THE FOLLY OF BOASTING

Dr. Talmage Says History Is Full of Instances Showing How Arrogance Was Rebuked, We Had Better Underrate Then Overrate Ourselves

Wxsiusotos, D. C —While this discourse of Dr. Talmage rebukes arrogance it encourages humanity and shows how the evening of life may be brightened. The text is I Kings xx 11, "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself

as he that putteth it off.”

Harness is the obsolete word for armor. It means harness for the man, not harness for the beast; harness for battle, not harness for the plow. The ancient armor consisted of helmet for the head, breastplate, and shield for the heart, greaves for the feet. The text makes a comparison between a man enlisting for some war and a veteran returning, the one putting on the armor and the other putting it off. Benhadad, the King of Syria, thought he could easily overcome the King of Israel. Indeed, the Syrian was so sure of the victory that he spread an ante-bellum banquet. With thirty-two kings he was celebrating what they were going to do. There were in all thirty-three kings at the carousal, and their condition is described in the Bible, not as convivial or stimulated exaltation, but drunk. Their gilded

and bannered

pavilions were surrounded by high mottled horses, neighing and

champing and hitched to chariots such as kings rode in.

Benhadad sends officers over to the King of Israel demanding the surrender of the city, saying, "Thou shalt deliver to me thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy children,” and afterward sends other officers, saying that the palace of the king will be searched and everything Benhadad wants he will take without asking. Then the King of Israel called e council of war, and word is sent beck to Benhadad that his unreasonable demand will be resisted. Then Benhadad sends another message to the King of Israel, a message full of arrogance and bravado, practically saying: "We will destroy you 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 Kings of Israel replied to Benhadad, practically saving: “Let me see you do what you say. You royal braggart, you might better have postponed your banquet until after the battle instead spreading it before the battle. You huzza too soon. ‘Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as be that putteth it off.'" An avalanche of courage and righteousness, the Israelitish army came down on Benhadad and his host. It was a hand to hand fight, each Israelite hewing down a Syrian. Benhadad, on horseback, gets away with some of the cavalry, but is only saved for a worse defeat, in which 100,000 Syrian infantry were slaughtered in one day. How we see the sarcasm and the epigrammatic power of the message of my text sent by the King of Israel to Benhadad, “Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off."

All up and down history we see such too early boasting. Soult, the Marshal of

France, was so certain that he would conquer that be had a proclamation printed announcing himself King of Portugal, and had a grand feast prepared for 4 o'clock that afternoon, but before that hour he fled in ignominious defeat, and Wellington, 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, the historian, to gather together a large amount of paper on, which to write the 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 the, 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 subject for the aged who have got through the work and struggle of earthly life. My venerable friends, if you had at twentyfive years of age full appreciation of what you would have to go through in the thirties and the forties and the fifties of your

lifetime you would have been appalled.

Fortunately the bereavements, the temptations,

the persecutions, the hardships,

were curtained from your sight. With more or less fortitude you passed through the crises of pain and sadness and disappointment and fatigue and still live to recount 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 or eighty you

are peacefully putting it off.

You would not want to try the battle of life over again. Though you can look back and see

You would not want to try the battle of life over

again. Though you can look 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 undertakings of the church and the world, rejoice that you have a right to hang up your helmet and sheathe your sword and tree your hands from the gauntlets and

your feet bom the boots of mail.

There are old farmers who cannot do one more day’s work. What harvests they raised in 1870! They knew the rotation of crops as well as they knew the rotation of the seasons. Under what blistering suns they swung the scythe and the cradle! Through what deep snows

they drew the logs or cut their way to the foddering of the cattle! What droughts, what freshets, what insectile 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 thrashing

and cutting and sweating. You have

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 the hammer or bore with the bit or run up the ladder to the scaffolding. Master mechanics they were or subordinates who wrought faithfully in the work of house or barn or ship building. You have a right to quit. You have finished your task. Be thankful that your work is done.

