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The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VII.
HAKKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1894.
NUMBER 8.
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
rALKS ON THE NtCESSITY OF
PRAYER WITH WORK.
Tb Marlnera at Mm Kelled on Their
().r, but In Their Extremity Called on
Uod, and So Mint All the Sorrowful and
ajixinua
Jonah In tb. Storm.
Rev. Dr. Talmage, who la still absent
n his rouna tho world tour, selected
n the subject of last Sunday's sermon
through the press, "The Oarsmen De
feated," the text chosen being Jonah
I, 13, 14, "The men rowed hard to bring
It to the land, but they could not,
wherefore they cried unto the l ord."
Navigation in the Mediterranean Sea
always was perilous, especially so in
Early ti.nes. Vessels were propelled
partly by sail and partly by oar. When,
by reason of great stress of weather, it
was necessary to reef the canvas or
haul it in, then the vessel was entirely
dependent UKn the oars, sometimes
twenty o:' thirty of thera on either side
the ves.-el. ou would not venture
outside your harbor with such a craft
as my text linds Jonah sailing in, but
ho had not much choice of vessels. He
was running away from the Lord, and
when a man is running away from the
IorJ he has to run very fast.
"rroin tin I'rraenre of the l.or'1.
God told Jonah to go to Nineveh to
p ea h about t he destruction of that
rity, .ionan disobeyed That alwuys
make rough water, whether in tho
Mediterranean, or tho Atlaniic. or the
1'acilic, or the Caspian Sea. It ia very
hard tiling to sea e sailors. I have
seen them w her, 1 hi) brow of the vessel
was almost under water, and they were
walking the deck knee deep in the
surf, an i t he siuail boats by tho side of
tiie vessel had been i rushed as s.uall
us kindling wood, whistling as though
lio hing had hap ened, but the Hible
Kiys that the.ie mariners of whom I
speak wo i e li'igl.tencd.
That which sailors call "a lump if a
f"V had become a blinding, deafen
ing swamping fury. How mud tho
wind can get at the water, and tho
water can gel at the wind, vcu do not
know miles-. ou have been spectators.
ha' o in my house a piece of tho sail
of a ship no largorthun the palm of my
liiind. Thai iiieco of canvas was all
that was left u tho largest s:iii of the
ship Greece that went into tho storm
iMO miles oil .Newfoundland Oh. what
a night 1 hat was! 1 sunposc it was in
some such storm as this that Jonah
was caught.
He knew that tho tern, est was on his
account, and he a ked the sailors to
throw him overboard. Sailors are a
generous heai ted race, and they re
solved to make their es apo if possi
h o without resorting to such e:tron o
measures. The siiils are ol no use. and
so they lny hold on their oars. 1 see
tho long bank of shining bla'les on
either side the vessel. ( )h, how they
did pull, the broa ed seamen, as tnr.y
la'd back into the oars. Hut rowing
on the sea is very dillVront from row
ing ukjii a rifor, und as tac vessel
hoists the ours skip th'! wa.e
and miss the stroke, und the te n) est
laughs to scorn tue tl;. ing addle". It
is ot no use, no use. There coit.es a
wave that crushes the hist mast and
sweeps the oarsmen from their places
and tumoics everything in tho co'ifu
sion of impending shipwreck, or. as
my text has it,, ' Toe men rowed hard
to bring it to land, but they could not,
wherefore they cried unto tho l ord.''
S-.ilvittit n from llic Miornu
This scene is very suggestivo lo me,
and 1 pray God 1 may ha.e grace and
strength-enough to roiirerent it intel
ligently to you. M-ars ago I preached
a sermon on another phase of this very
s ib oct, anil 1 got, a letter from Hons
ton Tex., the writer saving that the
reading of tuat sermon in London had
led him to God. And 1 received an
other letter from South Australia say
ing that the reading of that ; ei inon in
Australia had brought several miuIs to
Christ And thou I thought, '-Why not
take another phase of the same sub
ject, for perhaps that (iod who can
ruino in power that which is sown in
weakness may m.w thiough another
phase of tho same subject bring salva
tion to tho people who shall hoar and
Milvation to the people who shall ready
Men and wonen who know how to
pray lay hold of tho Lord Col Al
mighty and wrostlo for tho blessing.
