St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-19
DIR. TALMAGE.
4 Recent Sermon Preached at Bel
fast, Ireland.
Seeking the Lost-The Salvation Through
the Blood of Christ That Is offered
to AII-The Joys of Be-
lieving.


crafty the wishes Of the immense
concourse of those who had been unable to
gain admission to the church he repeated
the sermon out of doors. It is estimated
that at the two sermons he addressed not
less than forty thousand persons He took
for his text the following:
The Son of Man is come to seek and to save
that which was lost.-L1tce, Ttr., 10.
The reverend gentleman spoke as fol-
lows:
When Kossuth visited the United States
over thirty years ago, so great was the en-
thusiasm for Hungary that remember
very well the trees around the New York
Battery were crowded with people who
had climbed there to see the distinguished
stranger as he passed. shall never for
get that scene. Indeed. if one be well
poised he can not stand in q better place
to see passing crowd than in tree-top.
Well, Christ was coming to Jericho, and
there was "a small man, whose head
did not come up to the shoulders
of other people, who desPaired of
seeing the distinguished stranger while
standing on the dead level, so
he climbs up into sycamore tree-broad-
branched, stretching its arms clear across
the highway and sits there while Jesus
advances. Christ, coming up with great
multitude, casts His eye up and sees this
man on the branch of the sycamore, and
says: "Come down;" and after the man
has alighted He says, among other things,
to him: "The Son of Man is come to seek
and to save that which was lost" Our
sympathies are always aroused when we
iT1ry hot c do hat
has wandered away from its master we
feel sorry for. Ola bird that has escaped
from its owner, we says "Poor thingw
Going down the street near nightfall, in
the teeth of the sharp northeast wind, you
feel very pitifuI for one who has got to be
out tonight As you go along you hear
the afrighted cry Of child. You stop.
You say: What is the matterW You
go up and find that a little one has lost its
way from home. In its excitement it can
not 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: !" I'll take
care of the poor BARN" While in the
same street, but little way on, the crier
goes through the city, ringing bell, and
uttering in a voice that sounds dolefully
through all the alleys and byways of the
city: "A lost child Three years of age;
blue eyes, light hair, Lost childp Did
you ever hear any such pathos as that
ringing through the darkness?
You are on shipboard. You see against
the sky vessel. 1t comes nearer. You
hoist flag. 1t makes no response. You
say: "What is the matter with that yes
SELF" You put the sea-glass to your eye,
and you find there is no one in the rigging
no one on the deck "Ah,o you say, 81
guess that must be an abandoned ship.n 1t
comes on, falling over into the trough Of
the ocean. 1t floats every whittier, tossed
by the wild sea, and the crew say to the
passengers, and the Captain says to his
Mate: 1t is a lost ship"
You are going down the street. and you
see man that you know very well. You
once associated with him. You are aston
ished as you see him. Why you say,
!" he is an covered with the marks of sim
He must be in the very last stages of
wickedness." And then you think of his
blasted home, and say: 'EGod pity his
wife and child God pity himln A lost
man.
But, my friends, we are 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 mount
aims of the earth, the old Gospel BELLS
1.-The Son of Man has come to seek and to
save that which was Iosto
a., oil ha+ i. Al. g., &c 1F...
has come to seek u.s. 1t is not one armed
with thunderbolts, riding down the sky in
ponderous chariot to crush US, but the Son