Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-10-23

The following is the sermon that DIR. Tai
mage would have delivered on Sunday, Oct,
18th, if the Tabernacle had not been burned
that morning.
The subject of his sermon waa "The saw
ing Look" and the text Hebrews xii, 2:
''Look unto Jesus"
In the Christian life we must not go slip
shod This world was net made for us to
rest in. In time of war you will tind around
the streets of some city. far from the scene
of conflict, men in soldiers uniform who
have right to be way. They obtained
furlough and they are honestly aud right
eously off duty; but have to t. II you that
in this Christian conflict, between the mo-
ment when we enlist under the banner of
Christ, and the last moment in which we
shout the victory, there never " i'll be sim
gle instant in which We will have right to
be off duty. Paul throws all around this
Christian life the excitements IF the old
Roman and Grecian games-those games
that sent man on a race with such stretch
of nerve and muscle that sometimes when
he came up to the goal he dropped down
exhausted. Indeed, history tells US that
there were cases where men came up and
only had strength just tograsp the goal and
then fall dead. Now, says this apostle,
making allusion to those very games, we
are all to run the race, not to crawl 1t, not
to walk it-but frun the race set before US,
looking unto Jesus" and just as in the
olden times man would stand at the end
of the road with beautiful garland that
was to be put around the 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 helg spirit we
may so run as to obtain.
The distinguished Welliston, the chem
list, was asked where bis laboratory was,
and the inquirers expected to be shown
some large apartment filled wi h very ex-
pensive apparatus; but Welliston ordered
his servant to bring on tray few glasses
and retort. and he said to the inquirers
"That is all my laboratory. l make all my
experiments with these" Nov, | know
that there are great many who take
whole library Co express their theology.
They have so many theories on ten thousand
things; but l have to say that all my the
ology is compassed in these three words:
aLookiDg unto Jesus" and when we can
understand the height and the depth and
the length and the breadth and The ipfnity
and the immensity of that passage We can
understand all.
remark 10 the first place, we must look
to Christ as our personal Saviour. Now,
you know as we'll as I, that ID n is only a
blasted ruin of what he once was. There
is not so much difference between vessel
coming out of Liverpool harbo with PEN
napts flying and the deck rowded 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 be
came from the hands of God, equipped fer
grand and glorious voyage, but afserward,
through the pilotage of the 6evil. tossed
and driven and crushed, the eoast of tho
near future strewn with the fragments OF
an awful and eternal shipwreck. Our body
| is wrong. How easily it 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 bead to the sole OF the foot
wounds, bruises, putrefyins sores. CAN
have sinDed and come short of the glory of
God" by one man sin entered into the
world and death by sin, and SO death has
passed upon all men for that all have SIN
ned" There is in Brazil 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
root 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 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 q poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul long
while ago. and it comes winding about the
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning,
poisoning, poisoning-killing, killing, kill.
| ing as i goes. Now, there would be nc
need of my discoursing upon this if there
were no way of plucking out that plant. II
is most inconsiderate thing for me to come
to man who is in financial trouble and en-.
large upon his trouble if | have no allevia-
tion to offer 1t is an unfair thing for me
to come to man who is sick aud enlarge
upon his disease if have no remedy to Of
fer. But l have right TO come to mar
in financial distress or physical distress if
have financial reinforcement to offer or 8
sure cure to propose. Blessed be God thai
among the mountains of our sin there rolls
and reverberates song of salvation. Loud