Bishop Latimer would stop some
times in his sermon in the midst of his
argument and nay, "Now 1 will tell
you a table, 'ami to-day I would like to
bring the scene of tho text as an illus
tration of a most important religious
truth. As those Mediterranean oar.-;-
niea trying to bring onahashord wore
discounted, 1 ha.e to tell you that
thev were not the only men who have
broken down on their paddles and
havo I ecu obliged to call on the Lord
for help. 1 want to say that the una
vailing o "orts of those Mediterranean
oarsmen have a counterpart in tho ef
forts wo aro muking to bring ion s to
the shoreof mfety mid set their feet
on tho rook of ages. You have a
falheror mother or husband or wife or
child or near riend who is not uChris
tian. Tho e have been times when
you have been in agony about their
sal i at ion.
Ml fcnr.M Hnil Morrow.
A minister of Christ whose wife was
dying without any ho e in csiis
walked the lloor, wrung Irs ham s.
cried bitterly and said, "1 believe I
shall go insane, (or 1 know she is not
prepared to moot (lod;" And there
may have been na., sof sickness in your
house hoi i when you leare I it would
bo a lauu sickness, an 1 how closely vou
examined the face of tho doctor us he
cun.o III and scrulinl ed the patient
and felt the pulse, and you followed
him into the next room and said,
"There Isn't any danger,, in' there, doc
tor?" And the hesitation and the un
(jurln'y oj tlc reply made two eternl-J
ties Bash before your vision. And
then you went and talked to the sick
ouJ4-t-o. t too great future. OL, there
are those here who have tried to bring '
their friends 5j (iod. They have beeu
unable to bring them to the share of i
safety. They aro no nearer that point
thaft they were 20 years ago. You
tblajt you have got them almost to the '
show when you are swept back agaiq. I
What shall you do.' Put down the oar?
Obno! 1 do not advise that, but I do
ad viae that you appeal to that God to
whom the Mediterranean oarsmen ap
pealed, the Cod who could silence the
tempest and bring the ship into safety i
to'lae port.' i tell you. my friends, '
thai there has got to be a good deal of i
firaying before our families are
irottgbt to Christ. Ah, it is an awful i
thing to have half a household on one i
side the line and the other part of the '
household on the other side of the
lino. Two vessels part on the ocean
of eternity one going to the right and .
the other to the left, farther apart and
farther apart until the signals cease
to be recognized, and there are only t
two specks on the horizon, and then
they are lost to sight forever.
I bave to toll you that the unavail- j
inr efforts of the Mediterranean oars-i
men have a counterpart in the efforts '
some o. us are making to bring our j
children to the shore of safety. There j
never were so many temptations for
young people aB there are now. Tho
literary and tho social influences seem '
to i)e against their spiritual interests. ;
Christ soems to bo driven almost en-j
tirely from the school and the ploasur-
able concourse, yet God knows how i
aniious we aro for our children We (
cannot think of going into Heaven
wf tiout them. We do not want to
lea' e his life while they are to siug
on "ihe waves of temptation and away;
frcm God. I rom which of them i-ould
we consent to be eternally separated?!
Would it be the son? Would it be the I
daughter? Wou.d it lie the eldest' ',
Wou d it be the youngest,' Would it j
be'the one that is well and stout or tho
one that is sick? Uh, I hear.-, me ar- i
fnt saying to-nig!.t: "I have tr.ed my
lK:St to bring my children to Christ. 1
have laid hold of the oars until
they bent in my grasp, and I have
braced myself against t lie ribs of the
boat, and have pulled for their eternal
rescue, but 1 can't get them to Christ."
Then I ask you to imitate the men of
the text and cry mightily unto God.
W i want more importunate pra villi;
fof 'children such as the liitlierindulged
irj-,vhen be had tried to bring his six
i to Christ, and they have wandered
or y.Xo dissipation. Then ho got down
if '.lis prayers and said. ' O Cod, take
ji,)v.y icy life If through that means my
suns may repent and be I ro.ight to
Christ," and the i ord startlingly an
swered the prayer, an i in a few weeks
the father was taken away, und
through the solemnity the six sons fled
unto God. Oil, that father co d. I allord
to dto for the et 'rnal welfare of his
children! Ho rowed hard to bring
their to the land, but could not, and
then he cried unto the Lord.
Hie W,iiiilirer"H Kcturn.
There are parents who are almost
dis enraged about their children.
