The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-01-31
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
TIE BROOKLYN DIvTNE's SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: II Must Also See Rome.
Preached at Rome, Italy)

right on. Now be proposes 70 go 70 Jefussi-
lem, and says. "After that l must also see
Romep Why did he want 70 visit TINS , Vol
derful city in which / am to-day permitted
30 standg ITO preach the Gospel yon an
syer. No doubt OF it but there were other
reasons why he wanted to see Rome A man
of Pauls intelligence and classic taste had
fifty other reasons for wanting 20 see H.
Your Colosseum was az that time IN process
of erection, and he wanted to see IT, Inc
Forum, was even then an old structure, and
the eloquent apostle wanted to see That
building in which eiOQuence had 50
often Numbered and wept over lhe
ApDian WAY the triumphal procession nad
already marched for hundreds OF ears am
he wanted to see that The Temple OF oat.
turn was alrcadyan antiquity, and he wanted
TO see that The architecture or the world
renowned city. he wanted to sec that. Tho
places associated with the triumphs. tho
cruelties, the disasters. the wars, the mill
tary genius, the poetic and the rhetorical
fame Of this great city he wanted to sec
them A man like Paul, 50 many sided, 50
sympathetic, so emotional so full of analogy,
could not have been Indifferent 10 the antiq-
sities and the spleudors which move every
rightly organized human being. And with
what thrill OF interest lie walked these
streets, those only who for the first time like
ourselves enter Rome can imagine. If the
iahahdtantsof all Ch-istendoin were gathered
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two cities they would above at others wish to
see, the vast majority Of them would vote
Jerusalem and Rome. SO we can understand
something of the record OF MY text ard its
surroundings when it says, Paul proposed in
the spirit when be had passed through Mace
donna and Achaia 70 go to Jerusalem, saying:
AFTER that / must also see Rome.N As some
Of you arc aware, with my family and only
Tor the purpose Of what we can learn and the
good We can get, am on the way to Pales-
tine Since leaving Brooklyn, n. Y. this is
the first place We have stopped Intcrnedi-
ate cities are attractive, hut we have visited
them in other years and we fastened on. for
said before starting that while | was goi'S
to SEE Jerusalem l must also see Rome.
Why do 1 want to see 80 Because l want,
by visiting regions associated with the
great apostle 10 the gentiles, TO have
my faith in Christianity confirmed
There are those who will 90 through large
expenditure 30 have their faith weakened.
In my native land I have known persons Of
very limited means to pay fifty cents or
dollar to hear a lecturer nrove that our
Christian religion is myth, dream, a
cheat, lie. On the contrary viii give all
the thousands Of dollars that this Journey of
my family Will cost to have additional evl-
dence that our Christian religion is an au-
thcntcated grandeur, a solemn. q joyous,
rapturouS a stupendous a magnificent fact.
So ! want to sec Rome. I want You to show
me tho places connected with Apostolic
ministry have heard that, IN your city
and amid its surroundings apostles suffered
and died for Christ's snke. Ny common
sense tglls me that people do not die for the
sake Of a fnlschood. They may prac-
tice a deception FOR purposes Of gam,
but put tho sword 70 their heart.
OF arrange the halter around their neck, or
kindie the fire around their feet and they
would say my life Is worth more than any
thing can gain by losing it. / hear you
have IN this city Pauls dungeon. Show il to
me. ] must see Rome also. While / am IN
tere<ted in this city because OF her rulers or
her citiEeus who are mighty in history for
vlrture or vice or talents, Ndmulus, and
Caiguli, AMI Cincianatus, and Nespasiln,
and Coriola - and Brutus aud hundred
Others who's INES are bright with an ex-
eeeiing irigithess, OF black with the deepest
dye most OF al am interested III this city
because the preacher Of Mars hill, and the de
fer OF kgrippa, and the hero OF the ship
wrecked vessel in the breakers OF n alta, and
The man who held higher than any Iuo that
the world ever saw the torch Of Resurrection,
lived, and preached, and was massaCrel here.
Show me every place connected with his
memory. ] must also see Rome.
But my text suggests that IN Haul there
was the inquisstive and curious spirit. had
ny text only uleaut that he wanted to preach
here be would have said So Indeed in
another piacc, be declared; 81 am ready u
preaeh the Gospel % you who are at Rome
also But my text suggests q sight seeing.
