Democratic messenger., 1889-10-19
THAT SAVING LOOK.
DIR. TALMAGE's SUNDAY MORNING
DISCOURSE.
Il Was Not Delivered In the Taberna-
Gle Owing to the Fire. But the
Brooklyn Divine breaches
Through the Columns
OF the Press.

Ut. luttHuSc NNS lHcNtHtcN tiOh p'e"e"
ing owing TO the destruction Of the Tab
crnacle by fire early this morning, he gave
the press the sermon which he intended
to deliver, the subject being. THE Saving
Look" and the text Hebrews xii, g
Looking into Jesus" The sermon was
as follows:
In the Christian life we must not go
shipshod This world was not made fol
us 10 rest in. In time Of war you will find
around the streets Of some city, inr from
the scene o. conflict. men in soldiers uni
form, who have right TO he away. They
obtained y furlough and they are honest
Is and righ,eously or duty; but have Ia
tell you that In this Christian conflict, lie
tween the first moment when We enlist
under the banner Of Christ and the last
moment in which we shout the victory
there meyer will be single instant in
which we will have righ: to he off duty
Paul throws all around this Christian life
the excitements of the old Roman and
Grecian games those games that scIit a
man On race with such stretch al
nerve and muscle that sometimes when he
came np TO the goal he dropped down cx'
haustcd. Indeed, history tells us tlIa,
there were cases where men came up and
only had strength just to grasp the goal
and then fall dead. Now. says this apos.
tie, making allusion Ia those very games,
we are all To run the race. not To- crawl IL
not To- walk it--hut run the race sci be-
fore US. Looking unto Jesus" and just as
in the Oldcn times man would stand nj
the end of the rnal with u beautiful gar.
land iha, was 10 he pm, around the head
ar brow of the successful racer, 50 the
Lord Jesus Christ stands nj the end ofilc
Christian race with the garland Of eternal
life aud may God grant that by His holy
spirit we may 80 run as To obtain II.
The distinguished Welliston, the chem.
ist, was asked xhcre his laboratory was.
and the inquirers expected To he shown
some large apartment filled with very
expensive apparatus; but Wclli>,on order
ed his servant 10 bring om tray few
glasses aud u rctori, and he said Ia the in
qnrcrs That is all my laboratory
make all my experiments with those. -
Now, | know there ARE \ great many whn
take u whole library ,o express their the
0logy. They have s0 many theories an
10000 things hut | have To say that all
my theology is crmpaSscd in these three
words: Looking unto Jesus, and when
we can understand the height aud the
depth aud the length and the breadth and
the iniiniiy and the immensely of that
passage we can understand all.
CHRIST orR Personal. savior
| remark, in the first place. We must
look io Christ ~ n personal Savior New
you know rs well as l. thai man is only Il
blasted ruin Of what he once was. There
is not so much difference between a YES
sci coming gu, Of Liverpool hnrbor. with
pcnnanis flying and the deck crowded
and that same vessel driving agains, Long
Island coast, the drowning passengers
ground To pieces amid the timbers Of the
broken mp steamer. as there is between
man as he came from the hands of God
equipped for grand and glorious vOy'
age, but aftcrward. through the piloiagc
of the devil. tossed aud driven and crush
cd, the coast of the near future slrewu
with the frag gmcnts of an awful and ctcr.
nal shipwrcck Our body is wrong. How
easily il Is ransackcd of disease. Our
minds is wrong. How hard j. il 10 re-
member, and how easy 10 forget The
whole nature disOrlarch from the crown
Of the head to the sole Of the foot -
wounds. bruises. pciTefying sores. "All
have sinned and come short Of the glory
Of God" "lIy one man sin entered inio
the world AMI death by sin, and 50 death
has passed npon all men for that all have
sinned" There is in Brazil plnnl
they call the "mmr,lcrer," fnr the simple
reason that II is so poisonous II kills almost
everything II touches. !, begins 10 wins
around the root of The tree, and coming
up tn the branches out 10 the ends oi the
branches, killing the tree aS II goes along
When Il has come To the Tip end of The
branch the tree Is dead. Its seeds fall Il
the ground and start other plants jus, NJ
murderOus