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r.TALH AGE’S
- he Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
’"'rub tlie Folly of Boasting—HUtory
„f Instances Showing How Arvo
gance ,Vas Behuksd—Better Underrate
Than Overrule Ourselves.
Washington, D. C.—While this dis
, L Dr. Talmage rebukes arrogance
ft ...» of humanity and shows how
PL encourages evening of .life may be brightened.
The text is I Kings xx, 11, Let not him
in f ot g girdeth on hia harness boast himself
= ihat putteth it off ”
' Harness is the obsolete word for armor.
Tt 'means harness for the man, not harness
i the beast; harness for battle, not har
{ or the plow. The ancient armor
Insisted co- C °‘ ” of shield helmet for the for heart, the head, breast- for
plate a nd greaves
the feet, The text makes a comparison
between a man enlisting for some war and
la I veteran returning, the one putting on
[ ike armor and the other putting Syria, it thought off.
Benhadad, the King of the King of Is
he could easily the overcome Syrian of
rael Victory Indeed, he spread was ante-bellum so sure
the that an kings he
[banquet 'With thirty-two going was do.
j celebrating what thirty-three they were kings to the
There were in all at
carousal, and their condition is described
iu the Bible, not as convivial or stimu
lated exaltation, but drunk. Their gilded
and bannered pavilions were surrounded
bv high mettled horses, neighing and
champing and hitched to chariots such as
kings rode in. Benhadad sends officers
over to the King of Israel demanding “Thou shalt the
surrender of the city, saying, and thy gold and
deliver to me thy silver
thy wives and thy children,” and after
ward sends other officers, saying that the
palace pf the king will be searched and
everything Benhaoad wants he will take
without asking. Then the King of Israel
called a council of war, and word is sent
back to Benhadad that his unreasonable
demand will be resisted. Then Benhadad
sends another message to the King and of bra- Is
rael a message full of arrogance
vado, practically saying: “We will destroy
vou utterly. I will grind Samaria into the
dust, but there will not be dust enough to
make a handful for each one of my troops.”
Then the King of Israel replied “Let to Benha
dad, practically saving: Y'ou royal braggart, me see you
do what you say. postponed ban- you
anight better have your
quet until after the battle instead of
spreading it before the battle. You huzza
too soon. ‘Let not him that girdeth on
his harness boast himself as he that put
teth it off.’ ”
An avalanche of courage and righteous
ness, the I.sraelitish army came down on
Benhadad and his host. It was a hand to
hand light, each Israelite horseback, hewing down a
Syrian. Benhadad, on but is only gets
away with some of the cavalry,
saved for a worse defeat, in which 100,000
Syrian infantry were slaughtered in one
day. Now we see the sarcasm and the
epigrammatic power of the message of my
text sent by the King of Israel to Benha
dad, “Let not him that girdeth that putteth on his
harness boast himself as he
it off.”
All up and down history we see such
too early boasting. Boult, the Marshal of
France, was so certain that he would con
quer that he had a proclamation printed and
announcing himself King of Portugal, o’clock
had a grand fea8t prepared for 4
that afternoon, but before that hour he
fled in ignominious defeat, and Welling
ton, of the conquering host, sat down at 4
o’clock at the very banquet the Marshal of
France had ordered for himself. Charles
V. invaded France and was so sure of
conquest that he requested Paul Jovius, large
the historian, to gather which together write a the
amount of paper on to
story of his many victories, but disease
and famine seized upon his troopers, and
he retreated in dismay. So Benhadad s
behavior has been copied in all ages of the
world. It will be my object, among other
lessons, to show that he who puts off the
armor, having finished the battle, is more
to be congratulated than he who begins.
First, I find encouragement in this sub
ject for the aged who have got through
the work and struggle of earthly life. My
venerable friends, if you had at twenty
five years oi age full appreciation of what
you would have to go through in the thir
ties and the forties and the fifties of your
lifetime you would have been appalled.
Fortunately the bereavements, the tempta
tions, the persecutions, the hardships, With
were curtained from your sight. through
more or less fortitude j r sadness on passed and ^ disap
the crises of pain and
pointment and fatigue and still live to re
count the divine help that sustained you.
At twenty or thirty years of age at the
tap of the drum you put on the harness.
Now, at sixty or seventy it off. or You ejghty would you
are peacefully putting battle of life
not want to try the over
again. Though you can look back and see
many mistakes, the next time you might
make worse mistakes. Instead of being
depressed over the fact that you are being
counted out or omitted in the great under
takings of the church and the world, re
joice that you have a right to hang u
your helmet and sheathe your sword an
free your hands from the gauntlets mail. an
your feet from the boots of do
There are old farmers who cannot
one more day’s work, What harvests
they raised in 1870! They knew the rota
tion of crops as well as they knew the ro
tation of the seasons. Under what biis
terings suns they swung the scythe and
the cradle! Through what deep snows
they drew the logs or cut their way to tie
foddering of the cattle! What droughts,
what freshets, what inseetile invasions,
they remember! To clothe and feed and
educate the household they went through
toils and -self sacrifices that the world
knew but little about. Rest, aged man!