Then there are aged physicians. What

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 they set! How many skill and fidelity! They drove back death

from many a cradle.

Again, I learn from Benhadad's behavior the unwisdom of boasting of what one is going to do. Two messages had he

sent to the King of Israel, both messages full of insolence and braggadocio. With

brimming beaker in hand he is talking with the royal group about what he will do with the spoils of the victory he is going to achieve that afternoon. He takes it for granted that Samaria will surrender. He gives command for the capture of some of the inhabitants of Samaria who are approaching, saying "Whether they be come out for peace take them alive, or whether they be come out for war take them alive." But behold the fugitive king is frightened retreat before sundown! Better not tell boastingly what you are going to do." Wait until it is done. Dr. Pendleton and Mr. Siunders were talking in the time of persecution under Queen Mary. Siunders was trembling and afraid but Pendleton said: "What! Man there is much more cause for me to fear than you. You are small and I have a large bodily frame, but you will see the

last piece of this flesh consumed to ashes before I ever forsake Jesus Christ and His truth, which I have professed." Not long after Saunders, the faint hearted gave up his life for Christ's sake, while Pendleton, who had talked up so big, played coward and gave up religion when the test came. Wilberforce did not tell what he was going to do with the slave trade, but how much he accomplished is suggested by Lord Brougham's remark concerning Wilberforce after his decease, "He went to heaven with 800,000 broken fetters in

his hand."

Young man, see that you have on a complete armor. All looks bright now, and it seems as if you could march right on without

opposition or attack, but be not deceived. There are hidden foes ready to halt you on your way. The same cup that Benhadad drank out of just before his defeat will be offered to effect your defeat. His intoxicated brain saw victory when there was nothing but roast and ruin. What work Benhadad's cup made for Benhadad's army! What shipwrecks on the sea, what disasters on the land caused by inflaming liquids put upon the tongue to

set seething the brain! How many kings of thought and influence, with crowns

brighter than the one Benhadad wore,

have by strong drink been put into flight as base as that in which Benhadad rode! "Give them to me," says the demon of

inebriacy. “Give them to me; hand them down - the brightest legislators of the land. I will thicken their tongue; I will bloat 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 minister of the gospel from the altars of God. Hand them down to me, the queens of the drawing room, and I will disgrace their names and blast their homes and throw them down farther than Jezebel fell to the

dogs that crunched her carcass."

We hold our breath in horror as once in awhile we hear of some one, either by accident or suicide, going over Niagara Falls, but the tides, the depths, the awful surges of intemperance arc every hour of every day rushing scores of immortals down into unfathomed abysm. Suicides by the hundreds of thousands! Suicides by the million! Beware of the cup out of which Benhadad drank personal and

national demolition!

Yes, you must have full armor. There are temptations to an impure life all the time multiplying and intensifying. Read in private and discussed afterward by the refined and elegant in parlors are books poisoned from lid to lid with impurities. Loose characters in the novel applauded by rhetorical pens and proprieties of life caricatured as prudery and infidelity of behavior put in a way to excite sympathy and halt approval. My wonder is not that so 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 armor, fashioned in ancient foundry, 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. Lay hold of God. Nothing but the arm of Omnipotence is strong enough for the tempted. Young man, put on the entire gospel outfit fit. If you have come from the country to lire 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 advice before leaving his country home, he

