Dodge City times., 1889-10-31
SERMON BY TALMAGE.
rHE BROOKLYN DIVINE ON "THE
SAVING LOOK"
EuIl Report Of the Sermon Preached in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday, Oct Is
How the Christian Traveller Should Pro-
coed on His Way.

| lhe subject OF his sermon was Ihf
Saving Look, and the text Hebrews xii
2: Looking unto Jesus" Dr.. Talmagt
said:
In the Christian life we must not &c
slipshod. This world was not made fol
US to rest in. In time of war you viii
| find around the streets of some city, fal
from the scene of conflict, men in SOL
dier's uniform, who have right to bt
away. They obtained furlough and
they are honestly and righteously of
! duty; but ! have to tell you In this
| Christian conflict, between the first
moment when We enlist under the ban
ner of Christ, and the last moment in
which We shout the victory, there never
will be q single instant in which We vii
have a right to be off duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ment of the old Roman and Greciar
games-those games that sent man on
race, with such stretch of nerve and
muscle, that sometimes when he came
up to the goal, he dropped down ex-
hausted. 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 allusions 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 ut the end of the road with
beautiful garland that was to be put
around the head or brow of the success
tul racer, SO thc 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, Was asked where his laboratory
was, and the inquirers expected to be
shown some large apartment filled with
very expensive apparatus; but Welliston
ordered lis servant to bring on tray a
few glasses and retort, and he said to
the inquirers: That is all my laboratory.
make all my experiments with those. y
Now, i know that there are great many
who take a whole library to express their
theology. They have SO many theories
on ten thousand things; but l have to
say that all my theology is compassed
IN 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
immensity of that passage We can un-
derstand all.
! remark in the first place, we must
look to Jesus as our personal Saviour.
Now, you know as we'll as |, that man is
only blasted ruin of what he once was.
There is not SO much difference be-
tween vessel coming ont of Liverpool
harbor, with penants tiving and the deck
crowded with good cheer, and the guns
booming, and that same vessel driving
against Long Island coast. the drowning
passengers ground to pieces amid the
timbers of broken up steamer, as
there is between man as he came from
the hands OF God, equipped for 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 ship
wreck. Our body is wrong. How easy it
is ransacked of disease. Our mind is
wrong. How hard it is TO remember,
and how easy to forget. The whole ma
ture Is disordered, from the crown of
the headto 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 q
a plant they call the murderer" for the
simple reason it is SO poisonous it kills
almost everything it touches. 1t begins
to wind around the root of a tree, and
coming 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 murdercus.
And SO it Is with sin. II is poison
Gus plant that wa5 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, killing as it goes. Now,
there would be no need of my discours
ing upon this if there were no way of
plucking out the plant. 1t is q most
considerate thing for me to come to q
man who is in financial trouble and en-
large upon his trouble if l have no al
deviation to offer. 1t is an unfair thing
for me to come to man who is sick and
and enlarge upon his disease if l
have no remedy to offer. But l have a
right to come to man in financial dis
tress or physical distress if / have finan-
cial reinforcement to offer or a sure
cure to propose. Blessed be God that
among mountains of our sin there rolls
and reverterates a song of salvation.
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
help" At the barred gates of our dun
geon. 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 for
ever, and the feet that were torn and
deep cut on the rocky bride path of sin
now come into smooth place, and the
dry alders crackle as the painting heart
breaks through to the water brooks, and
the dark night of the soul begins to
grow gray with the morning, yea to pur-
ple,yea to flame, from horizon to horizon.
The batteries of temptation silenced.
Troubles that fought against us captured
result of any toll or trouble on our part,
Jesus But what do you mean by
Looking unto JesusY" some one in
quires. 1 mean faith. What do you
mean by faith. mean believing. What
do you mean by believing?" mean this:
Ii you promise t. do certain thing for
me, and l have confidence in your vera
,ity-if you say you will give me such
thing and l need it very much, come
in confidence that you are an honest
man and will do what you say. Now,
The Lord Jesus Christ says; you are in
need of pardon and life and Heaven,
gou can have them if you come and get
them." You say: i can't come and ask
first. l am afraid you won't give it to
me-" Then you are unbelieving. But
you say: Il will come and ask. know,
Lord Jesus, thou art in earnest about
this matter. come asking for pardon.
Thou hast promised to give it to me.
thou wilt give it to me, thou hast given
it to me-" That is faith. Do you see it
yet? "Oh." says some one, Il can't un-
derstand it." No man ever did, without
divine help. Faith is the gift of God.
You say: THAT throws tine responsibility
off my shoulders" No. Faith is the
gift of God, but it comes in answer to
prayer.
All over glorious is my Lord.