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’REV.D'R.TALMAGE The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Sabject: Practical Clmrtty—The Bencvo lence of I)ora Kxlolled Her Work Cuntra.ted With Present Day Methods —Wotuau God's Handuialdeii. [Copynjdit liioti.l M ASHINGTON, D. G.—Dr. Talmage, '•’ho is still traveling in Northern Europe, has forwarded the''following report of a sermon in which he utters helpful words to all who are’engaged in-alleviating hu man distresses and shojva how such work will be crowned at the last; text, Acts ix, 30, “And all the widows stood by him weeping and showing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them." Joppa is a most absorbing city of the Orient. Into her harbor once floated the rafts _of Lebanon cedar from which the temples of Jerusalem were builded, Solo mon s oxen drawing the logs through the town.. Here Napoleon had 500 prisoners massacred. One of the most magnificent charities of the centuries was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a woman With her needle embroidering her name ineffaceably into the beneficence of the world. I see her sitting in yonder home. In the door way and around about the building and in the room where she sits are the pale faces of the poor. She listens to their pliant, she pities their wipe, she makes garments for them, she adjusts the manufactured articles to suit the bent form of this inva lid woman and to the cripple that comes crawling on his hands and knees. She gives a coat to this one; she gives sandals to that one. With the gifts she mingles prayers and teavs and Christian encourage ment. Then she goes out to be greeted on the street corners by thos. whom she has blessed, and all through the street the cry is heard, “Dorcas is coming!’’ The sick look up gratefully in her face as she puts her hand on the burning brow, and the lost and the abandoned start up with hope as they hear her gentle voice, as tflough an angel had addressed them, and as she goes out the lane eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of light about, her brow and a trail of glory in her path- 5 way. That night a half paid shipwright climbs the hill and reaches homo and sees his little boy well clad and says, “Where did these clothes come from?” And they tell him, “Dorcas has been here.” In an other place a woman is trimming a lamp; Dorcas bought the oil. In another place a family that had not been at table for many a week are gathered now, for Dorcas has brought bread. But there is a sudden pause in that wom an’s ministry. They say. “Where is Dor cas? Why, we haven’t seen her for many a day. Where is Dorpas?” And one of these poor people goes’ up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solved. All through the haunts of wretchedness the news comes, “Dorcas is sick!” No bulletin flashing from the palace gate telling the stages of a king's disease is more anxiously waited for than the news from this bene factress. Alas, for Joppa there is wailing, wailing! That voice which has uttered so many cheerful word* is hushed; that hand which has made so many garments for- the poor is cold tfnd still; the star which had poured light into the midnight of wretch edness is dimmed by the blinding mists that go up from the river of death. In every fbrsaken place in that town, wher ever there is a lick child and no balm, wherever there is hunger and no bread, wherever there is guilt and no commisera tion, wherever there is a broken heart and no comfort, there are despairing looks and streaming eyes and frantic gesticula tions as they cry, “Dorcas is dead!” They send for the apostle Peter, who happens to be in the suburbs of the place, stopping with a tanner of the name of Si mon. Peter urges his way through the crowd around the door and stands in the presence of the dead. What demonstra tion of grief all about him! Here stand some of the poor people, who show the garments which this poor woman had made for them. Their grief cannot be ap peased. The apostle Peter wants to per form a miracle. He will not do it amid the excited crowd, so he orders that the whole room be cleared. The apostle stands now with the dead. Oh, it is a serious mo ment, you know, when you are alone with' a lifeless body! The apostle gets down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to the lifeless form of this one all ready for the sepulcher, and in the strength of Him who is the resurrection he cries: “Tabitha, arise!” There is a stir in the fountains of life, the heart flutters, the nerves thrill, the cheek flushes, the eye opens, she sits up. . ... We see in this subject Dorcas, the disci ple, Dorcas the benefactress, Dorcas the lamented, Dorcas the resurrected. If i had not seen that word disciple in my text, I would have known this woman was a Christian. Such music as that never came from a heart which is not chorded and strung by divine grace. Before I show you the needlework of this woman 1 want to show you her regenerated heart, the source of a pure life and of all Christian charities. I wish that the wives and moth ers and daughters and sisters of all the earth would imitate Dorcas in her disciple ship. Before yon cross the threshold of the hospital, before you enter upon