Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-02
THE LOVE OF JESUS.
DR.. TALNAGb'S ELOQUENT SERMON
PREACHED YESTERDAY.
Chr;sfs Sslf-Dsnial tAs Grandsst Of History-Prs
olous 10 the Bslisysr-As Saviour, Friend
and a Final Dsliysrsr-HB
Eternal Love

great outdoor meeting at this place-s
Chsutauqua meeting-snd people from all
parts are present. A sermon by the Rev,
T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., is the principal
feature of the occasion. The reverand
gentleman's subject was: None Like
Jesus" He took for his text: 'Unto you
therefore which believe He is precious u
/. Peter: ch. 2, v. z. Following is the
sermon:
We had for many years in this country
commercial depression. What was the
matter with the stores9 With the har'
vests? With the people? Lack of faith.
Money enough, goods enough, skillful
brains enough, industrious hands enough,
but no faith. Now, what damages the
commercial world, damages the spiritual
Our great lack is faith. That is the hinge
on which eternity turns. The Bible sayt
we are saved by faith. 'Oh," says some
one in the audience, 81 have faith.
believe that Christ came down 10 save the
world" reply that in worldly matters
when you have faith you always act upon
it. For instance, if could show you q
business operation by which You, could
make 5000 you would Immediately e
it. You would prove your faith in what
tell you by your prompt and immediate
action. Now, if what you call faith ir
Christ has led you to surrender your entire
nature to Je'us 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 believe
with the head. Then there are othel
things which I believe with the heart
And then there are other things which
believe both with the head and heart.
believe, for instance, that Cromwell lived
That is q matter of the head. Then there
are other things which 1 believe with the
heart and not with the head. That is,
have no espec reason for believing them,
and vet want to believe them, and the
wish is the father to the expectation. But
there is a very great difference between
that which we believe about ourselves and
that which we believe about others. Fol
instance, you remember not great while
ago there was a disaster in PennsylVan
amid the mines; there was an explosion
amid the damps, and many lives were lost
In the morning you picked up your news
paper and saw that there had been great
disaster in Pennsylvania. You said: "Ah
what sad thing this is; how many. lives
lost! o, what sorrowr Then you read 6
little further ON. There had been an
ALMOST MIRACULOUS EFFORT
to get those men out, and few had beer
saved. "O," you said, what a brave
thing, what grand thing that was How
we'll it was done ~ Then you folded thu
paper mp. and sat down to your morning
repast. Your appetite had not been inter
fered with, and during that day, perhaps
you thought only two or three times Of the
disaster. But suppose you and l had beer
in the mine, and the dying had been al
around us, and we had heard the pickaxe'
Just above us as they were trying to WORK
their way down, and after awhile we saw
the light, and then the life-bucket lei
down through the shaft, and suffocated and
half dead, We had net strength enough te
throw ourselves over into it, and had beer
hauled ont into the light. Then what ar
appreciation we would have had of the
agony and the darkness beneath, and JOY
of deliverance. That is the difference be
tween believing thing about Others and
believing it about ourselves,
We take up the Bible and read thai
Christ came to save the world. THAT
was beautiful" you say, "a fiue specimen
of self-denisl. That was very grand in
deed" But suppose it is found that we
ourselves were down in the mine of sir
and in the darkness, and Christ stretched
down his arm of mercy through the gloom
and lifted us out of the pit, and set oul
feet on the Rock of Ages, and put new
song into our mouth. o, then it is mat
ter of handclappiDg; it is matter of con
graduation; it is matter of deep emotions
Which kind of faith have you, my brother'
1t is faith that makes q Christian, and
it is the proportion of faith that makes the
difference between Christians. What wa.
it that lifted Paul, and Luther, and Pay
son, and Doddridge above the ordinary
level OF Christian character? 1t was thu
simplicity, the brilliancy, the power, ant
the
sPLEHpoR or THEIR FAITH.
0, that we had more Of it! God give nj
more faith to preach and more faith Il
hear. Lord! we believe, help Tbou on
unbeliefr ''To you which believe He il
precious"
First: remark Christ is precious to tn
believer, as Saviour from sin. A mai
saws: ITO whom are You talking? l an
one of the most respectable men in thi
neighborhood; do you call me sinnerP
Yes! "The heart 10 deceitful above al
things and desperately wicked" Yot
say: How do you know anything sbou
nv heart?" / know that about it, 70
God announces it in His Word; and wha
God says is always right. When O mai
becomes a Christian, people say: 'Tha
man sets himself above u.s." O. mol In
stead of setting himself up, be throws him
self down. He cries out: 81 was lost once
but now I am found. ! was blind once
but now / zee. PROSTATE myeelf ut tn,
foot of the cross Of the Ssviour's mercy.
Again, / remark that Christ is precion
to the believer, as o friend. You hay
commercial friends and you have famil.
friends. To the commercial friend you e
when you have business troubles. fo'
can look back to some day-it may hay
been ten OF twenty years ago-wbep,
You had not had that friend, you woult
have been entirely overthrow in bust
ness. But want to tell you this morn
ing of Jesus, the best business friend
man ever had. He can pull you out
the worst perplexities. There are peopl
in this audience who have got in the habi
of putting down all their worldly trouble
at the feet OF Jesus. Why, Christ meet
the business man on the street and says
30, business man, / know all thy troubles
I will be with thee. i will see the
through" Look out how you try to
CORNER Oh TRAAPLE
on a man who is backed mp by the Lor,
God Almighty. Look out how you ttampl
on him.
Are You afraid you will come to want
Think of Him who fed the five thousand
Is there little one in your house that yo'
are afraid will be deal, or blind, or lame
Think of Him who touched the blinded ey
and suatcheG back the boy from epilepti