Let the boys do the shoveling and thresh
ing and cutting and sweating. You nave
put the harness off, and do not try to put
it on again.
There are old mechanics that can no
more shove the plane or pound with tne
hammer or bore with the bit or run up
the ladder to the scaffolding. Master me
chanics they were or subordinates who
wrought fauhfullj r in the work of house
or barn or ship building. Y’ou have a
right to quit. Y’ou have finished your
task. Be thankful that your work is done.
Then there are aged physicians. YY bat
tragedies of pain and accident they have
witnessed! How much suffering they have
assuaged! How many brave battles^ they
have fought with lancet and cataclysm!
How many fevers they cooled! How
many broken bones tbev set! How many
anxious days they passed when they knew
that human lives depended upon their
skill and fidelity! They drove back death
from many a cradle.
Again, l learn from Benhadad s oeha
vior the unwisdom of boasting of ''’“{tt
one is going to do. Two messages had he
sent to the King of Israel, both messages
„
fail of insolence and braggadocio.
brimming beaker in hand he is talking
with the royal group about what he win oo
with the spoils of the victory he is going
to achieve that afternoon. He takes^ it
for granted that Samaria will surrender.
He gives the command inhabitants for of the Samaria capture wno _of
some of “Whether
are approaching, saying, tney
be come out for peace take them alive, or
whether they be come out for war take
them alive.” But behold the fugitive king
in frightened retreat before sundown.
Better not tell boastingiv what you are
going to do. Wait until it is done.
Dr. Pendleton and Mr. Saunders were
talking in the time of persecution under
Queen"Mary. Saunders was trembling and
afraid, but Pendleton said: “What! Alan,
there is much more cause for me to fear
than you. Y’ou are small, and I have a
large bodily frame, but you will see tile
last piece of this flesh consumed to ashes
before I ever forsake Jesus Christ and Ilis
truth, after which I have professed,” Not long
his Saunders, the faint hearted, gave
up life for Christ's sake, while Pendle
ton, who had talked so big, played cow
ard and H gave up religion when the test
came. Wilberforoe did not tell what ho
was how going much to do with the slave trade, suggested but
he accomplished is
by Wilberfora# Lord Brougham’s remark concerning
after his decease, "He went
to heaven with 800,000 broken fetters in
his hand.”
plete Young man, see that you have on a com
armor. All looks bright now, and it
seems as if you could march right on with
out ceived. opposition There or attack, but be not de
are hidden foes ready to
halt you on your way. The same cup that
Benhadad drank out of just before bis de
feat will be offered to effect your defeat.
Iiis intoxicated brain saw victory when
there was nothing but rout and ruin,
What work Benhadad’s cup made for Ben
hadad’s army! What shipwrecks on the
sea, what disasters on the land caused by
inflaming liquids put upon the tongue to
set of seething thought the and brain! influence, How with many kings
crowns
brighter have than the one Benhadad wore,
base by strong drink been put into flight
ns as that in which Benhadad rode!
"Give them to me. - ’ says the demon of in
ebriacy. down—the “Give them legislators to^ me; hand them
I will thicken brightest their of the bloat land.
tongue; I will
their cheek; I will stagger their step; I
will damn their soul. Hand them down
to me—the physician out of his laboratory,
the attorney from the courtroom, the min
ister of the gospel from the altars of God.
Hand them down to me, the queens of the
drawing and, room, and their I will homes disgrace throw their
names blast and
them down farther than Jezebel fell to the
do m that crunched her carcass.”
We hold breath horror .
our in as once in
awhile we hear of some one, either by ac
cident or suicide, going over Niagara
Falls, but the tides, the depths, the awful
S3? TUSi*
down into unfathomed abysm. Suicides
by by the the hundreds of thousands! Suicides of
million! Beware of the cup out
lvhich Benhadad drank persona] and na
tional demolition!
Yes, you must have full armor. There the
are temptations multiplying to an impure life all Read
time and intensifying.
in private and discussed afterward by the
refined and elegant in parlors are books
Loose poisoned characters from lid to the lid novel with impurities, applauded
in
by rhetorical pens and proprieties of life
caricatured as prudery and infidelity ot be
havior and half put. approval. in a way My to wonder excite sympathy that
is not
6o many go astray, but my wonder is that
ten times as many are not debauched.
