The southern sentinel., 1886-01-22
TAIMAGE'S SERMON.
Medicine Tor An ulIs Dispensed
By the Brooklyn Pastor.

By the Brooklyn Pastor.
~ Blesd1ag Heart u CHRIST - Oaly In-
asdiats Relief for sinasrs-A Daln
for An wounds asa PArdsa for
An Tra.aersssasss.
The above was the subject Of sermon
recently delivered by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage at Brooklyn Tabernacle. The SER
mon was based on the following text:
And his disciples came. and took up the
BODY. and buried It. and went and told Jesus.
EAatthew XIV, IL
An outrageous assassination had just
taken place. To appease . revengeful
woman, Herod had ordered the death Of
that noble. self sacrificing Christian man,
John the Baptist. The disciples were in
great trouble. There was no court to
which they could make appeal. But grief
nust have utterance, and if there be no
sympathetic ear to hear it, then it must be
cried aloud to the winds and the woods and
the waters. But there was an ear ready to
listen. What beauty of pathos and what
Nopderful picture in the words of my text:
They "went and told Jesus" He was
ready to listen and he was ready to as
suage their grief. We see Christ standing,
his own face shadowed with his own sor-
row, surrounded by q group of disciples in
violent gesticulation, with many tears and
with great outcry of woe. Raphael, with
skillful hand, putting upon the wall Of
palace picture of Bible story, was not SO
~ LAT, 1av, ~ he e<
- he puts upon canvas the sketch of the
text: They awent and told Jesus"
The Cloths and the Vandals came down
from the North of Europe and upset the
gardens, and broke down the affairs, and
swept away everything that was good and
beautiful; andsever and anon In the lives
OF men there are rough-handed despoilers,
crusader who come down to despol and
plunder, and to ransack the soul. No cav
9rn ID 20 deeply cleft in the mountain ~ to
allow you shelter from trouble. The foot
of the deetest courser Is not swift enough
% bear yoa beyond pursuit. The Arrows
drought TO the string ny with unerring
dart, and often You have fallen pierced
and stunned.
Now am this morning to bring cathol-
loon for al your troubles. I am going to
gather al your griefs-I do not care what
they ars-I am going to gather al your
1riefs into . bundle, and set them ON fire
with spark from Gods altar. The pre-
scription Of the text, which healed the sor-
row Of the disciples, is just as successful :
prescription to-day and win heal all your
sorTows.
Now, In the first place, commend the
Behavior Of the disciples in the text to all
thoee who feel themselves sinful and un-
pardcned. There comes . time in every
lnan's life when he wakes up to an appre-
citation Of . sinful nature. The thought
may not have enough heft to fell hint
may only Be like the nash OF cloud It the
close Of q hot summsr day; but the man
must somehow get rid of that feeling. One
man Aies 70 prayer, another man stimu-
lAtes AinlGe1 with ardent spirits, another
nnaa divss deeper intp ssecalarities. It q
evaaAsseA uhen . man hes his eternity
poised % N uncertainty, that he II deter
minod 70 Do something violent and imme-
diato. Nov, can q be that there il in al
this house this morning one man who i
unwilling 70 hsvs he cancer Of ain taken
1rua his seul, when ths Divine surgeon b
ready % do the work aad do It succssSful-
zyf lean not bellows Il
think the frst thing for you to do, Il
ypn ere opprssssd, ny tfothsr, Il you ere
oppGessed with ssnss of your sinfIlness,
= - % and ten Jesus. why, my friends,
3AAs = the basinsm of Christ- Hs does
eehr things, but think the
great basinses Of Christ b 70 pardon. TO
relax ~ grip of death from your soul and