Milford chronicle., 1889-10-18
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1889.
THE LOOK OF SALVATION.
DISCOURSE OF DR.. TALMAeE ON
SUNDAY, OCT. ts.

DISCOURSE OF DR.. TALMAGE ON
SUNDAY, OCT. ts.
The Text Was from Hebrews XII. =
Looking Unto Jesus"-A Full Report
Of the Sermon Is Herewith Presented tC
the Reader.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 1s.-At the tabernacle to
day, after expounding appropriate passages
of Scripture, the Rev T. De Witt Talmage
DID, gave out the hymn;
Amazing gracei how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me;
once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now / see.
The subject of his sermon was ''The Saving
LOok,n and the text, Hebrews xii, 2, "Look
ing Unto Jesus" DR.. Talmage said:
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 fur
Tough and they are honestly and righteously
Off duty; but l have TO tell you that in this
Christian conflict, between the first moment
when we enlist under the banner of Christ
aud the last moment in which we shout the
victory, there will never be a single instant
In which we will have a right to be off duty.
Paul throws all around this Christian life the
excitements of the old Roman and Grecian
games-those games that sent man on a
race, with such a stretch of nerve and
muscle, that sometimes when he came up TO the
goal be dropped down exhausted. Indeed, his
tory tells us that there were cases where men
came up and only had strength just 10 grasp
the goal and then fall dead. Now, says this
apostle, making allusion to those very games,
we are all to run the race, not to crawl it,
not to walk it-but "run the race set before
US looking unto Jesus and just as in tho
olden times man would stand at the end Of
the road with 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 eternal life, and may God
grant that by his holy spirit we may so run
as to obtain.
THEOLOGY IN THREE WORDS.
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 appa-
ratus; but Welliston ordered his servant to
bring on a tray a few glasses and a retort,
and he said to the inquirers: THAT is all my
laboratory. make all my experiments with
those" Now, know that there are a great
many who take a whole library to express
their theology. They have so many theories
on ten thousand things; but l have to say
that all my theology Is compassed in these
three words, Looking unto Jesus,n and
when we can understand the height and the
depth and the length and the breadth and
the infniUy and the immensity of that pas
sage we can understand all.
/ remark in the first place, we must look to
Christ as our personal Saviour. Now, you
know as well as 1, that man is only blasted
ruin Of what he once was. There is not so
much difference between 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-
ing against Long Island coast, the drowning
passengers ground to pieces amid the timbers
of the broken up steamer, as there is between
man as he came ont from the hands of God,
equipped for a grand and glorious voyage,
but afterward, through the piiotage Of the
devil, tossed and driven and crushed, the
coast of the near future strewn with the frag-
ments of an awful and eternal shipWreck.
Our body is wrong. How easily is it ran
sacked of disease Our mind is wrong. How
hard it Is 10 remember, and how easy to for
get The whole nature disordered, from the
crown Of the head to the soils Of che foot
wounds, bruises, putTefying sores. "Ali
have sinned aud come short Of the
glory Of God.n "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 every
thing it touches. It 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 seeds fall TO the
ground and start other plants just as muir
derous. And so IL is with sin. 1t is a poison
Gus plant that was planted in our soul long
while ago, and it comes winding around tho
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning,
poisoning, poisoning, killing, killing, killing
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
a most inconsiderate thing for me to
come to man who is in finan
nial trouble and enlarge upon his trouble If
have no aileEiatiQn to offer. II is an qnfaip
thing for me to come to man who is sick
and enlarge upon his disease II ! have no
remedy to offer. But have a right to come
to a man in financial distress or physical dis
tress if | have financial reinforcement to
offer Or a sure cure to propose. Blessed be
God that among the mountains Of our sin
there rolls and reVerberates q song OF saliva
tion. Louder than all the voices of bondage
is the trumpet Of Gods deliverance, sound
ing: "Oh Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,
but in me is thy help" At the barred gates
OF our dungeon the cOnqueror knocks and
the hinges creak and grind at the swinging
open. The famine struck pick up the mamma
that falls in the wilderness, and the foods
clap their hands, saying: "Drink, oh
thirsty soul, and live forever" and
the feet that were torn and deep cut
ON the rocky bridle path of sin now
come into a smooth place, and the dry alders
erackle as the painting hart breaks through
TO the water brooks, and the dark night Of
the soul begins TO grow gray with the morn
ing, yea TO purple, yea to flame, from hOri-
Eon 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 toA or trouble on our part,
but only as a result of Looking unto Jesus.
"But what do you mean by Looking unto
JesusF some one inquiries | mean faith.
"What do you mean by faith" l mean be-
heving. "What do you mean by believing"
mean this; If you promise to do a certain
thing for me, and | have confidence in your
veracty; if you say you will give me such
thing, and need it very much, leone IN CON
fdence that you are an honest man aud will do
what you say. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ
says: ''You are in need of pardon and life and
heaven, you can have them il you come and
get them" You say; 81 can't come and ask
first. l am afraid you won't give it 10 me