The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-07-13
TALMAGE AT CRETE.
A GREAT OUTDOOR ASSEMBLAGE
The Brooklyn Divine CRATES at
a Chautauqua Meeting.


otHaving the Faith to Let Go and Cling
10 the Promise of Our Saviour on the Cross
olectGt to the Kansas CITY Times.
CRETE, NEB., July L-To-day there ia E
great outdoor meeting at this place-a Chau.
tauqua mecting-and people from all parts
are present. A sermon by the Rev. T. De-
witt Talmage, D. D., is the principal feature
OF the occasion. The reverend gentlemaO's
subject was: 'None Like Jesus" He tool,
1or his text: Unto you therefore which be-
lleVe lie is precious" l. Peter, Ch 2, V. Z.
Following Is the sermon:
we mad for many years in this country COM
lnerc1al depression. What was the matter
with the stores3 With the harvestl With
the people! Lack of faith. Money enough,
goods enough, skilIful brains enough indus
trlous hands enough, but no faith. Now what
damages the commercial world, damages the
spiritual. Our great lack is faith. That is
the hlnge on which eternity turns. The Bible
says we are saved by faith. CO." says some
one In The audience. 81 have faith, | believe
mat Christ came down to save the world"
reply that in worldly matters when you have
Ialtn you always act upon 1t. For instance
II could show you business operation by
which you could make five thousand dollars,
you would Immediately go into it. You would
I prove your faith in what l tell you by your
prompt and immediate action. Now, ii what
| you call faith in Christ has led you to sur
render your entire nature to Jesus and to cor
responding action in your life, it is genuine
Ialth, and If it has not, it is not faith at ali.
. 1nere arc some things which | be-
lleVe with the head. And there are
other things which I believe with the
nd Than
winch l believe both with the head and heart.
L DelleVe, for instance, that Cromwell lived.
mat Is matter Of the head Then there are
| other things which ] believe with the heart
ahd not with the head. That IS, have no
especial reason for believing them. and vet |
want to believe them, and the wish is the
Iather TO the expectation. But there is very
great difference between that which we be-
I,ieVe about ourselves, and that which we be-
ileEe ABOUT otherS. For Instance, you remem- !
per not great while ago there was disaster |
Ill pennsylvania, amid the minesJ there was |
an explosion amid the damps and MANY lives !
were lost. In the morning you picked up |
your newspaper, and saw there lad been
great disaster in Pennsylvania. You said:
An what sad thing this Isl how many
llTes lost! o, what sorrowl" Then you read |
a little further on. There had been an almost
miraculous effort to get those men out and
Few mad been saved. 60" you said, what
a brave thing, what grand thing that wasI
How we'll 1t was done" Then YOU folded
the paper up, and sat down to your morning
Iepast Your appetite had not been interfef-
Gu ca Wlth' and during that day. perhaps, you
tnougnt only two or three times of the disas-
'ein DuG suppose you and l had been in the
mine, and the dying had been all around
US and we had heard the pickaxes Just above
US as theY were trying TO work their Way
uoWn, and after while we saw the light
anu anu Tue IHe-oucket let down through the
shalt and suttocate1 and half dead we had
just strength enough to throw ourselves over
into II, and had been hauled out into the
Ileh| Ihen what an appreciation we would
n"te hdu OF the agony and the darkness be-
neath, and the joy of dcliverance. That is
the adherence between believing thiur
ABOUT others and believing it about ourselves
we take up the Bible and read that Christ
came cam 10 save the world. That was beauti-
Iul YOU say, "a fine specimen of self-denjoI
i mat was very grand indeed" But suppose
IL IS Iounu that We ourselves were down in
Tue mine oil sin and In the darkness and |
christ stretched down His arm OF mercy
through the gloom and lifted US out of the
PIT, ana set our feet on the Rock of Ages and
put new song into our mouth O. then If is
matter of handclappng; it is matter of
it Is a matter of deep emo
lions. Which kind Of faith have YOU, nv
brother? '' my
1t is faith that makes Christian. and If Il
the proportion of faith that makes the differ
1nce between Christians. What was II that
ltted Paul, and Luther, and Pavson. and
Douuridge above the ordinary level of Chris :
ian, characters 1t was the simplicity, the
Drllllancy, the power, and the splend0r of {
'nelr Ialth. y, that we had more of it! God 1
1--WE Us more faith to preach anu more faith I
20 hear Lord! we believe, help Thou our {
ITO you which believe He is 0
Precious" !" $
First: Ircmark Christ is precious to the ?
believer, as Saviour from sin \ man SAWS T.
10 whom are YOU talking? am one of the c
most respectable men in this neghborhood; Z
. you call me sinner" Yes! The heart a
S deceitiul above all things and desperately o
wicked" You say: 'HOw do YOU know any. Il
hlng about my hearth know that ab01t
{, Tor God announces it in His word ami
WAT God says Is always right When a man i,
,ecomes a Christian, people say: THAT man % :"
els himself above u.s." q, no! Instead of IL
citing himself up, he throws himself down W
lie cries out: II was lost once, but now | ~
m found. Il was blind once, but now see. OF
PROSTATE myself at the foot of the cross of u
he SaviOur's mercy" Jo
What grand thing it is TO feel that oil Ie
ne Dad words | have ever uttered. aud aII Ia
be bad deeds have ever done, aud ali tLa sc
au thoughts that have gone through NV sc
linu, are as though they had never been. y
Or the sake OF what Christ has done Ynn w
now there Is difference in stains. Some
III De washed out by water, but others re- "
uIre chemical preparation. The sill of The us
cart is so black and indeible q marx that III
o human application can cleanse il Wills eV
yer. ., the Infinite the omnipOtent chemjs. yc
y OF the Gospel Some man saws; al he cn
eve all that | believe God has forgiven CT
he most Of my sins, but there is one sin T'E.
innot forget" What is it, | do not want :"
Know what it is, but take the respOnsi ne
MY OF saying that God will forgive it as IN
lIingly as any other sin. wi
% er sins like Noun tains for their size ~
-, The seas OF sovereign grace expand Ut
Inc seas OF sovereign grace arise" I'll
lhere was very good man, about seventy an
re years OF age, that once said: Il believe CT(
Oh has forgiven me, but there was one sin pa
hich | committed when was about twenty w
'ars OF age that | never forgave myself for he
ID l can't feel happy when think of it" th'
c said that one sin sometimes came over pa
5 heart, aud blotted out all his hope of his
'aven. Why, he lacked in faith The grace Gu
at can forgive a small sin can forgive a dc
rye sin. Mighty to save Mighty 10 save. be
no is the God like unto our God, that
rdoneth inQuity. o. what Jesus is TO the sh
nj that believes in Him. The soul looks IN wa
to ChrstS face, and says: TO what ex- tn
MT wilt thou forgive mei" And Jesus are
oks back into his face, and saws: To the WI
termost" The soul says: "Will 1t ever be br,
ought IN again in judgment DavW ''Nev- ca
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