The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Broaklyn Preacher Addresses an
Immense Ont Door Audience
in the West

....= H.#.H
he shows How the Christian May
Turu Many TO RlEhteOusness,
n and what Will He the
PaV Therefor.
U~ncounted muititudes were present Sun,
Gay, June Gath, at a great outdoor meeting
held in Winfield, Kan. where Rev. z. De-
Witt Talmage. D. D., was the preacher
Not only this but adjoining States were rep
resented in the congregation, and the ocea-
zion will be long remembered. The text
Was:
"They that turn many to righteousness
Ghall SHINE as the stars for ever and eyer."-
Daniel xii, s! and the subject: "The Con-
tellations Of the Redeemed"
DR.. Talmage said;
7 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 hand, with foot. His
silence often Is thunder, and his life is an
anthem or adoxOlogy. There Is no such thing
rs negative influence. We are all positive in
the place we occupy, making tbs world bet.
ter or making il worse, on the Lords side or
on the DEVILS, making up reasons for our
blessedueSs or punishment; and we have al.
ready done a mighty work in peopling heay.
en- or hell. Ihear people tall Of what they
are going to do. A man who has burned
down a city might as well talk of some evil
that he expects 10 do, or a man w.o has saw
ed an empire might as we'll talk OF some
good that he expects to do. BY the force of
your evil influence you have already consum-
I'D infinite values, or you have, by the pow
er OF right influence, won whole kingdoms
for Good.
1t would be absurd for me TO stand here
and by elaborate argument prove that the
world is of the track. You might as we'll
stand at the foot of an embankment, amid
the wreck OF a capsizsd rait.train, proving
by elaborate argument that something is out
Of order. Adam tumbled over the em0ank.
ment sixty centuries ago, and the whole race,
In one long train, has gone o. tumbling in
the tame direction. Crashl cTashl The on
ly question now is, by what leverage can tho
crushed thing be lifted? BY what hammer
may the fragments by reconstructed?
j want TO show YOU how we may turn many
10 Righteousness and what will be our future
pay FOR so doing.
First. We may turn them by the charm
OF right example. A child, coming from
filthy home, was taught at school TO wash
It's face. IL went home so much improved
IN appearance that It's mother washed her
Pace. And when the father of the house,
bold came home and saw the improvement
In domestic appearance he washed his face.
The ne1ghbofs happened in, saw the change,
and strisd the experiment until all that
Street was purified, and the next street
copied its example, and the whole city felt
the result of one school-boy washing his face.
This is q fable by which 1--WE get forth that
the best way to get the world washed OF its
mfn 80 NallNaNfVv. Ia 40 laao aFnn n..w. nwr
slensed and purified. A mar with grace in
his heart and Christian ch~eerfulnesi in bis
face, and holy consistency Ia his behavior, Is
eperpetual sermon, and the sermon differs
from others in that it has out one head, and
the longer 1t runs the better. There are
honest men who walk down Wall street,
making the teeth OF %iniquitY chatter. There
are happy men who go into the sick room
and, by q 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 is a consistent Chris
han. like the Lible folded between lids
OF cloth, Of calksktn, or morocco, but / like
u better when, il the shape OF q man, it goes
put into tho worid-a bible illustrated.
Courage Is beautiful 70 read about; but
Father would / see 3 man with all the world
against him confident as though all the world
were for him.. Patience Is beautiful 10 read
about; but rather would [ see q buffeted
soul calmly waiting for the time OF deliver
ance. Faith Is beautiful 70 read about; but
rather would l find o man in the midnight
walking straight on as though he saw every
thing. o how many sou 3 have been turned
10 God by the charm of a bright example.
When, in the Mexican war, the troops
were wavering, 4 general rose in his sturrips
and dashed inIo the enemy's lines, shouting:
t.Men. followp They, seeing his courage
and disposition, dashed on after him and
gained the victory. What men want to rally
them for God Is an example to lead them.
All your commands 70 others to advance
amounts 10 nothing 50 long as you stay be-
hind. To affect them Alright you need to
start for heaven yourself, looking back only
10 give the stirring cry OF "Men, foilowvS
Again, we may turn many to righteous
hess by prayer. There is no such detective
as prayer, for no one can hide away from It.
Il puts its band OF the shoulder Of q man
ten thousand miles of. It alights on a ship
mtdatlantfc. The little child can not un-
nerstand the law OF electricity or how the
/, kelegraphic operator, by touching the in-
Btrument here, may dart a message under
The sea to another continent, nor can we,
with our small intelleck understand how
Tho touch Of q CHRISTIANS prayer shall in.
btantlY strike Q soul on the othtr side Of the
earth. You take q ship and 20 to some
other country, and get there at IL o'clock in
the morning. You telegraph to New York,
and the message gets there at . O'Clock the
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STRIVE here five hours before IL started. Like
chat Is prayer. God says: "Before they call
shall hear.1 To overtake q loved one N
HE road, you NAV spur up a lathered steed
until he shall OUTRAGE the one that brought
the news 10 Client; but = prayer shall catch
II at one gall0p A boy running away from
hcme may take tho midnight train from the
country village and reach the seaport in time
to gain the ship that sails on the morrew,
but s mothers prayer Will be on deck 70 meet
him, and in the hammock before he swings
into II, aud at tie capstan before be winds
the rope around II, and on the sea, against
the sky. Is the vessel plonghs on toward IL
There Is q mlghtiness IN prayer. George
Muller prayed q company OF poor boys 70.
xetLer, and then be prayed up an asylum In
which they might Be sheltered. He turned
his face toward Edinburg and prayed, and
there CAME q thousand poupda. He turned
his face toward London and prayed, aud
there canse d thousand pounds. He turned
his face toward Dublin. aad prayed and
there came > thousand pounds, The breath
OF Fiiinh's prayer blew all the clouds 20.
Getiier, ard It was wet weather. Prayer, IN
DaIiels time, walked the cave ~ . ton-
M Tt reached up AMI look tue sun "
IS golden biz and stopped II we nave 81
yet 10 try the full power Of prayer. The
tim9 wlli come when the American church
will pray with sia fac8 toward tue west ana
all The praines ara inland VIII sufren-
der toGod aud Will pray with face toward
she sea, and all the Islands ana ships VIII
become Christian Parents WOO have WAY
ward t0as viii get down on their knees ana
SAY: HLord. srnd my boy home,D ana tne
boy ii Canton shall get rlghk m from the
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