Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-24
THE SAVIOUR OF ALL.
Dr.. Talmage on the Duties Of
Christians.
Christ the Personal Saviour of Mankind-A
Great Example For AII-The Lord Ever
Ready to Help the Distressed
GIories of Heaven.


mage took his text from Hebrews xii 2;
Looking Unto Jesus" The sermon was
as fol ows:
In the Christian life we must not go
slipsbod. This world was not made for Us
to rest in. In time of war you will find
around The streets of some city, far from
the scene of conflict men in soldiers uni
form W no have a right to be away. They
obtained furlough and they are honestly
and rigbteously of duty; tut have to
tell you in this Christian conflict, between
The first moment when we enlist under the
banner of Christ and the last moment in
which we shout the victory, there never
will be single instant in which we will
have right to be of 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 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
the strength just to grasp the goal and
then fall dead. Now, says this apostle,
making ailusion to those very games, we
are all out to run the race. not to crawl it,
not 10 walk it-but run the race set be
fore US. looking unto Jesus" and just as
in the o;den times a man would stand at
the end of the road with a beautiful gar
land that as 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 holy
spirit We may so run as to obtain.
The distinguished WellistOn, the chem
Isl, was asked where his laboratory was,
and the inquiTers expected to be SHOWN
some large apartment flied with expen-
sive apparatus, but Welliston ordered his
servant 10 bring on a tray few glasses
and a retOrt and he said to the inquirers /:
That is all my laboratory. l 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 l have to say
that al 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 infnity and the immensely of
that passage we can understand all.
remark in the first place we must look
10 Christ as our Saviour. Now, you know
as well as / that man is only a blasted
ruin of what he once was. There is not 50
much difference between a vessel coming
out of Liverpool harbor, with remnants
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 aud 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 ran
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, puirefying
sores. "All have siuDed and come snort
Of the glory OF God" by one man sin
sntered into the world and death by sin,
and so death has passed upon all men for
that all have SHINE L" 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 poisonou; plant that was
planted in our soul a long while ago, and
u comes winding about the body and the
mind and the soul, poisoning, poisoning,
DOisoning-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 a
most inconsiderate thing for me to come
to a man who is N financial trouble aud
enlarge upol his trouble if l have no allie
Walton TO offer. 1t is an unfair thing for
me TO come to a 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 l have financial reinforcement TO
offer or a sure cure TO propose.
Blessed lie God that among the mount
aims OF our sin there rolls and reverberates
a song of salvaI ion. Louder than all the
voices of bondage is the trumpet of Gods
deliyerRnce, sounding: 20, Israel, thou
hast destroyed thvSelf, but in me is thy
help" At the barred gates of our dun
geon, the conquer II knocks and The hinges
creak and g~ind at the swinging open.
The famine struck pick up the mama that
falls in the wilderness and the floods clap
the hands, saying: Drink . thirsty
soul and live forever" and the feet that
were tern and deep cut on the rocky bride
path OF sin now come into a smooth place,
and the dry alders crsckle as the painting
hart freaks 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 fame, from ho.iZon TO horizon.
The batteries of temptation silenced.
Troubles that fought against US captured
and made to fight on our side. Not as aresult
of any toll or troub.s on our part but only
as result of looking unto Jesus" But
what do mean by looking unto Jesus? I"
some one inquiries. / mean faith. what
do you mean by faith?" mean believing.
What do you mean by believingW l
mean this: IL you promise to do a certain
thing for me, and 1 have confidence in
your verac;ty-if you say you will give
me such a thing and need it very much
I come in confidence that you are an hon.
est man and will do what you say. Now,
the Lord, Jesus Christ says: ''You are in
need Of pardon aud life and Heaven, you
can have them if you come and get them"
You say: al can't come and ask first l
am afraid you won't give it to me-" Then
you are unbelieving. But you say: i
will come and ask. l know. Lord Jesus.
Thou art in earnest about this matter. l
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