Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-19
CONS LOOKING-GlASS +,
In Which the Sinner Looks and
Lives.
1T PAINS BUT TO CURE.
Brazen Mirrors That Point Out Sins
Faintest Stains and Hid
den Secrets.
IT PAINS BUT TO CURE.
A TYPE OF SALVATION,
SpeciaI 70 ths ReqiSter.


ago DR.. Talmsge received on his fifty
third birthday q testimonial through the
Brooklyn Magazine containing over a hun,
dred congratulatory letters from disin-
guished people such as Secretary Freiing-
huysen from the Department of State, DR..
Prime of New York, Dr. Storrs, Henry
Ward Beecher, John G. Whittier, General
Hancock and W. T. Sherman, Senators
Sherman and Colquitt, Lord Butler of Dub
lin, Martin Farquar Tupper, Emma Alb,
bott and others. DR.. Talmsge has asked
the press to convey his hearty thanks for
their kindness. Philip Phillips says IN his
letter: Arriving at New Zealand the first
literature that met my eyes as | entered a
large book store in Auckland was DR.. Tai.
mage's sermon, a penny each. Even in the
northermost land, Australia, the Southern
Cross and other leading papers Of the colo
nies are telling of salvation as delivered in
the Brookly Tabernacle" John X. Porter,
the great iurist' writes: "None else can
send through an audience like him the mag
netic thrill which penetrates the heart like
tightening. He reaches with every sen.
tence the popular intelligence, heart and
conscience. Fully as appreciate the more
boundess field DR.. Talmage commands in
his own grander profession, | cannot re-
frain from thinking what mastery
he would have over courts and juries, if 1t
had happened to him to belong to ours."
An English correspondent in the same col
lection says: "Seven papers in London here
produce Dr. Talmage's sermons each week,
and through these alone does he obtain an
audience Of more than 100000 readers, one
of these papers alone having a circulation
of over 100000. In Scotland three or four
papers publish his sermons regularly, and
in Ireland, throughout which country he is
universally beloved and respected, even a
larger number Of periodicals produce his
discourses to their readers. 1t must also be
remembered that these periodicals, while
they circulate of course more extensively
throughout Great Britain, they have thous-
snds of regular readers in all the Britith
provinces, such as British Guiana, New
Zealand and Australia. At all the book
stores in London, Liverpool and the large
cities of Great Britain his sermons are al
WAYS for sale and find many purchasers, one
publisher in London informing me that ne
sold more than 10000 copies Of DR.. Tai
mages bound sermons annually. In Ire
land his sermons are read more extensively
than those of any living preacher, and the
journals having the largest calculations are
in every case those that give space to the
publication ol his discourses.
The Sermon.
The subject of DR.. Talmages sermon to
day was: The looking-glass of th'
Gospel" The opening hymn was;
"There is fountain filled with blood
Drawn from ImmanuaI's veins"
The text was: Exodus xxxviii, 8: "Ant
he made the laver of brass and the foot o
brass, of the looking-glass Of the womer
assembling"
We often hear, said Dr.. Talmage, abou
the Gospel in John and the Gospel in Luke
and the Gospel in Matthew, but there L
Just as surely Gospel of Moses and Cos
pei of Jeremiah and Gospel of David. Ii
other words, Christ is as certainly to bt
found in the Old Testament as in the New
When the Israelites were marching through
the wilderness they carried their church witt
them. They called it the Tabernacle i
was pitched tent very costly, very beautI
full. The frame work was made OF 4:
boards of acacia wood set in sockets o
silver. The curtains of the place weI'
purple and scarlet and blue and fine linen
and were hung with most artistic loops
The candlestick Of that Tabernacle hac
shaft and branch and bowl of solid gold
and the figures of cherubim that stoo'
there had wings of gold; and there wer
lamps of gold and shutters Of gold
and tongs of gold and rings of gold; 81
that skepicism has sometimes asked
Where did all that precious material com
fromR tits not my place to furnish tn
precious stones, it is only to tell that
They Were There.
| wish Low especially to speak OF tn
laver that was built in the midst OF tina
ancient Tabernacle 1t was q great bash
from which the priests washed their hand
and feet. The water came down from tn
basin IN spouts and passed away ate
cleansing. This laver or basin was mad
out of the looking glasses of the womel
who had frequented the Tabernacle ant
who had made these their contribution +
the furniture. These lookingglasses wer
not made of glass, but they were brazen
The cross was Of a very superior quaint
aud polished until it reflected easily tn
features OF those who looked into II. S
that this layer of looking-glssses spoken Q
in nv text did double work; it not onl
! furnished the water in which the priest
washed themselves, but it also on its shin
ing polished surface pointed out the spot
of pollution on the face which needed a6lu
ton. Now, my Christian friends, as every
thing In that ancient Tabernacle was sag
pestiye of religious truth and for the mo:
part positively symboliesl Of truth. sha
take that laver Of looking-glasses spoken
in the text as all-suggestive OF the gospe
which first shows US our sins as In miro
ard then washes them away by divine api'
ton.
| "Oh, happy day. happy day,
! When Jesus washed my sins away
have this to say, that this is the onl
looking-glass in which man can see hln
self as he is. There are some mirrors tins
fIatter the features and make you look b
ter than you are. Then there are o'ht
mirrors that distort your features and max
you look worse than you are. Bat l wa'
10 tell You that this lookirg-glass OF to
gospel shows a man jast as he IS. Whe
the priests entered the ancient tabernacl
one glance at the furnished side OF tn
laver showed them their need OF cleansln;
so this gospel shows the soul Its need OF
vine washing. "All have sinned, and con
short Of the glory of God That Is OF
showing. "Gll we, ike sheep. have go'
astray.H That is another showing. "Fro
the crown oFthe head 10 the sole OF 9
foot there is no health in rs" That ls a
other showing. The world calls these
Ean.a in,nerfectioas or eccentricitieS or