Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-14
ANALYSIS OF A LOOK.
DR.. Talmage Finds Something Both
Constant and Progressive
ABOUT A FAITH THAT SEES TO SAVE
There is no FurlOugh for the Faithful
Christian Soldiers.
LBOUT A FAITH THAT SEES TO SAVE
YESTERDAYS UNDELIvERED SERMON
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TEE DISPATCH,

Witt Talmage had prepared his Sunday
morning sermon as usual for to-day; but,
owing to the destruction of the magnificent
Brooklyn Tabernacle before the hour for
services, could not deliver it. He gave the
manuscript to your correspondent, however,
for transmission as usual to his larger con-
gregation, the readers of the newspapers.
The subject of his sermon was "The Saw
ing Look" and the text Hebrews Xii, 2:
Looking unto Jesus" The discourse fol-
lows:
In the Christian life we must not go slip
shod. 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 soldiers uniform, who
have a right to be away. They obtained a
iurlough and they are honestly and right
eOusly off duty; but have to tell you that
in this Christian conflict, between the first
moment when we enlist under the banner of
Christ, and the last moment in which we
shout the victory, there never will be
a single instant in which we will have
a right to be off duty. Paul throws all
around the Christian life the excitements of
luS OlO 1eOuudu anu SduuSS-1AOSC
games that sent man on a race with such a
stretch OF nerve and muscle that sometimes
when he came up to the goal he dropped
down exhausted, Indeed, history tells us
that 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 allusions to those very gamas,
WE ARE ALL TO RUN
the race, not to crawl it, not TO walk it-but
''ruu the race set before us, looking unto
Jesus" and Just as in the olden times a man
would stand at the end of the road with a
beautiful garland that was to be put around
the head or brow of the successful racer, so
the Lord Jesus Christ stands at the end of
the Christian race with the garland of eIer-
nal life, and may God grant that by His
holy spirit we may so run as to obtain.
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 ap-
paratus; but Welliston ordered his servant
to bring on tray a few glasses and a re-
tort, and be said to the inquirers: THAT is
all nv laboratory. Imake all my expert
ments with those" Now, 1 know that
there are great many who take a whole
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have so many theories on 10, 900 things; but
have to say that all my theology is COM
passed 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 infnity and the immensity
of that passage we can understand all.
l remark in the first place, we must
look to Christ as our personal Savior
Now, you know as well as l, that man
is only a blasted ruin of what he once
was. There is not so much difference be-
tween 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 driving against Long Island coast,
the drowning passengers
GROUND TO PIECES
amid the timbers of the broken M
steamer, as there is between man as
he came from the hands of God, eouipped
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 ship
wreck. Our body is wrong. How easily it
is ransacked of disease. Our mind is
wrong. How hard it is to remember.
and how easy to forget. The whole nature
disordered, from the crown of the head to the
sole of the foot-wounds, bruises, putrefy-
ing sores. "All have s1nned and come
short of the glory of God" 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 is in
Brazil plant they call the murderer.
for the simple reason that it is SO poisonous
it kills almost everything it touches. 1t be-
gins 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
seeds fall to the ground and start other
plants Just as murderous.
And so it is with sin 1t is poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul long
while ago, and it comes winding about the |
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning.
poisoning, poisoning-killing, killing, kill |
ing as it goes. Now, there would be no need
of my discoursing upon this if there were
no way Of plucking out that plant. 1t is IA
most inconsieerate thing for me to come to |
q man who is in financial trouble and en-
large upon his trouble if have no allevia-
ton to offer.
BETTER BRING THE CURE.
1t is an unfair thing for me to come to a |
man who is sick and enlarge upon his dis |
ease if 1 have no remedy to offer. But l |
have right to come to a man in financial |
distress or physical distress if have fnan- |
clal reinforcement to offer or a sure cure to |
propose. Blessed be God that among |
the mountains of our sin there rolls |
and reverberates song of saliva
tion. Louder than all the voices of |
bondage is the trumpet of Gods deliver |
ance, sounding: "Oh, Israel, thou hast de- |
stroyed thyself, but in me is thy help" At |
the barred gates of our dungeon the con-
queror knocks, and the hinges creak and |
grind at the swinging open. The famine |
struck pick up the mama that falls in the
wilderness, and the foods clap their hands,
saving: Drink, oh thirsty soul, and live
forever" and the feet that were torn and /
deep cut on the rocky bride path of sin
now come into smooth place, and the dry
alders crackle as the painting heart breaks |
through to the water brooks, and the dark
night of the soul begins to grow gray with
the morning, yea to purple, yea to flame,
from horizon to horizon. The batteries of
temptation silenced. Troubles that fought
against us captured and made to fight on
our side. Not as a result of any toll or
trouble on our part. but only as result of
Looking unto Jesus" "But what
do you mean by Looking un-
to Jesus?" some one INQUIRIES
mean faith. "What do YOU
mean BY faith?" mean believing. "What
do you mean by believing?" 1 mean this:
II you promise to do certain thing for me,
and have confidence in your veracity-if
you say you will give me such thing and
need it very much, l come in confidence
that you are an honest man and will do