West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-24
THE SAVING LOOK.
AGLIMpsE BEYOND THE GATES
Tho Sc mon Which the Rev. DIR.
Talmage Intended q Preach.

TEXT: Looking unto Jesus."-Hebrews
Vii, 9
In the Christian life we must not go slip.
shod; This world was not made for us 20 rest
IN In time OF war you will find around the
streets OF some city, far from tho scene OF
conflict men in soldiers uniform. who have
a right TO BIO away. They obtained a fur
Tough and they are honestly and righteously
OH duty; but i have 60 tell YOU that I'm this
Christian conflict between the first moment
when we enlist under the banner of Christ
and the last moment i'm which we shout the
victory, there never will be n single instant
IN which we will have n right 20 be or duty.
Faul throws all around this Christian life the
excitements of the old Roman and Grecian
gameS-those games that sent a man on n
race with such n stretch of nerve
ana muscle, that sometimes when
no came up 20 the goal, he dropped
down exhausted. Indeed, history tells
us that there were cases where men came nm
and only had strength Just TO grasp tho
goal and then fall dead. Now, SAYS this
apostle, making ~allusion 10 those very games
we are all TO run the rncc. not TO crawl n
not TO walk it-but run the race set before
us, looking unto Jesus md just as i'm the
olden times, n man would stand Mt tho end
OF the road with n 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 NAV God
grant TINT by His holy spirit we may 50 run
as TO obtain.
The distinguished Weniston. the cbemi,.
was asked where his laboratory was. and the
Ihqulrers expected TO be shown some large
apartment hlled with very expensive nppara-
tus; but Welliston ordered his servant TO
bring ON n tray a few glasses and n retort
ana he said TO the inquirers: THAT Is all NV
LABORATORY. i make all my experiments with
those." Now, L know that there are a great
manywho take a whole Hbraryto express their
theology. They have so many theories ON ten
thousand things; but l ave TO say that all
my theologyis compassed in these three words.
Looking unto jesus and when we can
understand the height and the depth and tho
length and tho breadth and the infnity and
the immensely of that passage we can Under
stand all
remark In tne nrsU place., we must look 10
Christ as our personal Saviour. Now, Won
know rs well as j, that man is only n blasted
ruin OF what he once was. There Is NOT so
much difference between a vessel coming ont
Oh Liverpool harbor, with pennants hying
and the deck crowded with good cheer. and
tho guns booming, and that same vessel driy-
ing against Long Island coast, the drowning
passengers ground 20 pieces amid the timbers
OF inc broken up steamer, as there is be-
tween man as he came from the hands Of
uodi equipped for n grand and plori-
Gus voyage, but afterward, through
the pilotage OF the devil, tossed and driven
and crushed, the coast Of the nenr futuro
strewn with the fragments of an awful and
eternal s~hipwreck. Our body is wrong. How
easily 1t Is ransacked of disease. Our mind
Is wrong. How hard it is to remember. and
now easily to forget. The whole nature dis
orpered, from the crown of the head 10 the
sole OF the foot-wounds, bruises, putrefying
sores. AN have sinned 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 ali
men for that all have sinnedJ There
IS IN Brazil n nlanf fhau ran tho ts,,,,-I-.-. -
Tor the simple reason that il is so poisonous it
Kills almost everything 10 touches, 1t begins
TO wind around the root OF the tree. and
coming up TO the branches reaches out TO the
ehus OF the branches, killing the tree as it
goes along. When 10 has come to the tin end
OF the branch the tree is dead. Its seed fall
70 the ground and start other plants Just as
murderOus.
And so it is with sin. 1t is a poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul a long
while ago, and it comes winding about the
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning.
poisoning, poisoning-killing, killing, killing
asst goes. Now, there would be no need of
my discoursing upon this if there were no
way OF plucking out that plant. It is a most
lnconslderate thing for me TO come TO n man
who is in financial rouble and enlarge upoD
MS trouble If have no alienation TO offer.
II is an unfair thing for me TO come TO n man
Who IS sick and enlarge upon his disease
f. 1 have no remedy TO offer.
HN'N llEIb 10 come
to "A man in financial distress
or physical distress if ] nave financial re-en-
torcement to offer or a sure cure TO propose.
Blessed be God that among the mountains of
our sin there rolls and re~verbrates q song of
salvation. Louder than all the voices of
bondage is the trumpet of Gods deliyerance
sounding. "Oh, Israel, thou hast DESTROYED
thyselt, but in Me is thy help" At the
barred gates Of our dungeon, the conqueror
Knocks and the hinges creak and grind at
Nnn UWUNNNnNmH AWmnW III - 4
up the mamma that falls in the wilderness
and the floods clap their hands, saving;
Drink, oh thirsty soul, and live for
ever" and the feet that were torn and
deep cut on the rocky bridlo path of sin
now come into n smooth place. and tho
dry alders crackle as the painting hart
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 sill
enced. Troubles that fought against Us
captured and made to fight on our side. Not
- q result Of any toll or trouble on our
part but only as n result Of Looking unto
Jesus But what do you mean by Look
ing unto JesusS" some one inquiries. / mean
faith. What do you mean by faithg' /
mean believing. what do you mean bv
pelieYingF / mean this: III you promise TO
90 a certain thing for me, and 1 have con
hdence in your veracity-if you say you will
81. Ap sum ~ AutMR anu 1 need ~ very
much, j come in confidence that YOU are an
honest man and will do what You saw. Now.
the Lord Jesus Christ saws: "Yoi IRE i'm
need OF pardon and life and heaven. Won can
nave them ~ you come and get them 50
aou say; II can't come and ask first
l. am AFRAID You won't give 10 TO me .
lhen you are uubolieving. But Won say. II
VIII come and ask. I know. lord .ferps
lhou ART In earnest about this matter I
come asking FOR pardon. Thou hast prom
lssd 70 give IL 20 me, Thou wilt give h to me
Ihou hast given 10 TO me.n That he faitb.
DO you see 10 YETI "Oh,1 says somo one ~
cant understand f." No man ever did
without divine help. Faith Is the pift III
ggd- You say: That throws the responsL
bllty on my shoulders" No. Faith L ne
Bit OF tod but 10 comes i'm answer 70 PRAYER.
an over glorious IS my lord
Wu'l Pc loved and set adorc1.
Jus worth IN ai the nations know
cure me whole earth would love Him. 10,
j remark again, that we must look fo Jequs
a. ah example. Now. "a moro c0Dvist Won
Know, ts always failure. " 70 paintor 60 ~
a Ioltioio or q gallery ~ art however OK
1ul,itr TO get bis idea Of the natural world
IRON these pictures. he viii not succeed nj
wen az tne artist who starts out and daehos
me oe" from the grass and sees the moruing
just ns God builtit Boz tho clouds. or poured r.
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