Where is your son to night? lie has
wandered oil perhaps to the ends of
the earth. It seems ls if he cannot
get far enougi away froit voijr Chris
tian couiieol. W'liai (ioo.s he a'rcaliout
the farrows that come to your brow;
ubo .t the qui k whitening of the hair:
about this fact that your lia k begins to
stoop with the burdens? Why, he
would not care much tr he heard vou
were dead. The black edged letter
that brought the ti ings ho would put
in tho sume package with other letters
telling the stury of his sliainy. What
a'-e you going to do? Loth paddles
broken at tho middle of tho blade, how
can you pull him a hore? I throw you
one oar oh which I believe you i-an
bring him into harbor. it s the
glorious promise, "I will be aGoiito
ttiee and to thy seed alter t hoe.'' t h.
broken hearted fulherund mother, you
have tried everything else, now mako
au appeal for tho holpan;! omnipotun e
of the covenant keeping Cod, anil per
haps at your next lumily gathering -porhaim
on Thanksgiving day, perhaps
next Christmas - too prodigal may be
homo, und if yo.t erow.i on his place
more luxuries than on anv other plate
at the table I am sure the brothers i
will not bo jealous, but they will wake
uu all tho mus c in tho house, ' because
tho dead is ulivo again, and because
tho lost is loun l.' i'erhaps your
nrayei s 1 ave been answered already.
The vessel may be om.ng homeward,
and by tho light of th a night's stars
that son may bo pacing the deck of tho
ship anxious for tho time to come' when
ho can throw his arm around your neck
und ask lor forgi; eness for that he has
iK'cn wringing your old heart so long.
Glorious reunion that will be too
sacred for outsiders to look upon, but I
would just like to look through the
window when you have all got to
gether again aud aro seated at the
banquet.
UUenuti pnronli mat hi eomenant be
And have ilmlr H'ivi'ii in view,
Tboy are ooi happy ltd llifty avo
I iioirctiiiiii'i-n impiiy too.
Again I remark that tl.e unavailing
ed'ort of the .iediterranoau oarsmen
has a counterpart in tho efort which
wo are making to bring this worl I ha k
to Cod, Ills pardon and safety. If th
world could have be- n saved I y h
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eliort, It would have been done long
ago. John Howard took hold of ono
oar, and Carey took hold of Another
oar, and Adoniriim Jiul-on took hold of
another, and John j nox took hold o
another oir, and they all pulloluntll
they fell back dead from exhaustion.
Some dropped in the a hos of martyr
dom, some on the h a ping knives of
savages and some into the plaguo
struck room of the I yard to, an I still
the chains ure not bro'cen, and still
the despotisms are net dcmo.ished.a id
still the world is ims ivod. What then '
1 nt down the oars and make no effort?
I do Dot advise tuat, Hut 1 want you,
Christian bietliren, to understand that
the church, and the hool, and the
i ollege, and the missionary society are
only the instrumentalities,' and If this
work is ever done at all God must do
it, and He will do It in answer to our
prayer. "They rowed bard to bring ,
it to the land, but thry could not,
wherelore the4 cried nuto the Lord.'
It 1m Not in Human Mrma'.iii
gain the unavailing efTort of those
Mediterranean o irsmen haj a t ounter
part in every man that is trying orow
bis own soul into safety. When the
eternal spirit flashes upon usourcondi
tion, wo try to save ourselves. We
say, "Give me a stout oar for my right
hand, give me a stout oar for my left
hand, and I will pull myself into
safety." No. A wave of sin comes
and dashes you one way, and a wave o
temptation comes and dashes you in '
another way, and there are i fenty of
rocks on which to founder seemingly j
no harbor into which to sail. Sin
must bo thrown overboard, or we must ;
perish. I
i There are men who have tried for ;
: years to become Christians. They be
lieve all I say in regard to a future
; wo Id. They believe that religion is
' the first, the last.thein nite necessity.
They do everything but trust inChrist.
They matce sixty strokes in a minute.
' They liend forwrd with all earnest
, ness, an 1 they lie ba k until the
i muscles are distended, and yet they ':
have not made one inch in ten years '
toward Heaven. What is the reason?
i That is not the way to go to work, j
j You might as well take a frail skiff, i
: put it down at tho foot of Niagara and
then head it up toward the churning
thunderbolt of waters and expect to
! wcrk your wav up through the light-,
j ning of the foam into calm Lake Krie, ,
j as foryoti to try to pull yourself through
the surf of your sin into hope and par
' don and placidity of tho gospel. Vou
i cannot do it in that way. Sin is a rough
sea, and longboat, yawl, pinnace and
; gondola go down un!ess tho Lord de
! liver, but if you will cry to Christ and
1 lay nold of divine mercy you aro as
. saio from eternal condemnat on as
j though you had been twenty years in
Heaven.
i 1 wish I could put before my unpar
' poned rea ietM thei own helplessness.
' No human arm was ever strong enough
i to tinlo, k the door or Heaven. No foot
i ever was mighty enough to break the
; shackle of sin. No oarsmiin swarthy
enough to row h mself into (lod s har
bor. The wind is against you. The
tide is against yo . The aw is against
you. Ten t hous .nd orr.i, ting ir.
