The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-30
"THE SAVING LOOK"
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, D. D.

mage, -. Ds
Christ Our Personal Saviour, an Example,
Sympathizer, and a Final Rescue
-Paul's Advice to "Kun the
Race Before Us, Looking
Urro Jesus"
The subject of DR.. Talmage's recent
discourse was The Saving Look" and
his text Hebrews xii, 2: Look unto
Jesus" Following is the sermon:
In the Christian life we must not go
slipshod. This world was not made for
US to rest in. In time Of war you will
find around the streets E+f some city, far
FROM the scene of confsz:c men IN SOL
dier's uniform. who harSs right to be
away. They obtained q furlough and
they are honestly and righteously of
duty: but I have to tell you that in this
Christian conflict. between the first mo-
ment when we enlist under the banner OF
Christ, and the last moment in which
we shout the victory, there never
will be single instant in which we viii
have right to be off duty. Paul throws
all around this Christian life the excite
ments of the old Roman and Grecian
gameS-fhose that sent a man on race,
with such stretch of nerve and muscle.
that sometimes when he came up to the
goal, he dropped down exhausted. In
deed history tells US that there were cases
where men came up and and only had
strength just to grasp the goal and then
dead. Now. says this apostle. max
allusion to those very games. we are
run the race, not to crawl 1t. not
81 it-but run the race set before
No., IN
81 e3SAr times. a man would stand at
of the road with beautiful
Sat was to be put around head
X the successful racer, so the
,hrist stands at the end of
race with the garland of
S5 I'd may God grant that by
<S ,&5 We may so run as to Oh
81 8l| $uished Welliston, the
ssked where his laboratory
Ss n nouirers expected to be
he apartment filed with
NJ apparatus; but Wells
;SS servant to bring on
and retort. and he
IS zes }5S$ kers: ''That is all my
<SS3 Ike all my experiments
IA $w, I know that there
ID who take a whole Ii
M Il RI # their theology. They
X 3$1 $s heories on ten thousand
lave to say that all my
{ passed in these three
unto Jesus" and when
y. &SEstand the height and the
y 3s} $S ;Xe length and the breadth
lninity and the immensity Of
- passage we can understand all.
Iremark in the first place, we must
look to Christ as our personal Saviour.
Now. YOU know as well as I. that man is
only blasted ruin Of what he once was.
There is not so much difference between
vessel coming out Of Liverpool harbor,
with pennants flying, 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 the broken up steamer as
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 Shlpwreck. Our
BODY is wrong. How easily 1t IS ran
sacked Of disease. Our mi ad is wrong.
How hard it is to remember, and how
easy to forget. The whole nature dis
ordered, from the head to the sole of the
foot-wounds, bruises, putrefying sores.
Call haze sinned and come short Of the
glory CT GOD. :" ''By one man sin entered
into the world and death by sin, and so
death has passed upon all men for thatal
have sinned.'' There is in Brazil plant
they call the murderer" for the simple
reason that it is 50 poisonous 1t kills al
most everything it touches. 1t begins to
&Ao Nf Va t~an ND
coming up to the branches reach out to
the end of the branches, killing the tree
as it goes along. When it comes to the
tip end of the branch the tree is dead.
Its seeds fall to the ground and start
other plants just as murderous-
And so it is with sin. 1t is a poison
Gus 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, killing as it goes. Now,
there would be no need Of my discours-
ing upon this if there were no way Of
plucking out that plant. 1t is most
inconsiderate thing for me to come to d
man who is in financial trouble and en-
large upon his trouble if have no allie
Walton to offer. 1t is an unfair thing
for me to come to man who IS sick and
enlarge upon his disease if l have no
remedy to offer. But have a right to
come to man in financial distress or
physical distress if / have financial re-
Enforcement to offer or a sure cure to
propose. Blessed be God that among
the mountains of our sin there rolls and
reverberates song Of salvation. Loud
er than all the voices of bondage is the
trumpet of Gods deliverance. sounding:
80, 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 mama that falls in
the wilderness ard the floods clap their
hands, saying: Drink, Oh thirsty soul,
and live forever" 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 hart breaks through to the wa
soul begins to grow gray with
the morning, yea to purple, yea
to fame, from horizon to hor-
izon. The batteries of temptation
silenced. Troubles that fought against
US captured and made to fight on our
side. Not as a result Of any toll or
trouble on our part, but only as result
of Looking unto Jesus" But what do
you mean by Looking unto Jesus?"
some one inquiries. Imean faith. What
do you mean by faith?' mean believ-
ing. "What do you mean by believing?"
mean. th'". If you promise to do a GER
tain thing for me, and have confidence
in your veracitS-if you say you will give
me such thing and need it very much,
I come in confidence that you are an
bonaSt man and will do what you cav
Now, the Lord Jesus Christ says: '.You
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