Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-11-04
GRANDEST OF ALL.
DR.. TALMAGE ON CHRlST'S
VICTORY.
Disadvantages Under Which
the Saviour Struggled
Glorious Triumph Over All the Great
Obstacles -Even Death Put to Flight
by the Poor Carpenters Son.
Special to the Kansas City Times.


and around the Brooklyn tabernacle on Sab
bath mornings and evenings are larger than at
any time during the seventeen years Of Dr.
Talmage's pastorate. This morning the open
ing hymn was that beginning:
o. could speak the matches WORTH
o, could sound the glorcs forth
That in my Savior shine!
The text was John xvii, A. ~ have finished
the work which Thou gavest Inc to do" The
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, d, d., said:
There is profound satisfaction in the COM
pletion of anything we have undertaken. We
lift the capstone with EMULATION, while, on the
other hand there is nothing more disappoint-
ing, than, after having toiled in a certain dl
roctiOn, to find that our time is wasted and
our investment proftless Christ came to
throw up a highway on which the whole world
might if it chose, mount into heaven. He did
it. The fOul-mOuthed crew who attempted to
tread on him could not eXtingulsh the sub
lime satisfaction which he expressed when he
said: Il have finished the work which Thou
gavest me to dOn
BALM FOR DEADLY WOUNDS
Alexander the Great was wounded, and the
doctors could not medicatc his wounds and he
seemed to be dying, and In his dream the sick
man saw plant with a peculiar flower and
he dreamed that that plant was put upon
his wound, and that Immediately it was cured.
And Alexander waking from his dream, told
TINS to the physician and the physician wan
drrcd out until he found just the kind of plant
which the EEK man had described, brought it
10 him AM the wound was healed
Well, the human race has been hurt with
the ghastliurss Of all wOumds-that of sin 1t
wa, the business of Christ to bring a balm for
that wound-thc balm of Divine restoration.
IN carr ing this business to successful issue
the difficulties were stupeudouS.
In many OF our plans We have our friends
to help us; some to draw a sketch of the
p an, Others to help us in its execution. But
Christ fought every inch of His way against
bitter hostility and amid circums tancrs all
calculated to epress and defeat. In the first
place, His worldly occupation was against
Him | find that He earned His livelihood by
the carpenters tradr-an occupation always
t. be highly regarded and respected But YOU
know as well as do that in order to succeed
in any employment one must give his entire
time to it, and have to declare that the
foti@ue> of carpcntrt were UnfavOrabe to
the rX"Cut on OF a mission which required all
mental and physical faculties.
CHRISTS GRAND UNDERTAKING..
Through h, hard, dr. husky insensate
Judaism to hcw a way for new u d glorious
GspcusaiiOu was stupcndUus undertaking
tIatcd eucrgpc, even Of Christ We have Il
goat many romantic strrrs about what men
WHln physical ton have aCCOmpl shed in in
t.lIcctual departments; but YOU know that
after man has been tuilug all day with adj
and saw, and hammer, plane and AK about all
he can do is to rest. \ weary body is an un-
favorable adjunct to tOilng mind. You,
whose upbuiIdiug Of Il kingdom, or the proc.
ianation Of a new cole of morals, or the start
ing OF Il revolution which should upturn all
nations could get some idea of the inco-
hcrenCe of Christs worldly occupation with
His heavenly nilsson.
In his fathcrs's shop no more intercourse
was necessary than is ordinarily necessary in
bargaining with men that have work to do:
yet Christ, with hands hard from the touch Of
tools of trade, was called forth to become
public speaker, to preach in the face of mObs
while some vert and some shook their fists,
and some CRASHED upon Him with their teeth
| and many wanted Him out of the way.
To address orderly and respectful assem-
| blagcs is not SO easy as it may seem, but it
requires more energy and more force and
more concentration to address an cXasper-
atrd mob. The villagers Of Nazareth heard
| the pounding OF His hammer but all the wide
reaches Of eternity were to hear the stroke of
His spiritual UThuilling.
NOT IN REGAL MAGNIFICENCE.
