The Penn's Grove record., 1889-10-26

Subject : "The Saving Look"
TEXT: Looking unto Jesus."-Hebrews
III.
In the Christian life we must not go slip.
shod This world was not made for US to rest
in In time s war you will find around the
streets Of some city, far from the scene Of
ccnfhce men in soldiers uniform, who have
: right 10 be away. They obtained . fur
lculA and they are honestly and righteouly
"a outy; but / have to tell you that in this
Cxistfan conflict, between the first moment
whom Ne eniigt under the banner Of Christ,
and the last moment in which we shout the
victory, there never win be a single instant
Ia which We will have a right to be off duty.
xAul throws all around this Christian life the
settlements Of the old Roman and Grecian
gme-those games that sent a man on a
and muscle, that sometimes when
b came up b the goal, he dropped
dpsn exhausted. Indeed, history tells
% shat 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 alusion to those very games,
we are all to u the race, not to crawl Il,
not to walk it--but run tho race set before
"a looking unto jesus, :" and just as in the
olden timea q man would stand at the end
OF the road with q beautiful garland that was
TO be put around the hear on brow Of the
successful racer, 50 the Lord Jesus Christ
stands at the end of the Christian race with
the garland Of eternal life, and may God
er..t that by His holy spirit we may SO run
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 appara-
tus; but Welliston ordered his servant TO
bring on a tray q few giasses and q retort,
and be said to the inquirers: 'sThat Is all my
laboratory. ] make all my experiments with
many who takea whole libraryto express their
theology. They have 50 many theories on ten
thousand things; but l nave to say that all
my theologyis comprised in these three words;
Looking unto Jesus" and when we can
understand the height and the depth and the
length and the breadth and the in6nity and
the immensely Of that passage we can under
stand all.
] remark in the first place, we must look to
Christ as our personal Saviour. Now, you
know as well as ], that man Is only a blasted
ruin of what he once was. There Is not SO
much difference between a vessel coming out
Of Liverpool harbor, with pennants flying
and the deck crowded with good cheer, and
the guns booming, and that same vessel driv-
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passengers ground to pieces amid the timbers
Of the broken up steamer, as there is be-
tween man as he came from the hands OF
God, equipped for q grand and glori.
Gus 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
easily 1t is ransacked of disease. Our mind
ID wrong. How hard it is TO remember, and
how easily to forget. The whole nature dis
ordered, from the crown of the head to the
sole Of the ~foot-wounds, bruises, putrefying
sores. "An have sinned and come short Of the
glory Of God.n "By one man sin entered
INTO the world and death by sin
men for that all AVE sinned,d There
10 In Brazil a plant they call the murderer, ,
for the simple reason that 1t is so poisonous il
4 kills almost everything ittonches, 1t begins
to wind around the root of the 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 seed fall
to the ground and start other plants just as
murderous.
And SO it Is with sin. 1t is q poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul a long
| while ago, and It comes winding about the
body and the mind n the soul, poisoning,
poisoning, poisoning-killing, killing. killing
asst goes. Now, there would be no need Of
way Of piucking out that plant. 1t is a most
Iinconsidsrats thing for me to come to q man
who is in financial trouble and enlarge upon
his trouble II ] nave no alienation to offer.
| II IL an unfair thing for me to come to n man
who i sick and enlarge upon his disease
liz have no remedy to offer,
But have a right to come
or physical distress IL I have financial re-en-
~forcement to offer or a sure cure to propose.
Blessed be God that among the mountains Of
our sin there rolls and reyerbrates a song OF
salvation. Louder than all the voices Of
l bondage is the trumpet of Gods deliverance,
sounding. 'tOh, Israel, thou hast destroyed
fhyself, but in Me is thy help" At the
Knocks and the hinges creak and grind al
The swinging open, The famine struck piei
|up the msnns tbet falls in the wilderness
and the foods clap their hands, saying
aDrink. oh thirsty soul, and live for;
eyer.n and the feet that were torn and
deep cut ON the rocky bride path Of SIN
now come into o smooth place, and tn
dry alders crackle as the painting mar
ana the dark night Of the soul Begin
% grow gray with the morning, yea T.
purple, yea to fame, from horizon Z
ko3Son. The batteries Of temptation sill
encod. Troubles that fought against u
captured and made to fight on our side. NO
= . result Of any tod or on oul
pAzt, 6ut only Z: rssuls q skcoang uni.
4 M ysasr "n sO% ~ one me ihddsTss ! mssl
fs}tE AVVHaf do you mean by faiths'
mean beasyine. sfWhst do you mean b,
belisvfnxr Il mean thh, II you promise Z
do aeertain thing for me. and have con
ndence IN your veractty-H you az You VII
give me zach . thing and ! need " yerl
much, / come in confidence that you are al
honest man and viii DO what YOU ~. Nov
need OF pardon and life and heaven. you car
have them Il you come and ,ees them; !
/ am afraid You won't give II to me-
Thsn you are unbslieving. But you say: y
VIII come and ask. ! know, Lord Jesus
Thou art In esrnest about this matter.
come aaking for pardon. Thou mast prom
thou hast given il TO me-. That is faith
| Do you scott YETI .'Oh,n says some one. 9.
can't understand it," No man ever did
! without divine help. Faith Is the gift Of
1 God. You say: ssThat throws tho rssponsi
fSlity of my shoulders-s No. Faith 10 TIN
gift Of God, but it comes in answer to prayer
AZ over gio,ioas !: ny Lord
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8is Eorfh il an the nations knew,
stss ~ whole earth would love Him. too.
remark again, that we must look to Jesui
| as an example. Nov. o mere eopytsk yot
know, Is always q failure. II painter go Il
a portfolio or q gallery Of art however OK
quisite, to get his idea Of the natural work
| from these pictureS, ha will not succeed a.
well as the artist who starts out and dashcs
/ the dew from the grass n sees the morning
just as God built it in the clouds, or poured il
! upon the mountain, or hndlsd it upon tx
SEA People wondered why Turner tn'
lannon's English painter, succeeded y
we'll in sketching a storm upon "a,
ocean. II remained a wonder upth I
was found out that several times be had bsei
iashed to the deck in the midst OF . tempes
and then looked out upon the wrath of th'
SEA and coming home to his studio, he pic
zrred the tempest. II is not the copyist wh'
succeeds but the man who confronts tn
natural world. So IL q man In literary com
position resolves that he will initiate th'
nmootfness Of Addison, Or the rugged YigoI
Of Carlyle. or the weiredness Of Sponsor, o.
the 81 c style Of Ralph Waldo Elmer
son, g. ~nl not succeed as well q
that man who cultures his own pa
tural style. What Is trie in thi
respect Is true in respect to char
acter. There were men who were fascinate'
with Lord Byron. He was lame and wor
4 very large collar. Then ther WeFo ten