Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-19

/ ing to an overlooking congregation in the
Academy of Music, this city. At night,
when The Christian Herald service was
held in the New York Academy of Music,
! fully six thousand persons were massed in
the large building, A marked solemnity
| pervaded the assembly, and at its close
many persons in various parts of the house
rose at the invitation of the preacher to
ask for prayers for their salvation. DR..
Talmage chose the following texts for his
sermon: "Come" Gen. vi, 49,; Come"
! ltev. xxi, ~.
Imperial, tender and all persuasive is
this word Come" Six hundred and sew
enty-eight times is it found in the Script
ures. 1t stands at the front gate of the
Bible as in my first text inviting antedi-
luvians into Noah's ark and it stands at
the other gate of the Bible as in my second
text inviting the postdiluvians into the
ark Of a Saviour's mercy. "Come" is only
a word of four letters, but it is the queen
of words, and nearly the entire nation of
English vocabulary bows to its scepter. 1t
is an ocean into which empty ten thousand
rivers of meaning. Other words drive, but
this beckOns.
All moods of feeling hath that word
Come" Sometimes it weeps and some
JlLneS IL loOlltJllIleS IL DTdSS, SOLub-
times it tempts and sometimes it destroys
1t sounds from the door of church and
from the seraglios of sin, from the gates Of
heaven and the gates of hell. 1t is con-
fluent and accresCent of all power. 1t is the
heiress of most of the past and the almoner
of most of the future "Come!" You may
pronounce it 50 that all the heavens will
be heard in its cadences, or pronounce ii so
boT oil ha ,ft ato oh
reverberate in its one syllable. 1t is on the
lip of saint and prohigate. 1t is the might
lest of all solcitants either for good or
bad.
WORD OF WORDS.
Today weigh anchor and haul in the
planks, and set sail on that great word, al
though am sure will not be able to reach
the further shore. | will let down the
fathoming line into this sea and try to
measure its depths, and though l tie to-
gether all the cables and cordage | have on
board, will not be able to touch bottom.
All the power of the Christian religion is
in that word Come The dictatorial
and commandatory in religion is of no
avail. The imperative mood is not the APP
prOpriate mood when we would have peo-
pie savingly impressed. They may be
coaXed, but they cannot be driven.
Our hearts are like our homes; at "A
friendly knock the door will be opened,
but an attempt to force open our door
would land the assailant in prison. Our
theological seminaries which keep young
men three years in their curriculum before
launching them into the ministry, will do
well if in so short time they can teach
the candidates for the holy office how to
say with right emphasis and information
and power that one word "Comel" That
man who has such efficiency in Christian
work, and that woman who has such
power to persuade people to quit the
wrong and begin the right, went through
a series of losses, bereavements, persecu-
tions and the trials of twenty or thirty
years before they could make it triumph
of grace every time they uttered the word
Come
COMES SOMETIMES WAR
You must remember that in many cases
our Come has u mightier Come to
conquer before it has any effect at all.
just give me the accurate census, the sta
tistics, of how many are down in fraud, in
drunkenness, in gambling, in impurity, or
in vice of any Sort and will give you the
accurate census or statistics of how many
have been slain by the word Come"
Come and click wine glasses with me at
this ivory bar" Come and see what we
can win at this gaming table" Come,
enter with me this doubtful speculation"
Come with me and read those nfdel
tracts on Christianity Come with me
to a place of bad amusement" Come
with me in gay bout through under
ground New York" If in this city there
are twenty thousand who are down in
ph
fell under the power of the word Come"
! was reading of wife whose husband
had been overthrown by strong drink, and
she went to the saloon where he was
ruined and she said Give me back my
husband" And the bartender, pointing
to a maudlin and battered man browsing |
in the corner of the barroom, said: "There |
he is. Jim, wake up; here's your wife |
come for YOU" And the woman said |
'Do you call that my husband? What |
have you been doing with him? Is that |
the manly brow? Is that the clear eye? Is |
that the noble heart that married? What |
vile drug have you given him that has |
turned him into a iehd? Take your tiger !
claws off of him. Uncoil those serpent |
folds of evil habit that are crushing him.
Give me back my husband, the one with |
whom | stood at the altar ten years ago.
Give him back to me- Victim was he, MS
millions of Others have been, of the word |
Gomez
LET US HARNESS THIS WORD FOR GOOD.
Now we want all the world over to har-
ness this word for good as others have har-
messed it Tor evil, and it will draw the five
continents and the seas between them, yea,
it will draw the whole earth back to the
God from which it has wandered 1t is
that wooing and persuasive work that will
lead men to give up their sins. Was skep-
ticism ever brought into love of the truth
by an ebullition of hot words against in
fidelity? Was ever the basphemer stop
ped in his oaths by denunciation of bias
phcmy? Was ever a drunkard weaned
from his cups by the temperance lecturers
mimicry of staggering step and hiccoughP
No. 1t was: Come with me to church to-
day and hear our siuging;n Come and let
me introduce you to a Christian man whom
you will be sure to admire;' "Come with
me into associations that are cheerful and
good and inspiring; Come with me into
joy such as you never before experienced"
With that word which has done so much
for others | approach you today. Are you
all right with God? "No,n You say, 81
think not; | am sometimes alarmed when
| think Of him; | fear will not be ready
to meet him in the last day; my heart is
not right with Cod Come then and have
it made right. Through the Christ who
died to save you, comet What is the use in
The longer you wait the further
off you are, and the deeper you are down.
Strike out for heaven! You remember that
a few years ago steamer called the Prin-
cess Alice, with n crowd Of excursionists
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