New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-08-07
TALMAGE AT ST. p UTL
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine DeliY.
ers Discourse at the Minne-
sofa Capital,
His Subject Is from the Words of the
Apostle Paul: "BelieYe on the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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Apostle Paul: "BelieYe on the
Lord Jesus Christi.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, July, 2s-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. d., of Brooklyn, N. T.,
preached i'll this city to-day. His subject was
The Earthquake and he took for his text:
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved. Acts xvi, 81. The sermon
was as follows
Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome places
even now; but they were worse in the apos-
/ tollc times. / imagine to-day we are stand
in the Philipiap dungeon. Do you not feel
the chill? Dogyou not hear the groan OF
4 those incarceratedi ones who for ten years
have not seen the sunlight, and the deep sigh
/ of women who remember their fathers house
! and mourn over their wasted estate? Listen
again. 1t is the cough of q consumptive, or
the struggle of one in the nightmare of q
great horror. You listen again and hear
culprit, his chains rafting as he rolls over in
his dreams, and you say: God pity the
prisoner. = But there is another sound
| in that prison. 1t is song of
! joy and gladness. What a place to sing
in! The music comes winding through the
corridors of the prison, and in all the dark
wards the whisper is heard: "What's that?
/ What's that
It is the song of Paul and Silas They can
not sleep. They have been whipped, very
badly whipped. The long gasnes on their
backs are bleeding yet. They lie fiat on the
cold ground, their feet fast in wooden
sockets, and of course they can not Sleep
doing with these people? Why have they
been put in here? Oh, they have been trying
to make the world better. Is that all?
That is all, a pit for Joseph. A lions cave
for Daniel blazing furnace for Shadrach.
Clubs for John Wesley. An anethema for
| Silas. But while we are standing in the
gloom of the Philippian dungeon, and we
hear the mingling voices of sob and groan
and blasphemy and hallelujah, suddenly
an earthquake! The iron bars of the prison
twist, the pillars crack off, esolid masonry
begins to heave, and all the doors swing
open. Thejailer, feeling himselfresponsiblefo for
these prisoners and BELIEVING, in his paganigno-
rance, suicide to be honerable-since Brutus
killed himself and Cato killed himselfand Cas-
sius killed himself-puts his sword to his own
heart, proposing with one strong, keen
thrust to put an end to his excitement and
agitation. But Paul cries out: 'sStop!
Stop! Do thyself no harm. We are all here"
Then 1 see the jailer running through the
dust and amid the ruin of that prison and I
see him throwing himself down at the feet of
these prisoners, crying out: What shall I
! II.
SECT out of this place before there is another
earthquake; put handouts and hopples on
| these other prisoners lest they get awuy?"
No word of thatkind. Hiscompact, thrilling,
tremendous. answer, answer all through
earth and heaven, was: s.Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved"
Well, we have all readlof the earthquake in
Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo, and in Caracas,
but we live in a latitude where severe volcan-
ic disturbances are rare. And yet we have
! seen fifty earthquakes. Here is man who
has been building up a large fortune. His
bid on the money market was left in all the
cities He thinks he has got beyond all an
noying rivalries in trade and he says to him
self: "Now am free and safe from all posi-
BILE perturbation" But in 1887 or in 1857
or in 1873 national panic strikes the
! foundations of the commercial world and
crash goes all that magnificent business
establishment. Here is man who has built
up a very beautiful home. His daughters
! have just come from the seminary with
diplomas of graduation. His sons have
started in life honest, temperate, and pure.
When the evening lights are struck there is a
/ happy an6 unbroken family circle. But there
has been an accident down at Long Branch.
The young man ventured too far out in the
surf The telegraph hurled the terror up to
the city. An earthquake struck under the
foundations..of that beautiful home The
piano closed; the curtains dropped the
domestic hopes and prospects and
expectations. So, my friends, We
have all felt the shaking down of
| some great trouble, and there was time
! when We were as much excited as this man of
the text, and we cried out as he did: what
shall do? What shall do?" The same re-
ply that the apostle made to him is appro
! pirate to us: Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved.
There are some documents of so little i'm
| portance that you do not care to put any
more than your last name under them, or
even your initials, but there are some docu-
ments of so great Importance that you write
! out your full name. So the savior in some
/ parts of the bible is called Lord" and in
other parts Of the bible he is called Jesus
and in other parts of the bible he is called
"Christ," but there might be no mistake
/ about this passage all three names come to-
/ gether-s'the Lord Jesus Christi
Now, who is this being that you want me
| to trust in and believe in? Men sometimes
come to me with credentials and certificates
i OF good character but can not trust them.
/ There is some dishonesty in their looks that
makes me know l shall be cheated if Iconfide
in them. You can not put your hearts con-
fdence in man until you know what stuff
/ he is made Of and am unreasonable today
when stop to ask you who this is that you
want me to trust in? No man would think
] of venturing his life on a vessel going out to
must have the certificate hung amidships
j telling how many tons it carries, and how
4 long ago it was built, and who built it, and
oil about it. And you can not expect me to
risk the cargo of my immortal interests on
board any craft till you tell me what it is
made of and where it was made and what it
is. When, then, / ask you who this is you
want me to trust in you tell me he was a very
attractive person. Contemporary writer's
describe his whole appearance as being re-
splendent. There was no need for Christ to
tell the children to come to him. 'sSufer lit
j tie children to come unto me, was not spok-
en- to the children; it was spoken to the dis
ciples. The children came readily enough
/ without any invitation. No sooner did Jesus
appear than the little ones jumped from their
/ mothers arms, an avalanche of beauty and
love, into his lap. Christ did not ask John
to put his head down on his bosom; John
could not help but put his head there.
/ suppose to look at Christ was to love
him. Oh, how attractive his manner! Why,
when they saw Christ coming along the
street they an into their houses, and they
wrapped up their invalids as quick as they