The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-28
TALMAGE IN KANSAS.
HE breaches TO LARGE AUDI
ENCE At WINFIELD.


ENcE At WINFIELD.
His subject-ChriYtian Workers Shall
Reign Forever and Ever-we Shall
Choose Our Associates In Heaven.
WINFIELD, Kan, June "a. - Un-
counted multitudes were present today
at great outdoor meeting held in this
place, where the Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, D. D., was the preacher. Not
only this but adjoining statee were repre-
sented in the congregation, and the oc-
casion will be long remembered. The
text was: ''They that turn many to
righteousness shall shine as the stars for
ever and ever''-Daniel XII, s.; and the
subject: 'The Consultations Of the Re-
deemed" Dr. Talmage said:
Every man has thousand roots and
q thousand branches. His roots reach
down through ali the earth; his branches
spread through all the heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye, with hand.
with foot His silence often Is thunder,
apd his life is an anthem - a doxology.
There is no such thing as negative influ-
ence- We are all positive In the place
we occupy. making the world better or
making it worse, on the Lords side or
on the DEVILS, making up reasons for our
blessedness or banishment; and we have
already done mighty work in peopling
heaven or hell. hear people tell of
what they are going to do. A man who
has burned down city might as well
talk of some evil that he expects to do,
or man who has saved an empire might
as we'll talk of some good that he expects
to do. By the force Of your evil influ-
ence you have already consumed infinite
values, or you have, by the power of a
right influence, won whole kingdoms for
God.
1t would be absurd for me to stand
hele and, by elaborate argument, prove
that the world is off the track. You
might as well stand at the foot Of an
embankment, amid the wreck of cap
sized rail train, proving by elaborate ar
gument 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. Crashl crash!
The only question now is, by what lever
age can the crushed thing be lifted? By
what hammer may the fragments be re-
constructed2
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 a right example. A child. ca,ning
from a filthy home, was taught az school
to wash its face. 1t went home SO Eluch
improved in appearance that its mother
washed her face. And when the father
of the household came home and saw the
improvement in domestic appearance, he
washed his face. The neighbors happen
ing 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 felt the re-
suit of one schoolboy washing his face.
That is fable. by which we set forth
that the best way to get the world washed
of it's sins and pollution is to have our
own heart and life cleansed and purified.
A man with grace in his heart, and
Christian cheerfulness in his face, and
holy consistency in his behavior, is a
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 walk down Wall
street, making the teeth of iniquity
chatter. There are happy men who
go into sick room, and, by 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 Christian. / like the Bible
folded between lids of cloth, OF calfskin,
or morocco, but like it better when, in
the shape of man, 1t goes out into the
world-a Bible illustrated. Courage is
beautiful to read about; but rather would
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 for the
time Of deliverance. Faith is beautiful
to read aboct: but rather would find a
man in the midnight walking straight on
as though be saw everything. Oh, how
many souls have been turned to God by
the charm of bright exampls|
When, in the Mexican war, the troops
were wavering, general rose in his stir
rups and dashed into the enemy's lines,
shouting. Men, followr' They, seeing
his courage and disposition, dashed on
after him and gained the victory. What
men want to rally them for God is an ex-
ample to lead them. All your COM
mands to others to advance amount to
nothing so long as you stay behind. 10
affect them Alright, you need to start for
heaven yourself, looking back only to give
the stirring cry of "Men, followl'
Again: We may turn many to right
eousness by prayer. There 10 no such
detective as prayer, for no one can hide
away from it. 1t puts its hand on the
shoulder Of a man ten thousand miles OFT.
1t alights on ship mid Atlantic. The
little child cannot understand the law Of
electricity, or how the telegraphic opera
tor, by touching the instrument
here, may dart a message under the
sea to another continent; nor can we,
with our small intellect, understand how
the touch of Christians prayer shall
instantly strike a soul on the other side
of the earth. You taks ship and go to
some other country, and get there at 4
o'clock in the morning. You telegraph
to New York, and the message gets here
at 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 !
will hear" To overtake loved one on
the road, you may spur up lathered
steed until he shall OUTRAGE the one that
brought the news to Ghent; but prayer
shall catch it at one gallop. A boy run
ming away from home may take the mid
night train from the country village and
reach tho seaport in time to gain
the ship that sails on the morrow; but a
mothers prayer will be on the deck to
meet him, and in the hammock before
he swings into it, and at the capstan be-
| fore he winds the rope around it, and on