This man who bad beer under Dr. Gamahel
Ind no lack Of phraseology. and was used to
saying exactly what he meant and he said. j
must also see Rome There Is such 4 thing
as Christisn curiosity Paul had it and some
Of Us have 1t. About other peoples business
have NO cuEiostY. Ab0pt ali that can con.
firm my faith in tho Christian religion and
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happiness am iuil Of an all absorbing, all
compelling curiosity. Paul had a great curl
osity about the next world. and 50
have we. l hope some day. by The
grace OF God, - 20 over and see for
myself, but NOS now no well man, no pros
pered man, ihink, wants % 90 now. Tut
the time VIII come, 1 think, when I shall 20
over. want 20 see what III ar do therc. and
want to SC how they do it. I do nos .sant
70 Dc looking through the gates ajar for
s.er- / SAINT them 10 swing Wide opan
3nere are ten thousand things 1 want er-
piained-abont you. about myself about tho
government Of this world, about God about
everything. We start in a plain path OF
what We know, and in a minute como IN
against high wall OF what ne do not know.
wonder how it lpoks over there Some
ooay tells me i is ike paved city-paved
with gold, and another man tells me it is
IKE fountain. and il Is Ike q tree. and
Il y Ike n tfiumphai procession. and the
next man l met tells me it is all tiguratire.
really Tart 70 know, after the body IS
re- IRE ted, what they wear and what they
eat, aud I have an unreasonable cliriosjtv
20 Know what i Is, and h0H It IS and where
u is Columbus risEeI his life To find no
American continent aud shall we sbudder to /
81 cut On 2 eegnge cf discovery which shall 4
feEea, a fnster and more brilliant counfl-ys /
Joiin FRANKLIN risiled lis lie 10 find a pas !
49,. Il.
IN q passage % eternal summer Men in 1
and travel ~ the heights Of the MAJ 4
teFhorni With alDaustoclr aud ouf4I.5 1--,f !
rockets, and rop-z and getting hoIf 80 t
mp. stumble and fall down n A borri- /
~ massacre They just wanted to
tho5e high peaks. And shall we fear 70 -
tslr for the ascent Of the eternal hills which
start thousand miles beyond where sion
The highest peaks Of the Alps and when in
tnat accent there IS no perils a man do0med
y die STEPPED on the scafo and said in
JOY VOW. N Ten minutes I viii know the
great secret One minute alter the vital
tunctioEs ceasei the litlio child that die.i
ins1 might knew more than Paul himself be-
~ NJ 1--1 r11enls. tie exit rrum E1ls
world. Or death, II you please to call it, to
ne Z hristian - glorious explanation. It is
dellalsfration. IL is illumination. T. Is
slnHars1. u is the opening Of all the win
a." 7tANf.tAAAH tAA@ 49, AAAatAA
u dcubt and the unrolling Of
81 ire scrolls Of positive and accurate
information. Instead Of standing ct
me loot q the ladder and looking up. it Is
siel1ins ~ the top Of the ladder and looking
Howl ~ = TIE last mystery taken out Of
Dotitsls ana geology aud astronomy and
taeoiosg; Oh viii It not be grand 10 have
~ 9lss' . answered; The perpetIally re-
curing interrogation point changed for the
mar or exclamation. All riddles solved
mo WI Lear 70 g out On that discovery.
WHEN an the questions arr to ~ Iefi5sd
which we have hoan 5i.,r,gs;,,e- an
our lives. VINO shan not clan tis be,,,iq n
the anticipation Of that blzszsd @,,t- 70
Il be no better than through holy c1lriositvs
As tins Paul o. my text id moi s,,,,,,- jl;s
curiosity, we reed not suppress mn W -
have an unlimited curiosity ai,oS'f Al, -
ious ihings, and as this city Of Rom -
intimately connected with ausstoiie -.
the incidents which emphasize ana e- ,,'i,'
and augment The Ciristian religion ~. All
not take it as an evidence Of pryina srig; n
but as the out5ursting OF Christian c7 1iia',
ity when ! say I ninrt alzo ses Rome
Otu ur1fTc 70 Tlslt ruIs CITY z also fnta,-4
6ed By the fact that we want to IL eonfi,-rea5
IN the feeling that human lie & hrisf I'M
its woFx lasts FOR centuries. inded for ay-er
Therefore show US the autiquities Of IA
Rome, about which We have been reasine
for lifetime, bHt never seen. In orr 80
loved America. Nc nave no anrloufrses 4
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