The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-27
OUR NEED OF CLEANSING.
TALMAGB TELLS OF THE ONLY
WAY OF WASHING CUT SIN.

to Ria hteousness Than John Bunyan
Dreanc ed Of Gods Flo d OF Mercy.
BROOKLYN, May 25-The Rev. T. De
Witt falmage, d. d., preached at the
| Tabernacle to-day to an over1owing con-
| egation. HIS selected as the opening
| hymn that one be ,inning:
Salvation, 0 the joyful sound,
| 'Tls pie lslre to our "a s;
| sovereign balm for every wound
| A cordial 10 our fears.
| The text was: IF wash myself with
snow water, and should / cleanse my hands
in ak Ii, yet shalt thou plunge me in the
/ dit II. aud mine owl clothes shall abhor
me. Job tx, 30, 81. The eloquent preacher
said:
| Albert Barnes-honored be his nama on
| earth ami in hetven-went strai hit back to
tie original writ & OF m text aud trans
! lated it as have now quoted it, ri wing SUBJ
sUaHtial reaso for so d1ug Al h ugh we
kno " better, the ancIen al an idea that
| in snow water there was a special poqer to
| cleanse, and that a garment washed and
| ri lsed M 1t would o as clean as c,ea 'ould
| be; but If tine pain snow water failed to do
| its ork, then they would take I've or alkali
and mix it with oil, aud under that
| preparation they felt tha the last inipurity
wonld certainly be gone. Job, in my text,
| in most tpTcefu figure sets forth the idea
that all his tem Is TO mRke hims II pure
before g d were dead failure, and That,
un ess We are luted by sonnet in better
| han earthly lJ ids al chemical propara-
| tions, we are IA hsome and In the tch
"If | wash myself with snow water, and
sIouli | clean g my hands in alkali. yet
shalt thou pin ge me in the ditch, aad mlne
own clDtHes snail abhor me.n
You re- uow sitting f0riyo1r picture I
turn the camera ooScura Of God' word full
up N on, AMI pray tlat tue sunshi 10 fall
! ilg rough The ,kylig glt may enable me 20
! take yon just as YOU are Snail II los a fiat-
| tering picture, o. slsll it 20 true oloi
! sa Let it be a true c.n The first
! profile that was over TAX was akel, three
/ HUNDRED aud thirty years before Carlst, Of
AHtig nus. He had blind we, and he
| compelled tho artist 70 TAX his profile so as
! to hide the de ect hi, vi ion. BIT since
,nat invention, three hundred and thirty
| years eforo Cdrist there nave been a great
many protlei Snall / to- Ia give yol
one sdoG view of yours Ives, profile, or
shall It be tull ls3gth portrait su ling
| you just what you are II God will help ms
by his aim ghty grace, | shall give you that
last kind Of a picture.
When first ent rcd the ministry ! used
to write my ser.no IS all out aid read them,
and rua my hand alo tne line lest 1
| should lose my place. | have hundreds of
th Sc man scripts. Shall l ever preach
tue ~ Negor; FIR in hose days 1 was
somehow overin astered with the idea [
| heard talked al. around alb ut, Of the dig
nifty Of human nature, and | adopted the
idea. aud / .yolvod and illIslrated it,
AID arguel It; but coming on in life, and
| having s'en more Of the forld, md tu1ied
better my Bhl I n a tha- that ear rly teach
! K was faulty, and that there is no iii nifty
in hu nan nature until it is recon-
! strueted by the g'ace OF Col. Talk
| about YES els 60 ngi 10 pieces on the SSsr-
| ri S, Off lrelnndl There lever was ,uch
snipwIeck as IN the Giuon and the Hidie-
! kei, rivers Of Eden, whore our first parents
! fouud.red. Talk Of a steamer going down
| with Ave hundred passc K RS on boardl
/ WHAT Is at to the sb wreck Of fourteen
hundred million sousi We are by nature
a mas Of lclea mess AID putrefaction,
| from which IL kes all TIE omnipotencs
AMI iuilnitude Of Cod & ace 10 ex,. icate
| Us. "lf 1 wash my II witt snow wotsr,
"a d should cleanse m halds in al Iali, yet
shalt tlou plunge ne ia tie dltcn, and my
! own clot - sAali abh)r me.n
! reuark. ilt first pa-e that some
| ueJple try t. clsaIse their soul Of 81 in
the snow water OF fine apologies. aere is
| 0 Q nan who says: II 4 a sinner; n
| 70 that; bat inner ted this. NJ father
was a SIN er, my grandfather, nv great
| great gram father, and all the way buck to
| All tm, aDd | cOIldu't help iuysslf.n Ny
| brother, have you o., every day IN your
| life, added something TO tue original estate
/ of sin that was bequea ned to yOul Are
| you not brav elJug 10 confess L1at you
| have metime3 sur enderel C. 81 d, which
| you Ough u have cOuquered7 | ask you
/ ether 10 is fair play TO put upon our
| ancestry things Tor which we oor-
selves are perso ally re ponsiblel IL
/ your nature was askew when you
1 ha mt rrFHfa ffts -
| additional twist' W.ll all the tonbstones
| II those who hav y ecsied US make bar
| ricade higI enough f5r eternal d fs 3 ~ I
/ \ oV a d vOut mtn who lad blasphamous
| parontags 1 SnOw h most man wn $50
| father vas thief / know yure IN IN
| whose mot or WIS a waf 4 the street. rho
| here iitary tito may be very strong, but
there IS such thing a stenning il. The
| fact that have corrupt nature Is no
as0n why | s ouid yield It. Tao deep
| stains II our soul ca never be was ed out
| by the snow water VI such insufficient apol-
| ogy.
Still further, says some one: "If have
| gone iuto sin, 1t has been thrnug my come
| panions my co uraie, and assoc atei. Tnsy
ruined me. They tau nt me 70 drink.
! The took me 10 the gam ling hell. They
| plunged ms into the house Of sin. They
| ruined my soul.n ! d. not believe 1t. God
| give 20 no ono the power b. destroy YOU or
| me, II a man is des rJyed, be is self
de ,troyel, ard at is always o. Why did
you not hrelk away from thsmf
| Ii thev had triel 70 steal your pu so,
YOU would have nocke them down;
| If they d tired 10 purloi YOUR gold
watch, you would have ridded them
Wit sh0t but when they tried to steal
! your / nm rial so d you p. cdly submit cd
] to H. Thos Da foil W nav. a cup o. fire
/ o. ink. DO not p ur your cup iltu it. In
/ this matter OF Tn soul, o ery ms for him
| self Iha those er ons IRE lot fui re-
/ spolsibie Tor your SID, / prove by : fact
I that you still cI sJrl wi u them. Y u can
not < ~ ~ blaming tlem. Thousl you
| gather upal h"o a9lugis: though there
we're K eat fool OF tlem; Though they
should come down wi IA tho force the
mel Ing SHOWS from Lsba on, they coald
not wash out one stain OF your immortal
| soul
Sui further, some persons apologizs for
I thor sins By VA / e; NE a-e GA daal
| better tina Bpus people. Y 90 people
all lrDuud al ~ ~ tlnt ars q grea deal
worse than we.n You sta a up c0iu d ar
in your Integrity. aan look i0Tu ulOl
tbnss who arc pr ~ ate in their habits ID
erimsa Wlal OF Lhat, my broflali II
/ failed through fectsslne and wicked i'm
I prudescs f0r 1000. u ths matt0g allsvi.
afed a. ~ ~ tbs ae That s0fHsbldy olso
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