The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-23
AN UNDELIVERED SERMON.
THE TABERNACLE FIRE INTERPRETED.
On the Subject OF ''The Saving Look" DR..
Talmage Had Prepared an Eloquent
Discourse-The Church Destroyed by
Fire Early Sunday Morning.

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preach. AS, however, he had his sermon
prepared, he consented to its publication.
His sermon on THE Saving Look
text, Hebrews, xii, 2, Looking unto
Jesus"-is as follows:
In the Christian life we must not 90
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 uni
form who have right to be away. They
obtained a furlough and they are honestly
andrighteously off duty; but have to
tell YOU that in this Christian conflict,
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
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 a man on a race
with such a stretch of nerve and muscle
that sometimes when he came up to the
goal he dropped 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
10 crawl it. not to walk it-but run the
race set before us, looking unto Jesus"
and. lust as in the 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 OBJ
tain.
The distinguished Welliston. the chem
list, was asked where his laboratory was,
and the inquirers expected TO be shown
some large apartment filed with very
expensive apparatus, but Welliston or
dered his servant to bring on a tray, few
glasses and a retort, and he said to the in
quirers: THAT is all my laboratory.
make all my experiments with those"
Now, / know there are a great many who
take a whole library to express their the
olOgy. They have so many theories on
10000 things, but / have to say that all
my theology is compassed in these three
words: Looking unto Jesus" And
when we can understand the hight, and
the depth, and the length, and the breadth,
and the infnity, and the immensely OF
that passage we can understand all.
remark, in the first place, we must look
20 Christ as our personal savior. Now, you
know as well as 1 that man is only a
blasted ruin OF what he once was. There
is not so much difference between a vessel
coming out of Liverpool harbor, with PEN
nants flying and the deck crowded with
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same vessel driving 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 from the hands of God, equipped for
a grand and glorious 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 il 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 en-
tered 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 everything it touches. II be-
gins to wind around the root OF the tree,
and coming up to the branches reaches out
10 the ends of branches, killing the tree as
it goes along. When 1t has come to the
tip end OF the branches the tree is dead.
It's seeds fall to the ground and start other
plants Just as murderOus.
And so it Is with sin. 1t is poisonous
plant that was planted in our soul long
while ago, and it comes winding about the
body and the mind and the soul, poisoning.
poisoning. poisoning-killing, killing. kill
ing as it goes. Now, there would be no
need OF my discoursing upon this if there
were no way OF plucking out that plant.
i is a most inconsiderate thing for me to
come To- a man who is in financial trouble
and enlarge upon his trouble ii l have no
alienation TO offer. 1t is unfair for me to
come TO man who is sick and enlarge
upon his disease il have no remedy TO
offer. But have a right to come to a man
in financial distress if ] have financial re-
Enforcement TO offer or a sure cure to pro-
pose. Blessed be God that among the
mountains OF our sin there rolls and rever-
berates a song of salvation. Louder than
dil TIE NOlCcs u DOiltlst0t = TIE trumpet
Gods deliverance, sounding: ooh, 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
floods clap their hands, saying: "Drink.
oh, thirsty soul, and live foreverW 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
aiders cracllle as the painting hart breaks
through the water brooks, and the dark
night OF the soul begins to grow gray with
the morning-yea, TO fame from horizon
20 horizon. The batteries of temptation
sienced-troubles that fought against us
captured and made to fight on our side.
Not a result OF any toll or trouble on our
part, but only as a result OF looking unto
Jesus "But what do you mean looking
unto Jesus ?" some one inquiries. j mean
faith. What do yOu mean by faith?" /
mean believing. "What do you mean by
believing?" mean this: If you promise
10 do certain thing for me, and ! have
confidence in your varacity-n you say
you viii give me such a thing
and need il very much, / come in con-
fidence that you are an honest man and
will do what you say. Now the Lord Jesus
Christ says: "You are in need Of pardon
you come and get them" You say: Il
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