Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-01-24
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine's
Sunday Sermon.

TEXT: "Tdrrv ye In the city of Lrusal.,
until ne be endued acih pOuer from d,
~high."-Luke xiv, 40.
For q few months, in the providence os
God, l have two pulpits, one IL Brooklyn
and the other in New York, and through to
kindness Of the printing pres, un ever
widening opportunity. To all such hearers
and readers | come with an especial message
The time has arrived for a forward move
ment such as the church ana the wOrit have
never seen. That there is a need f.. sucn Il
religious movement IS evident from the facc
That never since our word was wing cut
among the planets ha, there been such an
organized and determined effort - Gr-I-
throw RIGHTEOUSNESS. and make the Ten
Commandments obsolete and til. Whole Bib.
u derislon Meanwhile alcohoiisu - taking
down It6 victims ty the hundT-d7 q thou
sands. and the political parties get oDan on
Their knees, practically saying 20 thou a!
mighty rum jug we how down before thee,
GIVE US the Offices city, State anu national.
oh, give us this Offices. AMI wr vii! Worship
Thee Tor ever and ever. Amer.
The Christian Sabbath meanw! l!e. az
pointed for physical. mental and spiritua!
rest. IS beng sscuiarlzei ana abolished. ~,
il Tho tad publishing hcilsas II our Dwnc1uu
tIy Eai exhausted tAeir literary filth, tho
french anu Russian = "cr, have eea invited
W l'oi LhtlI ScCFF ILT ana moral slilSfi INTO
The trough where our American SWINE err
now wallOw IN. Meanwhile there are enough
hpuAeS o! lnladIY III a.! our cities, open and
unino.estei ot the Law. to invoke the umniDo-
tent wrath Snici buried Soiom under a De
iuge Of trifnstone. The tanden0nier eor!d.
4 think. as Inas-eI lis troops. an they 81.
at this moment plying then batteries upon
family circles, church circles. social circles,
political CIRCLES and national circles, Apollgou
rs IN the saddle md riding nj the head Of ~
inyrnidons would capture this word fc.
CnrkneSS end Woe.
That IS one side Of the conflict now rapjnr
On the other side We have the most ~l1agnif-
cent gospel machinery that the world ever
saw or heaven ever invented. III the first
place there are In TINS country more than
eighty thousand minister Of religion and.
take them as u class, more consecratad.
holer, more consistent, more self denying.
more faithful men never lived. | know them
ny the thousands. | have met them in every
CITY. l am told, not by them, bat by people
outside OF our professor, peeple engagedil
CHRISTIAN and retortnatory work, that the
clergy Of America are at hehead Of all good
enterprises. aud whoever else fail they may
be depended on. The truth OF this Is demon
atreted by the TACT that when q minister OF
religion does fail, it is SO exceptional that the
newspapers report it as something startling,
while a hundred men in other callings may
Yodown without the matter being considered
as especially worth mentioning.
In addition to their equipment in moral
character the clergy Of this country have all
that the schools can give. All arcbRologi-
cal, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary
attainment. SO much for the Christian
ministry Of all denominations. In the next
place on our side of the conflict we have the
erandest churches OF all time and higher
style of membership and more of them, and
u host without number Of splendid men and
women who are doing their best to have this
yUNrt1 n,tr1ffI ln,-nfA roc-nI04I DE-
we all feel that something is wanting.
Enough hearty songs have been sung and
enough earnest sermons preached within the
last six months to save all the cities of Amer
lea, and saving the cities you save the world,
for they overflow oil the land either with
their religion or their infamy.
But look at some of the startling facts.
1t Is nearly nineteen hundred years since
Jesus Christ came by the way Of Bethlehem
caravansary TO save this world, yet the
most Of the world has been no more
touched by this most stupendous fact Of
all eternity than if on the first Christmas
night the beasts of the stall, amid the bleat-
lngs OF their own young, had not heard the
bleafing of the Lamb that was to be slain.
Out Of the eighteen Lundred million of the
human race fourteen hundred million are
without God and without hope in the world,
the camel driver OF Arabia, Mahomet, with
his nine wives. having half as many disciples
as our blessed Christ, and more people are
worshipsng chunks of painted wood and
carved stone than are worshiping the living
and eternal God. Meanwhile, the most Of
us who are engaged in Christian work.
speak for myself as we'll as otherS-are toll.
ing up to our full capacity Of body, mind and
soul, harnesscd up to the last buckle, not
able to draw a pound more than we are
drawing OF lift an ounce more than we are
lifting.
What is the matter My text lets out the
secret. We ali need more OF the power from
on high. Not muscular power, not logica
power, not scientific power, not social power
not financial power, not brain power, bu'
power from on high. With 1t we could ac
CornpllSn more III one week than without !
III a hundfed years. And / ann going to &c
II, II III answer to prayc:. earnest and Ion,
continued, God VIII grant 1t to me. His un
worthy servant. Men and women who know
how to pray, when You pray for yourself
pray for me that | may be endued with powe
from on high. | would rather have it tia
all the diamond fields OF Golconda, and all III
pearls of the sea, and all the gold OF til
mountains. Many OF The inightiest intellec,