11 cu es are ae.iiiint vo . Helpless
: and undone. .' ot so be
I a plume. n.'d-At autt
i less a traveler girded
ipies-i u sauor on
. ot so help
by twenty m les
I of prairie on tiro. 1 rjvo it. you say.
1 r.jve it,
John vi,
1 wi 1 prove it. .lobn vi, -. t: "ad
man can come to
Father which hath
,e, except the
sent trie draw
him."
rvlvH'loti In of (irco.
lint while 1 have shown your help-le.-sne:
s 1 want to put by the side ol it
the power and tho illingue s of I blunt
to save you. 1 think it was in IliKli a
vessel was bound ;or t o tugal, but it
was driven to pieces on an un riendly
coast. The caplain had his son with
him. ami with tho crew they wandered ;
up the beach an i started on the long ;
journey To find relief. After a while
tiie son fainted by reason of hungerand
the length of the way. The capt .in said ,
to the crew: "Carrv my boy for me oa I
your shoulders.'' They Ci.r: iod him
on, but the jo.irney was .-o long th t af- '
lor awhile the crew fainted from him- (
ger and from weariness aiidcouul carry
him no longer. '1 ben tho father ral
lied h s almost wiis'ed energy and took
up his own boy and put liim on his
shoulder and carried bim on mile after
mile, until, overcome h. mself by
hunger and weariness, he, too, tainted
by the way. The boy lay loyn and j
died, an I the fatheT', 'uTo at the time
r'-cu icumo to him. also perished, liv
ing only long enough to toll the story
sad slory indeed. Lot glory be t j
Go l that Jesus Christ is able to take ,
us up out of our sh'pwreckeu and '.lying '
condition and put us on tho shoulder
of his strength anil by the omnipo
tence of his gospel bear us on through 1
all the journey of this life and at last
through the op, n gates o," Heaven. He
is mighty to save. Though your sin be 1
long and blacK, the . erv moment you
believe I will proclaim pardon quick, i
full, grand, unco alitional, uncompro-mi-ing,
illimitable, infinite. Oh. the !
grace of God: I am overwhelmed when ;
1 co . c to think of it. Give me a i
thousand ladders lashed fast to each
other that 1 may scale the height. Let j
. tiie lino run out with t e anchor until ;
jail tho cab es oi the earth ure ex-'
ha usled that we may touch tho depth, I
Lot the archangel liy in circui.'.o etor- I
nal ages in trying to sweep around this I
theme. Oh, the gra-eol i o I! Itisso
high. It is so broa '. It is so deep,
-'"'J h; lo "d lh;it where man's oar
gives out Cod's arm begins! Why will
ve carry voursiiiKand vonr sorrows nnu
longer when Christ oilers to take
them? Why will you wrestle down
your fears when this moment you
might give up and bo saved Do you
not know that everytli.ng .s ready?
ThiTr. iiHiiri HiM'ovrrnd.
I 'lenty of room at the feast. Jesus
has the ring of His love all ready lo
put upon vour har.d. Come now and
sit down, yo hungry ones, at tho I an
quet. Yo who are in rags of sin, take
the robe of Christ. ; e who are
swamped by tho breakers aro.ind
vod)
cry to Christ to j Lot you in o smooth
st. 11 waters. ( n a. count, ol the pe-
itllHfl, TtlltlM.V llf t IV ilillv'll t I ,.i-.i
r-. .. "'
drawn my present lllu trations, you 1 ""' "" ""'" nucic i ue ieo. n
see, childly from tho water. I remem- ; u sl)C;lk English and to wear t nglisb
her that, u vessel wut to pieces o:i tho 1 clothes, and to tell the time of day
Leruiudas a great many yours ago. Jtjbyan English clock; for In Nepaul
had a vast treasure on i oard. Hut the I time Is measured by means of a
vessel liemg sunif, no o ort was made
to raise it. A iter many years had
passed a company of adventurers wont
out from Kngliind. and after a long voy
age they reached the place where tho
vessel was said to havesttnk. They got
into a sinab boa and hovered over tiie
p ace.- Then the divers went down, and
thoy broko through what looked
like a limestone covering, and
tho treasures rolled out-what
was found ultorward to be,
in American money, worth $l, .ilO,(KHi,
tno inundation oi a great business
house. At that tttno the wholo world j
re olcod over what whs called the luck I
of thesi adventurers. Oh, yo who
have bnn rowing toward the tboreSt Nicholas.
and have not been a: le to reach it, I
want to tell you to-i,ight that your boat
hovers over infinite treasure. All the
riches of God are at your feet. Trea
ures that never .ail and crowns that
never grow dim. Who will go down
now and seek them? Who will dive
for the pearl of great priee? Who will
be prepared lor life, for death, for
judgment, for the long eternity see
two hands o' blood stretched out io
ward thy soul, a; Jeus says, "Come
unto me, all ye that laUjr and are
heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest."
