The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-24
TALMAGES SERMON.
Weekly Discourse OF tho Great
Brooklyn Preacher.
Subjects The saving Look"

subjects "fhe Saving Look
Kill, 2.
In the Christian life we must not GO sli,,-
shod, This world was not made for us 10 rest
In. In time of war you win find around tho
streets OF some city, far from the scene OF
conflict men in soldiers uniform, who have
right TO BIO away. They obtained fur
Tough and they are honestly and riehteouslv
OF duty; but ] have to tell you that in this
christian conflict, between the FIRST moment
when we enlist under tho banner of Christ
and the last moment in which we shout Ina
victory, there mover win be single instant
IA which we will have right to he on duty.
faul throws all around this Christian life tRe
excitements OF 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 We're cases where men came up
and only had strength Just to grasp the
goal and then fall dead. Nov. Saws this
apostle, making aliusion 10 those very games.
we are all to run the race, not to crawl it,
not TO walk it--but run the race set before
us looking unto Jesus, and just as in the
oiden times man would stand Mt 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 tho Christian race with
the garland OF eternal life, and NAV God
grant that by His holy spirit we may so run
rs to obtain.
The distinguished welliston, the chemist.
was asked where his laboratory was, and the
inquirers expected to he shown some largo
apartment filled with very expensive appara-
tbs; but Welliston ordered his servant to
bring on a 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 nre great
many who take whole libraryto express their
theology. They have so many theories on ten
thousand things; but have TO say-that all
my THEOLOGY Is comprised 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 ntfnity and
the immensely of that passage we can Under
stand ALL
remark in the first place, We must look to
Christ as our personal Saviour. Now, vol,
know as well as l, that man is only a blasted
rum oil what no once was There is not so
much difference between a vessel coming out
OF Liverpool harbor, with pennants living
and the deck crowded with good cheer, and
the guns booming, and that same vessel driv-
ing against Long Island coast, the drowning
ground to pieces amid the timbers
OF tho broken up steamer, es there is be-
tween man as he came from the hands of
God, equipped for grand and glori-
Gus 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 1t is ransacked of disease Our mind
is wrong. How hard it is to remember, and
how easily to forget. The whole nature dis
ordered, from the crown Of the head to the
sole OF the foot-wounds, bruises, putrefying
sores. 'All have sinned and come short of the
glory OF Cod" by one man sin entered
into the wr ID and death by sin.
and so death has passed upon ali
men for that all have sinned.d 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 1t has come to the tip end
Of the branch the tree Is dead. Its seed fall
to the ground and start other plants lust as
murderous
And so it is with sin. 1t is poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul a long
whlie ago, and 1t comes winding about the
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning,
MISUNDERSTANDING, killing, killing
as it goes. Nov, there would be no need Of
my discoursing upon this il there were no
way OF piucking out that plant 1t is most
nconsiderate thing for me to come to man
who is in financial trouble and enlarge upon
aus trouble il have no alienation to offer.
lt Is an unfair thing for me to come to a man
who Is sick and enlarge upon his disease
I have no remedy to offer.
bus have right to come
o q man In financial distress
)r physical distress if have financial re-en.
'orcement to offer or a sure cure to pronose.
Blessed be God that among the mountains Of
,ur sin there rolls and reverbrates song of
Aviation. Louder than all the voices Of
bondage is the trumpet of Gods deliverance.
ounding. "Oh, Israel, thou hast DESTROYED
Myself, but in Me is thy help" at the
,arred gates OF our dungeon, the conqueror
Knocks and the hinges creak and grind at
he swinging open. The famine struck pick
Up the mamma that falls in the wilderness
Drink, oh thirsty soul, and live for 4
,ver,' and the feet that were torn and
leep cut OH tho rocky bride path of sin
now como into smooth place, and the
Try Gldef5 crackla as the painting hart
freaks through to tho water brooks,
md the dark night Of the soul begins
o grow gray with the morning, yea to
'urple ven to fame. from horizon to
iori2on. The batteries of temptation sill
need. Troubles that fought against us
aptured and made TO fight on our side. Not
result OF any toll or trouble on on.
art, but only as result of Looking unto
esus.' but what do you mean BY fI,ook.
ag unto Jesusf" some ono inquiries. mean
attn. What do you mean by faitbY, I
mean believing. "What do YOU mean by
,eiievingf' | mean this: II you promise to
q certain thing for me, and have con-
ldenee in your veracity-if you say you will
ave, me such a thing and need it very
much, l come in confidence that you are an
ne Lord Jesus Christ SAYS: "You are in
ICED OF pardon and life and heaven. you can
ave them Il You come and get them.r
'ou say: II can't come and ask first
am afraid You won't give it to me-"
hen you are unbelieving. But you say: 81
ill come and ask. | know, Lord Jesus,
'hou art in earnest about this matter.
ONE asking. for pardon. Thou hast prom
led to give It to me, Thou wilt giveit to me,
lou hast given it to me-" That is faith.
10 you see 1t yeti 'Oh,n says some one, 81
ant understand it." No man ever did,
.ithout divine help. Faith is the Gift of
Tod. You say.s1,'That throws the RESPONSE
iliiy of my shoulders No. Faith is tho
it OF God, but it comes in answer to prayer.
All over glorious is my Lord
He must be loved and vet adored.
His worth II all the nations knew
Suro the whole earth would love Him, too,
remark again, that we must look 10 Jesus
s an example. Now, mere copyist, you
now. is always failure II painter go to
portfolio or a gallery Of art, however cx-
tisite, to get his idea Of the natural world
'oin these pictures, he will not succeed as
ell RS the artist who starts out and dashes
he dew from the grass and sees the morning
ist as Col built it in the clouds, or poured it
pom the mountain, or kinlled it upon the |
"a People wondered why Turner, the |
'inous English painter, succeeded SO |
ell IN sketching storm upon tho |
,ean. 1t remained q wonder until it |
as found out that several times he had been |
shed to the deck in the midst of a tempest
al then looked out upon the wrath of tho |
"a, and coming home to his studio, lie pic |
ired the tempest. 1t is not the copyist vino
lcceeds but the man who confronts the
atural world. So if man in literary COM
osition resolves that he will initiate the
noothness Of Addison, or the rugged vigor
Carlyle, or the weiredness of Spenser, or
le episramatic style of Ralph Waldo Emer.
N, he will not succeed as well as
tat man who cultures his own ma
lral style. What is true in this
'spect is true in respect to char
ter. There were men who were fascinated
18th Lord Byron. He was lame and wore
very large collar Then there were tens
thousands of men who resolved that thew