Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-13
NONE LIKE JESUS.
|,,,o,, by Rev. DR.. Talmage-
r.itb Is the Hinge On Which
Eternity Turns.
-. ~ That Can Forgive Small Sins Can
p nse;ve Large Ones-0utbreaks Of
t Gladness in Heaven.

.oo That Can Forgive Small Sins Can
u We've Large 0nes-outbreaks Of
tN Gladness in Heaven.
p'eT II Crete. Neb., before a large
r!aoh ~ The reverend gentleman's
dleh't ros. None Like Jesus" He
b]e ser his text: Unto you therefore
Ok , IT, He is precious. I.Peter
lltN rrollowing is the sermon:
"a for many years in this eoun-
VIZ sanmmercial depression: What was
otter with the stores? With the
I'. With the people? Lack Of
~ Money enough, goods enough.
l l,It,, brains enough, industrious
ll! u enough. but no faith. Now what
l"r The commercial world, damages
ma 7i,i,uol. Our great lack of faith.
l. the hinge Oh which eternity
M The Bible says we are saved by
H. Ii oh" saws some one in the audi
i'A' ~ have faith. l believe that
1ts' came down to save the world" 1
lF mr.. ,hnt in worldly matters when You
p. p: fifth you always act upon it. For
f, .anrc. if / could show you business
s'..l, by which you could. make
s noo Won would Immediately go into
' you would prove Your faith in what
II, Won ly Your prompt and immediate
.;an Now if what you call faith in
1 ,'r;s4 has led YOU to surrender your en-
nature to Jesus and to correspond
w action in your life, it is genuine
,ah and if ii has not, it is not faith ut
There are some things which I believe
,;tbtle head. Then there are other
h i'm which I believe with the heart.
Nd then there are other things which [
1eye both with the head and heart. 1
ecye. for instance, that Cromwell
vel. That is a matter of the head
fen there are other things which I
eTrye with the heart and not with the
cad. That is. have no especial reason
|0r believing them, and yet want to be-
eye them. and the wish is the father to
y eypcctation. But there is very
baat difference between that which we
[flieye about ourselves and that which
believe about others. For instance,
pr remember not q great while ago
here was a disaster in Pennsylvania,
hid the mines; there was an explosion
| mid the damps, and many lives
ere lost. In the morning you picked
YOUR newspaper, and saw that there
ID been a great disaster in Pennsyl-
bnia You said: "Ah, what sad thing
is is: how many lives were lost! o,
hat sorrow!' Then you read little
brher on. There had been an almost
5imculous effort to get those men out,
p Id few had been saved. 90" you
+ id. what a brave thing, what grand
Bin that was! How we'll it was done!"
hen YOU folded the paper up. and sat
wp TO your morning repast. Your APP
Kite had not been interfered with, and
hing that day, perhaps, you thought
i y two or three times of the disaster.
Int suppose you and had been in the
Pine, and the dying had been all around
!, and we had heard the pickaxes Just
|bo'e us as they We're trying to work
beH way down, and after a while we
(w the light, and then the life bucket
II down through the shaft. and sutfo-
(ted and half dead, we had Just strength
Loush to throw ourselves over into it,
bd had been hauled out into the light.
[len what an appreciation we would
Fve had of the agony and the darkness
meath, and the JOY of deliverance.
hat is a difference between believing a
ling about others and believin it about
prselves.
We take up the Bible and read that
Plrist came to save the world. That
b beautiful, You say, "a fine specimen
self denial. That was very grand in
Fed." But suppose it is found that we
brselves We're down in the mine of sin
bd in the darkness, and Christ stretched
(wn his arm of mercy through the
loom and lifted us ont Of the pit and
h our feet Oh the Rock of Ages, and
F' new song into our mouth. Oh.
Pen ii is a matter of hand clapping; it
Z matter of congratulation; it is mat
p of deep emotions. What kind of
9th have you, my brother?
II Is faith that makes q Christian. and
is the proportion of faith that makes
+ difference between Christians. What
r. II that lifted Paul and Luther. and
dyson and Doddridge above the ordin
y level of Christian character? 1t was
b simplicity, the brilliancy, the power,
fd the splendor of their faith. Oh.
Pit We had more of it! God give us
ore faith to preach and more faith to
f4.. Lord! we believe, help thou our
f1elief!7 To you which believe He is
kecious.7
lrst: remark Christ is precious to
= heile7er. as saviour from sin. A
|aA says: TO whom are You talking?
I'm one OF the most respectable men III
! as nelghborhood; do you call me Il
(hher:0 Yes! The heart is deceitful
!oye all things and desperately
FcAed You say: How DO you know
tNhlng about my heart?" know that
P'0t it. for God announces in His
ora; and what God says is always
Esht: When a man becomesa Christian
Fople say: That man cts himself
POKE us" Oh, no! instead of setting
PA'Self up. he throws himself down.
cries out: Il was lost once, but now
flA found. | was blind once, but now
fse' PROSTATE myself at the foot of
w. russ OF the Saviours mercy.
'!.at a grand thing it is to feel that
| we BAD words / have everutte1ed and
|; Tie bad deeds l have ever done, and
me bad thoughts that have gone
t99Sh my mind, are as though they
f. never been, for the sake Of what
KITS, has done. You know there is a
AgEeilse i'll stains. Some can be
|"1 out by water, but others require
"sihlcal preparation. The sin of the
~ IS 50 black and indelible mark
{" ml no human application can cleanse
I'l!te the blood of Jesus Christ can
F E,l; 1t Out forever. O, the infinite, the
Fo niPo'ent chemistry of the Gospel.
[I4e man says: Il believe all that. l
h .. S; God has forgiven the most of
sihS, but there is one sin l cannot