the temptations and trials of to-morrow, I charge you in the name of God and by the turmoil and tumult of the judgment day, O woman, that you attend to the first, last and greatest duty of your life—the seeking for God and being at peace with Him! When the trumpet shall sou ml there will be an uproar and a wreck of mountain and continent, and no human arm can help you. Amid the rising of the dead and amid the boiling of yonder sea and amid the live, leaping thunders of the dying heavens calm and placid will be every woman’s heart who hath put her trust in Christ—calm notwithstanding all the tu mult, as though the fire in the heavens were only the gildingssof an autumnal sun set, as though the awful voices of the sky were but a group of friends bursting through a gateway at even time with laughter and shouting, '‘Dorcas the disci ple!” Would God that every Mary and every Martha would this day sit down at the feet of Jesus! Further, we see Dorcas, the benefactress. History has told the story of the crown; epic poet has sung of the sword; the pas toral poet, with his verses full of the redo lence of clover tops and a-rustle with the silk of the corn, has sung the praises of the plow. I tell you the praises of the needle. From the fig leaf robe prepared in the garden of Eden to the last stitch taken on the garment for the poor the needle has wrought wonders of kindness, generosity and benefaction. It adorned the girdle of the high priest, it fashioned the curtains in the ancient tabernacle, it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon, it provided the robes of Queen Elizabeth, and in high places and in low places, by the fire of the pioneer’s back log and un der the flash of the chandelier —every- where —it has clothed nakedness, it has preached the gospel, it has overcome hosts of penury and want with the war cry of “Stitch, stitch, stitch!” The operatives have found a livelihood by it. and through it the mansions of the employer are con structed. Amid the greatest triumphs in all ages and lands I set down the conquests of the needle. I admit its crimes; I admit_ its cruelties. It ha3 had more martyrs than the fire; it has punctured the eye; it has pierced the side; it has struck weakness into the lungs; it has sent madness into the brain; it has filled the potter’s field; it has pitched whole armies of the suffer ing into crime, and wretchedness and woe. But now that I am talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor I shall speak osly of the charities of the needle. This woman was a representative o'f all those who make garments for the destitute, who knit socks for the barefooted, who prepare bandages for the lacerated, who fix up boxes of clothing for missionaries, who go into the asylums of the suffering and desti tute bearing that gospel which is sight for the blind and hearing for the deaf, and which makes the lame man leap like a hart and brings the dead to •' life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. What a contrast between the practical benevolence of this woman and a great deal of the charity of this day! This woman did not spend her time idly plan ning how the poor of the city of Joppa were to bb relieved. She took her needle and relieved them. She was not like those persons who sympathize with imaginary sorrows and go out in the street and laugh at the boy who has upset his basket of cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a rousing speech on the benevolent platform find goes out to kick the beggar from the step, crying, “Hush your miser able howling!” Sufferers of the world want not so much theory are practice; not so much tears as dollars; not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not so much smiles as shoes; not so much “God bless you,” as jackets and frocks. I will put one earnest Christian man, hard-working, against 5000 mere theorists on the subject of charity. There are a great many who have fine ideas about church architecture who never in their lives helped to build a church. There are men who oan givb you the history of Buddhism and Mohamme danism who never sent a farthing for evangelization. There are women who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world who never had the courage, like Dorcas, to take the needle and assault it. I am glad that there is not a page of the world’s history which is not a record of female benevolence. God say* to all lands and people. “Come, now, and hear the widow’s mite rattle down into the poor box.” The Princess of Conti sold all her jewels that she might help the famine stricken. Queen Blanche, the wife of Louis VIII. of France, hearing that there were some persons unjustly incarcerated in the prisons, went out amid the rabble and took a stick and struck the door as a signal that they might all strike it, and down went the prison door, and out came the prisoners. Queen Maud, the wife of Henry 1., went down amid the poor and washed their sores and administered to them cordials. Mrs. Retson; u Matagor da, appeared on the battlefield while the missiles of death jvere flying around and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever heard of the civil war in America who has not heard of the women of the sanitary and