The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-31
An Audience of Four Thousand Persons As
sembles in st. EnOchs Church. and
Listens to the Brooklyn Preacher.
And He Subsequently Addresses Forty
Thousand People in the Street.
A Characteristic Discourse, Marked by the
Speakers Usual Eloquence of Expression
and Apt and Striking Illustration.
special to the Indianapolis Journal.


Talmase preached at St. Enoch's Church. in this
city, today to large congregation, numbering
fully 1000. He afterwards addressed an assem-
blage computed at about 0,O00. who could not
gain admittance to the church. The Scripture
lesson was read from the twenty-ffth chapter of
Matthew, the parable of the ten virgins DR..
Talmage took as his text the tenth verse of the
nineteenth chapter of Luke: 'The Son of Man
is come to seek and to save that which was
lost" The Doctor said:
When Kossuth visited the United States
about thirty years ago, so great was the enthusi-
asm for Hungary that I remember very we'll the
trees around the New York ''battery" were
crowded with people who had climbed there to see
the distinguished stranger as he passed. l shall
never forget that scene. Indeed, if one be we'll
poised he cannot stand in better place to see
passing crowd than in tree top Well, Christ
was coming to Jericho, and there was small
man whose head did not come up to the shoul
ders of other people, who despaired of seeing the
distinguished stranger while standing on the
dead level; SC he climbs up into sycamore tree
broad -branched, stretchings its arms clear
across the highway-and sits there while Jesus
advances Christ, coming up with great multi
tude casts His eye up and sees this man on the
branch of the sycamore, and says; Come
down." and after the man has alghted, He says,
among other things, to him: 1.-The Son of Man
is come to seek and to save that which is lost"
Our sympathies are always aroused when see
anything that is lost Even a dog that has
wandered away from it's master we feel sorry
for. Or bird that has escaped from its owner,
ri DIM fha
near nightfall, in the teeth of the sharp north
east wind you feel very pitiful for one who has
got to be out tonight AS you go along you
hear the affrighted cry of child You stop.
You say: What is the matterY You so up
and find that little one has lost its way from
home. In it's excitement it cannot even tell its
name or its residence. The group of people
gathered around are all touched, all sympathetic
and helpful. A plain body comes up, and with
her plaid she wraps the child, and says: "In
take care Of the poor BARN. While in the same
street. but a little way on, thecrier goes through
the city ringing bell, and uttering voice that
sounds dolefull through all the alleys and by ways
of the city, "a lost child! Three years OF age,
blue eyes, light hair Lost child!' Did you
ever hear any such pathos as that ringing
through the darknesss
You are on shpboard. You see against the
sky vessel. 1t comes nearer. Youhoist flag.
1t makes no response. You say: "What is the
matter with that vesselr You put the sea- glass
to your eye, and you find there is no one in the
riggng-no one ON the deck. "Ah," you say; II
guess that must be an abandoned ship" 10 comes
on, falling over into the trough of the ocean. It
floats every whittier, tossed by the wild sea, and
the crew say to the passengers, and the captain
says to his mate: "It is a lost ship"
You are going down the street. and you see q
man that you know very WELL You once asso-
ciated with him. You are astonished to see him.
Why you say, she is all covered with the
marks of sin. He musrSe in the very last stages
of wckedness" And then you think of his
blasted home, and say: "God pity his wife and
child! God pity him." A lost man.
But, my friends. we lost. 'All we, like
sheep, have gone astray;" and the bellmen Of
heaven come out hunting up and down to find
those who have missed their way ringing through
all the streets of the city, and all the valleys and
mountains of the earth, the old gospel bell
The Son of Man has come to seek and to save:
that which is lost"
am glad that it is the Son of Man who has
come to seek US. 1t is not one armed with
thunderbolts, riding down the sky in ponderous
chariot to crush US, but the Son of Man: His
nature just like our nature, with one exception;
His infancy rocked in the cradle of mothers
arms His boyhood spent in Nazareth, amid
boys temptations. Afterward, with blistered
hand learning a trade. Afterward, preaching,
not with priests gown, but in citizens apparel;
talking as brother talks with brother. Oh, He
was the Son of man; He drank like a man; He
wept like man; He suffered like man; He was
a man! He knew what sin and temptation are
by personal contact. for He lived in most
abandoned village, and He moved around amid
fishing villages known in all ages for their vice;
and in after years he preached in Jerusalem,
city which, though it had temple, was worse
than New York And when Christ comes now,
He comes not to a new world to make discovery,
but he comes to an old world where He once
Eved to a race whose nerves. and muscles, and
bones, and flesh were just like those which He
inhabited Like us, the cold chilled Him; like
us, fire warmed Him; like u.s. betrayal exas-
perated Him warrant you, that in that hos
tile and rough society He received many kick,
and bruse, and cuff that have never been re-
corded / am glad to know that He comes in the
fresh memory of his sorrows on earth, and of
those thrilling night scenes and day scenes of
His earthly citizenship, ITO seek aud to save
that which was lost"
HUMANITY's GREAT GUILT.
In the first place, remark that we are lost to
holiness. Are you not all willing to take the
Bible announcements that our nature is utterly
ruinedl Sin has broken in at every part of our
CASTLE One would think that we got enough OF
It from onr parents. whether they were pous or
not; but we have taken the capital OF sin wlta