Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-14
LOOK, YE, UNTO JESUS.
AN RLOQUBNT LESSON DRAWN FROM GRB-
CLAN GAMES.
The Sermon Prepared BY DR.. Talmage for Deliver
arcs Yesterday, bn! Prevented by the
Frs-Ll's a Struggle but the
Christian Triumpbs.
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Special 7slegrGm 10 ne Rs0tS.sT.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, October 13 "A great
fire destroyed the Tabernacle" Dr. Tai
mage's church. this morning, and although
the eminent divine was prevented from
preaching, the address which he had pre-
pared for the OccseiOn ia given to the pub
lie. The subject of the sermon was "The
Saving Look, " and the text Hebrews XII
1t was as follOws:
In the Christian life we must not 90
slipshod. This world was not made for Us
to rest il. In time of war you will ind
around the streets of some city, fsr from
the scene Of conflict, men in soldiers uni
form, who have a right 20 be awsy. They
obtained furlOugh and they are honestly
and righteously off duty; but 1 have to tell
you that in this Christian conflict, be-
tween the first moment when we enliet
under the banner OF Christ. and the last
moment in which we shout the victory,
there never will be single IN
slant in which we will have
right to be off duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ments of the old Roman and Grecian
games-thOse games that sent man on
race, with such stretch Of nerve and
muscle, that sometimes when be came up
TO the goal he dropped down exhausted.
Indeed, history tells us that there were
casas where men came up and only had
strength just to 8 asp the goal and then
fall dead. Now, Gays this apostle, making
sllusiOn to those very games, ne are ell 70
run the race, not to crawl II, not TO walk
it-but run the race set before us, lcOk-
ing unto Jesus" and just as in the Olden
times, s 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 raosr, so the Lord Jesus Christ
stands at the end Of the Christian rae
with the garland of eternal life, and may
God grant that by His holy spirit We may
so run as TO obtain.
PERSONAL SAVIOUR.
Iremark in the first place, We must
look 10 Christ as our personal Saviour
Now, YOU know as well as /, that man IS
only blasted ruin Of what he once was.
There is not so much differences between
a vessel coming cut Of Liverpool harbor,
with psnnaBt hying and the deck crowded
With good cheer, and the guns booming.
and that same vessel driving against Long
Island coast, the drowning passengers
ground 10 pieces amid the timbers OF the
Il - hof an
man ss he came from the hands OF Coo,
equipped for a grand and glorious voyage,
but aflerward through the pilotage Of the
devil, tossed and driven and crushed,
the coast of the near future
sirewn with the fragments Of an
awful and eternal shipwreck. Our
body is wrong. How easily it isI
ransaeked of disease Oar mind Is wrong.
How hard IL is t5 remember, snd how esey
60 forget. The whole nature disordered.
from the crown of the head to the sole oi
the foOt-wounds, bruises, putrefyiug
soree. GAN have siuned and come short
of the glory Of God.' by one man Sin
entered into the world and death by SID,
and so death has pessed upon all men fer
that ali have sinued.n Tbere ia in Brazil
plant they call The murderer" for the
simple reason tina. it is 70 poisonous that
it kills almost everything it touches. II
begins 20 wind around the root Of tree
ard coming up to the branches reaches out
to the ends of the branches, killing the
tree as it gees along. When it hiss come
TO the tip end of the bronch the tree is
dead. It's seeds fall to the ground and
start other plants just rs murderous.
And 80 1t "a with sin. Il is poisonous
plant that was planted iu our soul long
while ago, and 1t comes winding about the
BODY and the mind and the soul, poison
ing, poisoning, poisoning-killing. killing
killing as IL goes. Now, there would b
10 need Of my disooursing upon this II
there we're 10 way Of pluckipg out that
plant. 1t is a most incOnsiderate thing for
me TO come 10 man who is in financial
trouble and eularge upon his trouble II l
have no alleviaiion to offer. Il Is an un-
fair thing for me to come to man who IL
sick and enlarge upon his di.esse II l have
no remedy to offer. But have right to
come TO a man in financial distress or phys
| ieal distress if have financial re-entorce-
ment to offer or sure cure to propose.
Blessed be God that among the mountains
of our sin there rolls aud reverbrates a
song of salvation. Louder than all the
voices Of bondage is the trumpet of Gods
delivsranee, sounding: "Oh, Israel, thou
thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is
thy help"