Christian com missions or the fact that before the smoke had gone up from Gettysburg and South Mountain the women of the north met the women of the south on the battlefield, for getting all their animosities, while they bound up the wounded and closed the eyes of the slain? Dorcas the benefactress. I come now to speak of DorcaS the la mented. When death struck down “hat good woman, oh, how much sorrow there was in the town of Joppa! I suppose there were women there with larger fortunes, women perhaps with handsomer faces, but there was not grief at their departure like this at the death of Dorcas. There were not more turmoil and upturning in the Mediterranean Sea dashing against the wharves at that seaport than there were surgings to and fro of grief because Dorcas was dead. There arc a great many who go out of life and are unmissed. There may be a very large funeral, there may be a great many carriages and a plumed hearse, there may be high sounding eulo giums, the bell may toll at the cemetery gate, there may be a very fine marble shaft reared over the resting place, hut the whole thing may be a falsehood and a sham. The church of God has lost nothing; the world has lost nothing. It is only a nuisance abated. It is only a grumbler ceasing to find fault. It is only an idler stopped yawning. It is only a dissipated fashionable parted from his wine cellar, while on the other hand no useful Chris tian leaves this world without being missed. The church of God cries out, like the prophet, “Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen!” Widowhood comes and shows the garments which the departed had made. Orphans are lifted up to look into the calm face of the sleeping benefactress. Declaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourning—mourning be cause Dorcas is dead. Has that Christian woman who went away fifteen years ago nothing to do with these tilings? I see the*flowering out of her noble heart. I hear tire echo of her footsteps in all the songs over sins for given, in all Die prosperity of the church. The good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dorcas is resurrected! After awhile all these womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle for ever. After making garments for others some one will make a garment for them; the last robe we ever wear—the robe for the grave. You will have hoard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphanage. You will have come in worn out from your last round of tnercy. I do not know where you will sleep nor what vour epitaph will be, but there will be a lamp burning at that tomb and an angel of God guarding it, and through all the long ni;dit no rude foot will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on! Soft bed. pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose! Sleep on! Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep From which none ever wake to weep! Then one day there will be a sky rend ing and a whirl of wheels and the Hash of a pageant, armies marching, chains clank ing, banners waving, thunders booming, and that Christian woman will arise from the dust, and she will be suddenly sur rounded—surrounded by the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surround ed by the wounded souls to whom she had administered! Daughter of God, so strangely surround ed, what means this? It means that re ward has come; that the victory is won; that Die crown is ready; that the banquet is spread. Shout it through all the crumb ling earth! Sing it through all the flying heavens! Dorcas is resurrected! In 1855, when some of the soldiers came back from the Crimean war to London, the Queen of England distributed among them beautiful medals, called Crimean medals. Galleries were erected for the two houses of Parliament and the royal family to sit in. There was a great audience to witness the distribution of the medals. A colonel who had lost both feet in the bat tle of Inkerniann was pulled in on a wheel chain others came in limping on their crutches. Then the Queen of England arose before them in tiie name of her Govern ment and uttered words of commendation to the officers and men and distributed those medals, inscribed with the four great battlefields—Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sevastopol. As the Queen gave these to the wounded men and the wounded gffi cers the bands of music struck up the na tional air,, and the people, with streaming eyes, joined in the song: God save our gracious queen! Long live our noble queen! God save the queen! And then they shouted “Huzza! Huzza!” Oh, it was a proud day for those returned warriors! But a brighter, better arid glad der day will come when Christ shall gath er those who have toiled in His service— good soldiers of Jesus Christ. He shall rise before them, and in the presence of all the glorified of heaven He will say, “Well done, good and faithful servant!” And then He will distribute the medals of eter nal victory, not inscribed with works of righteousness whioh we have done, but with those four great battlefields, dear to earth and dear to heaven—Bethlehem, Nazareth, Gethsemane and Calvary! Hjfk hair has ► MH no liioJi f i It is starved. 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