went to church. Standing at the door he 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 gentleman said, "Have you a seat young man?" "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 you going to do here?" "I hope to go into business to-morrow." "That is right. You have begun well, young man. Never forsake the God of your fathers. Come, I will give you a seat in my pew." The next morning the young man presented his letter in business circles. "What do you want, young man?" said the Scottish merchant. "I want to get credit on some leather, upper, and sole." "Have you references?" "I think I can get references. My father has friends here." "Young man, did I not see you yesterday in Mr. Lenox's pew?" "I do not 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 yourself about references. When these goods are gone come and get more." That young man became and eminent merchant and more than that, a Christian merchant, and he attributed all his success to that first Sabbath in the city. Young man just arrived, put yourself under good influence your first day in town. There hangs 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 rode triumphant at Orleans, as when Marlborough commanded the allied armies of heaven and all the allied armies of hell is to settle whether God or Satan is to have possession of this planet. I congratulate all those who are now in the thickest of life's battles that the time is coming when the struggle will end and 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 go again and again to that place, which is associated with the story of Lady Jane Grey and Anne Boleyn and Walter Raleigh and Sir Thomas Moore. You will see the crowns of kings and queens, the robe worn by the Black Prince, and silver baptismal fonts from which royal infants were christened, and the block on which Lord Lovat was beheaded. But no part of London Tower will more interest you than the armory in which is skillfully and impressively arranged a collection of all styles of armor worn between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, suggestion 500 years of conflict--cuirass and neck guard and chin piece and lance rest and gauntlet and girdle and mailed apron. You see just how from head to heel those old time warriors were defended against sharp weapons. O ye soldiers of Jesus Christ, when the war of life is over and the victors rest in the soldiers' home on the heavenly heights perhaps there may be in the city of the sun a tower of spiritual armor such as incased the warriors for Christ in earthly combat! Some day we may be in that armory and hear the heroes talk of how they fought the good fight of faith and see them with the scars of wounds forever healed and look at the weapons of offense and defense with which they became more than conquerors. In that tower of heaven as the weapons of the spiritual conflict are examined St. Paul may point out to us the armor with which he advised the Ephesians to equip themselves and say: "That is the shield of faith. That is the helmet of salvation. That is the girdle of truth. That is the breastplate of righteousness. Those are the mailed shoes in which they were sod with the preparation of the gospel." There and then you may recount the contrast between the day when you enlisted in Christian conflict and the day when you closed it in earthly farewell and and heavenly salutation, and the text which as as much meaning for us now will have more meaning for us then--"Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off" [Copyright _______]

THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For January 5. Subects The Promise of Power, Acts I,1-14 Golden Text, Acts L, 8-Memory Verse 6-8-Commentary on the Day's Lesson.

I. "The former treatise." The gospel of Luke. Luke was also the author of the Acts. "O, Theophilus," Nothing is known of this person, but he was no doubt

a person of rank and perhaps a Roman officer who had been converted to Christianity. "Began.” The gospel is not a history of all that Jesus did, but only an account of the foundation* which He laid and on which the church should afterward be built. "To do and teach.” A very important statement, dividing the work of Christ into two great branches; the one embracing His work on earth, the other His subsequent work from heaven; the one in His own person, the other by His spirit; the one the beginning, the other the continuance of the same work; the one complete when He sat down on the right band of His Father, the other to continue until His second appearing. 2. "Until the day." The fortieth day after His resurrection. "Through the Holy Ghost." God gave not the Spirit by measure unto Him. John 3: 34. Jesus who was anointed with the Holy Ghost (Luke 4; Matt. 12), in the power of the Holy Ghost gave commandments to the apostles to be His witnesses. "Apostles." The twelve generally called disciples in the gospels are in the Acts spoken of as

apostles, or "those sent forth."

3. "Passion ” Bufferings on the cross. "Infallible proofs." The single Greek word, translated ‘'infallible proofs," denotes the strongest proofs of which a subject is capable, an irresistible proof. The proofs here meant are Christ speaking, walking and eating with His disciples after His resurrection. "Forty days." At different times during a period of forty days. ‘The kingdom of God.” This expression has several significations, but here, as in Mark 1: 14. it includes the whole Christian dispensation, its message, progress and economy. The meaning is, Jesus gave them instructions about the organization, spread and edification of

His church.

