The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1889-10-15
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DR.. TALMAGE's CHURCH DESTROYED
SUNDAY MORNING.

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BROOKLYN, Oct. 14.-(Special.) DR..
Talmage's tabernacle, in this city was
destroyed by fire early Sunday morning.
Iour correspondent, however, received
from DR.. Talmage a copy of the sermon
which he had intended to preach.
The subject of his sermon was "The
Saving Look" and the text Hebrews xii,
2: "Looking unto Jesus" DR.. Talmage
said:
In the Christian life we must not 90
sllpshod. This world was not made
for us to rest in. In time of war Won
Will lind 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
Through and they are honestly and
r~lghteously off duty; but I have to
tell you that in this Christian con-
hlct, between the first moment when
we enlist under the banner of Christ.
ana he last moment in which we
The victory, there never will be
a single instant In which we will have
a 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 a
man on a race, with such a stretch of
nerve and muscle, that sometimes
when he 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 the
end Of the road with a 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.
The distinguished Welliston, the
chemist, vas asked where his labora-
tory was, and the inquirers expected
to be shown some large apartment
filled with very expensive apparatus;
but WellistOn ordered his servant to
bring on a tray a few glasses and a 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 a whole library to express their
theology. They have SO many theories
on ten thousand things; but [ have to
say that all my theology is comprised
ia these Chree 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.
| remark in the first place, we must
look to Christ as our personal Saviour,
Now, you know as we'll as I, that man
is only a blasted ruin of what he once
was. Therei 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
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-
en- up steamer, as there is between
man as he came from the hands of
God, equipped for a grand and glor-
iOus 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 ~shipwreck.
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, putrefying sores.
"All 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 all
men for that all have sinned." There
is in Brazil a plant they call the
murderer" for the 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
inc up to the branches reaches out to
the ends of the branches, killing the
tree as it goes along. When 1T has
come to the tip end of the branch the
Tree Is UeaU. 1IS SceOS 1dL W hhO
ground and start other plants just as
murderous.
And so it is with sin. 1t IS a pols-
onous plant that was planted IN our
soul a long while ago, and 1t comes
winding about the body and the mind
and the soul, poisoning, poisoning,
poisoning-killing, killing, killing as
it goes. Now, there would be no
of my discoursing upon this if there
were no way of plucking out that
plant. 1t is a most in~considerate
thing for me to come to a man who
is in financial trouble and enlarge
upon his trouble if | have no allevla-
ton to offer. 1t is an unfair thing Tor
me to come to a man who is sick and
enlarge upon his disease if l have no
remedy to offer. But / have a right
to come to a man in financial distress
or physical distress if l have financial
reinforcement to offer or a sure are
to propose Blessed be God that
AMONG the mountains Of our SIN there
rolls and r~everberates a song OF sal.
walton. Louder than all the voices OF
l-oS =. tho tr,,m not of Gods d0llV-