Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-30
the CHRISTIAN MODEL.
The Glorious Example For The
Word.
SERMON BY REV. DR.. TALMAeE
Christ Constantin Work, Constant in Bless
ing, Constant in Mercy, Con-
slant in Work

expounded passage of the New Testament
The opening hymn was:
"Oh, could speak the natchless worth,
Oh, could snuud the glories forth
That in my Savior shine,'
The text was Romans viii. 9: "NovE n
any man have not the spirituf ehrist, he is
none of His
There is nothing more desirable, said DR..
Talmage, than pleasant disposition. With
out it we cannot be happy ourselves, and
we canuot make others happy. When we
feel that we have been vexed and have lost
our temper, or have been impatient under
some light cross, we wake up to new apPre-
citation of proper equipose of nature We
wish that Se had been born with self-bal-
ance, We envy the bearing Of that man
| who is never thrown into perturbation. We
live under the feeling that as years pass
along, our character will be mellowed and
ripened, and we will become more selfcon-
trollable, forgetful of the fact that an evil
left in our nature uneradieated grows to
more offensive proportions, and that trans
gression not cast out may become the grand
father of great generation Of iniquities
1t is possible to have our dispositions all
made over again. Because we do not be
lieve this our dispositions do not improve.
man saws: Il am irascible, and can t
help it" or, Il am revengeful and can't
help it," or, 81 am impulsive and | can't
help it." You can help it. We may have
our dispositions made over again-evil up
rooted, right implanted. If it is ever done
at all, my friends, it will be by having the
disposition of Jesus Christ set down in the
midst of our nature. ! shall, this morning
discourse to You about the disposition of the
Lord Jesus, for IF any man have not the
spirit Of Christ, he is
| None of His.
In the first place the spirit Of Jesus was a
| spirit of gentleness. / know that some
| times he made wrathful utterances against
the hypocrites the Pharisee; but for the
most part His words and His demeanOr
were gentle, and loving, and kind, and pa
tient, and inoffensive and pleasant. When
you consider the fact that He had an ON
Impotence with which He might have torn
to pieces the assailerS of His character it
makes His gentleness seem more remarka-
be- Little children, who always shy off
from a rough man, rushed into His pres
ence and clambered on Him until the
peop'e had to tell them to stand back. In
valids, so sore with disease that they shud-
dered to have any one come near them,
asked Him to put His hands on their
wounds; it was so very soothing There
was not a mother with 80 sick and deli
cate a babe that she was afraid
to trust it in the Saviors arms
His footstep was so gentle it would not
wake up the faintest slumber. Some rough
people hustled bad woman into his pres
ence and said: "Denounee her now Blast
her. Kill her" Jesus looked az her and
then looked at the assaiGnts and said: Let
him that is without sin cast the first s.One
When blind man sat by the wayside max
ing great ado because he had no visions
the people told him to hush up, that he was
bothering the master; but Christ calne
where he was and said to him: What
wih thou that do unto thee?' GentleneSs
of voice. GentlenesS OF hand. Gentleness
of foot. We all admire it though we may
not have it. The rough mountain bluff, the
great SCARED headland loves to look down
in the calm lake at It's feet; the
stormiest Writer
loves 10 merge into the sunshiny spring and
the most impulsive and precipitative nature
must be attracted by the gentleness of Christ.
The calmness of his look shamed boisterous
Gennessret into placity. How little Of that
gentleness you and have! Let us con-
fess it. 1t Is tendency of outdoor life to
stroke our dispositions the wrong way.
The thunder of the world scorn sorrs the
milk of human kindness. The treachery,
he extortion, the ignobeness Of mean men
take the smoothnesS out Of our
nature ard we become suspi-
cious and hvpoeritical, and stuck all over
with nettles and frowns come to the brow
and harshneSs, 20 the voice, and bluntness to
the manners. What are utter and almost
universal lack eS geutleness, so that we do
not know how to talk to the SICK nor ad.
minister to the aAe, nor care for the poor.
We have our words of sympathy pitched on
a wrong KEY. | hRd y sister whose arm was
put out OF Joint snd the neighbors came
and they seized hoid Of the arm and pulled
nightly, and pullef until her anguish was
great, but the bone went not to the socket,
After awhile a surgeon came in, and with
one touch it was all right So we 60 down
to our Christian work with so rough hand
and unsympa hrt;os nature that we miSerably
fail; while some gentle Christian soul comes
along, and with one touch the torn lIga-
ments are healed and the disturbed bones
are reiointed. Oh, for something Of the
pentleness of Christi There is more power
in such gentieness than in lifetime OF high
pretension. The dew OF one summer night
does more good than ten
Caribbean whir3WiDds.
StiH further: the spirit OF Christ was a
spiri, of fselfsacri6ce No young man ever
had opening before him brighter oPPoftu,
mites than opened before Christ If he had
chosen to follow a worldly ambition. He
.migh. have gained fortunes Of wealth in the
time he spent tending the sick with his
power to attract ken and popularlZe him
self he might have gained any official posi-
tioD. No orator ever won such plaudlts as
he might have won from sanhedrim and
synagogue and vast assemblages on the sea
side No physician ever acquired such a
reputation for healing power as Christ
might have if he had performed his wonder
ful cures in the presence of the Roman
sristoeracy. reeite 10 you these shlngs TO
show you what Paul meant when he said
He pleased no, himself" and to show you
what Paul meant when he said 30 human
power could have thrown Christ into the
manger if he had net chosen to- go there.
No Satanic strength
could have lifted Christ on the cross if be
had no. elected himself to the torture To
save our race from the raseings and tur.
moils of its guilt he faced the sorrows OF
earth and the woes of hell All Rotherly,
fatherly, brotherly, filial sslsSacrihce paling
into nothing before this extreme of divine
generosity. Suppose yoa. my hearer' oy
Straight course Of condset could win pal
ace, while by another course OF conduct you
might advantage your fellOw-men. bat
finally would have 10 come 10 ASSASSINATION,
which would you choose, the palace or as
sassination2 Christ chose the latter
o-s0aa MA a-nt