The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-29
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SALCTATION FROM THE CHARIOT.
The Searching Question: "ls Thine
Heart Right"
EXT: "Isthine heart right OIL. Kings

With mettled horses at full speed, for he
was celebrated for fast driving. Jchu, the
warrior and king, returns from tattle. fut
seeing Jeho2adab. an acquaintance, By the
wayside. he shouts Whoa, whoa. to the
lathered span. Then. leaning over TO Jehon-
adab, Jehu salauteS him in the words of the
text-words not more appropriate for that
hour and that place than for this hour and
place.
Is thine heart right. should like to hear
OF Your physical health. Well myself, like
to have every boly else we'll; and so might
ask: Is your eyeSight right, Your hearing
right, Your nerves right, Your lungs right,
YOUR entire body right. But l am busy to-
day taking diagnosis Of the more important
spiritual conditions.
should like 20 hear of your financial vel.
fare. l want everybody to have p.e'ty OF
rnoueE, ample apparel, large StorehouSe, anu
comfortable residence And might ask: IS
your business right, Your income right, Your
worldly surroundings right But what are
these financial questions compared with the
inquiry as 70 whether YOU have been able 10
nay your debts to God; as to whether yoa
are running yourself by the long credit SyS-
tern of the So1!: l have known men 70 have
no more than one loaf OF bread At time anu
vet to own I, government bond OF heaven
worth more than the whole material UNI
verse.
The question ask You to-day is not in re-
gard to YOUR habits. I make no inquiry
about your integrity, or your chastity, or
your Sobriety. do not mean to stand on
the outside of the gate and ring the bell; but
coming up the steps I open the door ana
come to the private apartment OF the soul:
and with the earneStneSS OF a man that must
give an account for this day work, cry
out: o man, o woman immortal, IS thine
heart right"
Iw not insult you by On argument to
prov. nat We are by nature all wrong. II
there be factory explosion and the smoke
stack be upset, and the wheels be broken IN
two, and the engine unjointed, and the pom
derouS bars be twisted, and o man should
look in and say that nothing was the matter.
yon would pronounce him fool. Well. IL
needs no acumen to discover that our nature
is all atwist and askew and unjolnted. Inc
thing doesn't work right. The biggest trouble
we have in the world is With our souls
Men sometimes say that though thel" lives
may not be just right, their heart is alright
Impossible. 4 farmer never puts the poorest
apples on top of his barrel; nor does the nler-
chant place the meanest goods in his show
window. The best part OF US IS our outward
life do not stop to discuss whether we all
fell in Adam, for we have been our own
Adam, and have all eaten OF the forbidden
Nuie, and have been turned ont OF the para
disc Of holiness and peace: and though the
flaming sword that stood at the gate to Keep
Us out has changed position and comes behind
to drive Us in, we viii not 60
The Bible account Of us IS not exaggerated
wnen it says that We are poor and "retched
and miserable and blind and naked. Poor:
the wretch that stands Shivering on our door
step on a cold day is not SO much IN need OF
bread as we are of spiritual help. BIND:
why, the man whose eyes leriShed IN the
powder blast, and who for these ten years
has gone feeling his way from street to street,
is not in such utter darkness as we. Naked:
why, there is not one rag OF holiness left to
hide the shame Of our sin. Sick: why. the
leprosy has eaten into the head and the heart
and the hands and the feet and the naras-
mus Of an everlasting wasting away has al
ready seized on some of us.
First we need repentlng heart II for the
last ten, twenty or forty years OF lie we nave
been goirS on in the wrong way 1t IS time
that We turned around ana started in the
opposite direction. Ii we offend our friends
We are glad to apologize. God is our best
friend, and yet how many OF US have never
apologized for the wrongs we have done him
There is nothing that We so much need to
get rid Of as sin. 1t is horrible black mon
Ster. It polluted Eden. 1t killed Christ. 1t
has blasted the world. Men keep dogs IN
kennels, and rabbits in warren, and cattle
in pen. What q man that would be who
would shut them up in his parlor. But this
foul dog Of sin, and these herds of tranSgreS-
sion, we have entertained for many a long
year in our heart, which should be the clean
est, brightest room IN all our nature. Out
with the vile herd, Beyone, We befoulerS of
an immortal nature! Turn out the beasts
end let Christ come in.
A heather came to an early Christian who
had the reputation of curing diseases The
Christian said: You must have all Your idols
Va hoo -h.ay, 70 Va *
tian the key to bis house. that he might go in
and destroy the idols. He battered to pieces
all he saw, but still the man did rot get well,
The Christian said to him: There must be
some idol in your house not yet destroyed.
The heather confessed that there was one idol
of beaten gold that he could not bear to give
up After while when that was destroyed,
in answer to the prayer Of the Christian the
sick man got we'll.
Many man has awakened in his dying
hour to find his sins all about him. They
clambered up on the right side OF the bed.
on the left side, and over the headboard, End
over the footboard, and horribly devoured
vthe soul.
Repent. the voice celestial cries, s&
Nor longer dare delay:
The wretch that scorDs the mandate dies,
Andneets fiery day.
Again, we need believing heart. A good
many years ago weary one went up one OF
the hills of asia Minor, and with two logs Oh
his back cried out to al the world. offering
to carry their sins and sorrows. They pur-
sued him. They slapped him in the face.
They Knocked him. When he groaned they
groaned They shook their fists at him.
They spit on him. They bounded him as
though he were wild beast. HIS healing of
the sick, his sight giving to the blind, his
mercy to the outcaSt Siencet not the revenge
of the world. His prayers and benedictioas
were los, in that whirlwiud OF eyecratioa,
Away with him. Away with him!
All, it was not merely the two pieces OF
wood that he carried; it was the trans sres-
sioas OF the race, the anguish of the ages, the
wrath Of God, the sorrows Of hell, the stu
'pendous interests of an Unendng eternity.
No wonder his back bent No wonder the
blood started from every pore. No wonder
that he crouched under q torture that made
the sun faint and the everlasting hills trenl-
BILE, and the dead rush up in their winding
sheets as be cried, If it be possible, let this
cup pase fro,n me" But the cup did not
! pass None to comfort.
; = There he hangs. What has that hand done
that it should be thus crushed in the
paIm2 It has been healing the lame and
wip:nr away tears What has that foot been
doing that it should be SC lacerated: 1t has
been going abou. doing good: OF what has
the victim been guilty: Guilty Of saving
world. Tell me, We heavens and earth. was
there ever such another criminal: Was there
ever such crime: On that hill OF carnage,
thai sunless day. amid those bowling rioters.
nav not your sins and mine have periShedf
believe it.
Oh, the ransom has been paid. Those
arms of Jesus were stretched out so wide
that when He brought them together
again they might embrace the world.