Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-02
NONE LIKE JESUS.
seRMo', BY REV. 7. De WITT TAI.
MAGE AT CRETE, NEs.

Small Sins Can Forgive Large Ones
Outbreaks of Gladness In Heaven
CRETE, Neh., July To-day there Is Q
great outdoor meeting at this place-a Chan
tauqua meeting-and people from all part
are present A sermon by the Rev. T. d.
Witt Talmage, D. D., is the principal feature
of the occasion. The reverend gentlemans
subject was, ''None Like Jesus" he took
for his text, "Unto you therefore which be
lieve he Is precious" I Peter ii, Z. Fol
lowing is the sermon:
We had for many years In this country
commercial depression. What was the mat
ter with the storesf With the harvestsi
With the peoplef Lack of faith. Money
enough, goods enough, skillful braina
enough, industrious hands enough, but
No faith Now, what damages the com
Dercial world damages the spiritual Our
great lack is faith That is the hinge ON
which eternity turns. 20" says some one in
the audience, al have faith. believe Christ
came down to save the world" l reply that
in worldly matters when you have faith you
always act upon it. For instance, if could
show you business operation by which you
could make s, 900 you would Immediately go
into It You would prove your faith in
what tell you by your prompt and imme-
diate action. Now, il what you call faith in
Christ has led you TO surrender your entire
nature TO Jesus, and to corresponding action
in your life. it is genuine faith, and If it has
not, it is not faith at all.
There are some things which l believe
- ~ thara afh har fEftaoro
VIII believe with the heart And then
whire other things which | believe both
there head and heart believe, for in
with tleS Cromwell lived That is mat
stance, thssead- Then there are other
ter of the hbelieve with the heart and
things which That is, have no es-
not with the heattieving them, and yet l
pecial reason for bes and the WISH Is the
want to believe the,i6 But there Is
Iather to the expectatiSn Una. Which we
very great difference betwe&a e&at whicn we Dc
oeieve about ourselves and tS' you reinem-
ne'e about Others. For instanlC Cas oisss1er
per not great while ago therey' tnere was
IN pennsylvania, amid the minis many iives
an explosion amid the damps, ano pcAse up
were lost In the morning yc mao oeen
your newspaper and saw that 4 fou saia;
great disaster in Pennsyiyan,, no" many
AN, what a sad thing this tneh YOU reaa
hves tosti o, what sorrowr oeen an almost
nttie further on There hat men OUT, anu
miraculous effort to get thos tou sna, Whas
tew had been saved "Oh, 'nihg .nsI VAS
a brave thing, what grar en you ioiueu .ne
how well it was donep rsour morning ne
paper up and sat dou,, =, not been interfered
past Your appat,ta re- Gay, perhaps, you
with, and during trthree times OF the dis
thought only two or ou and had been in the
aster. LIT suppos-dg had been all around us,
same. and the II the pickaxes just above us
I'D hrrying to work their way down,
= after d while we saw the light, and then
the life bucket let down through the sheft,
and, suffocated and half dead, wehad Just
strength enough to throw ourselves over into
it, and had been hauled out into the light
Then what an appreciation we would have
had of the agony and the darkness beneath,
and the Joy of deliverance. That is the diff
ference between believing a thing about
others and believing it about ourselves.
We take up the Bible and read that Christ
came TO save the world THAT was beauti-
full YOU say, "a fine specimen of self denial
That was very grand, indeed But suppose
il is found that we ourselves were down In
the mine of sin and in the darkness, and
Christ stretched down his arm of mercy
through the gloom and lifted US out of the
Dit, and set our feet on the Rock Of Ages,
and put new song into our mouth Oh, then
it matter OF handclapping; it is a matter
Of deep emotions Which kind of faith have
you. my brotherf
1t is faith that makes Christian, and it is
the proportion of faith that maxes the differ
ence between Christians What was it that
lifted Paul and Luther and Payson and
Doddridge above the ordinary level Of Chris
tian characteri 1t was the simplicity, the
brilliancy, the power and the splendor of
their faith Oh. that we had more of it'll
God give US more faith to preach and more
faith to hear. "Lordi we believe, help thou
our unbeliefr ''To you which believe be is
precious" sss
First: remark Christ is precious to the
believer, as Saviour from sin A man says:
"To whom are you talk.ngi | am one Of the
most respectable men in this neighborhood;
do YOU call me sinnerr Yesl "The heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked You say: "How do you know any
thing about my hearth" know that about
It, for God announces it in his Word: and
what God says is always right. When a man
becomes Christian people say: THAT man
sets himself above us" Oh, moi Instead Of
setting himself up be throws himself down
He cries out: al was lost once, but now am
found | was blind once, but now see.
PROSTATE myself at the foot Of the croes of
the Saviours mercy"
What grand thing it Is to feel that all
the bad words have ever uttered. and all
the bad deeds have ever done, and all the
bad thoughts that have gone through my
mind, are as though they bad never been, for
the sake of what Christ has done. You
know there is difference In stains Some
can be washed out by water, but others re-
quire chemical preparation The sin Of the
heart is SO black and indie ible mark that
no human application can .leanse it, while
the blood of Jesus Christ can wash it out for.
ever U, the infinite, the onnipotent chem
istry of the Gospel Some man says: Il be-
iieye all that believe God has forgiven the
most of my sins, but there is one sin cannot
forget" WHAT ID itf do not want to know
what it is, but take the responsibility of
saying that God will forgive it as willingly
as any other sin
Ger sins ike mountains for their size,
The seas Of sovereign grace expand.
The seas Of sovereign grace arise
There was q very good man about seventy
five years OF age, that once said: II believe
God has forgiven me, but there was one sin
which committed when was about twenty
years Of age that never forgave myself for,
and can't feel happy when think of itn
He said that one sin sometimes came over his
heart, and blotted out all his hope Of heaven