Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-03
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royal tamlleS OF nlstoryF you WOulu
say: ''House of Hapsburg, house of
Stuarts, house of B~ourbons." They lived
in palaces and had great equipage. But
who are the Lords royal. family: Some
Of them may serve you in the household,
some of them are in unlighted garrcts,
some of them will walk this afternoon
down the street, on their arm a basket Of
broken food; some of them are in the
almshouse, despised and rejected Of men,
Yet in the last great day, while IT will be
found that some of us who Jared sumpt-
uously every day are hurled back into
discontinue, there are the lame that Will
take the prey.
One step further: There are a great
many people discouraged about getting
10 heaven. You ARE brought up in good
families. you hal Christian parentage;
hut they frankly tell me that you are a
thousand miles away from the right
track.
Ny brulhcr, you are The one ! want 70
preach to this morning. / have been
looking for you. l will tell you how you
got astrav. II was not righteousness or
your part. 1t was perhaps through the
geniality and sociality Of your nature
that you fell into sin. You wandered
away from your duty, you unconsciously
left the house of God; you admit the
Gospel to be true, and yet you have so
~grievously and SO prolongedly wandered,
You say rescue is impossible.
1t would take q week to count up the
names of those III heaven who were on
earth worse than you tell me you are.
They went the whole round of iniquity,
they ~disgraced themselves, they disgraced
their household. they despaired of return
because their reputation was gone, their
property was gone, everything was gone;
butiin some hour like this heard the voice
of God. and threw themselves on the
divine compassion, and they rose up more
than conquerors. And | tell you there
is the same chance for you. That is one
reason why l like to preach this Gospel,
so free a Gospel, so tremendous a Gospel.
1t takes a man all wrong, and makes him
all right.
In a former settlement where l
preached, a member of my congregation
quit the house of God, quit respectable
circles, went into all styles of sin, and
was slain of his iniquity. Theday for his
burial came, and his body was brought
to the house of God. Some of his COM
rades who had destroyed him were over
heard along the street, on the way to the
burial. saying: "Come, let US go and
hear Talmage damn this old sinnerf'
Oh! / had nothing but tears for the
dead, and l had nothing but invitations
for the living. You see l could
not do any otherwise. ''Christ Jesus
came to seek and save that which
was lost" Christ in his dying prayer
said: Father, forgive then," and that
was'a prayer for you and for me. Oh
start on the road to heaven today. You
are not happy. The thirst of your soul
will new be slaked by the fountains OF
sin. You turn everywhere but TO God
for help. Right where you are, call on
him. lie knows you, he knows all about
you, he knows all the odds against which
you have been ~contending in life. Do
not go TO him with a long rigmarole of a
prayer, but just look up and say; ''Help!
Help!"
But you say: my hand trembles so
from my dissipations ] can't even take
hold OF a hymn book to sing" Do not
worry about that, my brother; / will
give out a hymn at the close so familiar
you can sing 1t without a book. But you
say; II have such terrible habits on me
| can't get nd Of them" Ny answer is:
Almighty grace can break up that hsbit.
and will break it up. But you says THE
wrong ] did was to one dead and in
heaven how, and ! can't correct that
wrong" You can correct il. BY the
grace of God, go into the presence Of that
one, and the apologies you ought to have
made OH earth make in heaven.
"Ohr' says some man, ''if ] should
try 10 do right, if ] should turn away
from my evil doing INTO the Lord, ]
would be jostled, ] would be driven
hack; nobody would have any sympathy
for me- You are mistaken. Here, in
the presence Of the church on earth and
in heaven, ] give you today the right
hand Of Christian fellowship. God sent
me here today to preach this, and he
sent you here TO hear this: ''Let the
wicked forsake bis way, and the
unrighteous man his thought, and
let him return unto the Lord, who
will have mercy, and INTO our
God, who will abundantly pardon"
Though you may have been the worst
sinner, you may become the best saint,
and in the great day Of judgment II viii
he found that "where sin ~abounded,
grace does much more abound" and
while the spoils OF an everlasting king.
dom are being awarded for your pursuit,
it will DO found that the lame took the
prey. Blessed be God that we are. this
sabbath, one week nearer the oblitcra-
ton of all the inequalities Of this life and
all its disquietudes.
Years ago, on a boat on the North
river, the pilot gave n very sharp ring 10
the bell for the boat TO slow up. Tie
engineer attended 10 the machinery, and
then he came up with some alarm ON
deck TO see what was the matter. He
saw It was a moonlight night and there
were no obstacles in the way. He went
TO the pilot and said: why did you
ring the bell In that wayl Why do
you want 10 stop? there's nothing
the matter" AID the pilot said 10
him! There ID a mist gathering
on the river; dor't you see that1 and