4. "Assembled with them.” Probably on ascension day. "Commanded them.’’ The last commandment given by the Lord to the apostles directed them to await the rift of the Holy Ghost in Jerusalem. "Hot depart from Jerusalem.” The coming of the Spirit was to be at the next great feast after the crucifixion. Jerusalem was the centre of Jewish influence. and at that time strangers would be reached from all parts of the world. They were not qualified to go until after the baptism of the Spirit came upon them. "Wait." Many run too soon. ‘'Promise of the Father." Through the prophets the gift of the Spirit had been

promised by the Father. See Isa. 44:3; Joel 2: 28, 29. Compare Acts 2: 17, 18, "Heard of Me.” This promise is found in John 14: 16; 15: 25. Reference is also made to it in Luke 24: 49. The Holy Ghost was promised to the church through

Christ.

6. "John.” The Baptist, the forerunner of Christ. "With water." John's baptism was, 1. A baptism unto repentance 2- A type of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. John pointed to Christ who should baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire. "Shall be baptized.” This was the promise of the Father, it could not fail. "With the Holy Ghost." The Holy Spirit was about to be given them in greater fullness than ever before. At this time their hearts would be cleansed and

they would be filled with love.

6. "Were come together.” At the Mount of Olives. See Luke 24: 5O. "Dost thou at this time," etc. (R. V.) Is this

the hour when the Roman yoke is to be broken from our necks and the kingdom of the Messiah established?

7. "Not for you to know." Christ constantly avoided giving His disciples a direct answer to questions which could only satisfy their curiosity and be of no particular benefit. "In His own power."

"Authority." R.V. The word rendered power is not the same as the one so rendered in the next verse. It should be noted that

Jesus did not disapprove of the question asked in verse 6, but as Lange says, "He

rather confirmed it by declaring that the

Father had fixed the time. 8. "Shall receive power." The energy of the Holy Spirit was to be given to them. It was not the power of logic or eloquence, but "the power of a living union with a living God.” "Is come upon you." The Holy Spirit gives. 1. Knowledge and understanding. 2. Faith. 3. Holiness. 4. A spirit of prayer. 5. Courage. 6. Steadfastness. 7. Zeal. "Shall be witnesses.” They shall not merely bear witness, but be witnesses in their own persons. They were to be witnesses to a crucified. a risen and a coming Christ. "In Jersualem," etc. They were to begin at home with the JEws, and gradually reach out until the glorious gospel reached the whole human race.

9. "While they beheld." The disciples did not see Him rise out of the grave, because His resurrection could be easily proved by their seeing Him afterward, but they saw him return to heaven, as there would be no other way to prove it. "A cloud.” Perhaps it was like the fiery,

cloudy pillar, the wilderness.

10. "Were looking" (R. V.) Wondering what it all meant. "Two men." Angels in the form of men. "White apparel." See Matt 28: 3. The white garments were an emblem of purity.

11. "Shall so come." The second or final coming. This will not be in obscurity like His first coming, but "He will come in power and glory, in the clouds, and with His holy angels with Him." Matt 24: 30, 41:26:64.

12. "Olivet." Frequently called the Mount of Olives. "Sabbath day's journey." About three fourths of an English mile. 13. "Come in." That is, into the city from the country. "Into the upper chamber" (R.V.) Probably the upper room which had been used by our Lord and

His disciples for the passover feast. "Where abode." "Where they were abiding." R.V. This does not mean that this was their permanent habitation, but they remained there for the descent of the Holy Spirit.

14. "Continued." During the ten days they waited, "With one accord." With

one mind. There were no schisms, no divided interests, no discordant purposes/ "Steadfastly in prayer" (R.V.) Their

prayers were earnest and persistant.

"With the women." this probably refers to the women who followed Him from Galilee, but it may mean purely that women were present. "Mary." This is the last mention in Scripture of the mother of Jesus. "His bretheren." The bretheren of Jesus at first rejected Him (John 7:5), but now they believe in Him and are present at the Pentecost outpouring.

