Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-04
A QUERY.
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH JESUS 2
This is Question Of Vital importance TO
All-Shali We Cast Aside the One
Who Plunged into the Depths
Of Sin to Rescue Us2
REV. T. De VIII TAlMAGe's SERMON.

REV. T. De VIII TAlMAGE'S SERMON.
Jesus suffsriugs for Humanity-Hn Un-
tiring Efforts in our Behalf
NKw YoRK, April 3.
| Special Dispsuh h to the Register.
DIR. Talmsge was greeted by the
usual large audience this morning, and
he preached one Of his Enthusiastically
excellent sermons.
subject-what to do With Jesus
Text: SI. Mathew xvii; 21-"what shall
| do then with Jesus
The Sermon.
PLATE was base politician. He had
sympathies, convictions OF right and de-
aires 10 be honest; but all these were
submeryed by a wish to be popular and
10 please the people. Two distinguished
prisoners were in the grasp OF govern
ment and the proposition was made TO
| free one OF them. There stands BarSb-
\ bas. the murderer There stands Christ,
the Savior OF the world. At the demand
OF the people, the renegade is set free,
but Jesus is held As the hard-visaged
and cruel eyedIBarsbbas goes among his
| congratulating sympathizers, receiving
their coarse sympathies and congratula-
tions. Pilate turns to his other distln-
guished prisoner-mild, meek, molten
sive, loving, self-sacrifising, and he is
confounded as 70 what course he had
better take, so he impanels the mob as a
iury TO decide, saying to them: what
shall do then, with Jusus?" Oh, it is
-. .,.tharaJ rnaotinn hut nna
that kindles with warm and quick pulse
in the heart OF every man and woman
here. We must do something with
Jesus. He is here. You and are not
so certainly here as he is, for he fills all
this place the loving. living, dying
Christ-and each one OF US will have to
ask and answer for himself the question
what shall / do then with Jesus"
Well, my friends, there are three or four
things YOU can do with him.
You can, in the first place, let him
stand without a word OF recognition;
but do not think your sense OF COM
mon courtesy will allow that. He comes
walking on such long journey, you
will certainly
Give Him q Chair
on which he may sit. He is so weary
Won would not let him stand without
some recognition. II a beggar comes to
your door, you recognize him aud say:
"Whst do you want1' Ii a stranger
faint in the street, you say: what 10
the matter with you" and your COM
mon humanity and your common sym
patty and your common sense oil proprle.
ty will not allow you to let HIM stand
without recognition-the wounded one
of the hills. You will ask, what makes
him weep? Where he was hurt? Who
wounded him? Whence ne came?
Whittier he goes? know there have
been men who have with outrageous in
difference hated Christ, but l know
very well, this morning, that that is not
what YOU will do with Jesus. Another
thing that YOU can do with him-you
can thrust him back from your heart and
tell him to stand aside. II an offensive
person comes and persists IN standing
close up to you and yen have in various
WAYS given him to understand that you
do not want his presence or his society,
then YOU ask the reason for his impertl-
nence and bid him away. Well, that IS
what We can do with Jesus. He has
stood close by as great while. Ten,
twenty. thirty, forty years. He has
stood close by you three times day,
breaking bread for your household,
all night watching by your pillow. lie
has been in the nursery among your
children; He has been in the store among
YOUR goods; He has been in the factory
among the flying wheels, and now, II
YOU do not like His society you can bid
Him away. Aye, if He will not go, you
can
Take Him by the Throat.
and tell Him you do not want His inter
ference; that you do not want His breath
on your cheek; that you do not want
His eve on your behavior. You can bid
Him away, or il He will not go in that
way, then you can stamp your foot, as
YOU would at dog, and cry, "Begone!
Yet | know you will not treat Jesus that
way. I know you too well. When
Plate could not do that you could not
II you were dssperadoss and out
laws then might expect 1t
of YOU; but know that that is not the
yay YOU will treat him-thst that is not
what you will do with Jesus.
There is another thing you can do
with him; you can look on him merely
"a an optician to cure blind eyes, or an
aurist to time deaf ears, friend, agood
friend, a helpful companion, a cheerful
passenger on shipboard; but that will
amount TO nothing. You can look on
him a. a God and be abashea while he
rouses the storm or blasts fg tree, or
heayes a rock down the mountain side.
That will not do YOU any good; no more
save your soul than the admiration you
have for John Milton or Oliver Crom-
well. can think of only one thing you
can do with Jesus, and that Is TO take
him into your hearts. That Is the bes;
thing you can do with him. That is the
only safe thing you can do with him,
and NAV the Lord omnipotent by His
spirit he . me this morning to pursuade
you to do that
A minister OF Christ was speaking to
some children ant said, 81 will point
YOU 10 Christ" A iitl, child rose in
the audience and cams up aud put her
hand IN the hand OF the pastor and said.
please, sir, take me to Jesus now.
want 10 20 now" Oh, that it might be
n at this morning, with such simplicity
oil experenCt, tuaL yOu Anu Jun hahuo
and seek after Christ and get an express
sion of his benefsction and his mercy.
In the first place, nv hearers, take
Christ into your confidence. II you
cannot trust him, who can you trusti
/ do not offer you a dry theological
technicality. simply ask you to come
and put both feet on the "Rock OF Ages.
Take hold of Christ's hands and draw
him to your soul with perfect abandon
ment and
Hurl Yourself Into the Deep Sea
of his mercy. He comes and says: 81
will save YOU" IL You DO not think lie
i, hypocrite and q liar when he
saws that believe him and say: Lord
Jesus, believe, here is my heart. Wash
IL. Save lido it now. Aye, it is done,