SO also His habits of dress and Of diet were
against Him. The mighty men of Christ's
time did not appear in apparel without trink-
cts and adornments. None of the Caesars
| would haze appeared in items apparel
| Yer here wa, a man, here was a pretended
! king who always wore the same coat Indeed
| II was ar from shabby, for after he had worn
| it long while, the gamblers thought it worth
rafting about hut still it was far from being
an imperial robe. 1t was a coat that any
| ordinary man might have Worn on an ordinary
! occasion.
Neither was there any pretension in His
IN hon vii frg1l nho al
! brought him wine to drink. On the seas hore
! He ate fish, first having brolcd it himself
No one fetched Him water to drink, but bend
! ing over the well in Samaria He begged a
drink. He sat at only one banquet, and that
| not at all sumptuOus, for TO relieve the
awkwardness of the host one Of the guests
had to prepare wine for the company.
Other kings rifle in n chariot He walked.
| Other kings as they advance have heralds
ahead, and applauding subjects behind :;
| Christs retinue was made up of sunburned
| fishermen. Other kings sleep under embroid-
cred canopy; this one on sheterless hill.
Riding but once, as far as now remember, on
! a colt and that borrowed
POVERTY AGAINST THE SAVIOUR
Again, his poverty was against him 1t re-
| Quircs money to build great enterprises. Men
| OF means are afraid OF a pennless protector,
least loan b. demanded. 1t requires money
to print books, to build institutions, to pay in
structors. No wonder the wise men Of Christ's
time laughed ut this pcnnIless Christ. ''Whv,'
! they said, who is to pay for this new religion
Who is TO charter the ships to carry the mis-,
stonaries: Who is to pay the salaries Of the
teachers: Shall wealthy Judaism be dscom
fitted by pemniless Christi"
The consequence was hat most of the people
that followed Christ had nothing to lose
! Wealthy Joseph Of Arimathea buried Christ
but he riskcd no social position in doing that
| It's always safe to bury dead man. Zac
Chcus riSked no wealth or social position in
following Christ, but took position in a tree
to look down as he passed. NicOdemus
wealthy Nicodemus, riskcd nothing of socia
position in following Christ, for he skuked b,
night to find him. All this was against Christ
So the fact that he was not regularly gradua
ted was against HIM. If a man comes with tn,
diplomas OF colleges and schools and theological
semIuuric-, and h. has been through foreign
travel the world is SUPP sed to listen. There
WAS man who had graduated a: no college ha,
not in any academy by ordinary means Learned
the alphabet of the language he spoke, and We
he rolO~c.l to talk, to instruct in subject
which had c"nf"un ed the mightiest intellrcts
John SAYS: THE Jews marvclcd, saving. how
hath this man letters, having never learnedP
OTHER DISADVANTAGES TO BE MET.
We in our day have found out that a maj
without djploma may know as much as
man with one, aud that a college can no
transform sluggarl into a philosopher, or
! ihcOIOg cal seminary teach fool to preach
An empty ne Il. after the LAYING on of hand
. OF The lreshytcry. is empty still. But
shuCkc all cX II NJ Irciudiccs in those oldc
times tur man with 70 scholastic pretenso
aud no graduation from a learned Institution
to set himself up for a teacher. 1t was al
against II m. So also the brevity Of His lif
was AGAINST Him. He had not come to wha
We call id-liie. But very few men do any
thing Cefure % years Of age, and yet that wa
the point at which Chrsts life terminated
TIE first fifteen YOU take in nursery an
school Then it will take YOU at least 81
years to get into YOUR occupation or profession
, That will bring you 20 81 years. Then 1t wi
take you ten years at least to get establshe
/ in YOUR life work, correcting the mistakes 70
have made. If any man, at 33 Years of az,
gets established in his life's work, he is II
exception. Yet that is the point at whic
Christ's life terminated.
AGE ALSO AGAINST CHRIST.
, Men in military life have done their mo-
!, wonderful deeds before 33 wears Of age. Thel
may be exceptions to 1t, but the most wonde
full exploits In military proves have OccuTC
before thirty-three years Of age. But AS
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