The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-19
THE SAVIOUR OF ALL.
DR.. Talmage on the Duties of
Christians.
Christ the Personal saviour of Mankind-A
Great Example For AIl-Th Lord Ever
Ready to Help the Distressed-
GlOries of Heaven.

uo lOl ONS:
In the Christian life we must not go
silpshod. This world was not made for US
to rest in. In time of war you will find
around the streets of some city, far from
the scene If conf ct, men In soldiers uni
form who have a right to be away. They
obtained a furlough and they are honestly
rig~bteously eff duty; ut l have to
tell you in this Chri tian conf CT, between
the first moment when we enlist under the
banner of Christ and the last moment in
which we shout the vic DRY, there never
will be a single instant in which we will
have a right to be of duty. Pau throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ments of the old RCmln and Grecian
games-thoSe games nat sent a man OH a
race with such a stretch of nerve and
muscle that sometimes when he came up
to the goal he dropped down exhausted.
Indeed. history tells US that there were
cases where men came up aid only had
the strength just to grasp the goal and
then tall dead. Now, t~iiissapostle.
making allusion to those very games, we
are all out to run the race, not to crawl it,
not to walk it-but run the race set be-
fore us. looking unto Jesus" and just as
in the olden times u man would stand at
the end of the road with "a beautiful gar
AaAAa NLoN q " bV IuN ulOhitu tue utdu
or brow of the successful racer, so the
Lord Jesus Chli4t sands at the end of the
Christian race with the garland of eternal
life, and may God grant hat by His holy
spirit we may so Jun as to obtain.
The distinguished Welliston, the chem
ist vas asked where his laboratory was,
and the inqIirers expected TO be shown
some large apartment flied with expen-
sive apparatus, but Welliston ordered his
servant to bring on "a tray a few glasses
and a retort, and he said to the inquirers;
THAT is all my laboratory. ] make all
my experiments with those" Now, l
know that there are a great many who
take a whole library to express their the
ology. They have so many theories on
ten thousand things, hut l ave to say
that all my theology is compassed in these
three words: "Looking unto Jesus" and
when we can undersl and the height and
the depth anu the length and the breadth
and the intinity and the immens lty of
that passage we can understand all.
remark in the first place. we must look
to Christ as our Saviour. Now. ~you.know
as well as l that man is only a blasted
ruin of what he once was. There is not so
much d ferenc, between a vessel coming
out OF L verpool haroor. with pennants
flying and the deck W with good
cheer and the guns booming, and that
same vessel driving against Long Island
coast, the drowning passengers ground 10
pieces amid the timbers of the broken up
steamer. as there Is between man as he
came from the hands of God, equipped
for a grand and glorious voyage. but
afterward, through the pilotage of the
devil, tossed and driven and crushed,
the coast of the near future
strewn with the fragments of an
awful and eternal shlpwreck. Our
body Is wrong. How easily it is ran
sacked Of disease. Our mind is wrong.
How hard il Is TO remember and how easy
TO forget. The whole nature disordered,
from the crown of the head to the sole of
the foot-wounds. bruises, III relying
sores. A have sinDed and come short
of the glory OF God" by one man sin
entered into the world aud sdeattrhEs<&t
and so death has passed aapoo EjE r<1
that all have sinpe3f'
a plant they cab "a 1*r [1 SD
Simple seeepe
"a n Hd45 Along. When it has come to the
W. M.L"Z . VIZ 10 uChha Y
zesds fall to the ground and start other
plants'just as murderous. And so it is
With sin. 1t fs a poisonous plant that was
planted In our soul a long while ago.a and
II comes winding about the body and his
mind and the soul, poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning-killing, killing Killing as 1t
goes. Now, there would be no need of my
discoursing upon this if there were no
way OF p!ucking out that plant. 1t is II
most inconsiderate thing for me to come
to a man who Is in finaD cial trouble and
enlarge upol his trouble If | have no allie
Walton t6offer. 1t is an unfair thing for
me to come TO a man who is sick and en-
large upon his disease If I nave no remedy
TO offer. Blu / have a right TO come to n
mar in financial distress or physical dis
tress IL / have financial enforcement TO
offer or a sure cure TO propose.
Blessed lie God that among the mount
aims OF our sin there rolls and reverberates
q song OF ~saivalion. Louder than all the
voices Of bondage Is the trumpet of Gods
deliverance, sounding: 20, Israel, thou
hast destroyed myself, hut in me is thy
help" At the barred gates of our dun
geon. the conqueror knocks and The hinges
creak and g1nd at the swinging open.
The famine struck pick up the mama that
$50 W wv AANA upno alh NAAO hDOuB CldD
the hands. saying: "Drink, o thirsty
soul. and live forever" and the feet that
were torn and deep cut on the rocky birdie
path OF sin now come into a smooth place,
and the dry aiders crackle as the painting
hart breaks through to the water brooks
and the dark night OF the soul begins To
grow gray with the morning, yea to pur-
pie, yea to flame, from no lion 10 horizon.
The batteries of temptation silenced.
Troubles that fought against us captured
and made to fight on our side. Not as a result
of any toll or trouble on our part, but only
as q result of docking unto Jesus" But
what do mean by looking unto Jesus?'"
some one inquiries. neon faith. 'What
do you m an by faith?" Imean believing
''What do you mean by believingf" l
mean this: II you promise to do a certain
thing for me-, and / have confidence in
your veracity-if you say you will give
me such a thing and l need il very much.
I come In confidence that you are an hon.
est man n will do what you say. Now.
the Lord, Jesus Christ says: you are In
need Of pardon and life and Heaven, you
can have them II you come and get them"
You say; 81 can't come and ask first. /
am afraid you WON'T give 1t TO me-" Then
you are unbelieving. But you say: Il
will come and ask. 1 know, Lord Jesus.
Thou art in earnest about this matter. j
come asking for pardon. Thou hast prom
ised to give II to me, Thou wilt z We it to
Thou hast gwen It to me-" That is
faith. Do you see it YETI 20" saws some
one, 81 can't understand It," No man
ever did, without divine he p. Faith is
the gllt % q a You say: THAT throws
the respons biiify Off my shoulders" No.
Faith Is the gift OF God, but it comes in
answer to PRAYER.
All over glorious IS my Lord,
he must b. loved and YET adored;
His worth II all the nations knew,
sure the whole earth would love Him. too.
1rsmark again that we mu & look to
Jesus as an example. Now, a mere copy
Isl, you know, 10 always q ia lure. II a
painter go to a portfolio or u gallery Of
arr however exqnisite, to get his idea of
tne naturai worlt from these pictures, he
Will not succeed as we'll as The artist who
STARTS out and dasbe the dew from the
grass ana sees the mornins Just as God
quilt IL In the clouds. or poured IL upon
the mountain, or kindled it upon the sea.
PEOPLE wondered why Turner, the great
English painter, succeeded so we'll in
skeiching a storm upoa the Ccsan. 1t re-
NAMED a won Ter until IL was found out
tnat several times he had been lashed to
uhe deck in the midst of q tempest aud
tnsn looked out upon he wrath Of the sea,
and coming home to hIs studio he pictured
me tempest. 1t is not the copyist who
succeeds, but the man who confronts the
natural world. So If a man IN literary
composition resolves that he will initiate
the smootines' of Addison or the rugged
vigor OF Carlyle, or the weirdness of
Spenser, or the -epigrammatic style of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, he will not succeed
as well as tina man WHO Gu lures his own
natural style.~Wu at Is rue in this respect