The New York herald., 1875-09-20
MANAGES TABERNACLE.

IAlAlAOL . lADEhNAOlAE.
THE OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF SALVATION
coNsIDERED-s SERMON OF REV. T. DE WITT
TAIMAGE
The Tabernacle well attended yesterday forenoon
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached the sermon taking
for his text Romans xiii, ll-"Knowng the time, that
now il is high time to awake out Of sleep"
He sald :-There is something in such day as this
that would naturally dampen the ardor Of preacher and
hearer and yet ought not to surrender 10 any such
Indifference, for ship captain might as well come out
on deck such day this and say there is tempest
ahead and so we will discharge the hemsman and
the at the lookout may leave his place and
those who are the furnace may forsake their posi-
tion for the is tossing and it darkness and it is
storm No wise captain would say that Neither
ought account Of any circumstances Of weather
accident surrender the discussion Of the questions
that pertain 10 the interests of the soul what If
this though seeming TO some an unproptous Sabbath
day. should be their last day Oh is it ques-
ton and an inappropriate for to ask myself and
you, to-day, "Where am What am II Whence
came I and whittier am Y'' The simple fact is
that each one Of US this morning has soul TO
would 70 God that to-day, in Sabbath schools and
in all our Christian work, might aspire for the
higher
HONOR OF SOUL
an immortal SOUL But there many obstacles in
the way OF salvation. There is need Of our hid
ing this fact We sometimes hear people talking the
unconverted and saying 1T is just easy for you
become Christian as it is TO your hand II
is not There tremendous obstacles in the way of
your becoming Christian, and every man that has
tried in thorough become child Of God
has found that there obstacles That is not wise
general who deprecates the force Of Ia enemy, who
says TO his men, my troops, you Will have an easy
time OF it, those castles be captured without any
very serious bombardment There are only few enc
mics IN that opposing host 1t will only be few mo-
ments assault and We will gain the victoryl" No.
wise general says:-''ThOse are strong battements
those men who are coming out TO assault
armed and they are brave II You overcome
that host and capture that fortress II will be bya
mighty rallying Of all your energies And have TO
tell you that If you ever going to get to heaven 1t
will be by going out in contest as one against hun
dred, one against hundred thousand-aye, 1t is an
infinite mpossibity that you ever succeed by any
strength resolution of your own and If there we're
not some supernatural aid TO be offered, and some di
vine promise to take hold Of we would all be lost
There the obstacles in the worldliness that
rounds you You rise in the morning. You find IL is
few moments later than you thought 1t You
in great haste You hurry through the morning
meal You race down the street The ferryboat has
started You
LEAP THE CHAsM
You go to the other end Of the boat You get outside
the chains You wait until the boat reaches the wharf
and again you leap the chasm. You go 10 your Office
You open the letters and you write them. You ex-
anime the money market You run hither and thither.
Your life is toll and turmoil The long day,
up to the influence Of this world and IL very rare
indeed that from eight O'Clock in the morning until
four or five O'Clock in the afternoon that you have a
single thought about the great fuure On the tide Of
wordlinessl 1t sets away from God and Heaven. You
know it. The air is fuU OF evil spirits They accost
you; they meet you at the roads; they tell you
the wrong road; they try to unhorse your
good resolutions, to spike your guns TO
outlank you in every Christian movement, and if
you successful at all in gaining the realm of
everlasting bliss It Will be by raying all your physical,
mental and moral energies; by calling God 10 help
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But how you going to get all these obstacles
Ought not the impedinents in your way you
acton Another awakening consideration is the value
Of the soul We have al sinned and lost unless di-
vine grace rescue and redeem so what
shall 1t profit If he gain the whole world and lose
the soulr" Another arousing consideration / find in
the brevIty Of the time in which have prepare for
the next world How long will 1t take
COMPLETE THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE?
Some say two three -four years. If should take
ten years from the day the foundation laid
1t would not be a very great while for magnificent
structure How long ST Peters in buding2
Scores and hundreds Of years and ST. Paul's is not
pect il viii take great while DO IT, Here Is a tenn
pie of holiness TO be built in every mans soul How
long you going 10 give to build that temple How
vast the work and how short the time there do it
in How brief life Is We talk about it
till 1t gets a stale truth But sometimes
God strikes it the soul with such
vehemence that we are reused up. Another arousing
consideration is found in the glory TO be Again,
it is to be considered how many have made shipwreck
of their chances who had good chances as have
man takes good deal Of responsibility when he says
in regard TO any one who goes out OF this world THAT
is lost. There is a OF calculating the eX-
tnction Of physical life The physician comes in ex-
amines the eye puts his hand under the arm feels the
pulse and says: Life is extinct; the man is gone"
But there is such accurate way Of deciding In this
world regard to the destiny in regard TO the death Of
"A immortal