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REVISION OF CREEDS,
SERMON OF DR.. TALMAGE DELIVER
ED SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1890.
"Loose Him and Let Him Co." John xi,
a., the Tost of the Discourse, which
10 Here Reported IN Full-The New
Tabernacle 20 be Ready Soon.

D. D., said he thought the nea Brooklyn
Tabernacle would be dedicated IN September,
aud that the idea would be carried out of
building the church by subscription to The
Christian Herald, of which he has become
editor, all the subscriptions up to a hundred
and fifty thousand to be paid to lIi John
Wood. treasurer of the Tabernacle, Fulton
street, near Concord, Brooklyn, \. I. The
subject of his discourse was "Rcyi~on Of
Creeds," and he took for his text John II, A.:
loose him. and let him 60" DR.. Taimage
said:
My Bible is at the place of this text, writ
ten all over with lead pencil marks made last
December at Bethany on the ruins OF the
house of Mary and Martha and Lal2ru~ We
dismounted from our horses Oh the way Up
from Jordan to the Dead sea. Dothauy was
the summer evening retreat of Jesus. After
spending the day in the hot city, Jerusalem
he would come out there almost every even
ing to the house of his three friends | think
the occupants of that house were orphans,
for the father and mother are not mentioned.
But the son and two daughters must have in
herited property, for it must have been, JUDI
ing from what saw of the foundations and
the size of the rooms an opulent home. Loz-
arus the brother, was now the head Of the
household, and his sisters depended ON him
aud were proud Of him, for be was very pop
uar and everybody liked him. and these girls
were splendid girls. Martha first rate
housekeeper and Mary a sprituelle, some
what dreamy, but affectonate and rs good
a girl as could he found in all Palestine. But
ono day Lazarus got sick Tho sisters
were III conservation Father gone and
mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they
lose their brother also. Disease did its quick
work. How the girls hung over his pillow
Not much sleep about that house. no sleep
~ all. From the characteristics Otherwhere
developed judge that Martha prepared the
medicines and made tempting dishes of food
ior the poor appetite of the sufferer but Mary
prayed and ,Obbed. Worse and worse gets
lazarus until the doctor announces that be
can do no more The ohrioi that went up
from that household when the last brealh Lad
been drawn and the TWO sisters were being
led by sympathlzerS into the adjoining room
all those of us can imagine who have had our
own hearts broken. But why was not jesus
there as he so often had heaui Far away in
the country districts preaching, healing other
sick. how unfortunate that this oluuipo-
tent Doctor had not been at that domestic
crsisin bethany. When at last Jesus arrived
in Bethany Lazarus had been buried four
dars and dissolution had taken place. In
tint climate the breathless body GisintegratcS
NOR. rapidly than in ours. If, Immediately
after jecease. that body had been awakened
INFO lila uubelievers mi yht have said he wa.
only in II coma+ose state. or in a sort al
trance aud by some Vi yor0uS manipulation
or powerful stimulant vitality had brcn r.
ncwnd. 10, -Four days dead 10 tho door
OF the s"rulcher is u crowd of p'op.", buj the
three most memorable mr., Jesus VIII, WA, ..,
family friend. and thc ;e.9 Irr.t. sisters. We
went into the traditional iauin IN December.
ana i, s cepn down nud ,,al.... am, ,gfI torches
We c-DIared it. We fou..d =, MI cu... r,,.
afternoon of our visit. but the ,ll,. .t.sion GA.
in the bible there wa, present an ,,,,i..i INN.
tItuu". | wonder what Jesus WI. Gut g..
ort:rr. tio. door Of the grave reIoCt,i a.,..
thcn ne begins to descend the ste,s. Ma,yuil.
Mu.,h, c.o,r after hin and the crowd after
them Dcnfrr down into the shadows and
decuer, The not tear, OF Jc-ls ra,
over his c1eei., and pl,en moon the
bac!, of his hand. We even. 80 many
sorrow, co,nsrcs.ad into So small q .99co as
in that or,,,il ,,.e,-ius, , down, after Christ
all the tia.o bepoaning that he had not come
before. Now. all the whispering and all the
CRYING and all the sounds of shuulna feet
ore .,cnnad. 1t IS the silence of expectancy
Deaf haG CONQUERED but now the vauOiIi,rpr
of death confronted the scene Amid the
avs,;! nash Of the tomb the familiar name
vLi.a Christ had often had mon his Inns in
the ho,uit..lities Of the village home came
back - his tongue. and with n pathos and an
aln,iehtinr.s of which the resurrection of the
las, d..y shall be only an echo. he cries.
"La2alus. come forthl'' The eve, of the s'u,,,-
beer o,,n. ard he rises and comes 70 tba
foot of the stems and with GREAT difficulty be
rius to ascend. for the ornaments of
the tomb are vet on him and his faa+
are fast and his hands are fast and
the i,nuedimeuts to all mis- movements are
so great that Jesus commands. "Take off
these cerements: remove these bipdranoes
uufasten these grave clothes. loose him and
let him eo" On. am 40 alsd that afte. ths
Lord raised Lazarus, he went on and com
,nanded the loosening of the cords that bound
his feet SO that he could walk, and the l,l. ,I.-
ing of of the osrement that bound his hand, of,
that he could stretch out bis arms in saIut..-
ton. and the tearing OF of the bandage from
around his jaws SO that he could speak. What
would rssurrected life have been to Lazarus
if he had not been freed from all those GRIN
IL. 80.