Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-25
SERMON By TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE ON "TnE
SAVING LOOK"
Full Report of the Sermon Preached in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday, Oct 13-
How the Christian Traveller Should Pro-
coed on His Way.

The subject of his sermon was "1he
Saving Look" and the text Hebrews Vii,
9: Looking unto Jesus DIR. Talmase
said:
In the Christian life we must not 90
slipshod This world was not made fol
us TO rest in. In time of war You will
find around the streets of some CITY. fan
from the scene of conflict, men in sol
diers uniform. who have Il right to be
away. They obtained a furlough and
they are honestly and r!ghteously oft
duty; but l have to tell you in this
Christian conflict, between the first
moment when we enlist under the ban
which We shout the victory, there never
will be single instant in which we will
have right to be Off duty. Paul throws
NIL around this Christian lifethe excite
ment of the old Roman and Grecian
games-those games that sent man on
| a race, with such stretch OF nerve and
muscle, that sometimes when he calAe
up to the goal, he dropped down ex-
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
I apostle, making illusions to those Very
/ games, We are all to run the rice. not to
crawl it, not to walk it--but run the
race set before us, looking into Jesus,
/ and just as in the oldcn times, man
would stand at the end of tie road with
a beautiful garland that vas to be put
around the head OF brow of the success
full racer, SO the Lord Jesus Christ
stands at the end of the Christian race
with the garland of eternallife, and may
| God grant that by his holy spirit We NAV
so run as to obtain.
The distinguished W,lliston, the
| chemist. was asked where lis laboratory
was, and the inquirers expected to be
shown some large apartment filed with
very expensive apparatus; Tut Welliston
ordered his servant to bring on q tray u
few glasses and q retort, ard he said to
the inquirers: That is all MY laboratory
make all my experiments with those. ="
Now, l know that there are Il great many
who take whole library tt express their
| theology. They have so many theories
on ten thousand things; but [ have to
say that all my theology S comprised
in these three words: Looking unto
Jesus, and when we can III derstand the
height and the depth and the length and
the breadth and the infinity and the
immensely of that passage we can I'M
derstand all.
l remark in the first pllce, we must
look to Jesus as our personal Saviour.
Now, you know as we'll as ]. that man is
only d blasted ruin OF what he once was.
There is not SO much difference be-
tween vessel coming out 1f Liverpool
harbor, with penants fving and the deck
crowded with good cheer, and the guns
booming, and that same vessel driving
against Long Island coast, tie drowning
passengers ground to pieces amid the
timbers of q broken up steamer. as
there is between man as he came from
the hands of God. equipped Tor a grand
and glorious voyage, but afterward,
through the pilotage Of the devil,
tossed and driven and crushed, the
coast of the near future strewn with the
fragments of an awful and eternal ship
wreck. Our body is wrong. How easy it
is ransacked Of disease. Our mind is
wrong. How hard it is to remember,
and how easy to forget. The whole ma
ture is disordered, from the crown of
the head to the sole of the foot-wounds,
bruises, purifying sores. All have
slnned and come short of the glory Of
God. BY one man sin entered into
the world and death 10y sin, ana so
death has passed upon all men for that
all have stunned" There is III Brazil Il
simple reason it is so poisonous it kills
almost everything it touches. 1t begins
to wind around the root OF a tree, and
| coming 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 tip end OF the branch the tree is
| dead. Its seeds fall to the ground and
start other plants just as murderous.
And SO it is with sin. 1t is poison
| Gus plant that was planted in our soul a
long while ago. and it comes winding
| about the body and the mind and the
soul, poisoning, poisoning. poisoning
| killing, killing, killing as it goes Now
there would be no need of my discours
| plucking out the plant 1t is a most
consideratc thing for me to come to a
man who is i'll financial trouble and en-
large upon his trouble it l have no al
| deviation to offer. 1t is an unfair thing
TOT me TO come to a man who is sick and
ana enlarge upon his disease If
nave no remedy to offer. But l have Il
right to come to man in financial dis
tress or physical distress if have tinan-
clal reinforcement to offer or a sure
cure to propose. Blessed be God that
| among mountains of our sin there rolls
and reyerLerates a song of salvation.
aot1uef IMAM all the voices OF bondage
is the 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 conqueror knocks and the
hinges creak and grind at the swinging
open. The famine struck pick up
the mamma that falls in the wilderness
and the foods clap their hands, saving:
Drink, oh thirsty soul. and live for
ever" 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 brooks, and
the dark night of the soul begins to
grow gray with the morning, yea to pur-
ple,yea to flame. from horizon to horizon.
The batteries of temptation silenced.
Troubles that fought against us captured
and made to fight OIL our side. Not as a
result of any toll or trouble on our part.
but only as result of Looking unto
Jesus. But what do you mean by
Looking unto Jesns?'" some one in
quires. / mean faith. what do YOU
mean by faith. / mean believing What
doyou mean by believing?" mean this:
Ii you promise to do q certain thing for
me, and have confidence in your vera