St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-07
TALMAGES Sc RMON.
nserhe Consultations OF the Re-
deemed'' and Their Mission.
encouragement for Christian Workers to
Pursue with Undininished Zeal
the Course Marked Out
for Them. 's...

his subject t'The Consultations Of the Re-
Deemed. 'a:sHis text was:
They that turn many to righteousness shall
shine as the stars, forever and ever Daniel
xii. 8
DIR. Ta1mage said:
Every man has thousand roots and q
Thousand branches. His roots reach
down through all the earth; his branches
spread through all the heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye, with hand,
with foot. His silence often is thunder,
and his life is an anthem or doxology.
There is no such thing as negative in
Guence. We are all positive in the place
we occupy, making the world better or
making it worse, on the Lords side or on
che DEVILS, making up reasons for our
biessedness or banishment, and we have
already done a mighty work in peopling
Heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what
they are going to do. A man who has
burned down city might as well talk of
some evil that he expects to do, Or man
who has saved an empire might as we'll
talk of some good that he expects to do.
BY the force of, your evil influence you
have already consumed infinite values, or
you have, by the power Of right infiu-
"ence, won whole kingdoms for God.
1t would be absurd for me to stand here,
and by elaborate argument prove that the
world is off the track. You might as well
sta nd at the foot of an embankment, amid
the wreck of a capsized rail-train. prov
ing by elaborate argument that something
lis out of order. Adam tumbled over the
ssmbankment, sixty centuries ago, and the
whole race, in one long train, has gone on
&umbling In the same direction. Crash!
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leverage can the crushed thing be lifteds
BY what hammer may the fragments be
reconstructed?
/ want to show you how we may turn
many to righteousness, and what will be
our future pay TO, o doing.
L. We may turn them by the charm o. q
right example. A child, coming from
filthy home, was taught at school to wash
it's face. 1t went home SO much improved
in appearance that its mother washed her
face. And when the father of the house,
held came home and saw the improvement
rim domestic appearance, he washed his
face. The neighbors happening in. saw
The change, and tried the same experiment
until all that street was purified, and the
next street copied its example, and the
whole city felt the result of one schoolboy
~ Washing his face. That is fable by
which we set forth that the best way to
get the world washed of its sins and pol
LUTON Is to have our own heart and life
.Gleansed and purified. A man with grace
In his heart, and Christian cheerfulness in
his face, and holy consistency in his be-
havior, is perpetual sermon: and tie
sermon differs from others in that it mas
bat one head, and the longer it runs the
better. There are honest men who walk
down Wall street, making the teeth OF in
Equity chatter. There are happy men
who go into q sick-room. and, by q look,
help the broken bone to knit. and the ex-
cited nerves drop to calm beating. There
are pure men whose presence silences the
tongue of uncleanness The mightiest
agent of good on earth is consistent
christian. like the Bible folded between
lids of cloth, or calfskin. or morocco, but
i like it better when, in the shapeof o
naats, it goes out into the world-a Bible
Al ssstrated. Cour age is beautiful to read
about; but rather would see man with
sall the world against him confident as
9hons.. all the world were for him. Pa
fieslce is beautiful to read about; but
9ather would I see buffeted soul calmly
waiting for the time of deliverance. Faith
is beautiful to read about; but rather
would find man in the midnight walk
lug straight on as though he saw every
thing. Oh, how many souls have been
turned to God by the charm Of a bright
example.
B Again, we may turn many to righteous
mess by prayer. There is no such detect
i've as prayer, for no one can hide away
from It. It puts its hand on Che shoulder
os q man ten thousand miles off. It alights
on ship mid Atlantic The little child
can not understand the law Of electricity,
or how the telegraphic operator by touch
ing the instrument here, may dart mes
sage under the seq to another continent;
NOR canswe, with our small intellect, un-
derstand how the touch OF a Christians
prayer shall instantly strike soul on
the other side of the earth You take
ship and 20 to some other country, and
s,et there at eleven O'Clock in the morn.
Ing You telegraph to New York, and
&lie message gets there at six O'Clock the
same morning. In other words, 1t seems
TO arrive here five hours before it started.
Like that is prayer. God says: Before
they call ] will hear" To overtake a
AoTed one on the road you may spur up q
Gathered steed until he shall OUTRAGE the
one that brought the news to Client, but
u prayer shall catch it at one gaIlop. A
boy running away. from home may take
The midnight train from the country viii
Rage and reach the seaport IN time TO gain
the ship that sails on the morrow, but a
mothers prayer will be on the deck to
meet him, and in the hammock before he
swings into it, and at the caTstan before
he winds the rope around il and on the
sea, against the sky, as the sessel plows.
-on torssrd it. There is Brightness in
prayer George Muller pr..yea a COM
.pany Of poor boys together, and then he
pTayedAp an asylum in whid they might
be Sheltered He turned his face toward
Edinburgh and prayed, ard fpre came .
Thousand pounds. He turne his face
toward London and prtVed. and
there came q thousandt pounds.
He THY ~ 1 fIi.f face toward Dublin and
lp aged, afrdsl:.ase came a thousand
Z, unds, The breatns. = :, iiah,s prayer
Sssw all the clouds of tn ks.. n end it was
& y weather. The breath OF Efi9hsne.-..s pray
e blew all che clouds together, ananst
WIS wet weather. Prayer, in Daniels,
zine, walked the cave as q lion tanner. 1T
reached up, and took the sun by its gold
20 bit, and stopped it. We have all yet
70 try the full power Of prayer. Tho time.
will come when the American Church
will pray with its face toward the West,