The Weekly banner-watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1886-1889, March 19, 1889, Image 8
THE BANNER-WATCHMAN, ATHENS, GEORGIA, MARCH 19, 1889 a vA. HOLY REBUILDING/ SL • DR. TKLMAGE APPLIES THE EXAMPLE .OF NEHEMIAH TO CHRISTIAN LIFE. A Read Cl*y—Xi liomlab, • Captive, tiongi i to Bebnild tl»e Homo ot Ilia Fathers. {, Moonlight Ride—Why and How the I Heart of Man Moat Re Reconstructed. ' Brooklyn, March 17—At the tab ernacle this morning the Rev. T. De "Witt Talmage, D. D., expounded the seventh chapter of Ecclesiastes. He afterwards gave out the hymn begin ning, Grace! ^1* a charming sound. Harmonious to Uie oar. which was sung by the vast congre gation with magnificent etfecL The subject of Dr. Talmage’s sermon was “The Moonlight Ride,” and the texL Nclieniiah ii, 15: “Then l went up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, anu turned back, and entered .by the gate of the valley, and so re lumed.’ He said: - A dead city is more suggestive than a living city—past Rome than present Rome—mins rather than newly fres coed cathedral. But the best time to visit a ruin is by moonlight. The Coliseum is far more fascinating to the traveler after sundown than before. You may stand by daylight amid the monastic ruins of Melrose Abbey, and study shafted oriel, and rosetted stone and muilion, but they throw their strongest witchery by moonlight Some of you remember what the en chanter of Scotland said in the “Lay of the Last MinstrcL” Wouldst thou view fair Melrose aright, I Go vksit it by the pale moonlight. Washington Irving describes the Andalusian moonlight upon the Al hambra ruins as amounting to an en chantment. My text presents you Jerusalem in rains. The tower down. The gates down. The. walls down. Everything down. Nehemiah on horseback, uy moonlight looking upon the ruins. While he rides, there are some friends on foot going witli him, for they do not want the many horses to disturb the suspicions of the people. . These people do not know tho secret of Kehemiah’s heart, but they are going as a sort of body guard. I near the clicking hoofs of the horse on which Nehemiah rides, as he guides it this way and that, into this gale and out of that, winding through that gate amid the debris of once great Jerusalem. Now the horse comes to a dead bait at the tumbled masonry where he cannot pass. Now ho shies oil' at the charred timbers. Now lie comes along where the water under the moonlight flashes from the mouth of tho brazen dragon after which the gate was named. Heavy hearted Nehemiah! Riding in and out, now by his old home desolated now by the defaced temple, now amid the scars of the city that had gone down under battering ram and confla gration. The escorting party knows not what Nehemiah means. Is he getting crazy? Have his own personal sor rows, added to the sorrows of the na tion, unbalanced his intellect? Still the midnight cxplor&tion goes on. Nehemiah on horsebaek rides through the lish gate, by the tower of the fur naces, by the king’s pool, by the dragon well, in and out, in and out, until the midnight ride is completed, and Nehemiah dismounts from his horse, aud to the amazed and con founded and incredulous body guard, declares the dead secret of his heart when ho says, “Come, now, Ict us build Jerusalem.” “What, Nehemiah, have you any money?” “No.” “Have you any kingly author ity?” “No.” “Have you any elo quence?" “No.” Yet that midnight, moonlight ride of Nehemiah resulted in the glorious rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. Tho people knew not how the thing was to be done, but with great enthusiasm they cried out, “Let us rise up now and build the city.” Some people laughed and said it could not be done. Some people wore in furiate aud offered physical violence, saying the thing should not bo done. But the workmen went right on, stand ing onthe wall, trowel in one hand, sword in the other, until the work was gloriously completed. At that very time, in Greece, Xenophon was writing a history, and Plato was making phil osophy, and Demosthenes was rattling his rhetorical thunder, but all of them together did not do so much for tho world as this midnight, moonlight ride of praying, courageous, homesick, close mouthed Nehemiah. ve find him on horseback, in he .midnight, riding around the ruins. It is through the spectacles of this scene that we discover the ardent attachment' of Nehemiah for sacred Jerusalem, which in all ages lias been the type of the church of God, our Jerusalem, which we love just as much as Nehemiah loved his Jerusalem. The