Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-02-05
WHAT LACK YE 2
DR TALMAGE'S SERMON UPON
y LIES ESSENTIALS.

To lie a Christian the All-Importan,
Requirements. - Tho Poverty of a
World Without Christian Appeal
TO Young Men.
BROOKLYN, Feb. The deep religious
feeling manifested In DR.. Talmage's con-
gregations since his recent arousing sap
peal to Outsiders" has apparently en-
couraged him to continue preaching dis
tinctively evangelistic sermons. Today he
delivered another discourse Of tho same
Gospel type, both at the morning service
in the Academy of Music in this city, and
at night in the New York Academy Of
Music. His text was taken from Mark
10. 2l.-''Ous thing thou lackest."
Tho young man of the text was a
splendid nature. We fall in love with him
at the first glance. He was amiable, and
frank, and earnest, and educated, and re-
fined, and respectable, and moral, and yet
| he was not a Christian. And so Christ
addresses him in the words that l have
read to you, zone thing thou lackest."
| suppose that that text was no more ap-
propriate to the young man Of whom
have spoken than 1t is appropriate TO O
great multitude Of people In this audience.
| There are many things in which you are
| no lacking. For instance, you are not
lacking in good home. II is, perhaps,
| not more than an hour ago that you closed
the door, returning TO see whether it was
well fastened, Of one Of the best homes in
this city. The younger children Of the
house already asleep, the older ones, hear
ing your returning footsteps, will rush to
the door to meet you. And in these winter
evenings, the children at the stand with
/ their lessons, the wife plying the needle,
| and you reading the book or the paper,
you feel that you have good home.
| Neither are you lacking in the reinemerts
| ard courtesies of life. You understand
tho polite phraseology of invitation, re-
gard and apology. You have on appro-
pirate apparel.
Neither are you lacking in worldly sue
cess. You have not made as much money
| as you would like to make, but you have
an income. While others are false when
they say they have no income or are max
ing no money, you have never told that
falsehood. You have had a livelihood or
/ you have fallen upon old resources, which
! is just the same thing, for God Is just as
/ good TO US when he takes care of us by a
surplus of the past as by present success.
| While there are thousands of men with
hunger tearing at the throat with the
strength Of tigers paw, not one of you is
hungry. Neither are you lacking in pleas
! ant friendship. You have real good friends.
| Ii the scarlet fever should come tonight to
| your house, you know very well who would
7 -, l,st ,ef,l
death should come, you know who would
| come in and take your hand tight in theirs
with that peculiar grip which means, I'll
stand by you," and after the life has fed
from the loved one, take you by the arm
! and lead you into the next room, and while
| you are gone TO Greenwood they would
stay in the house and put aside the gar
ments and the playthings that might bring
| TO your mind too severely your great loss.
Friends? You all have friends.
Neither are you lacking in your admira-
ton of the Christian religion. There is
nothing that makes you so angry as to
| have q man malign Christ. You get red
/ in the face, and you say, "Sir, / want you
! to understand that though / am not myself
| q Christian, don't like such things said as
| that in my store" and the man goes off
| giving you parting salutation, but you
| hardly answer him. You are provoked
! beyond all bounds. Many of you have
been supporters of religion and have given
more to the cause of Christ than some who
| profess his faith. There is nothing that
! would please you more than to see your
son or daughter standing at the altar of
Christ taking the vows of the Christian.
1t might be a little hard on you, and might
| make you nervous and agitated for little
while, but you would be man enough TO
say: MY child, that is right Go on. /
am glad you haven't been kept back by my
example. / hope some day to Join you. "
You believe all the doctrines Of religion.
4 man out yonder says: ~ am sinner.
You respond: $50 am l." Some one says:
II believe that Christ came TO save the
world" You say: 80 do l." Looking al
your character, at your surroundings.
find thousand things about which to con
graduate you; and yet must tell you in the
love and fear Of God, and with reference
to my last account Zone thing thou
lackest."
/ You need, my friends in the first place,
the element of happiness. Some day you
feel wretched. You don't know what Is
the matter what is the matter with you
You say: 81 did not sleep well last night
/ think that must be the reason OF my rest
lessness;" or, Il have eaten something thai
did not agree with me, and l think thai
must DO the reason" And you ar,
unhappy. o, my friends, happiness does
not depend upon physical condition, and il
you have not the satisfaction that is TO b.
found in Jesus Christ, must tell you will
all the concentrated emphasis OF my soul
Zone thing thou lackest."
1n,lr ali
of usefulness. Where is your business
You say It Is No. A. such street. or No
l 26O such a street, or No. 800 such q street
My friend immortal, your business i
| wherever there is tear to be wiped ava,
; or soul to be saved. You may, befor
coming to Christ, do great many nobl
things. You take a loaf Of bread TO tina
| starving man in the alley; but he want
:. immortal bread. You take a pound o
Il candles TO that dark shanty. They wan
the light that springs from the throne o
4 God, and you cannot take 1t because 20
have it not in your own heart. You kno,
. | that the flight Of an arrow depends YER
much upon the strength of the bow, and
= have to tell you that the best bow that wa
ever made was made out of the cross {
= Christ; and when religion takes Il soul an
puts it on that, and pulls it back and lei
l. it fly, every time it brings down Saul c
, Goliath. There are people here Of hig
= social position. and Iarre means. and on
rured minus, VINO, II Jney wouIu come IN
It the kingdom of God, would set the city {
n fire with religious awakening. But we q
l. have work TO do. l cannot do yo'
work, nor can you do my work. &c
y points us out the place where we are
70 serve, and yet are there not people in tn
n house who are thirty, forty, fifty and six
years of age, and yet have not begun u
~ great work for which they were create,
With every worldly equipment: 20
thing thou lackest."
U Again, you lack the clement OF person
y safety. Where are those people who 9
W ISOLATED with you twenty years az
" Where are those people that fifteen yea
IN ago used to cross South Ferry, or Fult
- Ferry, with you, TO New York? Wa
IA down the street where you were In bu
a ness fifteen years ago, aud see how all I
. signs have changed. Where are the pe
:. pie gone? How many Of them are land