New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-04
TALMAGE's SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preacher Addresses an
Immense Outdoor Audience +
in the West.
de Shows How the Christian Mag
Turn Many co righteousness,
and What VIII BE the
Pay Therefor.

amounted multitudes were present Sun.
uay' June oath, at great outdoor meeting
neld In. Winfield, Kan. where Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage, d. D., was the preacher.
MOI only this but adjoining States were rep
resented in the congreg CATION, and the occa-
non will be long remembered. The text
was:
i Ihey that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars for ever and eyer.o-
DANIEL xiii, s: and the subject: ssThe Con-
tellations of the Redeemedo
!. DR.. Talmage said:
EVery man has thousand roots and
sGhousand branches. His roots reach down
Dthroug b 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
antnem or doxology. There is no such thing
as negatiye influence. We are all positive in
The place we occupy, making the world bet.
Ter Or making it worse, on the Lords side or
on the devils, making UP reasons for our
blessedness or Punishment; and we have al.
ready done mighty work in peopling heav-
en- or hell / hear people tall of what they
are going to do. a man who has burned
soWn city might as we'll talk OF some evil
4fSsnat he expects to do, or u man w. has saw
cd an empire might as we'll talk of some
good that ne expects to do. BY the force of
YOUR evil influence you have already consum-
su 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
ana by elaborate argument prove that the
Worla IS of the track. You might as we'll
stand at the foot off an embankment, amid
the wreck of a capsized rail-tr train, proving
by elaborate argument that something is out
OF order. Adam tumbled over the embank.
.ment sixty centuries ago, and the whole race
70 one long train, has gone ON tumbling in
The same direction. Crash! crash! The on
. y question now is. by what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? BY what hammer
may the fragments by reconstructed?
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
hlthy home, Was taught at school to wash
It's face. 1t went home so much improved
IN appearance that its mother washed her
race. And when the father of the house,
hold came home and saw the improvement
IN IN domestic appearance he washed his face
Inc nelghbols happened in, saw the change,
ana : tried the experiment until all that
street was purified, and the next street
copied It's example, and the whole city felt
the result OF one school-boy washing his face.
Ihls is fable by which awe set forth that
Cne pest way to get the world washed of its
Sins ana pollution is to have our own heart
clensed and purified. A man with grace in
MS heart and Christian cheerfuness in his
lace, and holy consistency in his behavior. is
q perpetual sermon, and the sermon differs
from others in that it has out one head, and
the longer 1t runs the better There are
ma Ubn II 1r,,r
making the teeth of lniquitY chatter. There
are happy men who,go into the sick room
ana, by look, help the broken bone to knit
and the excited nerves drop to calm beating.
Ihere are pure men whose presence silences
the tongue OF uncleanness. The mightiest
agent OF good on earth is consistent Chris
tan. like the bible folded between lids
OF cloth, OF caikskin, or morocco, but / like
IL better when, IL the shape of a man, it goes
out into the world-a bible illustrated
Courage is beautiful to read about; but
rather would | see man with all the world
against MIN 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 deliver.
ance. Faith is beautiful to read about; but
rather would [ find man in the midnight
walking straight on as though he saw every
thing. how many souls have been turned
to God by the charm OF bright example.
When, In the Mexican war, the troops
were Wayering, a general rose in his sturrips
and dashed into the enemy's lines, shouting:
Men, folloWV 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 to others to advance
amounts to nothing so long as you stay be.
hind. TO affect them Alright you need to
start for heaven yourself looking back only
to give the stirring cry of .tMen, follow.''
A rOony ffrrr <r~ 49,. \
ness by prayer. There is 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 off. 1t alights on a ship
m1datantic. The little child can not un.
derstand the law OF electricity or how the
btrument here, may dart message under
the sea to another continent, nor can we.
with Jour small intellect, understand how
the touch of Christians prayer shall in
stantlY strike a soul on the other side of the
earth. You take u ship and 90 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 |
same morning. Iu other words, it seems to I
arrive here five hours before it started. Like |
chat is prayer. God says:s.'B efore they call |
! shall hear" To overtake loved one IN
Che 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 /
1t at one gallop. 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.
buta mothers prayer will be on deck to meet I
him, and in the hammock before he swings
into it, and at the capstan before he winds
the rope around it, and on the sea, against
the sky, as the vessel ploughs on toward it.
There is mightiness in prayer. George
Muller prayed company of poor boys to-
getLer, and then he prayed up an asylum in
which they might be sheltered. He turned
his face toward Edinburg and prayed, and
there came thousand pounds. He turned
his face toward London and prayed, and
there came thousand pounds. He turned
his face toward Dublin. and prayed and
there came thousand pounds. The breath
OF Elijah's prayer blew all the clouds to.
ge6ner, and it was wet weather. Prayer, in
Daniels time, walked the cave as lion
tanner. Itreached up and took the sun by
Its golden bit and stopped it. We have all
yet to try the full power of prayer. The
time Will come when the American church
will pray with its face toward tue west, and
all the prairies and inland cities will surren-
der to God; and will pray with face toward
the sea, and all the Islands and ships will
become Christian. Parents who have way