The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-18
TIE SAVING LOOK.
Rev, T. De Witt Talmage's Intended
Discourse at the Taber nacle.

Rev, T. De Witt Talmage's Intended
Discourse at the Taber nacle.
;BDooKLYN, Oct. 13.-[Special. THE de-
struction of the Brooklyn Tabernacle by fire
at an early hour this morning prevented the
usual Sunday services. The manuscript OF
the following sermon was handed to the re-
porters who called upon Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage at his home. DR.. Talmage said it
was the discourse he intended to deliver this
morning, aud requested that It be printed
with this explanation:
The subject of his sermon was 1.-THE Saving
Look" and the text Hebrews xii, 3: "Look-
ing unto Jesus"
In the Christain.life We must not go slip
shod. This world was not made for us to
rest in. In time Of war you will find around
the streets Of come city, far from the scene OF
conflict, men in soldiers uniform, who have
Tough and they are honestly and righteousiy
off duty; but have to tell you that 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 newer will be single
instant in which we will have right to be OF
duty. Paul throsys oil around this Christian
life the excitements of the old Roman and
Grecian games-thtse games that sent man
on a race, with sui stretch of nerve and
muscle, that sometime when he came up TO
the goal, he DROPPED down exhausted. In
deed, history tells lat there werecases where
men came up and tnly had strength just to
grasp the goal and then fall dead. Now. says
this apostle, making allusion to those very
games, we are all tdrun the race, but not to
crawl.it, not to walk it-but run the race
set before us, looking unto Jesus and just
asin the olden tim&. man would stand at
the end of the road With beautiful garland
that was to be put around the head or brow
ofthe successful racer SO the Lord Jesus Christ
stands ut the end ofthe Christian race with
the garland of eternkl Iife and may God
grant that by his hdy spirit We may SO run
as to obtain.
The distinguished Eeliston, the chemist.
was asked where hisiAb0ratOry was, and the
1pQu1rerS expected tOlbe shown some large
apartment nlled withEery expensive apara-
tus; but Welhston Odered his servant to
bring on tray Eyeglasses and O retort,
and he said to the nd1irers: ''That is all my
laboratory. make ln my experiments with
those" Now, knoTfhat there are q great
many who take q while library to express
their theology. TheJhave SO many theories
on 5000 things but have to soy that all
my theology is combassed in these three
words: 'LoOking unto Jesus and when
We can understand tfk height and the depth
and the length and tie breadth and the in
dnitv and the intensity of that passage we
can understand all.
Iiremark in the firsdplaee, We must look to
Christ as our persorhl Savior. Now, You
know as we'll as that man is only q blasted
ruin of what he once Was. There is, not 80
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 same vessel driving
nd
passengers ground to pieces amid the timber
OF the broken up steamer, as there is between
man as he came from the hands OF God,
equipped for grand and glorious voyage:
but afterward, through the pilotage Of the
devil, tossed and driven and crushed, the
coast OF the new future strewn with the frag-
ments of an awful and eternal shipwreck Our
body is wrong. How easily il is ransacked
Of disease. Our mind is wrong. How hard
1T is to remember, and how easy to forget.
The whole nature disordered, from the crown
of the head to the sole of the foot-w ounds,
bruises, putrefying sores. GAN have sinned
and come short OF the glory Of God" BY
by sin, and SO death has passed upon all
men for that all have sinned." 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 roots of the tree, and
coming up to the branches reaches out to the
ends of the branches, killing the tree az it
goes along. When 1t has come to the tip end
OF the branch the tree il dead. Its seeds fall
to the ground and start other plants Just as
murderous
And so tits with sin. tits poisonous plant
that was planted in our soul a long while
ago, and it comes winding about the body
poisoning killing, killing, killing as it goes.
Now, there would be no need of my discours-
ing upon this if there were NO way of pluck
ing out that plant. 1t is q most inconsider-
ate thing for me to come to a man who is in
financial trouble and enlarge upon his trou-
hle if have no alienation to offer. 1t is an
unfair thing Tor me to come to man who is
sick and enlarge upon his diseased l have no
remedy to offer. But have right to con-
to a man in financial distress or phyei
tress if / have financial rsinforcemMR1
ora sure cure to propose. Blessed IT,
among the mountains ofour sin
and reverberates song of
Louder than all the voices of -
the trumpet of Gods deliverance,
-sOh Israel, thou hast destroy 01&
but in me is thy help" At the bar
OF our dungeon, the conqueror knSS
the hinges creak and grind at the94l
open The famine struck pick up 4
that falls in the wilderness and IL
clap their hands, saying: Drink, g.
soul, and live forever" and the {
were torn and deep cut on the roc1
path of sin now come into q smoot
and the dry alders crackle as the
heart breaks through to the water
and the dark night Of the soul begins
gray with the morning, yea to purple
flame, from horizon to horizon. The
les Of temptation si'enced. Trouble
fought against IN captured and made
on our side. Not as a result OF any
trouble on our part, but only as a -
"Looking unto Jesus" "But what q
mean by Looking unto Jesus?' some<
quires. mean faith. what do you
BY faith?" mean believing. "Whatd
mean by belisving7" mean this:
promise to do certain thing for
have confidence in your veracity
say you will give me such o thing AMI
it very much, come in confidence Il
are an honest man and win do what =
Now, the Lord Jesus Christ says: &c
in need of narfl0n and liEa md haavI