The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-25
THE SAVIOUR OF ALL.
Dr.. TalmaGe on the Duties of
Christians.
Christ the Personal Sa viour of Mankind-A
Great Example For klI--he Lord Ever
Ready to Help the Distressed
Glories OF Heaven.


Looking Unto Jesus" The sermon was
as fol ows:
In the Christian life we must not go
slipshod. This world was not made for us
to rest in. In time of war you will find
around TIE streets of some city, far from
the scene of conflict men in soldiers uni
form who have a right to be away. They
obtained furlough and they are honestly
and rigbteously off duty; tut have to
tell you in this Chri stan cor fl ct, between
the first moment when we enlis: under the
banner of Christ and the last moment in
which we shout the victory, there never
will be a single instant in which we will
have right TO be off duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ments of the old Roman and Grecian
games-those games that sent a man on
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 We're
cases where men came up and only had
the strength just TO grasp the goal and
then fall dead. Now, says this apostle,
making allusion to those very games, we
are all out to run the race. not to crawl il,
not to walk it-but run the race set be-
fore us looking unto Jesus" and just as
in the olden times a man would stand at
the end of the road with a beautiful gar
land that was to be put around the head
or brow of the successful racer, SO the
Lord Jesus Chr ist 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 obtain.
The distinguished Welliston, the chem.
ist was asked where his laboratory was,
and the inquirers expected to be shown
some large apartment filed with expen-
awe apparatus, but Welliston ordered his
servant to bring on a tray few glasses
and a retort and he said to the inquirers:
That is all my laboratory. / make all
my experiments with those" Now,
know that there are a great many who
take whole library to express their the
ology. 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 infinity and the immensely 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 that man is only a blasted
much difference between a 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 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 shipwreck. Our
body is wrong. How easily it is ram
sacked 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, rutrefying
sores. "All have sinped and come short
of the glory of God" by one man sin
entered into the world and death by SID,
and SO death has passed upon all men for
that all have sinuej." There is in Brazil
plant they call the murderer" for the
simple reason that it is so poisonous it
kills almost every thing it touches 1t be-
gins to wind around the root of a tree, and
coming up TO the branches reaches out TO
the ends of the branches, killing the tree
as it goes along. When it has come to the
tip end of the branch the tree is dead. Its
seeds fall to the ground and start other
plants just as murderous. And so it is
with sin. 1t is poisonous plant that was
planted in our soul q long while ago, and
It comes winding about the body and the
mind and the soul, poisoning, poisoning,
ooisoning-killing, killing, killing as it
goes. Now, there would be no need of my
discoursing upon this if there were no
way of plucking out that plant 1t is
most inconsiderate thing for me to come
to a man who is N financial trouble and
enlarge upon his trouble if 1 have no allie
Walton to offer. 1t is an unfair thing for
me to come TO q man who is sick and en-.
large upon his disease if have no remedy
to offer. But have a right to come to a
man in financial distress or physical dis
tress il have financial reinforcement to
offer or a sure cure to propose.
Blessed he God that among the mount
aims of our sin there rolls end reverberates
a song of salvation. Louder than all the
voices Of bondage is the trumpet of Gods
deliverance sounding: %, Israel, thou
hast destroyed myself, but in me is thy
geon, 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 foods clap
the hands, saying: "Drink, o thirsty
soul and live forever" and the feet that
were torn and deep cut on the rocky bride
path Of sin now come into a smooth place,
aud the dry alders 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 horizon TO horizon.
The batteries of temptation silenced.
Troubles that fought against us captured
and made to fight on our side. Not as result
of any toll or trouble on our part, but only
rs result of looking unto Jesus" But
what do mean by looking unto Jesus?
some one inquiries. mean faith. tWhat
do you mean by faith:" Imean believing
What do you mean by believing" /
mean this: II yoJ promise TO do a certain
thing for me, and i have confidence IN
your veracify-:f you say you will give
me such a thing and l need II very much
come in ,nfidence that you ere an hon.
est man and will do what you say. Now.
the Lord, Jesus Christ says: You are in
need Of pardon and life aud Heaven. you
can have them if you come and get them"
You say: IL can't come and ask first /
am afraid you won't give it TO me-" Then
you are unbelieving. But you say: i
will come and ask. 1 know. Lord Jesus.
Thou art in earnest about this matter. /
come asking for pardon. Thou hast prom
ised to give it to me, Thou wilt give it to
me, Thou hast given it to me-" That is
faith. Do you see it yet: 90" some
one. "I can't understand it," No man
ever did, without divine help Faith is
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