The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1888-08-08
DR.. ~TALMAGE'S SERMON.
None Like jesus.

t"Unto you therefore which bclicvc, Ito is
,reo.ous."- Pet.2'7.
WE had for many years in this coun-
Try commercial depression. What was
ts,;0 i~iiicttor with the sJores2 With the
1arvests? With tho people? Lack Of
falthl Money enough, goods enough,
,kilful brains enough, industrious hands
enough, but no faith. Now. what dam
ages the commercial world, damages
tho spiritual.
OUR GREAT LACK
s faith. That is the hinge on which
aternity turns. The Bible says we are
saved by faith. co., says some one In
the audience, II have faith. I believe
that Christ camo down to save tho
world" I reply that in worldly
matters, when,you have faith you al
ways act upon it. For instance, IL 1
GOULD show you a business operation by
which you could make five thousand
dollars, you would Immediately go into
It. You would prove your faith in
what I tell you by your prompt and
immediate action. Now, il what you
call faith in Christ has led you to sur
Gender your entire nature to Jesus and to
corresponding action in your life, it Is
genuine faith, and If it has not, II is
not faith at all.
There are some things which | be-
lieve with the head. Tllon there are
other things which l believe with the
heart. And then there are other things
which / believe both with tho head and
heart. l believe, for instance, that
Cromwell lived. That is a matter of
the head. Then there are other things
which l believe with the heart and not
with the head. That Is, l have no cs-
pecial reason for believing them, and
yet L want to believe them, and tho
wish is the father to the expectation.
Bnt tllere is 9 very great difference be-
tween that which we believe about our
selves, and that which we believe about
others. For instance, you remember
not q great while ago thore was
A DISASTER IN PENNSYLVANIA,
amid the mines; there was an explosion
amid the damps, and many lives were
lost. In the morning you picked up
your newspaper, and saw that there
had been u great disaster i'll Pcnnsyl-
vania. You said: "Ah, what u sad
thing this is; how many lives lostl O,
what sorrowp' Then you read IL little
further on. There had been an almost
miraculous effort to get those men, out,
and a few had been saved. 90" you
said, 'wllat q brave thing, what n
grand thing that wasl How well it
was donel'' Then you folded the paper
up, and sat down to your morning re-
past. Your appetite had not been in
terfered with, and during that day, per-
haps, you thought only two OF three
times of the disaster.
But suppose you and l had heen III
the mine, and tho dying Ii ad been all
around us, and we had heard the pick
axes just above us as they were trying
to work their way down, and after q
while we saw the light, and then tho
life-Ducket let down through the shaft,
and, suffocated and half dead. We had
lust strength enough to throw our
selves over into it, and had been hauled
out into the light. Then what an ap.
probation we would have had Of the
agony and the darkness beneath, and
the Joy Of d%eliverance. That is the
difference between believing a thing
about others and believing ii about our
selves.
We keep up the Bible and read that
Christ came to save the world. "Tllat
was beautiful" you say; ga fine speci.
men Of sel%f-denial. That was very
II grand indeed" But suppose it Is
found that we ourselves were down
IN II MINE OF SIN
and in the darkness, and Christ stretch
ed down His arm Of mercy through the
gloom and lifted us out or the pit, and
eet our feet Oh the Rock Of Ages, and
put q now song into our mouth: 0,
then it is q matter of h%andclapping; Ii
is q matter of congratulations; it Is a
matter Of deep emotions. Which kind
OF faith have you, my brother2
1t is faith that makes a Christian,
and it Is the proportion OF faith that
makes the difference bctwecnChristians.
What was it that lifted Paul and
Luther and Payson and Doddridgo
above the ordinary lovol Of Christian
character2 1t was tho simplicity, the
brilliancy, the power, and the splendor
OF their faith. 0, that we had moro of
it! God give us moro faith to preach
and more faith to hear. "Lord, we
believe; help Thou our unbeliefl - sic
you which believe, IIe is precious"
First: l remark Christ Is precious to
the believer,
AS A SAVIOUR FItOM SIN.
"A man says: 'tTo whom are YOU talk
Aib ! L Va Oilo VI ViC AllOoO 1CoDCCUtlDlC
men in this neighborllood; do YOU call
me Q sinner" Yesl "The heart is
deceitful above all things and desperate
ly wicked" You say: "IIow do you
know anything about my hearth" 1
know that about it, for God announces
it in Ills Work; and what God says is
always right. When imam becomes a
Christian, people say: "That man sets
himself above us." o, mol Instead
Of setting himself up, he throws him
self down. lie cries out: 81 was lost
once, but now 1 gee. I PROSTATE NY
self at the foot or tho cross OF tic
Sayiour's mercy"
What q grand thing it is to feel that
all the bad words L have ever uttered,
and all tho bad deeds l have done, and
all the bad thoughts that have gone
through my mind, arc as though they
had never been, for tho sake Of what
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