The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
J0Y0VER RESCUED SOULS
TALMAGE's STORY OF THE KILL
ING OF THE FArTED CALF.


Joy of the Ministers over soul
Saving.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 3-A jubilee sermon
was preached this NOR ing the Rev, +.
DeWitt Talms e %. D.. at az especial COM
munion for the reception Of 240 persons.
making the present commuuicant membe..
ship of the Brooklyn Tabernacle 4 4Os. This
is also moving day in this church. T @ an
nual rental of pews has just occurred, and
to-day many Of t Q cor gregation occupy
now places. The pews brought h CHER pr,-
mlums this year an ever before, and the
income of the church this year will be SIS
SO4. But bot plans are observed in this
church. A vast space is kept free from all
expense, and only part Of tie building is
ma ped Off for rent. DR.. Talmage took his
text from Luke xv., %: "Bring hither The
fatted calf aud kill It," DR. Talmage said:
joy Joyl joy We banquet to-day over
this accession of a multitude OF souls.
In all ages of the world It has been
customary 10 ce ebrate joyful events by fes-
tlvity-the signing Of treaties, tho pr1cla-
nation Of peace, the Christmas the mar
riage. However much on O her DAYS Of the
year our table may have stinted uppv, on
Thanksgiving Day there must be something
bounteous. And all the comic table homes
of chrstendom have at some time celebrated
joyful events by banquet and festivlty.
Something has happene in the old home-
stead greater than anything that has eyor
happened before. A favorite son whom tho
world supposed would becom, a vagaband
and outlaw forever, has got tired If sight
seeng and has returned to his fathers
house. The world said he never would
come back. Th3 old man tlways sail his
a 4 L. l.
him day at ter day and year after year He
knew he would come back. Now, having
returned to IL fathers house, tho father
proclaims celebration.
There is a calf in the paddock that has
been kept up and fed tn utmost capac tv so
as to bs ready for som5 occasion OF joy that
might come along. Ahl there never will
be grander day on o old no nestsad than
this day. Let the butch rs do their work,
and the housekeepers bring into the table
the smokl meat The musicians will take
their places and the g,y groups viii move
up and down the floor All the frleld aud
negnuors are gat lered in, and extra supply
is out to tue table OF the servants. The
father presdss at the table, aud says grace,
a I'd thanks God at his l. g-ab ient boy is
homo again. Oa how the, nl + d him:
how glad they a @ to have him back. Ono
brother indeed stands pOui * ~ the back
door and says: This is a great ado about
llb mug btiH hdu Dpy huOuil nave DGsn
chastenet instead of greeted veal is too
good for himw But the father says:
Nothing is too cd, nothi < is good
enough" There sits the young man, glad
at the hearty reception, but shadow Of
sorrow fit ing across his brow at the re-
mem rance Of the trou le he mad seen All
ready now. Let the covers lift. Music,
He was dead aud he is alive agai Ha vas
lost and be is found Bys ch b Id imagery
does the Bible set forth the merry-making
when soul comes home to God.
/. First Of all there is the new converts
joY. 10 IS no tame t1i & 10 ecome n clris-
tian. Tho III st treme ldous moment in a
mans life is when he surrenders himself to
God. The grande5t time on the fathers
homestead is when the boy comes back.
Among the great throng 10 in the par
lors Of this church profsssed Clrist one
night was n young man w1o next IN 1rning
rang my or bell and said: "5ir, | cannot
contain myself with the joy feel; came
here this NOR llng TO express it. | have
found more joy in five minutes in serving
God than in all the years of nay prodigality,
aud ! came t. say sO.n
You nave seen, perhaps, man running
for his physical liberty and the officers OF
the law after i'm, a d you saw him escape,
or at erward you heard the Judge hal ar
doned him, AID how great was the glee of
tnat rescued man, but it is
very tame thing that, COM
pared with the runni for ones ever
lasting life-the terrors of the law after
him, but Christ comi z in 10 pard IN and
bless and rescue and save. You rem M or
John Bunyan in his great story tells how
the Pilgrim put his fingers in his care and
ran, cryinr: Life, life, ernal lifel" A
poor car-driver in this city some ears ago,
after having had n stru ,Sle TO suopo.t his
family su idenly wa3 infor ued that large
inheritance was bis, aud there was joy
am1un lng to bewilde me Il; but that Is
small ing compared with the exp RE ce
OF one when be has put in his hands the
title deed 10 tho joys, the raptures, tae
splendO.s uf hea en-, and he eau truly say:
1T, man ions are mine, its temples are
mine, it. songs are niue, its God is mnel"
Oh, II is no tame thing TO uec ONE chris
tian. / is "A me 'ry-,naking. IL Is the i'll
ing Of tn, faJted calf. 1t is jubilee. You
know the Bible never compares il TO a
funeral, but always compares II - some
thing bright. II is more apt TO be comp ired
60 a banquet thln anything else. II /, com
pared in the Ri Jle 10 the water, bright,
flashing water; t. tue morning, roseate,
flrewOrked, mo ntain-transhgured m jrn-
ing. | wish ] could to-day take all tho
Is bic expressions about pardon and peace
and life and comfort and hope and heaven
and twist them into one garland. aud put it
on the brow Of humbl3st child Of God
IN tbis assembling, and cry: Wear 10,
WthT ~ now, WBtI ~ forever, hOn bI upOs
daughter Of the Lord GJd Almighty" Oh,
the joy Of the new cJnverti Ga, the glad
nes Of the christian servicel
You have seen spmstimes a man in re-
ligious assembly get up aud give his exDeri-
oIce Well, Paul gave bis exp renee.
lie arose in the pres nee Of two
churches, the church on earth and the
churcl ia heaven, a 4 10 said: Now this
IS my experience: Sjrro sful yet al ways
rejoicing; poor, yet making many ricl;
having nothing, yet possessing all thi IgsS
II tho people in this use this morning
know the joys Of the christian reli zion they
would all pass over into the kingdom Of
God the next moment. When Daniel
Sandeman was dying OF cnOiers his a te ID
ant said Have you IN ich naiIr "Oh,"
he repi d, "since / found the Lnrd l
have never had an piil except Il ." Then
ney said % him: would you like to send
a me gage g. your fri 'nd,p yes | would:
tell t aem that only last night tue love I
Jesus came rusnink iItJ nv sOul ike the
surses Of the sea, aud | lad b cry out;
stop Lord, IL Is eIougl; stop, Lord,
enoushp" Oh, tho joys ot this christian
religioui
just pass over from those tame Joys in
which you are induging joys OF this
world-into the rapturos II tie gospel. The
world cannot satisfy you; have fou d
that out. Aexander bnging for other
a.