The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-23
THE SAVING 1oOK.,-
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
N.Y. mage D., D.
chr'.t OUT S.r.otAl s.-,srr. an E..mp,s,
ssympathizsr. and I. Final Rescue
-Paul's Advice to " Run the
Race Before Us, Looking
.-t Unto Jesus"

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The subject of DR.. Talmage's recent
discourse was "The Saving Look" and
his text Hebrews xii, q: "Look unto
Jesus" Following is the sermon:
In the Christian life we must not 60
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
from the scene Of conflict, men in SOL
dier's uniform, who have right to be
away. They obtained furlOugh and
they are honestly and righteously off
duty; but have to tell you that in this
Christian conflict, between the first mo-
ment when we enlist under the banner of
Christ, and the flast moment in which
we shout the victory, there never
will be single instant in which we will
have right to be off duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ments of the old Roman and Grecian
games-those that sent man on race,
with such stretch of nerve and muscle,
that sometimes when he came up to the
goal, he dropped down exhausted In
deed history tells us that there were cases
where men came up and and only had
strength inst to CRASH the goal and then
fall dead. Now. saws this apostle. MAX
inc aflusion to those yerv games, we are
ali to RIM the race. not to crawl it, not
to walk it-but ssrun the race set before
us. looking unto Jesus" and lust as in
the older times, man would stand at
the end of the road with.a beautiful
| garland that wassto be put Nouud head
or brow Oh the successful ,racd, so the
Lord Jesus Christ stands at the end of
the Christian race with the garland of
His holy spirit we may SO run as to OBJ
tain. ut ~ zsa g
! The / distinguished WelliSton, /, the
chemist, was asked where his laboratory
was, and the inqhirers ,e &pected 10 be
shown some large APARTMENT filed with
very expensive apparatus; but Wells
ton ordered his servant to bring on a
tray few glasses and retort, and he
said to the inouirers: 'That is all nv
laboratory. make all nv experiments
with those" Now, l .lSndwythht tf1ere
are great many who. taka a. whoiefli-
brary to express their theology. They
have so MANY theories on ten Thousand
things; but | have to say that all nv
theology is compassed in these three
words: 'Looking unto Jesus" and when
we can understand the heightiand the
depth and the length and the breadth
and the inanity and the immensity of
that passage we can understand all.
remark in the first nlace we mist
look to Christ as our personal Saviour.
| Now. Won know as we'll as T that man is
onlv a blasted ruin Of what he once was
| There il NOT so.rnuch difference between
a vessel coming ont 81 T5vennool harhor
with nennanE living. and the decl,
| crowded with good cheer. and the pnns
booming, and that same vessel DRIVING
against Long Island coast. the DROWNING
passengers ground to pieces amid the
timbers of the broken uu steamer as
there is between man as he came from
the hands of God, equipped for 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 shipwreck. Our
body is wrong. How easily it is ran
sacked Of disease. Our mind is wrong.
How hard it is to remember. and how
easy to forget. The whole nature dis
ordered, from the head to the sole of the
foot-wounds, bruises. putrefying sores.
GAIL have sinned and come short of the
glory of Cod" ''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 ia in Rrazil a nlant
thew call the ssmurderer." for the simple
reason that it ia so poisonous it kills al
most everything it touches. II begins to
wind around the root of the tree. and
coming I'M to the branches reach ont to
the end Of the branches. killing the tree
as it goes along. When it comes to the
tin end of the branch the tree is dead.
Its seeds fall to the ground and start
other plants lust as murderous.
And 50 If is with sin II is no;son-
ous nIant that was niantad in orr Son1 a
lonp While aro and II COMES ,rind;n ~
abont the hodv and tho mind and ths
soul noisoniny ro;son;rr no;son;rmN
Lill;nr Liii;nT LiIi;nr nc il rnos Nen,
there would he ny need of mS d;scon U~'
inc mon th;s IL tbare wara No NOV os
ninclinr ont that niant II IL most t
inconsiderate thing for mo 70 como 70 a
man who is in financial tronb,e and ON.
largo mon b;s trouhlo IL boyo No ,11n-
Walton to Offer II ia an Unfair thin,
for me to come to a man who is sick and
{enlarpe mon his disease If 7 have M
remedy tn offer Rnt have a r;cbt ~
come to man in financial d;stress on
physical distress If I have financial 70.
Enforcement to offar nv n sure cura ~
nronose blessed he Cod that amono
the mountains NJ onr sin tbora roiiS onS
reverberates !. SONG Of sa,yafion Tond.
or than nil the voices of bondare 10 tho
trum Net Of Iod's delivarance sound;rr,
20 Israel. thou hast destrovN tbvsa1f
but in me ia thv helm" Al The barred