The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-02-06
TALMAGE ABROAD
ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED
BY HIM IN LONDON.

the bIRHiHr Furnace, the stake nnd IN
rrtSOn for Chrisiinus.
The Rev. II. De Witt Talmag-, y
d., Of Brooklyn, preached in London
Sunday, taking for his text Acts xvi
81: "Beliove on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and theu shalt be saved" He snil:
Jai's are dark, dull, damp, lontllsomo
places even now; but were worse in the
apostolic times. | imagine to-day we
ere standing liz the Philippiau dungeon.
Do You fesj tho chill? DO you hear the
groan of those incarccra ed ones Who
for ten years have not seen the SUM-
light, and the deep sigh Of women
wI'" r.mef,ber their fathers house,
and mourn over their wasted estates?
Listen again. 1t is the c"ugh'ofa ON
~",upiiv", or the struggle OF one in a
niGhtmA"; 0fa great h0rrnr. You lis
tea aH"'n. and hear Il culpri,. his chans
ISttlei z as he rolls over in his dreams.
ma say: God pity the prisouer"
fu&tHe.c is another sound IN tnat
"lsoH. 1t IS n sOug of JOY and glad.
less What place to sing in! The
mu6ic comes winding through the cor
rliora Ol tho prison and in all the dark
wards the whisper is heard What's
ihn Whats tha'.' 1t is the song Of
Paul nd ,>las They cannot sleep.
They have been badly whiprcd. Tie
long gaSkes on their bncltS are bIcedS
Jog yet They lie Hat on the cold
groEnd, their feet fast il wooden sock
cts, and OF course they cannot sleep.
But they can sing JHiier, " hat are
YOU doing with these people? Why
hav" they been put in here? ., they
have beer trying to make the world
better. Is it tho,? chat is all \ pit
or Joseph. = Ions cave for Dnnirl
4 h,aziuC furnace tor Shndrach. Clubs
for John Wesley. An anathema for
PAUL And :;ilas. But while we are
Standing in the gloom Of That Philippe
an duRgso%, and we hear the plingling
voicee CT ~.b, and groan, and bias;-
phrm, ard halleluiah, suddenly an
earhuuakc! The iron bars Of the
pris ~ twists, the pillars crack oil, the
solid lua uury begins to heavc and
rock I'll al. the doors sW ing open, and
the w&tls fail with u terrific crash. The
jailcr feeling himself responsible for
lHe-c prisoners, aud feeling suicide to
be hunoranle-since Brutus killed
himself, ard Cato killed himself, and
Cas-ius killed himscll'--puts his sword
to his own heart, proposing with one
strong. kecl thrust TO put an end to his
excitement and agitation. But Paul
cried Out; Stop! Stop! Do thyseh no
harm. We are all here Then see
the jaiior running through the dust
amid the ruin Of that prison, and | see
him throwing himself down at the feet
ofthoao prisoners, crying out: "What
shall do? What shall l do?', Did
Pau! answer: "tie. ont Of this place
before there i another earthquake;
put handcutis and hobbies on those
other prisoners. lest they get away"
Not II word of that kind. Compact,
thril'lAg, tremendous answer; answer
meuluraolc all through earth and
heaven: "Believc on the Lord Jesus
Christ, aud thou shalt be saved,
Wei, we have oil read Of the ea,th-
quake in lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo
and in Caraca but we live in latitude
where in all our memory there has not
beer one severe volcanic disturbance.
Anal Il no leVc seen fifty earthquake es.
Here - I ~ IN Who has been huldixg
lp a 'Argc :orul -. His bid on the
Ilonc! market was felt in all the cities.
l'e thinks '.a has 70. beyond all annoy
iny riVa.Iin, IN trade, and he SAWS TO
him self. Now an free and safe from
all possible perturbation" But a nat
ionaI panic strikes the foundation Of
the cHmncrcial wcrld, and crash! gees
all that magnificent business establish
int:lr. lie is a man who has built up
Il very be"mtilul home. His daughters
have come home from The seminary
with diplomas Of graduation. His
SONS have started in life, hpncs., tenn
pcir,tc and pure. When ,he evening
lights are struck, there is happy and
All unbrokcu family circle. But there
has heen I'M accident down at the
beech. The young man vcntured too
far out in the surf The telegraph
buried the terror mp to the city. An
earth .uake stuck under the founda-
tinus OF that beautiful home. The
pinuo closed. the curtain dropped; the
laughter hushed. Crash! go all these
domestic hopes, and prospects, aud cx-
pectation3. so my friends, we have
all telt the shaking down ofsome great
trouble, and there was a time when
we were as much excited as this man
of the text, and VIC cried out as he did:
"What shall | do? What shall | d0?"
The %amc reply that the apostle made
TO him is appropriate 70 US: "Belioyc
be saved" There are some documents
otso little importance tha3 you do not
r2ro to put any more than your last
name unGcr them, or even your ini.
tin :; butLh are some documents o
40 great importance tho You write
out your full name. SO tao saviour IN
SomepartA OF the Bible is called, "Lord
aud in other parts Of the Bible he is
called "JeSus," and in other parts o
tho Bible he is called "Christ," but
that there might be no mistake abou,
this passage, all three names come j,
together Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, who i this. Being that yot
want nae o trust ana believe il? Ner
somotiincS come to me with credential.
aud certificates Of good character; bu
| cannot trust them. There is some
dishonesty in their look S that mak e.
mt know [ shall be cheated if con
tde in them. You cannot put you
.eart's confidence in man until 70,
know what stuffhe is made of, and an
unreasonable this morning, when
stop to ask you who this is that yo,
want me to trust III? No man wouIc
thi,,l< Of f., .