The Penn's Grove record., 1889-11-23
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject : 81 Must Also See Ron-e."N
Preached at Rome, Italy.

Subject : 81 Must Also q hOu-e.
Preached at Rome, Italy.
TEXT, ~ ~,-H also sss Rom<.' Acta
10, 81.
Here d Paurs itinerary. He was . travel
ing or circuit preacher. He had been mobbed
and insulted, and the more good he Lid the
worse the world treated him. But he went
right On. Now he proposes to 60 to Jerusa-
lem, and says After that / must also see
Rome Why did he want to visit this Won;
derful city in which am to-day permitted
10 standf ITO preach the GospelIb you an
swer. No doubt Of II, but there wGe other
reasons why he wanted to zee Rome. A man
Of Paurs intelligence and classic taste had
fifty other reasons for wanting to SEQ it.
Your Colosseum was at that time In process
Of erection, and he wanted to see it. The
the eloquent apostle wanted to see that
building IN which ~eloquence had so
often Numbered and wept Over the
Appian Way the triumphal procession had
already marched for hundreds of years, and
he wanted to see that. The Temple Of Sat.
turn was alreedyan antiquity, and he wanted
to sec that. The architecture Of the world
places associated with the triumphs, the
cruelties, the disasters, the wars the mill
fary genius, the poetic and the rhetorical
anne Of this great city, he wanted TO see
hem. A man like Paul, 50 many sided, 50
sympathetic, 20 emotional, SO full Of analogy,
could not have been Indifferent to the antiq-
uities and the splendors which move every
rightly organized human being. And with
what thrill of interest he walked these
streets those only VINO for the first time like
ourselves enter Rome can imagine. II the
inhabitantso of all Christendom were gathered
into ~ plain, and 1t were put TO them which
two cities they would above all others wish to
see, the vast majority of them would vote
Jerusalem and Rome. So we can understand
something of the record Of my text and its
surroundings when it says Paul proposed in
the spirit when he had passed through Mace
donna and Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying.
AFTER that I must also see Rome.n As some
Of you are aware, with my family and only
for the purpose Of what we can learn and the
tine. Since leaving Brooklyn, N. Y, this 10
the first place We have stopped. Intermedi
ate cities are attractive. but we have visited
them In Other years and we hastened on, for
Tsaid before starting that while / wa going
70 - Jerusalem / must also - Rome
Why do T wsnb TO 80 NJ Because I want,
BY visiting regions associated with the
my faith in Christianity confirmed.
There ara those who win 60 through large
expenditure to have their faith weakened.
In my native land l have known persons of
very limited means to pay fifty cent? or .
dollar to hear . lecturer prove that our
Christian religion 10 . myth . dream, a
cheat, lie. On the contrary, Iwil give all
the Thousands Of dollars that this journey Of
family wiz cost to have additional evil
dence that ON Christian religion ID an au-
thenticAted grandeur, . solemn, q joyous, .
rapturous, . s~tupendouA . magnificent fact.
30 ! want ~ Rome want you to show
No tho plee4e cnnnected Nth Apostolic
minist<{. Itase hard that = your city
ma ma e 11sd n ~ csss1 spossiss u s1msrsa
eanse tells me that peopxe Do nct die for the
sake OF falsehood. They may prac-
tics 4 deception for purposes Ok gain,
but put tbs sword to their heart
Or Arrange The halter around thslr neck, or
kind: The mn around their fest and they
would ~ my lie b worth more than any
have b this city Paul's dungeon. Show It to
must - Rome also. While I am IN
terested In this city because Of her rulers or
her eatsens who ara mighty In history for
virture ~ vice q talentA Romuius and
calssk and cincinnatuA and Vsspasian,
and GoriohnuA and Brnfaa and z hundred
ceeding b~rightneas, or black with the deepest
dye most Of al am I Interested In this city
bscasse H. prsachsr Of MsrshiuL and the de-
der Of 'Agrfppa, and the hero Of the ship
wrecked vesss In the breakers Of Melita, and
the man VIII hAld higher than any one that
the world ever saw the torch Of Resurrection,
lived, and preschsd, and was m.ssscred here.
memory Unjust a6o 80 Rome.
But my tsxt suggests that in Paul there
was the tnquizitive and curious spirit. Had
my text only meant that be wanted to preach
here he would have said %. Indeed, in
another plara, hedsclarsd: II am ready to
preach the Gospel 10 you who are at Rome
This man who had ben under 81. Gsrnaiisei
bad nj lack Of phrassocgy, and was used to
spying exactly what he meant and he said 81
must also ~ Roma" There q such q thing
- Christisn curiosity. Paul had 1t and some
Of US have IT. About other peoples business
I have no curiosity. About all that can con
the WORKS. salvation and the souls future
happiness lam fun Of an all absorbing. ali
compelling curiosity. Paul had q great curl
osity about the nsxt world. and 20
have we. / hope some day. by the
Rrace Of God, 70 70 over and see for
myself; but notnow. No wsll man, NO pros,
the time Win come 1 think. when I shall 20
over. I want to IS what thew do there. and
I want 10 SO how they do Il. I do not want
to be looking throurk &c r.tes aisr Tor
ever. Iwant them 10 swing wide open.
There are ten thoumnd THING 1 want ~.
plained-about ron. about myself. about the
eoyernment Of this world about 6od about
everything. VIZ start IN q plain bath of
what we know, and In . minute come up
I wonder how It looks over theraL some
body tslls ma Il n Hks 4 uayed citv-naved
with gold; and another mar tslia me IL Is