fact is that you love tho church of God so much that there is uo spot on earth so sacred, unless it is your own fireside. The church has been to you so muchcomfortandillumination that there is nothing that makes you so irate as to have it talked againsL If there have been times when you have been carried into captivity by sickness, you longed for the church, our hojy Jerusalem, just as much as Nehemiah longed for his Jerusalem, and the first day you came out you came to the houso of the Lord. When the Teniple.w'fls in. ruins as ours was years ago, like Nehemiah, you walked around and looked at it, and in the moonlight you stood listening if you could not near.the voice of the tfead organ, tho psalm of the expired Sab baths. What Jerusalem was to Nehe miah, the church of God is to you. Skeptics and infidels may scoff at the church as an obsolete affair, as a relic of the dark ages, as a convention of goody goody people, but all the im pression they hav^ ever made on your mind against the church of God is absolutely nothing. You would make more sacrifices for it today than for any other institution, and if it were needful you would die in its defense. You can take the words of the kingly poet as he said, “If 1 forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.” You understand in your own experience the |%thos. the homesickness, the courage, the holy enthusiasm of Nehemiah in his mid night, moonlight ride around the ruins of his beloved Jerusalem. feet farce if there is no ruin. “The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.” “If any one, though be be an angel from ueaven, preach any other gospel than this,” says the apostle, “let him be accursed.” There must be the midnight ride over tho ruins before Jerusalem can be builL There must be the clicking of the hoofs before there can be the ringing of the trowels. ( UPBUILDING OF ZION. i My subject first impresses me with the idea what an intense thing is church affection. Seize the bridle of that horse and stop Nehemiah. Why . are you risking your life here in tho night? Your horse will stumble over these ruins and fall on you* Stop this useless exposure of your life. No; Nehemiah will not stop. Heat last tells us the whole story. He lets us know he was an exile in a far distant land, and he was a servant, a cup bearer in the palace of Artaxerxes Longimanus, and one day, while he was handing tho cup of wine to the king, the king said to * him, “Wnat is the matter with you? You are not sick. I know you must have some great trouble. What is the matter with you?” Then he told the king how that be loved Jerusalem was broken down: how that his father’s tomb had been desecrated; how that the Temple had been dishonored and defaced; how that the walls were scattered and broken^ “Well," says King Artaxerxes, “what do you want?” “Well," said the cup bearer Nehemiah, “I want to go home. I want to fix up the grave of my father. I want to re store the beauty of the temple. I want to rebuild the masonry of the city wall. Besides. I wantpassportssothatlshall pot be hindered in my journey. Aud besides that,” as you will Gnu in the context, “I want an order on the rnau who keeps your forest for just so much timber as l.mj “ ' " ing of the city, ____ bo gone?” said the king. The time of absence is arranged. In hot haste tins ^ seeming adventurer comes to Jerusalem, aud in my . text reconstruction of the heart. Again, my text impresses me with the fact that before reconstruction there must be an exploration of ruins. Why was not Nehemiah asleep under the covers? Why was not his horse stabled in the midnight? Let the po lice of the city arrest this midnight rider out on some mischief. No. Nehemiah is going to rebuild the city, and he is maxing the preliminary ex ploration. In this gate, out that gale, east west, north, south. All through the hums. The ruins must be explored before the work of reconstruction can begin. The reason that so many peo- S lo in this day, apparently converted, o not slay converted is because they did not first explore the ruins of their own heart The reason that there are so many professed Christians who in this day lie and forge and steal, and commit adultery, and go to the peni tentiary, is because they first do not learn the ruin of their own heart They have not found out that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ” They had an idea that they were almost right and they built religion as a sort of extension, as an ornamental cupola. There was a su perstructure of religion built on a sub stratum of unrepented