The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-16
THE SAVING LOOK"
Sermon by Rev. t. Dewitt Tai
mage, d. D.
Christ Our Personal Saviour, an Example,
sympathlzer, and Final Rescue
-Pauls Advice to Run the
Race Before Us, Looking
Unto Jesus"

Jesus" Following is the sermon;
In the Christian life we must not 90
slipshod. 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 Of conflict, men in SOL
dier's uniform, who have a right to be
away. They obtained furlough and
they are honestly and righteously of
duty; but have to tell you that in this
Christian conflict, between the first mo-
ment when we enlist under the banner Of
Christ, and the last moment in which
we shout the victory, there never
will be single instant in which we will
have right to be of duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ments of the old Roman and Grecian
games-those that sent a man on race,
with such stretch Of nerve and muscle,
that sometimes when he came up to the
goal, he dropped down exhausted. In
deed history tells us that there we're cases
where men came up and and only had
strength just to grasp the goal and then
fall dead. Now, says this apostle, max
ing allusion to those very games, we are
all to run the race, not to crawl 1t, not
to walk it-but "run the race set before
us, looking unto Jesus" and Just as in
the older times, man would stand at
the end OF the road with beautiful
garland that was to be put around head
or brow Of the successful racer, so the
Lord Jesus Christ stands at 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 OBJ
tain.
The distinguished Welliston, the
chemist, was asked where his laboratory
was, and the inquirers expected to be
shown some large apartment filled with
very expensive apparatus; but Wellis-
ton ordered his servant to bring on
tray few glasses and retort, and he
said to the inquirers: "That is all my
laboratory. / make all my experiments
with those" Now, know that there
are great many who take a whole IL
brary to express their theology. They
have SO many theories on ten thousand
things; but / have to say that all my
theology is compassed 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 infnity and the immensity OF
that passage we can understand all.
Iremark in the first place, we must
look to Christ as our personal Saviour.
Now, you know as well as !, that man Is
only blasted ruin OF what he once was.
There is not 80 much difference between
vessel coming out Of Liverpool harbor,
with pennants flying, and the deck
crowded with good cheer, and the guns
booming, and that same vessel driving
against Long Island coast, the drowning
passengers ground to pieces amid the
Hmbers 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 shipwreck. Our
body Is wrong. How easily II Is ran
sacked OF disease. Our mind is wrong.
How hard II Is TO remember, and how
easy TO forget. The whole nature dis
ordered, from the head TO the sole OF tho
foot-wounds, bruises, putrefying sores.
"All have sinned and come short Of the
glory Of God" "By one man sin entered
into world and death by sin, and so
u0Hl0 has Ddbbtu uDOl Ill iltn lOI bnhb
have sinned." There is in Brazil plant
they call the murderer" for the simple
reason that It is so poisonous II kills al
most everything 1t touches. 1t begins TO
wind around the root Of the tree, and
coming mp TO the branches reach out TO
the end OF the branches, killing the tree
as 1t goes along. When 1t comes TO the
tip end OF the branch the tree is dead.
It's seeds fall to the ground and start
other plants just as murderous.
And so 1t is with sin. 1t is a poison
ous plant that was planted in our soul a
long while ago, and II comes winding
about the body and the mind and the
soul, poisoning, poisoning, poisoning
killing, killing, killing as 1t goes. Now,
there would be no need Of my discours-
ing upon this II there were no way OF
pluclxing out that plant. 1t Is most
inconsiderate thing for me TO come TO q
man who Is in financial trouble and en-
large upon his trouble IL have no ale
Walton TO offer. 1t is an unfair thing
for me TO come TO man who Is sick and
enlarge upon his disease II have no
remedy TO offer. But have a right TO
come to man In financial distress or
. physical distress II have financial re-
Enforcement TO offer or O sure cure to
propose. Blessed be God that among
the mountains OF our sin there rolls and
reverberates song Of salvation. Loud
or than all the voices OF bondage Is the
trumpet Of Gods deliverance, sounding:
20, Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,
but in me is thy help" At the barred
gates OF our dungeon the conqueror
knocks and the hinges creak and grind
at 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 on the rocky bridle
path OF sin now come into q smooth
place, and the dry alders crackle as the
painting hart breaks through to the wa
ter brooks, and the dark night OF the
soul begins TO grow gray with
the morning, yea TO purple, yea
10 fame, from horizon TO hor-
izon. The batteries Of temptation
silenced. Troubles that fought against
us captured and made TO fight on our
side. Not as o result OF any toll or
trouble on our part, but only as result
OF "Looking unto Jesus.' ''But what do
you mean by, Looking unto Jesusr
some one inquiries. Imean faith. "What
do you mean by faith?" mean believ-
ing. "What do you mean by believing?"
mean this: II you promise TO do GER
tain thing for me, and / have confidence
In your veracity-if you say you will give
me such thing and 1need II very much,
l come In confidence that you are an
honest man, and Will do what you say.