Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-26

BROOKLYN, Oct. 13.-At the Taber-
nacle today, after expounding appro-
pirate passages OF Scripture, the Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, ID. D., gave out
the hymn:
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved q wretch like me;
once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now l see.
The subject Of his sermon was 1.-THE
Saving Look" and the text Hebrews
xii, 2: Looking unto Jesus" DR.. Tai
mage said:
In the Christian life we must not go
slipshod. This world was not made for
us to rest in. In time Of war you will
find around the streets OF some city, far
away from the scene of conflict, men In
soldiers uniform, who have a right to
be away. They obtained q furlough
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 ban
ner of Christ, and the last moment in
which we shout the victory, there never
will be a single instant in which we will
have a 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
q race with such q stretch Of nerve and
muscle, that sometimes when he came
up to the goal he dropped down X
hausted. Indeed, history tells US that
there were cases where men came up
and only had strength just to grasp the
goal and then fall dead. Now, says
this apostle, making allusion to those
very games, we are all to run tho race,
not TO crawl it, not TO walk it-but run
the race set before US, looking unto
Jesus" and just as in the olden times a
man would stand at the end of the road
with a beautiful garland that was to be
PIT around the head or brow of the sue
cessful 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
chemist, was asked where his laboratory
was, and the inquirers expected to be
shown some large apartment filled with
very expensive apparatus; but Welliston
ordered his servant to bring on a tray a
few glasses and a retort, and Ire said to
the inquirers: THAT Is all my labora-
tory. make all my experiments with
those" Now, / know that there are q
great many who take a whole library to
express their theology. They have SO
many theories on 10000 things; but l
have to say that all my theology is com
passed in these three words: sLooking
unto Jesus" and when we can under
stand the height and the depth and the
length and the breadth and the infnity
and the ~immensity Of that passage we
can understand all.
i remark in the first place, we must
o to Christ as Il personal Saviour.
Now, you know as we'll as l that man is
only q blasted ruin of what he once was.
There Is not SO much difference be-
tween = vessel coming out of Liverpool
harbor, with pennants flying and the
deck crowded with good cheer, and the
run booming, and that same vessel
,.dving against Long Island coast, the
d ,wning passengers ground to
u. ces amid the timbers of the broken
up steamer, a there Is between
man as he came from the hands of God,
equipped for a grand and glorious voy-
age, but afterward, through the pilot
age OF the devil, tossed and driven and
crushed, the coast Of the near future
strewn with the fragmenteof an awful
and eternal shipwreck. Our body Is
wrong. How easily 1t is ransacked Of
disease. Oar mind is wrong. How
hard 1t is to remember, and how easy to
forget. The whole nature d~isordered,
from the crown Of the head to the sole
of the foot-wounds, bruises, putrefy-
ing sores. "All 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
IS n 80 poisonous IL kills almost every
thing a touches. II begins to wind
arOund the root of the tree, and coming
up to the branches reaches OUT 10 the
ends Of the branches, killing the tree as
IL goes along. When IL has come Il
he tip end Of the branch the tree Is
dead. Its seeds fall to the ground and
start other plants just ~ murderOus.
And 20 it IL with sin. 1t is q poison
Gus plant that was planted In our soul .
long while ago. and 1t comes winding
about the body and the mind and the
soul, poisoning, poisoning, poisoning-
killing, killing, killing as IL goes. Now,
there would DO no need Of my discourse
ing upon this II there were no way of
plucking out that plant It Is q most
inconsidorute thing for me to come to .
man who II In financial trouble II / have
NO alienation to Offer. 1t II m un-
fair thing for me TO come to . an who
Il sick and enlarge upon his disease II /
have no remedy TO offer. But ! have q
right to come to : man In financial dis
tress or physical distress II 1 have flnan-
cial reinforcement to offer or o sure
: 70 propose. Blessed be God that
among the mountains Of our sin the re
rolls and roverberAtes . song Of saliva
ton. Louder than all the voices Of
bondage Is tho trumpet Of Gods deliv-
erance, sounding: "Oh, Israel. thou
hast destroyed myself, but in me Is thy
help" At the barred gates Of our dun
geon the oonqueror knocks and the
Gtumo~ ~r~ak And wv3n1 "A The