New Tabernacle Sermons
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T. De Witt Talmage. New Tabernacle Sermons
New Tabernacle Sermons
Table of Contents
BRAWN AND MUSCLE
THE PLEIADES AND ORION
THE QUEEN'S VISIT
VICARIOUS SUFFERING
POSTHUMOUS OPPORTUNITY
THE LORD'S RAZOR
WINDOWS TOWARD JERUSALEM
STORMED AND TAKEN
ALL THE WORLD AKIN
A MOMENTOUS QUEST
THE GREAT ASSIZE
THE ROAD TO THE CITY
THE RANSOMLESS
THE THREE GROUPS
THE INSIGNIFICANT
THE THREE RINGS
HOW HE CAME TO SAY IT
CASTLE JESUS
STRIPPING THE SLAIN
SOLD OUT
SUMMER TEMPTATIONS
THE BANISHED QUEEN
THE DAY WE LIVE IN
CAPITAL AND LABOR
DESPOTISM OF THE NEEDLE
TOBACCO AND OPIUM
WHY ARE SATAN AND SIN PERMITTED?
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T. De Witt Talmage
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Moses was a law-giver, Daniel was a prince, Isaiah a courtier, and David a king; but Amos, the author of my text, was a peasant, and, as might be supposed, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full of the odor of new-mown hay, and the rattle of locusts, and the rumble of carts with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts devouring the flock while the shepherd came out in their defense. He watched the herds by day, and by night inhabited a booth made out of bushes, so that through these branches he could see the stars all night long, and was more familiar with them than we who have tight roofs to our houses, and hardly ever see the stars except among the tall brick chimneys of the great towns. But at seasons of the year when the herds were in special danger, he would stay out in the open field all through the darkness, his only shelter the curtain of the night, heaven, with the stellar embroideries and silvered tassels of lunar light.
What a life of solitude, all alone with his herds! Poor Amos! And at twelve o'clock at night, hark to the wolf's bark, and the lion's roar, and the bear's growl, and the owl's te-whit-te-whos, and the serpent's hiss, as he unwittingly steps too near while moving through the thickets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map of the heavens, because it was so much of the time spread out before him. He noticed some stars advancing and others receding. He associated their dawn and setting with certain seasons of the year. He had a poetic nature, and he read night by night, and month by month, and year by year, the poem of the constellations, divinely rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars especially attracted his attention while seated on the ground, or lying on his back under the open scroll of the midnight heavens—the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, and Orion. The former group this rustic prophet associated with the spring, as it rises about the first of May. The latter he associated with the winter, as it comes to the meridian in January. The Pleiades, or Seven Stars, connected with all sweetness and joy; Orion, the herald of the tempest. The ancients were the more apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies, because they thought they had a special influence upon the earth; and perhaps they were right. If the moon every few hours lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the electric storms of last year in the sun, by all scientific admission, affected the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect?
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