The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-14
LOOKING UNTO JESUS.
TALMAGRs SERMON THAT WAS
CUT OFF BY FIRE.

Duty.
- BROOKLYN, ocr. 1S.-Although DR..
Ialmage was prevented from pre- lehin,
to-day owing to the destruction Of the
Tabernacle by fire. he gave the MORNING
NEWS correspondent the sermon he intendad
TO deliver.
The subject of the sermon was 'eThe Saw
ing Look" and the text Hebrews xii Q.
Looking unto Jesus" DR.. Talmage said.
In the christian life we must not 90 slin-
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 conflict, men in soldiers uniform. who
nave a right to be away. They obt lined !.
iurlougn and they ore honestly and right-
eousiy on duty; bat l have to tell YOU
the first moment when wa anIiSk
under the banner of Christ and
the last moment ia which wa
shout the victory, there never will be =
single instance in which we will have a
right to be off duty. Paul throws all around
TINS christian life the excitsments of toe old
Roma and Grecian games-those games
1haI sent a man on race with such a
stretch OF nerve and muscle that Sometimes
when he came up to the goal he dronned
down exhausted. Indeed history tells ux
that there were cases waere men came mr.,
ana only had strength lust to prasn the
goal and then fall dead. Now. saws this
apostle, making allusion to those very
games, we are all to run the race. not to
crawl II, not to walk it-but "run the raca
SCI Delore Us, looking unto Jesus;' and lust
as In the olden times, a man would stand at
the end OF the road with beautiful gar.
land that was to be put around the mead or
brow OF the successful racer, so the Lord
Jesus Christ stands at the end of the
chrlstan race with the garland of eternal
life, and may God grant that by mis- hoIv
spirit we may so run rs to obtain.
The distinguished Welston, the chemist.
was asked where his laboratory was, and
the inquirers expected to be shown soua
large apartment filed with very expensive
apparatus; but Welliston ordered his serv.
ant to bring on tray few glasses and a
retort, and he said to the inquirers: THAT
is all my laboratory. make all nv exner-
iments with those" Now, know that there
are great many who take a whole library
to express their theology. They have 50
many theories on ten thousand things: but
nave TO say that all my theology Is COM
passed in these words: "Looking untoi
Jesus" and when We can understand the
hight and the depth and the length and the
breadth and the inhnity and the i'm mensisv
OF that passage we can understand all.
remark in the first place, we must IooIrl
to Christ as our personal Savior. Now
you Know az well as that man is only a.
blasted ruin of what he once was. There iel
not so much difference between a vessel
coming out OF Liverpool harbor, with pen-l
nants flying and the deck crowded with
good cheer, and the guns booming. AMI
that same vessel driving against Long
Island coast, the drowning passenpersl
ground to pieces amid the timbers Of thal
broken up steamer, as there is betweeni
man as he came from the hands OF
tod, equipped for grand and glorious
voyage, but afterward, through the piIo age4
OF the devil, tossed and driven and crushed 4
the coast of the near future strewn with the
fragments OF an awful and eternal ship
wreck Our body il wrong. How easily III
is ransacked of disease. Our mind is
wrong. How hard 1t Is to remember. and
how easy to forget. The whole nature dis!
ordered, from the crown Of the head to the
sole OF the foot-wounds bruises, putre-
Tying sores IAN have sinned and come
short OF the glory of God" "By one man
sin entered into the world and death by
sin, and 30 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 root of the tree, and COM
ing 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 tin
end Of the branch sthe tree is dead. ia
seeds fall to the ground and start other
plants just as murderous.
And so 1t is with SIM 1t is a poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul a long
while ago, and 1t comes winding about the
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning.
poisoni &, poisoning-kllling, killing, kill
irg as it goes. Now, there would be no
need Of my discoursing upon this If there
were no way OF plucking out that plant. It
is most inconsiderate thing for me to
come to man who is in financial troupls
and enlarge upon his trouble if l have no
alleviation to offer. 1t is an unfair thing
for me to come to man who is sick and
enlarge upon his disease If I have no
remedy to offer. But / have a right
to come TO a man in financial distress or
physical distress If / have financial re-
enforcement to offer or a sure cure to pro-
pose. Blessed be God that am ing the
mountains OF our sin there rolls and re-
verberates song of salvation. Louder
than all the voices Of bondage is the trumpet
Of Gods deliverance, sounding: 80, Israel,
thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me IS
thy help.n At the barred gates of our
dungeon, the conqueror knocks aad the
hinges creak aud grind at the swing
ing open, The famine struck pick up
the mamma that falls in the wilderness
and the floods clap their hands. sayings
"Drink, o thirsty soul, and live for
ever!" and the feet that were torn and
deep cut on the rocky briile path of sin now
come into a smooth place, and the dry alders
crackle as the painting heart breaks through
to the water brooks, and the dark night OF
the soul begins to. grow gray with the morn
ing, yea TO purpA yea to hame, from hori-
zon to horizon. The batteries Of temptation
silenced. Troubles that fought ag inst us
captured and made to fight on our side.
Not as result of any toll or trouble on our
part, but only as result Of Looking
unto Jesus.D "But what do you mean
by Looking unto Jesus'9n some one in
quires. l mean faith. "What do you mean
by faithP' mem believing. ''What do
you mean by believingP 1 mean this: IL
you promise to do certain thing for me,
and / have confidence In your We acity-if
you say you will give me such thing andI
need IL very much, / come IN confidence
that you are an honest man and win do
what you say. Now, the Lord Jesus
Christ says: "You are in need OF
pardon aud life and heaven; you
can have them if you come and get them"
You say: 81 can't come aud ask first.
am afraid you won't give 1t TO men Then
you are unbelieving. But you say: II will
come and ask. | know, Lord Jesus. thou
art IN earnest about this matter. / come
a,king for pardon. Thou hast promised to