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.
'BDooKLYs. Oct. 18.-[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'lfe 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 some city, far from the scene OF
q right to be away. They obtained fur
Tough and they are honestly and righteously
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 off
life the excitements of the old Roman and
Grecian games-thS Use games that sent a man
on q race, with su{h stretch of nerve and
muscle, that sonnet mes when he came up to
the goal, he DROPPED down exhausted. In
deed, history tells that 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
crawlit, not to walk it-but run the race
set before US, looking unto Jesus" and just
.asin the olden time. a 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 at the end offhe Christian race with
the garland OF eternll life, and may God
grant that by his hdy spirit We may SO run
as to obtain.
The distinguished Fellist0n, the chemist,
was asked where hisi laboratory was. and the
ipqulrers expected toEbe shown some large
4partmenC nlied wlthfery expensive apara-
tus; but Welliston odered his servant to
Or1ng on tray Eyeglasses and q retort,
and ne said to the indnirers: THAT is all my
LABORATORY. make tl my experiments with
those" Now, know Ahat there are a great
many who take while library to express
their theology. TheJhave SO many theories
on 10000 things but have to say that all
my theology is combassed in these three
words: Looking urto Jesus" and when
We can understand TIP height and the depth
and the length and tie breadth and the in
fnitv and the intensity of that passage we
can understand ALL
I;remark in the first place, We must look to
Christ as our persoIhl Savior. Now, you
know as well as l that man is only O blasted
ruin of what he once Was. There is not SO
much difference between a vessel coming out of
Liverpool harbor, with pennants flying and
the deck crowded with good cheer, and the
gums 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 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
one man sin entered into the world and death
by sin, and SO death has passed upon all
men for that all have sinned." There is in
Brazil a 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 as it
goes along When 1t has come to the tip end
OF the branch the tree ia dead It's 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 long while
ago, and it comes winding about the BODY
and the mind and soul poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning-killing, killing, killing as it goes
Now, there would be no need of my discourse
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 man who is in
financial trouble and enlarge upon his trou-
hle if have no alienation to Offer 1t ia an
unfair thing Tor me to come to O man who is
sick and enlarge upon his disease if have no
remedy to offer. But have a right to come
to q man in financial distress or physical dis
tress if l have financial reinforcementto offer
or sure cure to propose. Blessed be God that
among the mountains ofour sin there rolls
and reverberates a song of salvation.
Louder than oil the voices of bondage is
the trumpet of Gods deliverance, sounding:
-'Oh. Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself.
but in me isthy help" At the barred gates
Of our dungeon, the conqueror knocks. and
the hinges creak and grind at the swinging
open. The famine struck pick up the mama
that falls in the wilderness and the floods
clap their hands, saying: Drink, oh thirsty
soul, and live forever" and the feet that
were torn and deep cut on the rocky bride
path OF sin now come into smooth place,
and the dry alders crackle as the painting
heart breaks through to the water brook 3
and the dark night Of the soul begins to grow
gray with the morning yea to purple yea to
flame, from horizon to horizon The batter
les of temptation silenced. Troubles that
fought against us captured and made to fi9ht
on our side. Not a. result OF any toll or
trouble on our part, but only as a resell OF
mean by Looking unto Jesus?' someone in
quires. mean faith. what do you mean
by faith?" mean believing. "What do Won
mean by bslisving7" mean this: If You
promise to do certain thing for me, and
have confidence in your veracity-if Won
say you will give me such thing and need
1t very much, como in confidence that you
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