The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-06-29
TALMAGE In KANSAS.
HE breaches TO A LARGE AUDI.
eNCE AT WINFIELD.

The Consultations of the Redeemed. /"
His Subject-Christian Worker. Shall
Reign Forever and Ever We Shall
Choose Oui Associates In Heaven
WINFIELD. Kan, June "a = Uncounted
multitudes were present today at a great
outdoor meeting held In this place. where the
Rev DE Witt Talmage, D. d., was the
preacher Not only this but adjoining states
were represented In the congregation and the
occasion will be long remembered The text
was They that turn many to righteous
hess shall slime as the stars forever and
ever v" Daniel xii. s. and the subject: .'The
Consultations of the Redeemed" DR. Tai
mage SAID.
Every man has 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 ofteL is thunder. and his life Is an an
them OF doxology There is no such thing as
negative influence We are all positive in
the place we occupy, making the world better
or making 1t worse, on the Lords side or on
DEVILS, making up reasons for our blessedness
mighty work In peopling heaven or hell ]
hear people tell of what they are going to do
man who has burned down a city might as
well talk Of some good that he expects to do,
OF q 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 influence 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 here, 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 capsized rail train, proving by elaborate
argument that something is out of order
Adans 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 leverage can the
crushed thing be liftedf BY what hammer
may the fragments be reconstructed9
| want to show you how we may turn many
&c 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 o
filthy home, was taught at school to wash its
pearance 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 neigh
bors happening in, saw the change, and
tried the same experiment until all that
street was purified, and the next street
copied It's example, and the whole city felt
the result of one schoolboy washing his
g. Tk,.k L. fnh hxy trhi 1,
set forth that the best way to get the world
washed of its sins and pollution is to have
our own heart and life cleansed and purified.
A man With grace in bis heart, and Christian
cheerfulness in his face, and holy consistency
In his behavior, is perpetual sermon, and
the sermon differs from others in that it has
but one head, and the longer it runs the bet
ter There are honest men who walk down
Wall street, making the teeth of iniquity
chatter There are happy men who
go into a 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 uncIeanness. The mightiest
agent of good ON earth is a consistent Chris
tian. like the Bible folded between lids of
cloth, of calfskin or morocco, but like il
UcIOol "bOb, OhS ohdEO VI q IL cues
out into the world-a Bible illustrated
Courage Is beautiful to read about, but
rather would see a 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 buffeted soul
calmly waiting for the time of deliverance
Faith is beautiful to read about; but rather
would find man In the midnight walking
- l. L.. u.
Oh, how many souls have been turned to God
by the charm of a bright examplel
When. In the Mexican war, the troops were
wavering, general rose in his stirrups and
dashed into the enemy's lines, shouting.
Men, followf' 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 yom commands to others to advance
amount 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 "Men, followr
Again: We may turn many to righteous
ness by prayer There is no such detective
rs prayer. for no one can hide away from it
It puts its hand on the shoulder of man ten
thousand miles Off 1t aiights Oh ship mid
Atlantic The little child cannot understand
the law Of electricity, or how the telcgraphic
operator, by touching the instrument here,
may dart q message under the seq to another
continent. nor car we, with our small intel
lect, understand how the touch Of a Chris
tian's prayer shall instantly strike soul on
the other side Of the earth. You take
ship and go to some other country.
and get there at II o'clock in the morn
ing You telegraph to New York, and the
message gets here at 9 o'clock in the same
morning In other words, it seems to arrive
here five hours before 1t started Like that
Is prayer God says: Before they call will
hear" To overtake loved one on the 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 it at one
gallop A hoy running away from home
may take the midnight train from the coun
try village and reach the 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 1t, and at the capstan before he winds
the rope around it, and on the sea, against
the sky, as the vessel plows on toward it.
There is inightiness in prayer. George
Muller prayed a company of poor
boys together, and then he prayed
up an asylum in which they might be shell
tered He turned his face toward Edinburgh
and prayed, and there came thousand
pounds lie turned his face toward London
and prayed, and there came a thousand
pounds He turned his face toward Dublin
and prayed, and there came u Thousand
pounds The breath of Elijah's prayer blew
all the clouds off the sky, and it was dry
weather The breath Of Ehiah's prayer blew
all the clouds together, and it was wet
weather Prayer. in Daniels time, walked
the cave as lion tanner. 1t reached up and
took the sun 10y 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 the west, and all the praries and i'll
land cities will surrender To God. ami will
pray with face toward the sea, AMI IL! III,
islands and ships will become Cur. IGi:
Parents who have hayward SONS viii e,i
down on their knees and say; "Lord, send my
boy home" and the boy In Canton shall get
right up from the gaming table, and go down
to the wharf tc find out which ship start
first for America
Not one OF US vet knows how to pray All
we have done a. vet has only been pottering.
and guessing, and experimenting A boy
gets hold Of his fathers saw and hammer,
and tries to make something, but it is a poor
affair that he makes The father comes and
takes the same saw and hammer. and builds
the house oil the ship lnthe childhood of our
Christian faith. we make but poor work with
these weapons Of prayer. but when we come
to the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then,
under these implements, the temple of God
will rise and the worlds redemption win be
launched God cares not for the length
OF our prayers, or the number of our pray
ers or the beauty Of our prayers, or the
place Of our prayers, but It Is the faith in
them that tells Believing prayer scars
higher than the lark ever sang; plunges
deeper than diving bell ever sank; darts