sins. The trouble with a good deal of modern theology is that instead of building on the right foundation, it builds on the debris of an unregenerated nature. They attempt to rebuild Jerusalem be fore, in the midnight of conviction, they have seen the ghastiliness of the ruin. They have such a poor founda tion for their religion tliat the first northeast storm of temptation blows them down. I have no faith in a man’s conversion if he is not con verted in the old fashioned way—John Bunyan’s way, John Wesley’s way, John Calvin’s way, Pauls way,. Christ’s way, God’s way. A dentist once said to me, “Does tliat hurt?” Said I, “Of course it hurts. It is in your business as in my profes sion. WVliave to hurt before we can help,” You will never un derstand redemption until you understand ruin. A man tells me that some ono b a member of the church. It makes no impression on my mind at all. I simply want to know whether he was converted in the old fashioned way; or whether he was converted in the new fashioned way. If he was converted in the old fash ioned way he will stand. If he was converted in the new fashioned way he will not stand. That is all there is about it. A man conies to me to talk » about religion. The first question I ask him is, “Do you feel yourself to be a sinner?’’ If he say, “Well, I— yes,” the hesitancy makes me feel tliat that-man wants a ride on' Nehemiali’s horse by midnight through the ruins —in by the gate of his affections, out by tho gate of his will; and before he has got through with that midnight ride ho will drop the reins on the horse’s neck,, and. will take his right hand and smite on his heart aud say: “God be merciful to mo a. sinner;” and beforo ; he has stabled liis,horse he will take his feet out of the stirrups, and he will slide down on the ground, and he will kneel, crying, “Have mercy on me, 0 God, according to thy loving kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies; blot out my transgressions, for I acknowl edge my transgressions and my sins are ever before thee. ” Ah, mv mends, you see this is not a complimentary gospel. That is what makes some peo ple so mad. It comes to a man of a million dollars and impenitent in his sins and says, “You’re a pauper.” It comes to a woman of fairest cheek, who. has never repented, and says, “You’re a sinner." It comes to a man priding himself on his independence and says, “You’re bound hand and foot by the devil.” It comes to our entire race and says, “You’re a ruin, a ghastly ruin, an illimitable ruin.” Satan sometimes says to me, “Why do you preach that truth? Why don’t you preach a gospel with no repentance in it? Why don’t you flatter men’s hearts so that you make them feel all right? Why don’t you preach a humanitarian gospel CHRISTIAN PERSEVERANCE. Again. My subject gives me a speci men of busy and triumphant sadness. If there was any man in the world who had a right to mope and give up everything as lost, it was Nehemiah. You say, “He was a cup bearer in the palace of Shushan, and it was a grand place." So it was. The hall of that palace was two hundred feet square, and the roof hovered over thirty-six marble pillars, each pillar sixty feet high: and the intense blue of the sky, and the deep green of the forest foli age. and the white of the driven snow, all nung trembling in the upholstery. But, my friends, you know very well that fine architecture will not put down homesickness. Yet Nehemiah did not give up. Then when you s6e him going among these desolated streets, ana by these dismantled tow ers, and by the torn up grave of his father, you would suppose that he would have been disheartened, and that he wsuld have dismounted from his horse and gone to his room and said: “Woe is me! My father’s grave is tom up. The Temple is dishonored. The walls are broken down. I have no money with which to rebuild. I wish i had never been born. I wish 1 were dead." Not so says Nehemiah. Although he had a grief so intense that it excited the commentary of his king, yet that penniless, expatriated Nehemiah rouses himself up to rebuild the city. He gets his permission of absence. He gets his jiassports. He hastens away to Jerusalem. By night on horseback he rides through the ruins. He overcomes the most fero cious opposition. He arouses the piety and patriotism of the people, and in less than two months, namely, in fifty-two days, Jerusalem was rebuilt That’s what I call busy and triumph ant sadness. My friends, the whole temptation is with you, when you have trouble, to do just the opposite to the behavior of Nehemiah, and