Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-07
AT THE TABERNACLE
DR.. TALMAeE,s APPEAL TO THE in
DIFFERENT AND PRocRAsTlNATlNG:.

DIFFERENT AND OCRASTlNATlNG:.
The Reflnements of Lifo Are Good Things,
aud So Are Wealth and Comfort. Friend
ship and Love, but One Thing Thou
Lackest Yet
BROOKLYN, Feb. 1.-The deep re-
ligious feeling manifested in DR.. Tai;
IMAGES congregations since bis recent
arousing Appeal to Outsiders" has
apparently encouraged him to continue
preaching distinctively evangelistic ser ls
mons Today he delivered another
discourse of the same gospel type, both
at the morning service in the Academy
OF Music, in this city, and at The ChSg;
tian Herald service at night in the NNw
York Academy of Music. His text was
taken from Mark K, 81: Zone thiGg
thou lackest.". III
The young man of the text was a
splendid nature. We fall in love with
him at theflrst glance He was ali,::-
able and frank and earnest and ed1-
Gated and refined and respectable aid
moral, and yet be was not Christian.
And so Christ addresses him in the
words that | have read to you, Zone
thing thou lackest." suppose that
that text was no more appropriate to
tile young man of whom have spoken
than it is appropriate to great multi,
tu,r of people in this audience There
are many things in which you are not
lacking For instance, you are not
hacking in u good home. tits perhaps no
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 chill.
drpn of the house already asleep, tile
older ones. hearing your returning foot
steps, will rush to the door to meet you
And in these winter evenings, tile
children nj the stand with their lessons,
the wife plying the needle and you read
Ing the book or the paper, you feel that
you have n good home Neither are
yon lacking in the reflneinents and
courtesies of life You understand the
polite phraseology of invitation, resard
and apology You have on appropriate
apparel shall wear no better dress
at the wedding than when come to
the marriage Of the kings son. If | all,
we'll clothed on other occasions | will
be in religious audience However
reckless may be about my personal
appearance at other times. when ]
come into a colsecrated aSsemblage /
shall have on the best dress have.
We all understand the proprieties Of
everyday life and tile proprieties Of
Sabbath life.
WORLDLY SUCCESS HAS IT'S vALUE. I
Neither are you lacking in worldly
SUCCESS. You have not made us much
money as you would like to make, but
you have an income While others are
false when they say they hayeSn siD5
come or me, ,pakies inonas, sea
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 rs good
to us when he takes care of us by
surplus of the past as by present sue
cess. 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 pleasant
friendship. You have real good friends.
If the scarlet fever should come to-
night to your house, you know very
we'll WHO would come in and sit up
with the sick one; or if 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
fled from the loved one, take you by
the arm and lead you into the next
room, and while you are gone to Green.
wood they would stay in the house and
put aside tile garments and the play
things that might bring to your mind
too severely your great loss Friends2
You all have friends.
Neither are you lacking in your ad-
miration of the Christian religion
There is nothing that makes you so
angry as to have man malign Christ.
You get red in the face and you say,
Sir, want you to understand that
though am not myself Christian. l
don't like such things said as that in
my store" and the ngoes off, giving
you a parting salutation, but you hard
ly answer him You are provoked be-
yond 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 stand
ing at the altar of Christ. taking the
vows of the Christian.
1t might be little hard on you, and
might make you nervous and agitated
for a 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. Ihope
some day to join you" You believe
all the doctrines of religion. A man
out yonder says, II am sinner" You
respond, $50 am L" Some one says,
Il believe that Christ came to sage the
world" You say, $50 do l." Look
ing at your character, at your sur
roundings, i find a thousand things
about which to congratulate you, and
yet I must tell you in the love and fear
of God, and with reference to my last
account, lone thing thou lackest. "
THE CHRISTIANS HAPPINESS.