HUNTING A TROOP OF WOLVES.
They Cbar(ed I Mill the Bullet, flew and
then Made Off.
Od, od tbey came, each eager to
get ahead of the other, aud lessening
the distance between us and them at
a rapid rate. Hut wc stood driu,
with rides raised aud sighted oa the
two in advance till Ned thought they
were near enough. Then, after care
ful aim, bis rifle sang out and tbe
foremost wolf, with a convulsive
bound, dashed to one side and fell
over on the ice.
I had good aim on the other, and
as Ned's shot made tbe pack slacken
their speed 1 luckily sent a ball
through its head and dropped it In its
tracks.
This reception quite cooled the
courage of the nearest wolves and
they cut their race short and began
spreading out around us. 'ibose
farther back slackened speed, which
showed their doubt and hesitation.
We would have thought the bat
tle won had not the little one, who
seemed lobe the leader, i nine bound
ing on as fast as ever, passing those
ahead one alter the other and inspir
ing them with fresh courage. We
knew not what this might lead to
and reserved our buckshot lor the
occasion. It looked serious for a
whiie and we were afraid th s second
attack woii'd prove harder to repel
than Llieli.st. We had not rnucli
t, me to consult i n the mat ter, but
we decided that Ned at the proper
moment was to make sure of the lit
tle one. and immcliat.ely after I was
to send my charge into the foremost
ones following.
On the leader madly rushed to a
point within thirty wrnls of us, then,
with a wolf's tunning, turned sud
denly to one side, says a St. Ni holas
writer. Th s brought the others to
a halt and relieved us of any lear we
had, for we saw that i heir attack was
mere bluster. Hut if they weie
ready for a parley we were not. We
sent our buckshot into the thickest
of the crowd and knocked the little
one over, which scut the rest flying
away, either to the woods or back to
the deer, aud lei t us musters of tho
lleld.
Tbe Chinese Teiil.ouie.
Tho restaurant or teahouse in
China takes the p ace of the West
ern clubtonin. All the current news
and gossip is here circuia ed and dis
cussed over their eating or gambling.
One of their games of chance, which
we have frequeui.ly noticed, seems to
consist in throwing their lingers at
r.ine another, anil shouting at the
the to") of their voices. It is
matching of numbers, for which the
China men make signs on their lin
gers, up to the numeral M
The Chlne.e of alt nations seem to
live in order to eat, and from this
race of epicures has developed a na
t ion of e cellent cooks. Our fare in
China, outside the Gobi district was
far better than in Turkey or Persia,
and, for this reason, we are better
able to endure tho incre scd hard
ships A plate of sli ed meat,
stewed with vegetables aud served
with a piquaut sauce, sliced radishes
and onions with v negar, two leaves
of t hinese mo-mo or steamed bread,
and a not of tea, would usually cost
us about ;i cents apiece.
i verythlng in C hina is sliced so that
it can be eaten with the chopsti ks.
These we at ietigtli learned to ma
nipulate with ii'l.cient dexterity to
pick up a dove's egg the highest at
tainment in the chopslick art. -The
Chinese have rather a sour than
a sweet toot h. Sugar is rarely used
in anything, and ucier in tea. The
steeped teallowers, which the higher
classes use, are really more tasty
with .ut it The Century.
Time of Day in epuul.
There are no public schools in Ne
pan I. The sons of 1 rincesanrl nobles
even our young King, while he is
yet nlyaboy are taught al homo
try tho guru, or household priest, w:.o
js supposed to be also a pundit, or
very learned man. Later, the young
men of rank are sent to Patna. Ho
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copper vessel, with a small hole in
the bottom, set ulloat on a tank or
pool.
Sixty times a day this kettle (Ills
and sinks, and every time it sinks n
gong is struck; so that the day is di
vided into sixty 'gongs'' or "bells"
m s.iilors reckon time u board shin,
The poor Ithootlya shepherds or tho
Ncwar wotue i who make pottery in
the fields say that the day I begun
when they can count the tiles ou the
roof or a house, or when the can see
the hairs on the back of a man' hand
by holding it up against tbe light,
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