that is to give up. You say, “I have lost my child and can never smile again.” You say, “I have lost my property, and I never can re pair my fortunes.” You say, “1 have fallen into sin. and I never can start little girl looked up. while holdin^lier I, dead mother’s hand, and said, “On, I do wish that God had made more light for poor folks.” My dear, God will be your light, God will be your shelter, God will be your home. Are you borne down with the bereavements of life? Is the bouse lonely nbw tliat the child is gone? Do not give up. Think of what tho old sexton said when the minister asked him why he put so much care on the little graves in the cemetery—so much more care than on the larger graves, and the old sexton said, “Sir, you know that ‘of such is the kingdom of heaveu,’ and 1 think the Saviour is pleased when he sees so much white clover growing around these little graves." But when the minister pressed the old sexton for a more satisfaetory answer, the old sex ton said, “Sir, about these larger graves, I don’t know who are the Lord’s saints aud who are not; but you know, sir, it is clean different, with the bairns.” Oil, if you have had that keen, tender, indescribable sorrow that comes from the loss of a child, do not give up. The old sex ton was righL It is all well with the bairns. Or, if you have sinned, if you have sinned grievously—sinned until you have been cast out by the church, sinned until you have been cast out by society, do not give up. Perhaps there may he in this house one that could truthfully utter the lamentation of another: Once 1 was pure as the snow, but I fell— Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to hell— Fell, to be trampled as filth in the Street- Fell, to be scoffed at, spit on and beat; Praying, cursing, wishing to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread, Hating the living and fearing the dead. WHERE COMFORT IS FOUND. Do not give up. One like unto the Son of God comes to you today, say ing, “Go and sin no more,” while he cries out to your assailants, “Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her.” Oh! there is no reason why any ono in this house, by reason of any trouble or sin, should give up. Are you a foreigner, and in a strange land? Nehemiah was an exile. Are you penniless? Nehemiah was poor. Are you homesick? Nehe miah was homesick. Are you broken hearted? Nehemiah was broken heart ed. 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I pick you up today out of your sins and out of your sorrow, and I put you against bring the hot iron out on the anvil and I ^ wat ™ heart of Christ" “The eter- beat with stroke after stroke to ruin na * God is thy refuge, aud underneath are the everlasting anus.” our forest for just so much with uo repentance in it, saying noth* may need for the rebuild- ing about the ruin, talking all the ■ty. “How lon^ shall yon time about redemption?” Isay, “Get av thee behind me, Satan, ” I would rather lead five souls the right way than twenty thousand tho wrong way. The redemption of the gospel is a per- the iron, but to prepare it for a better use. Oh that tho Lord God of Nehe miah would rouse up all broken hearted people to rebuild. Whipped, betrayed, shipwrecked, imprisoned Paul went right oil The Italian martyr Algerius sits in his dun geon writing a letter, and he dates it “From the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison." That is what I call triumphant sadness. 1 knew a mother who buried her baby on Friday and on Sabbath appeared in the house of God and said: “Give me a class; give me a Sabbath school class. I have no child now left me, and I would like to have a class of little children. Give me real poor children. Give me a class off the back, street.” Tliat. I say, is beautiful. Tliat is tri umphant sadness. At 3 o’clock this afternoon, in a beautiful parlor in Philadelphia—a parlor pictured and statuetted—there will be from ten to twenty destitute children of the street. It has been so every Sabbath after noon at 3 o’clock for many years. These destitute children receive relig ious instruction, concluding with cakes and sandwiches. How do I know that that has been going on for many years? I knew it in this way. GREED CURED BY CHRISTIAN WORK. That was the first homo in Philadel phia where I was called to comfort a g reat sorrow. They had a splendid oy and he had been drowned at Long Branch. The father and mother al most idolized the hoy, and the sob and shriek of that father and mother as they hung over the coffin resound in my ears today. There seemed to be no