The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-07
HUMAN UNCLEANNESS.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on Original
Sin in Man.
Natural FOulness OF the World-No Good
Apologies For Sin-There IL No Pardon
without Repentance-Christ Ready
to Cleanse All.

Apologies For Sin-There IL No Pardon
without OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ready
to Cleanse All.
In late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. 7.
De Witt Talmage took for his text: IF l
| wash myself with snow water and should
l cleanse my hands in alkaii yet shalt
thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine
own clothes shall abEor me."-Job tx.
sO-3L The preacher said:
Albert Barnes-honored be his name on
earth and in Heavsn-went straight back
to the original writing Of my text, and
translated it as have now quoted it, Civ.
ing substantial reasons for so doing. AL
though we know better the ancients had
an idea that in snow water there was a
special power to cleanse and that q gar.
ment washed and rinsed in it would be as
clean as clean could be; but il the plain
snow water failed to do its work, then
they would take I've or alkali and mix it
with oil, and under that preparation the
felt that the last impurity would certain
ly be gone. job in my text in most
forceful figures sets forth the idea that all
his attempts to make himself pure before
God were dead failure. and that, unless
we are abluted by something better than
earthly liquids and chemical preparations.
we are loa thsome and in the ditch" III l
wash myself with snow water, and should
cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou
plunge me in the ditch, and mine own
clothes shall abhor me-"
You are now sitting for your picture. l
turn the camera obscura of Gods word
full upon you, and pray that the sun.
shine falling through the skylight may
enable me to take you just as you are.
Shall it be fattering picture or shall it
be true one? You say: Let it be a true
one" The first profile that was ever
taken was taken, 800 years before Christ,
Of Ambiguous. He had a blind eye, and
he compelled the artist to take his profile
SO as to hide the defect I'm his vision. But
since that invention, $50 years before
Christ there has been q great many pro.
files Shall To-day give you q one.sided
view of yourselves, q profile, or shall it
be full length portrait showing you just
what you are? II God will help me by
His almighty grace, shall give you that
last kind of picture
When first entered the ministry used
to write my sermons oil out and read them,
and run my hand along the line lest l
should lose my place. I have hundreds
OF those manuscripts. Shall ever preach
themf Never; for in those days / was
somewhat overmastered with the idea /
heard talked all around about of the dig.
nifty Of human nature, and adopted the
idea, and l evolved it and illustrated it,
and argued It; but coming on in life.
and having seen more OF the world. and
studied better my Bible, find that that
early teaching was faulty, and that there
is no dignity in human nature until it is
reconstructed by the grace of God. Talk
about vessels going to pieces on the Skier.
ries, of Irelandl There never was such
shipwreck as in the Gihon and the Hide.
kel, rivers of Eden, where our first par.
ents foundered. Talk Of steamer going
down with five hundred passengers on
board! What is that to the shipwreck Of
fourteen hundred million souls! We are
by nature a mass of unclsanness and
putrefaction, from which it takes all the
omnipotence and infnitude of Gods grace
to extricate US IF l wash myself with
snow water. and should / cleanse my
hands in alkili, yet shalt thou plunge m,
in the ditch, aud my own clothes shall
abhor me-"
/ remark, in the first place, that some
people try to cleanse their soul Of sin in
the snow water of fine apologies. Here is
one man who says: 81 am a sinner; con-
fess that; but 1 inherited this. My father
was a sinner, my grandfather. my great.
great-grandfather, and all the way back
TO Adam, and / couldn't help myself"
My brother, have you not every day in
your life added something to the original
estate of sin that was bequsathed to you?
Are you not brave enough to confess that
you have sometimes surrendered to sin
which you ought to have conquered
ask you whether it fair play to put upon
our ancestry things for which we our
selves are personally responsible? II your
nature was askew when you got it, have
you not sometimes given it an additional
twist? Will all the tombstones of those
who have preceded US make barr icade
high enough for eternal defenses? know
a devout man who had blasphemous par.
entage. l know All honest man whose
father was a thief. l know q pure man
whose mother was q waif of the street
The hereditary tide may be very strong,
but there is such q thing as stemming it.
The fact that have q corrupt nature is
no reason why l should yield to it The
deep stains of our soul can never be
washed out by the snow water Of such in.
sufficient apology.
Still further. says some one: III Ihave |
gone into sin, it has been through my
companions, my comrades and associates;
they ruined me. They taught me to drink. |
They took me to the gambling hell. They |
plunged me into the house of sin. They |
ruined my SOUL" l do not believe it. |
God gave to no one the power to destroy |
you or me. II a man is destroyed he is |
self destroyed. and that Is always so. |
Why did you not break away from them? |
If they had tried to steal your purse you |
would have knocked them down; il they |
had tried to purloin your gold watch you |
would have riddled them with shot; but |
when they tried to stea! your immortal |
soul you placidly submitted to it. Those |
bad fellows have q cup Of fiie to drink; |
do not pour your Gun into it. In this mat |
ter Of the soul. every man for himself. |
That those persons are not fully RESPONSE !
BILE for your sin, prove by the fact tina, |
you still consort with them. You can not |
get off by blam ng Them. Though you |
gather up all these apologies; though |
there were a great food of them; though |
they should come down with the force of |
the melting SHOWS from Lebanon, they |
could not wash out one stain of your im.
mortal soul.
Still further, some persons apologize for
their sins by saying: I'VE are a great |
deal better than some people. You see
people all around about us that are a |
great deal worse than we are" You
stand up columnar in your integrity, and |
look down upon those who are PROSTATE
in their habits and crimes. What of that.
my brother! II failed through reckless
ness and wicked imprudence tor $40, 0)O. is