Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-14
TALMACE'S SERMON
The Brooklyn Preacher Dis
courses on the Precious
ness of Christ.
Things Which to Believe Both
With the Head and
the Heart.
The Worlds Lack Of Faith
Often the Cause Of
Disaster.
An Appeal to Young Me0 to En-
brace Christ and Become q
Follower Of h Lamb.

CRETE. Neb., Rev. r. Dewitt Tai
mage, who is sojourning in the west,
preached today from |. Peter, ?, z.
Unto you, therefore, which believe he Is
precious.
Following is the sermon:
We had for many years in this country
commercial depression. What was the
matter with the stores? With the har-
vests? With the people? Lack of faith.
Money enough, goods enough, skilIful
brains enough, industrious hands enough,
but no faith. Now what damages the
commercial world, damages the spiritual?
hinge on which eternity turns. The Bible
says we are saved by faith. co. says
some one in the audience, II have faith.
believe that Christ came down TO save
the world" | reply that in worldly
matters when you have faith you act
upon il. For instance, if ! could show
you a business operation by which you
could make IS, 600 you would immedi-
atcly 90 into it. You would prove your
faith in what | tell you by your prompt
and immediate action. Now, if what
you call faith in Christ has led you to
surrender your entire nature to Jesus and
to corresponding action in your life, il is
g~cgline faith, and if il has not, it is not
faith at all.
HEAD AND nEART BELIEF.
There are some things which | believe
with the head. Then there are other
things which ! believe with the heart.
And then there are uther things which ]
believe both with the head and heart. !
believe, for instance, that Cromwell
lived. That is a matter Of the head
Then there are other things which ! be
lieve with the heart and not with the
head. That is. | have no special reason
for believing them, and yet ! want to be-
lieve them. and the wish is the father to
the expectation. Blu there is "A very
great difference between hat which we
believe about ourselves, and that which
we believe about others. For instance,
YOU remember not a great while ago
there was "a disaster in Pennsylvania,
amid the mines; there was IN explosion
dllllNl llit ildlllp 20 III many H'N' wiz
lost. In the morning You picked u pyOur
newspaper. and saw that there had been
a great disaster in Pennsylvania. You
said: All. what a sad thing this is; how
many lives lost! q, what sorrOw,' Then
you read q little further on. There had
been an almost miraculous effort to get
those men out and a few .l! jecn saved
or YOU said, what . brave thing,
what a grand thing that wa How well
it was DONE Then you io'dnd the paper
up. and sat dOwntO your m0rnisg repast.
Your appetite had not been interfered
with, and during that day, perhaps, you
thought only two or three times Of the
disaster. But suppose you and | had
been in the mine, and the dying had been
all around us, and we had heard the pick
axes Just above us as they were trying 10
work their way down, and after "a while
We
SAW THE LIGHT
and then the life bucket let down through
the shaft, and sufTocated and half dead
We had just strength enough 10 throw
ourselves over into il, and had been
hauled out into the light. Then what an
APPRECIATION we would have had Of the
agony and the darkness beneath and the
10Y of deliverance. That is the differ
ence between believing n thing about
others and believing ii about ourselves.
We take up the Bible and read that
Christ came to save the world. That
was beautiful" you say, "a fine speci-
men of self denial. That was very grand
indeed" But suppose il is found that
we ourselves were down in the min OF
sin and in the darkness, and Christ
stretched down HIS arm of mercy through
-. o,J 1ftnI rae ot,t of tina NIT
and set our feet on the Rock Of Ages and
nut a new song into our mouth. O.. then
il is a matter of bandclapping; it is a
matter OF congratulation; it is a matter
of derp emotion. Which kind Of faith
have YOU. my brother?
/. is faith that makes a Christian. and
It is the proportion of faith that makes
the difference between Christians. What
was il that lifted Paul, and Luther, and
Pavson and Doddriuge above the ordinary
level of Christian character? 1t was the
simplicity. the brilliancy, the power, and
the splendor of their faith. ., that we
had more Of it. God give us more faith
TO preach and more faith to hear. Lord
we believe, help Thou our unbeliefr'
ITO YOU which believe He is precious"
CHRIST As A SAVIOR.
First: ! remark Christ is precious 10
he believer, as a Savior from sin. A mar
SAWS: To whom are you talking? ! AIT
one of the most respected men in this
ueighborhood; do you call me a sinner
Yes, The heart is deceitful above al
things and desperately wicked" You
SAY: "Hsw DO YOU know anything
about my hcart?' | know that about it,
for God announces il in His Work; and
what God says is always right. When 8
man becomes a Christian people say
That man sets himself above US" .,
no. Instead Of setting himself up, ht
throws himself down. He cries out: 81
was lost once, but now ] am found
was blind once, but now ! see, | pros
trate myself at the foot of the cross OF
the Saviour's mercy
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