The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-01-14
PULPIT UTTERANCES.
Delay Not, for the Kings Business
requires Haste.
Dangers Of Procrastination--" What Thy
4and Findeth to DO, Do It with All
Thy Might"--A Sermon by
Rev. DIR. Talmage.

Rev. DIR. Talmage'
Bev. T. De Witt Talmage preached I'm
Brooklyn Tabernacle on Sunday on the
subject Of "Acceleration." The text was
!. Samuel, xxi:S: "The Kings business
requires haste" Following Is the SER
mon:
The cradle Of 1886 rocked on the grave OF
1891 All intelligent people, whether
Christian or unchristian, are thoughtful
about the closing of one volume of time
and opening Of another. The striking of
clock Is always suggestive, but the most
tremendous stroke the clock ever gives Is
when on the night Of the 3lst of December
it strikes twelve. / think all. of US who
have any thing to do feel that we must
swiften our pace. Accelerationl In my
text David appears before Abimelech with
out sword, or food, or usual attendants,
and gives as his reason for this unseemly
appearance that he was on urgent Imperi-
al business, and had no time to properly
accouter or equip himself. "The Kings
business required haste"
My friend, we are all intrusted with
some part of the Kings business and one
great need is to have our speed accelerated.
God seems to be Being Of infinite leisure.
He sometimes takes twenty-five hundred
years to do one thing, though in six days
he put on the world the final touches that
made 1t iuhabitable fol man. Biologists
tell us that unaccounted ages passed be-
tween the laying Of the cornerstone Of the
earth and its final completion. God took
this uimaginable reach of time for work
that He could have done in three months.
He has plenty of time for every thing.
With an eternity behind Him and an eter-
nifty before Him, there is no furry, no
precipitation, no haste. But so far US we
are concerned, what we do must be done
in briefest time and in quickest way. "The
Kings business requires haste"
Christ is our King; King of Glory, King
Of Zion, King of Saints, King over all the
earth, King over Heaven. He is King
that shall never die. Where is Louis XIV?
Dead Where is Richard ILL.,! Dead
Where is Ferdinandy Dead Where is
Peter the Grcntp Dead! At tho door
of the grave lies whole sheaf Of scepters.
Death sits In the palace of the sepulcher
and the potentates Of earth are his cup
bearers; and, as the old blind monarch
staggers around his palace, ever and anon
he trips on some new fallen coronet. They
sat up Charlemagne in his grave and put
u crown on his pulseless temples and a
scepter in his lifeless hand; yet that could
not bring back his kingdom. But our
Emperor lives. He existed before the
world was made. He shall continue after
1t is burned up. King Immortall
The French Government thought itself
rich in having so many palaces-St. Cloud
and the Tuileries and the Versailles and
the Palais Royal and the Luxembourg:
but our King has the whole earth for His
palace-the mountains, its picture gallery;
the ocean, its fountain; the sun, its chan
delier; the midnight heavens, its candela-
bra; illimitable forests, its park; the
glories Of the sunrise and sunset, the tapes-
try about the windows; the storms, the
lightning ng-hoofed coursers dashing up and
down the heavens; all the glories Of the
land and sea and sky, His wardrobe; all
the flowers Of the field, His conservatory;
all the fish Of the sea, His aquarium; all
the birds Of the spring morning, His or
chestra. But, better than all these, the
hearts Of His people on earth and of His
saints in Heaven are tho palaces in which
He delights TO reign, King universal!
Like other Kings he has his army and
navy. Fightirs on his side are the hurTi-
canes Of the great deep-as in the breaking
up Of the Spanish armada; the volcanoes
Of the earth-as in the burial OF infamous
Hurnulananfn tho ttbat, Enlo
was deluged with connagration; the rocks
-as when they crashed their terrors about
the crucihxion. The Psalmist counted the
flaming artillery of Heaven, as IL came
rushing down the sky and cried: "The
chariots OF God are twenty thousand.D
Elijah's servants caught glimpse OF them
among the nountains-a cavalcade OF
flame. The cherubim on his side; the sera-
phim on his side: the archangels on his
side; King omnipotent
Our King is wrapped up In the welfare
Of his subjects. The Sultan of Turkey had
a,rule that when riding out on horseback
any of his subjects might approach him
and state their wrongs and sufferings; and
the people pressed so close up 10 the stir
rups that IL wns sometimes impossible for
the Sultan TO proceed. But we have more
merciful King. We do not have 10 wait
for public occasions. Any hour of the day
or night, without introduction, we may
press into His palace, tell our wants, and
secure His help. Going before other Kings
we must have a Court-dress, rightly cut
and rightly adorned; but beggnrs may
come before this King in their rags, and
IL