The Red Cloud chief., 1889-10-18
THE SAVIOUR OF ALL
Dr.. Ta.mage on the Duties of
Christians.
Christ the Personal saviour of Mankind-A
Great Example For AlI-The Lord Ever
Ready to Help the Disiressed-
GlOries Of Heaven.

mage took his text from Hebrews xii 9
'sLCoking Unto Jesus" The Sci moi wa.
as fol ows:
In the Christian life we must not n
siIp<i cd. This world was not made for u.
to rest in. In time Of var you will FIND
around The streets of some city. far from
the scene If conflict, men in soldiers uni
form v no have a right to lie away. They
obtained fur!ough and they are honestly
n rishteously Of duty; Tut l have t.
tell ~ in this Christian col Il c., between
'he Srst moment when we enlist under the
banner Of Christ and the last m in
which we shout the victory, there neve
will he a single instant in which we will
have a right to be off duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ments of the old Roman and Grecian
games-thO>e games that sent a man on q
race with such q stretch of nerve and
muscle that sometimes " hen he come up
to the goal he dropped down exhausted.
Indeed. history tells US that there were
cases wh.re men came up aid only had
the strength just to grasp the goal and
then fall dead. Now, says this apostle.
making allusion to those very games, we
are all ont TO Iun the race. not to crawl it,
not to walk it-but ''run the race set b.
fore us. looking unto Jesus" and just as
in the Oiden times a man would stand at
the end Of the road with a beautiful gar
,and that vas to he put around the head
or brow of the successful racer, so the
Lord Jesus Christ stands at the end Of lie
Christian race with the garland of eternal
life. and may God grant that by His holy
spirit we may SO Iu1 as to obtain.
The distinguished Welliston, the chem.
ist, was asked where his laboratory was,
ard the iEqIirers expected to be SHOWN
some large apartment filled with expen-
s.ve apparatus, hut Wellis;on ordered his
servant 10 bring IN a tray a few glasses
and a retort, and he said to the inquirers:
That is all my laboratory. make all
my experiments with those" Now, l
know that there are a great many vino
take a whole library to express their the.
OlOgy. They have SO many theories on
ten thousand things, but 1 rave to say
that al 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 infinity and the immensely of
that passage we can understand all.
remark in tho first place. we mus: look
TO Christ as our Saviour. Now. you know
as well as l that man is only u blasted
ruin of what he once was. There is not S,
much difference between q vessel coming
out of Liverpool harbOr. with pennants
flying and the deck crowded with good
cheer and the guns booming, and that
vessel driving against Long Island
coast, b drowning passengers ground 10
pieces amid the timbers of the broken up
as there is between man as he
from the hands of God. equipped
fer a grand and glorious voyage. but
through the pilotage OF the
the coast of the near future
strewn with the fragments Of an
awful and eternal shipwreck. Our
body is wrong. How easily it is ram
Of disease. Our mind is wrong.
How hard it is to remember and how easy
to forget. The whole nature disorderei.
from the crown of the head to tine sole of
the f0ot-wounds. bruises, pu;refying
sores. "A!l have sinped and come shor
Of the glory OF God" by one man sin
into the world and death by SIN,
and SO death has passed upon all men for
that all have sinneI." There is in Brazil
q 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
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 20 it is
with sin. 1t is q poisonous plant that was
in our soul q long while ago. and
it comes winding about the body and the
mind aud the soul, poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning-killing, killing. killing as it
goes. Now, there would be no need Of my
upon this if there were no
way Of plucxing out that plant 1t is a
most incOnsiderate thing for me to come
to a man who 10 m financial trouble aud
upon his trouble if l have no alle-
to offer. 1t is al unfair thing for
me to come to a man who is sick and EN-.
large upon his disease if l have no remedy
TO offer. Blu ] have a right TO come to q
man in financial distress or physical dis.
tress il l have financial reinforcement to
offer or a sure cure to propose.
DIeSScu tc OOu tu0t uAuOuS y
OF cur sin there rolls and reverberates
q song of salvation. Louder than all the
voices of bondage is the trumpet Of Gods
del.verance. sounding: %. Israel, thou
hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy
At the barred gates Of u dun-
geon, the conqueror knocks and The hinges
creas and grind at the swinging open.
The famine struck lick 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 torn and deep cut on the rocky tr.die
path Of sin now come into q smooth place.
md the dry alders crackle as he painting
hart breaks through to tho water brooks
and the dark night of the soul begins to
grow gray with the morning. yea to pur-
pie, yea to flame. from bO 'izon 10 horizon.
The batteries of temptation si!enced.
Troubles that fought against Us captured
md made to fight OF our side. No as result
Of any toll or trouble on our part, but only
Is q result of '1ooking n;O Jesus" But
do mean by looking unto Jesus:
one inquiries mean faith. 'what
YOU M an by faith:" mean believing.
What do you mean by believiDg:" l
mean this: II yo3 promise to do q certain
thing for me, and l have condolences IN
your veracity-if you say you will give
me such q thing and ! need IL very much.
CONS in c ,nidenee that you arc an hon.
man and will do what you say. Now.