The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-18
TALMAGE's SERMON.
A Lacking In the Dlemsnts d
Happiness.
Which Can Only Do Supplied BY Christs
Lovo-Hls Hand Alone Can smooth
the WRINKLES OF Care.

Which Can Only Do Supplied BY Christ's
Lovo-Hls Hand Alone Caa Smooth
the WRINKLES OF Care.
The text OF DR.. Talmage's sermon
last Sunday was: Zone thing thou lack
est" Mark X, 81. t N II
The young man Of the text was .
splendid nature. We fall in love with
him at the first glance. He was amiable,
and frank, and earnest, and educated,
and refined, and respectable, and moral,
and vet he was not Christian. And so
Christ addressed him in the words that
I have read to you: Zone thing thou
lackest." / suppose that that text was
no more appropriate to the young man
of whom have spoken than it is ap-
propriatc to great multitude of people
in this audience. There are many
things in which you are not lacking.
For instance, you are not lacking in a
good home. It is, perhaps, no more
than an hour ago that you closed the
door, returning to see whether it was
we'll fastened, one Of the best homes in
this city. The younger children OF
the house already asleep; the
older ones, hearing your return
ing 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 refine
ments and courtesies Of life. You un-
derstand the polite phraseology OF invi-
tation, regard and apology. You have
an appropriate apparel. shall wear
no better dress at the wedding than
when l come to the marriage OF the
Kings Son. If l am we'll clothed on
other occasions, will be in religious
audiences. However reckless may be
about my personal appearance at other
times, when come into q consecrated
assemblage l shall have on the best
dress l have. We all understand the
proprieties Of every day life and the
proprieties of Sabbath life.
Neither are you lacking in worldly
success 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 in
come or are making no money, yor
have never told that falsehood. YOU
have had livelihood or you have faller
upon old resources, which is just
the same thing, for God is just as goot
- us when He takes care of us by a sur
plus 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 il
pleasant friendship You have real goot
friends If the scarlet fever should come
tonight to your house, you know very
well who would come in and sit up will
the sick; or; If death should come, 70,
know who would come in and take you
hand tight in theirs with that peculia
grip which means, "Ill stand by you,
and after the life has fed from the lovet
one, take you by the arm and lead yo'
INTO the next room, and while you ar
gone to Greenwood they would stay il
the house and put aside the garment
and the play-things that might bring t.
your mind too severely your great loss
Friends?
You all have friends. Neither are yol
lacking in your admiration of thu
Christian religion. There is nothing
that makes you so angry as to have
man malign Christ. You get red in tn
face, and you say: ''Sir, want you t.
understand that though 1 am not my
self Christian, don't like such thing
said as that in my store" and the mai
goes off, giving you a parting saluta
ton, but you hardly answer him. Yo
are provoked beyond all bounds. Man
OF you have been supporters of rcligio
and have given more to the caus
of Christ than some who profes
His faith. There is nothing tina
would please you more than to Sc
your son or daughter standing at tn
altar of Christ, taking the vows of tn
Christian. 1t might be a little hard o
you, and might make you nervous an
agitated for little while; but yo
would be man enough to say: IN
child, that is right. Go on. / al
glad you haven't been kept back by m
example. l hope some day to join you.
You believe all the doctrines {
religion. man out yonder say!
81 am a sinner" You respond: IS
am l." Some one says: 81 bt
lieve that Christ came to save tn
world" You say: $50 do l." Lookin
at your character, at your surrounding
/ find 1000 things about which to col
graduate you; and yet l must tell yo
in the love and fear of God, and wit
reference to my last account; 'On
thing thou lackest."
You need, my friends, in the fir.
place, the element of happiness. Som
day you feel wretched. You do nc
know what is the matter with you. 70
say: II did not sleep last night.
think that must be the reason of IN
restlessness:" or, 81 have eaten som
thing that did not agree with me, and
think that must be the reason" An
you are unhappy. Oh, my friends, hal
piness does not depend upon physic,
condition. Some of the happiest peopl
have ever known have been those VIII
have been wrapped in consumption
or stung with neuralgia. or burnin
with the slow fire of some fever.
never shall forget one man
my first parish, who in excruciatio
of body, cried out: 'Mr. Talmage, fol