pronoun. My 8, ID, '., A In n wild nnliiml. My Ift, n, III l nil fu'llvii verb. My til, IS, I I ix iiiitnernl. My lf. 7, 1 1 111. t(l, It. I I to expand. My S lt, II. 10 In n vrRutnblo. My Ifi, l, U Uti Uxly of water. My irt, 0, It, I, 10, 7 W mmiotliltiK unknown or hidden. .lywliololnu well known American nil tlioroivt, mIioo most celebrated Htory linn lcen trnnMntetl Into ninny Imi);tmi;e8, anil n n piny 1h received w Ith unfailing Kiptilnrlty. No. (MIS. Hidden WoriW. In Hie mime of ono of tlio plant proxwol for a national llower may lo fonml it raiiRO of mountaliiK Moping towmd Ixitli Kuroo anil Asia, a meadow, n verb, ''nil coeli," "n urniv," a king nIiono imino l tlio tttlo of ono of BluUwH-iiroV plays, a girl's namo, a cloth mrnMire. "Irti("a imrtof tlio head, ovory tiling. No. Will. Iltn.lirUed Proverb. S-St- No. 700. A Charade I .Itllo Tom nnd Id h Inter went flitilng, Their nKes wero noven und the; Tliey returned nil e In led nnd kiuIIIiik, Declnrinft they'd caught Home nllre. Triumphant they opened their banket. To tet innnium Keo their Krnnd prle, "Why, thcHO nro not IIhIi, they nro ono twoft. You Kllly young mien, hco their eyeit" Tho children looked mire, dixupiioliited, And Tom laid hi two on tho Moor, Declillnj; ho didn't llko fishing, Anil wan Hiiro he'd not go any more. No. 701. Crom Word Knluitm. My flrt N In water, but not In Inmt; My second In foot, but not in I. nnd; My third In In lark, but not In wron; My fourth Is In flvo, lint not In ten; My fifth nnd lnt In englo you'll n;o My vliolo a goncrnl liruvo wim ho, Who died In tho moment of victory. No. 703, I)ro T.rltor I'roverb. -E-I, -I-II-U- -N-W-K-a- I- -n--I-T-Il rV -0-L-. No. 703. Curtailment. Curtail "old," nnd linvo "generation." Curtail "mature," nnd linvo "Ut tear a worn." Curtail "a Hue uwd for inoauring," nnd havo a kind ot fruit. Curtail "a number of nhin together," and hnvo "to run nway." Tho curtailed letters form a word moaning 'liability ," "obligation," "duo." The Clpbrr 1'iuzle, The authenticity of Hliakosponro'n nnto graph loIng dlauuftsod by a largo and merry party assembled round tho flresldoof a choor ful country homo, a young lady present was heard to remark, "That, of all thing, kIio envied tho possoivn of such a tronsuro." On retiring to rest, blio discovered tho following on her dri-KsIng tablo: You 0 a 0, hut lOtheoj O, 0 no 0, but O, 0 mo. And, O, lot my 0 thy 0 be, And give 0 010 tlieo. This tho translate! ns follows: You sigh for a cipher, hut I iltch for then, O, sigh for no cipher, but 0, High for ine. And O, let my cipher thy cipher be, And give sigh for slcb, for I sigh for theo. A Hldille In Illijriiin. Two brothers wo nro; groat burdoiw we licnr; By soino wo nro heavily pressed. We aro full nil tho day, but in truth I may say Wo nro empty when wo go to rest. A alr of shoes. Key to Hie I'uzzler. No. tt. A Word I'uzdoi 1. An ncro. 2. Nacro. 8. Crnno. -1. Near. ft. Era. 0. Er In error. 7. E. (east). No. C8!5. Acrostic: H.iturn. Lovo, Eng land. Eve. I'etrarch. Initial: Sleep. No. 080. Diamond nnd Unit Square; L A V T E HOD R I V D E I) A H 8 E V E H A L L I n E H A T E D r A It A D E D It A T E D L E D PLAN E It S TATTLE E N T It Y U E L Y O It E U 8 8 I) No, 037. (leogrnphlcal Enigmas: 1. Cat kill, 'i, Leavenworth. 3. lioston. 4. Now nrk. ft, liwell, 0. Dunkirk. 7. Cleveland, a Sprlngllold. 0. New Orients. 10. Hart ford. 11. Saratoga Spring. 12. Manches ter. 18 liultlmoro. H. 'Hannibal. 1ft. Wll llmantt No. ttoS. Arithmetical: C, I, ono hundred end ono; L, fifty, dividing ft gives C L I; cipher, O, nildod gives CLIO, ouo of tho ulna muses. No. I'.S'J. Crossword Enigma: Najioloon. No. (100. -A I'ootlcul Quotation: Oh, what a tangled neb wo vcae When first wo practice to ilccelvol No. Gill. -What Is It? Tho figure 8. No, ft.!. Curtailments: Whont boat eat. No. 093. 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