The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-10-31
H SAVING LOOK.

THE SAVING LOOK.
Rev, Il. Dc witt Talmage's Intended
Discourse ct The Tabernacle.
BpooKLYN, Oct. 18.-[Special 1.-The de-
struction Of the Brooklyn Tabernacle by IRE
OF an early hour this morning prevented the
usual Sunday services. The manuscript
the following sermon was handed to the re-
porters who called upon Rev, T. De Witt
Talmage at his home DR.. Talmage said It
was the DISCOURSE he intended to deliver this
morning, aud requested that 1t be printed
with this explanation "5a@~s -
The subject of his sermon was "The Saving
Look" and the text Hebrews xii, 2: LOOK
ing unto Jesus.
In the Christian lie we must not go slip
shod. This world was not made Tor us 20
rest in. In time of wal you will find around
the streets Of some city, far from the scene OF
conflict, men in soldiers uniform, who have
a right to be away. They obtained q fur
Tough and they are honestly and righteously
of duty; but 1 have to tell you that in
this Christian conflict, between the frst
moment when we enlist under; the banner OF
Christ, and the last moment in which We
shout the victory, there never will pc a single
instant in which we will have Q right to De on
duty. Paul throws oil around this Christian
life the excitements Of the old Roman and
Grecian games-those games that sent a man
on a race, with such o stretch of nerve and
muscle, that sometimes when he came up to
the goal, he dropped down exhausted. In
deed, history tells that there were cases where
men came up and only had strength just to
grasp the goal and then fall dead. Now, says
this apostle, making allusion to those very
games, we are oil to run the race, but not to
crawl it, not to walk it-but run the race
set before US, looking unto Jesus" and just
as in the olden times, o man would stand at
tho end of the road with a beautiful garland
that was to be put around the head or brow
ofthe successful racer, SO the Lord Jesus Christ
stands ut the end Of the Christian race with
the garland Of eternal life, and may God
grant that BY his holy spirit we may SO run
as to obtain.
The distinguished Welliston, the chemist,
vas asked where his laboratory was, and the
ipquirers expected to be shown some large
apartment filed with very expensive apara,
tus; but Welliston ordered his servant to
bring on a tray a few glasses and a retort,
and be said to the inquirers: ''Thnt is all my
~ ~ l. 4oN f1t AJ " "ASAA
those" Now, I know that there are a great
many who take a whole library to express
their theology. They have SO many theories
on 10, 900 things; but l have to soy that oil
my theology is comprised in these three
words: Looking unto Jesus" and when
we can understand the height and the depth
and the length and the breadth and the in
can understand all. a.
l remark in the first place, We must look to
Christ as our personal Savior. Now, you
know as well as / that man is only O blasted
ruin of what he once was. There is not so
much difference between a vessel coming out of
Liverpool harbor, with pennants flying and
the deck crowded with good cheer, and the
against Long Island coast. the drowning
passengers ground to 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 Inc crushed, the
coast of thu new future strewn with the frag-
body, is wrong. How easily IL is ransacked
of disease. Our mind is wrong. How hard
it 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, putrefying sores. GAN have sinned
and come short OF the glory OF God" by
one man sin entered into the world and death
men for that all have sinned." There is in
Brazil q plant they call the murderer" for
the simple reason that it is SO poisonous it
kills almost everything it touches. 1t begins
to wind around the roots of the tree, and
coming up to the branches reaches out to the
ends of the branches, killing the tree as it
goes along. When 1t hos come to the tip end
~ khA hwo oh %11 k-cn sr l~rS IN
to the ground and start other plants just as
murderous. ss 9zs9s. s.
And SO it is with sin. tits a poisonous plant
that was planted in our soul a long while
ago., and it comes winding about the body
and the mind and soul poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning-killipg, killing, killing us it goes.
Now, there would be no need of my discours-
ing upon this if there were no way of pluck
ing out that plant. ltis q most inconsider-
ate thing for me to come to O man who is in
financial trouble and enlarge upon his trou-
hle if I q no alienation to offer. It is an
unfair thing for me to come to a man who is
sick and enlarge upon his diseased l havenO
remedyto offer. But | have a right to come
to O man in financial distress or physical dis.
tress II have financial reinforcementto offer
OF sure cure to propose. Blessed he God that
among the mountains ofour sin there rolls
md reverberates o song of salvation.
Louder than oil the voices of bondage ia
the trumpet of Gods deliverance, sounding:
"Oh, Israel, thou hast destroyed thyseif
but in me sthy help, At the barred gates
OF our dungeon, the conqusror knocks. and
the hinges creak and grindlat the swinging
open. The famine struck pick up the mama
that falls in the wilderness and the floods
clap their hands, saying: Drink, oh thirsty
soul, and live forever" and the feet that
were torn and deep cut IN the rocky bride
path OF sin now come into Q smooth place,
and the dry alders erackle as the painting
heart breaks through to the water brooks
and the q night of the soul begins to grow
flame, from horizon to horizon. The batter
les of temptation eilenced. Troubles that
fought against us captured and made to FIGHT
on our side. Not as o result OF any toll or
trouble OH our part, but only as q resell OF
Looking unto Jesus" "But what do YOU
mean by Looking unto Jesls?' someone in
qeuires. l mean faith; What do you mean
by faith?" ! mean believing. "What do YOU
mean by believing?" / mean this: If Won
promise to do a certain thing for me, and
l have confidence in your veracity-if you
say you will give me such o thing and I need
1t very much, l come in confidence that Won
are an honest man and will do what yQn sax,
Now, the Lord Jesus Christ says: aYou are
in need of pardon and life and heaven. YOU
can have them ifyou come and get them"
You say; ~ can't come and ask first. am
afraid you Won't give it to me-" Then Won
say::I will come and ask. know, Lord Je-
sus. thou art in earnest about this matter. 7
come asking for pardon. Thou hast prom
ised to give it to me, thou wilt give 1t to me,
thou hast given it to me-" This is faith. Do
You see it yet? "Oh," said some one. II
can't understand it," No man ever did
without divine help. Faith is 1.-THE Gift of God
You say: THAT throws the responsnbilitv
OF my shoulders" No, Faith is the rift Of
God, but it comes in answer to prayer.
All over glorious is my Lord,
&M He mnst he loved md vat ojoroa. !