Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-10-12
SERMON BY DIR. TALMAGE.
stHE BROOKLYN DIVINE ON THE
SAVING LOOK"


srulI Report Of, the Sermon Preached In
tho Broolsiyn Tabernacle Sunday. Oct.
i 81 slow tho Christian Traveller Should
Proceed on His Way.
II: Bro KLYN, Oct. o.-At the Tabcr-
ssslacle today, after expounding appro-
lFpriate passages of Scripture, The Rev.
DE Witt Talmage, D. D., gave out
thehYmn:l
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved wretch like me;
&c. ] once wIs lost, but now an, found;
Was blind but now SEQ.
[[JEhe subject of his sermon was The
Saving Look and the text Hebrews
Y Looking unto Jesus. DR..
|Talmage said;
aaszIn.thc Christian life we must not go
ksliDshod: This world was rot made
Isffemns forrest in. In time OF war you
find around the streets of some
EscitY; far from the scene of conflict,
tneniin soldiers uniform, who have q
s beissaay aY.s.sI hey obtalaeda
furlough and they are honestly and
rightcously off duty; but | have TO
tell you that in this Christian con-
Aict. 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
single instant in which we will have
right to be Off duty Paul throws
all around this Christian life the ex-
elements of the old Roman and Gre
clan games-those games that sent
man 0lla race. with such stretch Of
nerve and muscle, that sometimes
when lie came up to the goal. he drop
ped 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 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 the
olden times, a man would stand at tile
end Of tile road with q beautiful gar
land 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.
Tile distinguished Welliston, the
chemist, was asked where his labora.
tory was, and the inquirers expected
to be shown some large apartment
filled with very expensive apparatus;
but WcIliston ordered his servant to
bring OH tray few glasses and Il re-
tort, 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 Whole library TO express their
theology They have so many theories
on ten thousand things; but l lave to
say that all my theology is compassed
III these three words: Looking unto
Jesus, and when we can understand
the height and the depth and the
length and the breadth and the infinity
and the immensely of that passage we
can understand ALL
CHRIST OUR PERSONAL sAvIoUR.
pa IAfemarEei nSthe first place, wc 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'S not SO much difference be-
tween a vessel coming out of Liverpool
harbor, with remnants flying and the
deck crowded with good cheer, and
and the guns booming, and that same
vessel driving against Long Island
coast, the drowning passengers ground
to pieces amid the timbers of the brok-
ell up steamer as there is between
man as lie came from the hands OF
God. equipped for grand and glor-
ious voyage, but aftcrward. 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 shipwrccil.
Our body is wrong How easily it is
ransacked of disease Our mind is
wrong. How hard it is to remember,
and low easy to forget. The whole
nature disordcred. from the crown OF
the head to the sole of the foot
wounds, bruises putrefying sores.
"All have sinned and como 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 sinncd. (" There
is in Brazil a plant they call the
murderer, forthe simple reason that
it is so poisonous it kills almost every
thing it touches. 1t begins to wind
around the root of the tree. and COM
ing 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 pois-
onous plant that was planted in our
soul long while ago, and it comes
winding ABOUT the body and the raind
and the soul, poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning-killing, killing, killing ms
it goes. Now, there would be no need
of my Gscoursing upon this if there
were no way Of plucking out that
plant. 1t is most inconsidcrate
thing for me to come to 4 man who
is in financial trouble and enlarge
upon his trouble if have no allevla-
ton to offer. 1t is an unfair thing for
me to come to a man who is sick and
enlarge upon his disease if I have no
remedy to offer. But / have a right
to come TO a.man in financial distress
or physical distress if have financial
Reinforcement to offer or sure cure
to propose. Blessed be God that
among the mountains OF our sin there
rolls and reverberates song of sal
vation. Louder than all the voices Of
bondage is the trumpet Of Gods deliv-
erance, sounding: "Oh, Israel, thou
hast DESTROYED thyself, but in me is thy