use of praying, for when I knelt down to pray, the outcry in the room drowned out all the pray. But the Lord comforted that sorrow. They did not forget their trouble. If you should go on tho snowiest winter af ternoon into Laurel Hill you would find a monument with the word “Walter” inscribed upon it, and a wreath of fresh flowers around the name. I think there has not been an hour all these years, winter or sum mer, when there was not a wreath of fresh flowers around Walter’s name. But the Christian mother who sends those flowers there, having' no child left, Sabbath afternoons mothers ten or twenty of the lost ones of tho street. That is beautiful That is what 1 call busy and triumphant sad ness. Here is a man who has lost uis roperty. He does not go to hard king. He does- not destroy his He comes and says: “Har ness me for Christian work. My money’s gone. 1 have no treasures on earth. I want treasures in heaven. I have a voice and a heart to serve God.” You say that that man has failed. He has not failed—he has triumphed. Oh, I wish I could per suade all the people who liavs any kind of trouble never to give up. I wish they would look at the midnight rider of the text, and that the four hoofs of that beast on which Nehemiah rode might cut to pieces all your dis couragements and hardships and trials.. Give up l Who is going to give up, when on tho bosom of God he can have all his troubles hushed? Give up I Never tiiink of giving up. Are you borne down with poverty? A little child was found holding her dead mother’s hand in tho darkness of a tenement house, ancl some ono coming in, the own life. Height of the Tower of Babel. The reputed height of this structure has at times been greatly exaggerated, some Javvish authorities fixing it at twelve miles and Jerome quoting con temporary assertions for its being four miles high. These estimates, how ever, give way to the sober testimony of Strabo, who states the height at 600 feet, which is the figure generally ac cepted. The distinction of forming the remains of the. tower of Babel has been claimed for three masses of ruins in or near Babylon; hut the majority of competent antiquarians have declared in favor of Birs Nimroud, which stood in Borsippa, a suharb of Babylon, eight miles distant from that city; Sir R. K. Porter showed that the summit had been exposed to intense vitrifying heat which must have been the result of fire operating from above, probably in the form of lightning, thus con firming the tradition of its destruction by fire from heaven. Sir H. F. Raw- linson discovered that it consisted of seven stages of brick work on an earthen platform, each stage being of a different color. Its ruins still . rise 153 feet above the level of the plain. According to Herodotus the tower of Babel was adorned by colossal images and statues of solid gold, the value of which he rated at twenty-one millions sterling, probably as great an exaggera tion of their worth as twelve miles was of tho height of the structure.— New York Telegram. Chronic Female Disease*. Leucorrhoea, Painful and Irregular Menstra- tlon, Supp ession or Excessive vensas, Prolap sus, Inflammation and Ulceration of the w mb, Weak Back, Nervous and -lecpless Nights, Shortness of Breath, Vertigo, Palpitation of the Heart, Sick and Nervous Headaclu ly cured. Diseases of Men the eadaclie are perfect- A large experience in treating diseases pe liar to men has enabled Dr, Tucker to perfe LotJa Crabtree’s Age. 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In 1872 was present at the transfer of these bonds from Mrs. Crabtree to Lotto, the former stating to me then, as the rea son for the assignment: ‘My daughter is now of lawful age.’ Lotto’s exact woiyls on that occasion were: ‘I have now become of age, and 1 agree with mamma that it is best L. should toko control of my estate. ? That makes Lotto exactly 38 years old how, aud to that age I am willing to make an affidavit.”—New York World. ■* ecu- _ eta system of treatment which never fails to effect a cufe. Tlios who are suffering with organic weakness in the back, melancholy, impaired memory and a general flagging of a 1 the vital powers are speedily cured. All letters are an swered in plain envelopes. Treating; Patients by Correspon dence. Many patients can be better treated that way than by meeting the physician direct Patien s should always give occupation, history ot; case and all symptoms, inclosing stamp for reply. Address, w. j. Tucker, m. D., <>-5w 9 Marietta St., Atlanta. 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