Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-08-04
BELIEVE AND BE SAVED.
SUBJECT OF SERMON BY REV. DR..
TALMAGs SUNDAY, JULY %.

ApPre'iaiivv Congregation Fun Text OF
Memorable mud Interesting Discourse.
st PAIL, Mimi. July IS The Rev.
I. De Via Nllmage, ID. d., of Brook
lyn, y y, preached in this city tutlay.
His subject was THE ~EartllVuake.'
aud lr Took for his test. Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved Acts xvi, 81. The sermon
WAS as follows;
Jmls are lark, dull, damp, loath.
SOL places ven now; but they were
worse iH Inc apustulic times. 1 imagine
today wc are standing in the Philip
pan dungeon Do YOU not feel the
chilli Do you not hear the groan Of
those mcaIrerated ones who for ten
years have not seen the sunlight. and
the deep sigh of women who remem.
Der their fathers house aud mourn
over their wasted estatcl Listen again.
II is the cough of a consumptive, or
the struggle Of one in the nightmare
Of a great horror. You listen again
and hear a culprit, his chains rafting
as he rolls over in his dreams, and
you say, God pity the prisoner" But
there is another sound il that prison.
II is a song Of JOY and gladness.
What a place TO sing inl Tie music
m winding through the corridors
OF the prison, and in all the dark
wards the whisper is heard: What's
thati What's thatS"
THE SONG OF PAUL AND sILAs.
tG thu Snnne of Dn,.l nn1 S.1aa
They cannot sleep. They have been
whipped, very badly whipped. The
long gashes on their backs are bleed
ing yet. They lie fat on the cold
ground, their feet fast in wooden sock
cts. and Of course they cannot sleep.
But they can sing. Jailer, what are
you doing with these peoplel Why
have they been put in here7 Oh, they
have been trying 10 make the world
better. Is hat all2 That is all. A
pit for Joseph. Alion's cave for Dan
lei. A blazing furnace for Shadrach.
Clubs for John Wesley. An anathe-
ma for Philip Melaret hon. Adungeon
for Paul and Silas. But while we are
standing in the gloom Of the Philip
plan dungeon, and we hear the ping-
ling voices of sob and groan ann bias
phemy and hallelujah, suddenly an
earthquakel Tie iron bars of the
prison twist, the pillars crack
off, the solid masonry begins TO heave
and all the doors swing open. The
jailer, feeling himself responsible for
these prisoners, and believing. in his
pagan ignorance, suicide TO be honor
able-since Brutus killed himself, and
Cato killed himself, and Cassius killed
himself-puts his sword 10 his own
heart, proposing with one strong, keen
thrust 10 put an end to his excitement
and agitation. BAIT Paul cries out;
Stop! Stopl Do thyself no harm.
We are all here" Then | see the jailer
running through the dust and amid
the ruin of that prison, and | see him
throwing himself down at the feet of
these prisoners, crying out: What
shall / doi What shall | dot" Did
Paul answer: Get out of this place
before there is another earthquake;
put handouts and hopples on these
other prisoners, lest they get awayf"
No word Of that kind. His compact,
thrilling, tremendous answer, an.
swer memorable all through earth
and heaven, was: Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved" Well, we have all read of
the earthquake in Lisbon, in Lima, in
Aleppo and in Caracas, but we live
in a latitude where severe volcanic
disturbances are rare. And yet we
have seen fifty earthquakes. Here is
a man who has been building up a
large fortune. His bid on the money
market was felt IN all the cities. He
thinks he has got beyondall annoying
rivalries in trade, and he SAYS TO him.
self, NOW ! am free and safe from all
possible perturbation But IN 1881
or in 1851 or IN 1873 a national panic
strikes the foundations Of the com.
mercial world, and crashl goes all
that magnificent business establish.
ment Here Is a man who has built
ups a very beautiful home. Ills
daughters have just come from the
seminary with diplomas of gradua
ton. His sons have started IN life,
honest, temperate and pure. When
the evening lights are struck. there is
a happy and unbrUken family circle
But there has been an accident down
at Long Branch. The young man
venturpd too far out in the surf. The
telegraph hurled the terror up 10 the
city. An earthquake struck underline
foundations Of that beautiful home.
The piano closed the curtains dropped;
the laughter hushed. Crash 90 all
those domestic hopes and prospects
and expectations. So, my friends, we
have all felt the shaking down of some
great trouble, and there was a time
when we were as much excited as this
man Of the text, and we cried out as
he did, what shall | dot What shall
dor The same reply that the apos-
tie made 10 him is appropriate TO us;
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved"
There are some documents OF so
little importance that you do not care
10 put any more than your last name
under them, or eve your initials;
but there are some documents Of SO
great importance that you write out
your full name. So the Saviour in
some parts of the Bible is called
Lord" and in other parts Of the
Bible he is called Jesus" and i'm
other parts Of the Bible he is called
"Christ;" but that there might be
no mistake about this passage, all
three names come together-'The
Lord Jesus Christ