Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
TALMAGE IN KANSAS.
He breaches to a Large Audience 1.-THE
Constellation Of the Redeemed"
His Subject.

Christian Workers Shall Reign Forever and
Ever-We Shall Choose Our Asso-
ciates in Heaven.
Uncounted multitudes were present at
great outdoor meeting held in Win
field, Kan, where the Rev. 7. De Witt
Ialmage, d. D., was the preacher. The
text was: They that turn many to
righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever and ever."-Daniel xii, 3, and
the subject: The Consultations of the
Redeemed" DIR. Talmage said:
Every man has a thousand roots and a
thousand branches. His roots reach
down through all the earth: his branches
spread through all the Heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye, with han d,
with foot. His silence often is thunder,
and his life is an anthem or doxology.
There is no such thing as negative in
huence. We are oil positive in the
places we occupy, making the world bet
ter or making it worse, on the Lords
side or on the DEVILS, making up rea-
sons for our blessedness or Punishment;
and We have already done mighty work
in peopling Heaven or hell. Ihear peo-
pie tell of what they are going to do. A
man who has burned down city might
rs we'll talk of some good that he ex-
poets to do. By the force of your evil
influence you have already consumed in
finite values, or you have, by the power
OF right influence, won whole king
doms for God.
1t would be absurd for me to stand
here. and by elaborate argument, prove
hof &c "a
might as we'll stand at the foot of an
embankment, amid the wreck of cap
sized train, proving by elaborate argu-
ment that something is out of order.
Adam tumbled over the embankment
sixty centuries ago. and the whole race
IN one long train, has gone on tumbling
in the same direction. Crash! crash!
The only question now is, by what lev
erage can the crushed thing be lifted!
BY what hammer may the fragments be
reconstructed?
1 want to show you how we may turn
many to righteousness, and what will be
our future pay for SO doing.
First-We may turn them by the charm
of q right example. A child, coming
from filthy home, was taught at school
to wash its face. 1t went home SO much
improved in appearance that its mother
washed her face. And when the father
of the household came home. and saw
the improvement in domestic appear
ance, he washed his face. The neigh
bors 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
his face. That is q fable; by which we
set forth that the best way to get the
world washed of its sins and pollution
is to have our own heart and life
cleansed and purified. Aman with grace
i'll his heart, and Christian cheerfulness
in his face. and holy consistency in his
behavior, is q perpetual sermon; and the
sermon differs from others in that it has
but one head, and the longer it runs the
better. There are honest men who wall
down Wall street, making the teeth o.
iniquity chatter. There are happy mel
who go into sick room, and, by a look
help the broken bone to knit, and the
excited nerves drop to calm beating
There are pure men whose presence
silences the tongue of uncleanness
The mightiest agent of good on earth il
a consistent Christian. I like the Bible
folded between lids of cloth, of calf
skin, or morocco, but I like it better
when. in the shape Of man, it goes on,
into the world-a Bible illustrated
Courage is beautiful to read about; but
rather would I see man with all the
world against him confident as though
all the world were for him. Patience is
beautiful to read about; but rather would
see a buffeted soul calmly waiting fol
the time Of deliverance. Faith is beauti-
full to read about; but rather would
find q man in the midnight walking
straight on as though he saw everything
Oh, how many souls have been turned
to God by the charm of bright ex-
ample!
When, in the Mexican war, the troops
were wavering, q general rose in his
stirrups and dashed into the enemy 6
lines, shouting, Men, follow" They,
seeing his courage and disposition,
dashed on after him and gained the vic
tory. What men want to rally them fol-
God is an exampleto lead them. All your
commands to others to advance amount
to nothing SO long as you stay behind.
To affect them Alright you need to start
for Heaven yourself, looking back only
to give the stirring cry of Men, fol-
low!"
Again: We may turn many to right
eousness by prayer. There is no such
uetectlNe us prayer, lOi uo one GILL ulue
away from it. 1t puts it's hand on the
shoulder Of man ten thousand miles
off. It alights on q ship mid Atlantic.
The little child cannot understand the
law Of electricity, or how the telegraphic
operator, by touching the instrument
here, may dart q message under the sea
to another continent; nor can we, with
our small intellect, understand how the
touch of Christians prayer shall in
stantly strike soul on the other side Of
the earth. You take ship and go to some
other country, and get there at II o'clock
in the morning. You telegraph to New
York. and the message gets here at 6
o'clock in the same morning. In other
words. it seems to arrive here FIVE hours
before it started. Like that is prayer.
God says: Before they call I will hear. :"
To overtake loved one on the road you
may spur up a lathered steed until he
shall OUTRAGE the one that brought the
news to Client; but a prayer shall catch
it at one gsllop. A boy running away
from home may take the midnight train
from the country village and reach the
seaport in time to gain the ship that
sails on the morrow; but mothers
prayer will be on deck to meet him, and
in the hammock before he swings into
it, and at the capstan before be winds