The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-14
| MUST ALSO SEE ROME.
TEXT OF DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON
FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 10.

TOn OONDNry NOV. ~.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine in the
Eternal City. Studying the Streets, Up
and Down which the Apostle Paul
Walked and where He Preached.
ROME, Nov. 10.-The Rev. T. Dc
Witt Talnage, d. D., Mrs. Talmage
and Miss Talmage, with Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Klopsch, arrived in this city
last evening Today the great Brook
lyn divine preached TO largetongre-
CATION from the text, Acts 10, 21: II
must also see Rome" A full report
of the sermon follows:
Here is Paul's itinerary. He was
travelling or circuit preacher. He had
been mobbed and insulted, and the
more good he did the worse the world
treated him. But he went right on.
Now he proposes to go to Jerusalem
and says: "After that must also see
Rome" Why did he want to visit
this wonderful city III which I am to-
day permitted to stand7 ''Tp preach
the Gospel" you answer. 10 doubt
of 1t, but there were other reasons why
he wanted to see Rome. A man Of
Paul's intelligence and classic taste
had fifty other reasons for wanting to
see it. Your Colosseum was at that
time in process of erection, and he
wanted to see it. The Forum was
even then an old structure, and the
eloquent apostle wanted TO sec that
building in which eloquence had SO
often thundered and wept. Over the
Appian Way the trfumphal professions
had already marched for hundreds Of
years, and he wanted to see that. The
Temple of Saturn was already an an
tiquity, and he wanted to see that.
The architecture of the world re-
nowned city, he wanted to see that
The places associated with the tri-
umphs, the cruelties, the disasters, the
wars, the military genius, the poetic
and the rhetorical fame Of this great
city, he wanted to see them. A man
like Paul, 30 many sided, 50 sympa-
thetic, 50 emotional, so full Of an
alogy, could not have been indiffer-
ent TO the antiquities and the splendors
which move every rightly organized
human being. And with what thrill
of interest he walked these streets,
those only who for the first time like
ourselves enter Rome can imagine. If
the inhabitants OF all Christendom
were gathered into one plain, and it
were put to them which two cities
they would above all others wish to
see, the vast majority of them would
vote Jerusalem and Rome. So we can
understand something of the record of
my text and its surroundings when it
says, Paul purposed in the spirit when
be had passed through Macedonia and
Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying:
After that must also see Rome"
AS some of you are aware, with my
family and only for the purpose of
what we can learn and the good we
can get, l am on the way to Palestine.
Since leaving Brooklyn, N. Y, this is
the first place we have stopped. In
ternediate cities are attractive, but we
have visited them in other years, and
we hastened on for / said before
starting that while was going to see
Jerusalem / must also see Rome Why
do want to SEQ it9 Because want,
by visiting regions associated with the
great apostle to the Gentiles, to have
my faith i'll Christianity confirmed.
There are those who will GO through
large expenditure to have their faith
weakened. In my native land have
known persons of very limited means
TO pay fifty cents or a dollar to hear a
lecturer prove that our Christian re-
ligion Is myth, dream, q cheat a
lilo. On tho contrary, will give all
the thousands of dollars that this jour
ney Of my family will cost to have
additional evidence that our Christian
religion is an authenticated grandeur,
q solemn, a joyous, rapturous, stu
pendous, magnificent fact. So
want to SEQ Rome. l want you to
show me the places connected with
Apostolic ministry. / have heard that,
ia your city and amid its surround
ings, apostles suffered aud died for
Christ's sake. My common sense
tells me that people do not die for the
sake of IA falsehood. They may prac-
tice deception for purposes OF gain,
but put the sword to their heart,
or arrange the halter around their
neck, or kindle the fire around their
feet, and they would say my life is
worth more than anything l can gain
by losing It, ! hear you have in this
city Paul's dungeon. Show it to me.
must see Rome also. While / am
interested In this city because of her
rulers or her citizens who are mighty
IN history for virtue or vice or talents,
Bomulus, and Caliguli, and Cincin-
natus, and Vespasian, and Coriolanus,
and Brutus, and hundred others
whose names are bright with an ex-
ceeding brightness, or black with the
deepest dye, most OF all am interested
In this city because the preacher of
Mars hill, and the defer of Agrippa
and the hero of the shipwrecked YES
sci in the breakers of Melita, and the
man who held higher than any ono
that the world ever saw the torch of
Resurrection, lived, and preached, and
was massacred here. Show me every
place connected with his memory.
must also see Rome.
CHRISTIAN CURIOSITY.
But my text suggests that in Paul
there was the inquisitive and curious
spirit. Had my text only meant that
he wanted to preach here he would
have said SO. Indeed, in another
place, he declared: II am ready to
preach the Gospel TO you who are at
Rome also" But my text suggests q
sight seeing. This man who had been
under DIR. Gamaliel had no lack of
phraseology, and was used to saying
exactly what he meant, and he said
81 must also see Rome" There is
such a thing rs Christian curiosity.
Paul had it and some Of us have it
About other peoples business have
no curiosity. About all that can con-
firm my faith in the Christian religion
and the worlds salvation and the
souls future happiness, am full OF
AN all absorbing, all compelling
curiosity. Paul had great curl
oSity about the next world, and Sc
have We hope some day, by the
grace of God. to 60 over and see fo'
myself; but not now. No well man,
no prospered man, / think, wants K
eo now. But The time viii come,
think, when shall 60 over. | wan
TO see what they do there, and wan
TO see how they do il l do not want
10 be looking through the gates ajal
forever. | want them to swing wid'
q open. There are ten thousand thing
want explained-about you, abou
myself, about the government OF thi
world, about God, about everything
We start In plain path OF what w
know, and In minute come ul
against high wall Of what we do no
know. Iwonder how it looks owe
there. Somebody tells mo il is like
paved city-paved with gold; ant
another man tells me ii is like :;
fountain, and il is like tree, ant
ii is like triuruphal procession
and tho next man l meet tell
me it is all figarative. / reall.
want to know, after the body is resur
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