Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
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.,o,t Sermon Preached at Bel
fast, Ireland.

.+be Lost-The Salvation Through
w. BLOOD Of Christ That Is offered
to All-The Joys of Be-
lieving.
T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., of
stlvn, N. Y, preached on a re-
Sunday in st. Enoch's Church.
e. Ireland, and in order to
.;fv the wishes Of the immense
,rsa of those who had been unable to
emission to the church he repeated
.,rmon out of doors. 1t is estimated
. at the two ermon he addressed not
than forty thousand persons. He took
III, text the following:
4, SON of Man is come to seek and to save
which was lOst.-LuEe, Iir., 10.
t., reverend gentleman spoke as fol-
hon Kossuth visited the United States
r. thirty years ago, so great was the en-
siasm for Hungary that remember
1. we'll the trees around the New York
tery were crowded with people who
climbed there to see the distinguished
anger as he passed. 1 shall never for
that scene. Indeed. if one be we'll
sed he can not stand in q better place
lee a passing crowd than in q tree-top.
III. Christ was coming to Jericho, and
Ire was a small man, whose head
not come up to the shoulders
other people, who despaired of
ing the distinguished stranger while
nding on the dead level, so
climbs up into a sycamore tree-broad-
kuched, stretching its arms clear across
highway aud sits there while Jesus
@sances. Christ, coming up with a great
ltitude, casts His eye up and sees this
II on the branch of the sycamore, and
rs: "Come down." and after the man
alighted He says, among other things,
him: 1.-THE Son of Man is come to seek
to save that which was lost" Our
hnpathies are always aroused when we
anything that is lost. Even dog that
wandered away from it's master we
i sorry for. Ola bird that has escaped
BIN it's owner, we say: "Poor thing!"
bing down the street neal nightfall, in
E teeth Of the sharp northeast wind, you
/ very pitiful for me who has got to be
t tonight. As you go along you hear
E atrrighted cry of a child. You stop.
pu say: "What is the matter!" You
up and find that a little one has lost it's
by from home. In it's excitement it can
bt even tell its name OF its residence. The
cup of people gathered around are all
tuched, all sympathetic and helpful. A
ain body comes up, and with her plaid
be wraps the child, and says: "Ill take
bre of the poor BARN" While in the
me street, but a little way on, the crier
pes through the city, ringing a bell, and
ttering in a voice that sounds dolefully
brough all the alleys and byways of the
ty: "a lost child! Three years of age;
(ue eyes, light hair. Lost child!" Did
tu EVER hear any such pathos as that
nging through the darkness?
You are IN shipboard. You see against
be sky q vessel. 1t comes nearer. You
DIST a flag. 1t makes no response. You
by: "What is the matter with that YES
FL" You put the sea-glass to your eye,
ind you find there is no one in the rigging
no one on the deck. "Ah," you say, 81
|uess that must be an abandoned ship" II
Eomes on, falling over into the trough of
be ocean. 1t floats every whittier, tossed
(y the wild sea, and the crew say to the
passengers, and the Captain says to his
Nate: " 1t is a lost ship"
You are going down the street, and you
Zee a man that you know very well. You
shed as you see him. "Why," you say,
he is all covered with the marks of sin.
f. must be in the very last stages Of
fickedness." And then you think of his
blasted home, and say: "God pity his
Fife and child! God pity mimi" A lost
man.
But, my friends, we are lost. "All we
Pike sheep, have gone astray;" and the
bellmen of Heaven come out hunting uI
Ind down to find those who have missed
fheir way, ringing through all the streets
Pt the city, and all the valleys and mount
pins of the earth, the old Gospel bells
The Son of Man has come to seek and tx
eave that which was lost"
am glad that it is the Son of Man Wit
has come to seek us. 1t is not one armet
with thunderbolts, riding down the sky il
Ponderous chariot to crush us, but tho Sol
Pf Man; His nature just like our nature
with II exception; His infancy rocked il
the cradle of q mothers arms; His boy
Phood spent in Nazareth amid a boy'
temptations. Afterward, with blisteree
hands learning a trade. Afterwart
preaching, not with priests gown, but il
lcl'lzen's apparel; talking as brother talk
with brother. o He was the Son of Mar
EHe walked like a man, He slept like
man, He ate like a man, He drank like
man, He wept like a man, He suf
(1eTed like a mantle was a man
41e knew what sin and Temptation
are by personal contact, for He lived in
most abandoned village, and He move
|around amid fishing villages known in a.
|ages for their vice; and in after years II
preached in Jerusalem, a city which
though it had a temple, was worse tina
New York. And when Christ comes no,
lie m not to a new world to make
discovery, but He comes to an old worl
Where He once lived; to a race who's
nerves, and muscles, and bones, and des
We're just like those which He inhabited
Like us, the cold chilled Him; like US, fir
warmed Him; like us, betrayal exasper
ated him. l warrant you that in tina
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