Oh, yes, you need the harness on until
God tells you to take it off. In olden time
it was leathern armor or chain armor or
ribbed amor, fashioned in ancient foun
dry, but no one can give you the outfit
you need except God, who is Master of
this world, and the infernal world, from
which ascend the mightiest hostilities, of
Lay hold of God. Nothing but the arm
Omnipotence is strong enough for the
tempted. Young the gospel
man, put on entire out
fit. If you have come from the eountryto
live in the city, imitate the example of a
young man who arrived in New York on
Saturday night, intending the following
Monday to enter his place of employment,
On Sunday morning, carrying out the good
“crsxrj s. h s S e ,
was abashed as the beauty and fashion
and wealth swept through the doors of
the sanctuary, and he dared not go in. As
he was about turning to go away a man?” gentle
man said, "Have you a seat, young
“No, sir.” “Do you belong in the city?”
“No, sir.” “Where is your home?” “In
the country.” “How long have you been
in the city?” “I came in last night.”
“What are yon going to do here?” “I
hope to go into business to-morrow.”
“That is right. You forsake have the begun God well, of
young man. Never
your fathers. Come, I will give you a seat
in my pew.” The next morning the young
man presented his letter in business cir
cles. “What do you want, young man?”
said the Scotch merchant. “I want to get
credit on some leather, uoper and sole”
“Have iiave you vou references’” reterences. “[ i think tmnk I x can can
get references. My mther has ends
here. terday Young Mr man, Lenox’s did pew?” 1 not see “I jou do }es- not
in
know, sir. I was at church, and a kind
gentleman asked me to sit in his pew.”
"Yes, young man, that was Robert Lenox.
I will trust any one that Mr. Lenox invites
into his pew. You need not trouble your
seif about references. When these goods
are gone come and get more.” That yourqj
man became an eminent merchant, and
more than that, a Christian merchant, and
he attributed all his success to that first
Sabbath in yourself the city. under Young good man influences just ar
rived, put day Tnere hangs
your first in town. your
helmet. Take it down. There is your
breastplate. Adjust it. There is all the
harness for safety and triumph. Put it on.
If we secure the victory, it will be a
struggle as fierce as when Darius and
Alexander grappled each other at Arbela.
as when Joan of Arc the rode Russians triumphant met the at
Orleans, as when
Swedes at Poltava, as when Marlborough Blen
commanded the allied armies at
heim. Those were fights for^ earthly that
crowns and dominions, but the fight
now goes on between all the allied armies
of heaven and all the allied armies ot bed
is to settle whether God or Satan is to
have of this planet.
I congratulate life’s battles that are the now time in
the thickest of end and
is coming when the struggle will
you will put the harness off , helmet and
greaves and breastplate having fulfilled
their mission. You cannot in one visit to
London Tower see all. You must associated go again
and again to that place, which is
with the story of Lady Jane Grey and
Anne Boleyn and Waiter Raleigh and Sir
Thomas More. You will see the crowns
of kings and queens, the robe worn by the
Black "Prince, and silver baptismal fonts
from which roval infants were christened,
and the block’ on which Lord London Lor at Tower was
beheaded. But no part of
will more interest you than the armory,
ranged in which is collection skillfully ^and all s tv.es ot -i _ «„ a ' r
a ot
worn between the tr.irteenrh and eign
teenth centuries, suggesting 500 years oi
conflict—cuirass and neck guard and chin
piece and lance rest anc gauntlet and how F from “ !e
and mailed apron. You see just
head to heel those o.d time warriors were
defended against sharp weapons.
O ye soidiers oi Jesus Christ, when the
war of life is over and tne victors rest in
the soldiers home on the heavenly heights
perhaps there may be in the city or the
sun a tower of spiritual for Christ armor such in earthiy as in
cased the warriors
combat! Some day' we may be in that ar
morv and hear the heroes talk of how them they
fought the good fight of faith and see
with the scars of wounds forever healed
and look at the weapons of offense and de
fense vsuth which they became more than
conquerors. In that tower of heaven as
the weapons of the spiritual conflict are ex
amined St. Paul may point out to us the ,
armor with which ho advised the “That Kphe- j
sians to equip themselves and say:
is the shield of faith. That is the helmet j
of salvation. That is the girdle 6f truth. 1
unat is the breastplate of righteousness, j
Those are the mailed shoes in which they j j
wire shod with the preparation of the gos
pel.” There and then you may recount the
contrast between the conflict day when and you day en- j
listed in Christian the j
when vou closed it in earthly farewell and ,
and heavenly salutation, and for the text,
which ban so much meaning for then—“Let us now,
will have more meaning his us harness boast
not him that girdeth that putteth on it off.”
himself as he
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