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"UNREDEEMED PLEDGES." One of the Ways in Which the Unwary Are Tricked Out of Money. Recently there have been added to the city's heterogeneous commerce several little shops which offer for sale, mostly at auction to the highest bidder and the only bidder, too, if his bid be high enough, jewelry and other articles that go under the name of unredeemed pledges. There are tricks in all trades and this particular trade is the sublimation of all tricks. In the first place there is something alluring in the term "unredeemed pledges." All such stores employ men with phenomenal lungs, who cry their wares in basso profundo. In one of them there is a fellow with a voice that would be conspicuous in a den of roaring lions. He is always coherent and the volume of breathy sound that comes from his mouth seems to be reverberated from every surface In the establishment Generally he Is telling the merits of a certain watch, or the price he has just been offered for

the timekeeper, and as a passing pedestrian reaches the doorway he raises his voice a little, which secures an involuntary turn of the head. Often curiosity is aroused and the passerby goes in to investigate. When one enters the shop the "auctioneer" is probably announcing he has just been offered a ridiculously low price for a fine pair of earrings. "Gentlemen, are you going to let this elegant pair of earrings go at that price?" he asks, and there seems to be a genuine distress In his voice. . Perhaps the next article offered is a watch. "Ah! What have we here? A watch? Well so it is, and a beauty, too." And then he goes on to tell how the owner of the watch was forced to part with it. It is always a pathetic tale. Young man; health failing for a long time; no money saved; mother dies suddenly; the watch is pawned to pay for the funeral of the dear old lady. He sighs deeply, but stifles his emotion and proceeds with the sale. "Look at this watch and tell ms what you think of it," he says to a tall individual standing near the showcase. "I have no need of a watch," replies the man. "But look at it. You don't need to buy it." A critical examination of the watch follows and men the man who "had no need of It" offers perhaps $5. The bid is at first scorned, but after much talk is reluctantly accepted. If any one bids 25 cents more the watch Is immediately sold. The man who offers the $5 is a "tout." He goes from shop to shop. Three or four are employed, and they go from shop to shop, making the first bid on every piece of gold-plated jewelry that is offered for sale. There is one tall "tout" who wears glasses and who has been employed so long that even the most unwary look at him askance. Often he is forced to "make a bluff" at buying the brass. It

is safe to estimate that he has "bought" at least 2800 watches during the past two years.—New Orleans Times-Democrat

Bagpipe Music. Bagpipe music has ‘'suffered greatly through the efforts of well-meaning but mistaken people to lift it out of its proper place and graft it on to city life and its inside entertainments." To compare its music with "classical productions" is “like comparing ‘tatties and herring with wine and jellies." A Chicago jury once decided that the bagpipe was not a musical instrument at all. But why quarrel with a definition? Enough that it has lived through some bad crises. When that phase of life In which it was born and brought up passed away, it declined to be moved into the background. In short, it had the will to live without the adventitious aids of cranks and congresses, because it answers a primitive want. Indeed, nothing could be more ironic that the fact that the military organization which did much to crush out everything that bad made it a power should have been so completely conquered by it that there are now two-and twenty bagpipe bands in the British army. The bagpipe has been annexed by some of our native Indian regiments, notably those in the Punjab, and it continues to spread there as a great military instrument.—The Athenaeum.

President Arthur as a Dresser. "President Arthur was the best-dressed man I ever saw,” said one of the attendants at the White House, who has been there 30 years or more. “He changed shirts three times a day and suits almost as often. He never wore the same suit all day, and during the social season changed as often as three or four times each day. In the summer he was fond of low-quartered shoes, and always tied them with a wide silk string. I have bought him hundreds of pairs of silk shoestrings. He had not less than 50 pairs of good shoes at all times, and I know he did not have less than 100 pieces of neckwear, too. President Arthur was a mighty fine man and was good to all the servants and other* connected with the White House."—Washington Star

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