The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-18
,ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED.
OR. TALMAeE breaches ON The
NECESSITY OF A REDEEMER.

Beauty. Pathos and Comfort Found In
che Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah-How !
and why Men and sheep G" Astray. /
whosoever WIN. Let Him Come.
] BROOKLYN, June 2s.-Dr. Talmage's ser.
Aou today is OF SO decidedly evangelical a
character as tn prove conclusively that
while SO many eminent preachers of the
day are drifting away from the old fash
ioned Gospel he remains firm in the paths
of orthodoxy. His subject is "Astray, but
Recovered" and his text, Isaiah lii, @; |
~Ali we like sheep have gone astray:
aud the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
OF ms all"
who hear or read this sermon will be in
uternity. During the next fifty years you
will nearly all be gone. The next ten years
will cut a wide swath among the people.
The year 1891 will to some be the finality
Such considerations make this occasion alb |
sorbing and momentous. The first half OF
my text is an Indictment, "All we like
sheep have gone astray." Some one says
"-Can you not drop the first word' That IL
too general: that sweeps too great a circle. "
Some man rises in the audience aud he
looks over on the opposite side of the house,
and he says: There is a blasphemer, and
understand how he has gone astray- And
there in another part of the house is n de-
frauder. and he has gone astray. And
there is an impure person. and he has gone
Astray."
Sit down, my brother, ana look at home.
Ny text takes us all in. It starts behind
the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room
and comes back to the point where it
started, when it says: "All we like sheep
have gone astray." Icanvery easily under.
stand why Martin Luther threw up his
de aff hod md he Pihla nd
cried out, "Ohl my sins, my SINS" and why
the publican. according to the custom TO
this day in the east, when they have any
great grief, began to beat himself and cry
as he smote upon his breast, 'tGod be merci
fol TO me sinner"
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SHEPHERDS LITE
Twas, like many of you, brought up in the
country, and know some Of the habits OF
sheep aud b, W they get astray, and what
my text means when it says, "All'we like
sheep have gone astray." Sheep get astray
in two ways either by trying to get into
ether pasture, or from being scared by the
dogs In the former way some of us got
-astray. We thought the religion of Jesus
Christ short commons We thought there
was better pasturage somewhere else. We
thought if we could only lie down on the
banks of distant streams or under great
oaks on the other side of some hill we
might be better fed.
We wanted other pasturage than that
which God through Jesus Christ gave our
soul, and we wandered on and we wan
aered on, and we were lost We wanted
bread and we found garbage. The further
we wandered, instead of finding rich pas
turage, we found blasted heath and sharp
er rocks and more stinging nettles. No
pasture. How was it in the worldly
groups when you lost your child? Did
they come around and console you very
much? Did not the plain Christian maIl
who came into your house and sat up with
your darling child give you more comfort
than all worldly associations? Did all the
eonvivial songs you ever heard comfort
you in that day of bereavement SO much
as the song they sang to you, perhaps the
very song that w:Ss sung by your little
child the last Sabbath afternoon of her
Rfe? e4r
There is a happy land, far, far away,
Where saints immortal reign. bright. bright
as day.
Did your business associates in that day
Of darkness and trouble give you any espe
eial condolencef Business exasperated you,
business wore you out, business left you
limp a rag, business made you mad.
You got dollars, but you got no peace.
God have mercy on the man who has moth
ing but business to comfort him. The
world afforded you no luxuriant pastur.
age A famous English actor stood on the
stage impersonating, and thunders of ap-
Plause came down from the galleries, and
many thought 1t was the proudest moment
OF all his life; but there was a man ASLEEP
just in front of him, and the fact that that
0an was Indifferent and somnolent spoiled
all the occasion for him, and he cried
wake up! wake upp'
So one little annoyance in life has beer
/, more pervading to your mind than all the
brilliant congratulations aud successes
Poor pasturage for your soul you found in
this world. The world has cheated you
the world has belied you, the world ha.
misinterpreted you, the world has perse
cnted you. 1t never comforted you. Oh
ehis world is good rack from which
horse may pick his hay; it is good trough
from which tie swine may crunch theia
mess; but it gives but little food to a sou
Slood bought and immortal. "a
What is souls 1t is hope high as th,
throne of God. What is mans You.say
sit is only man. 1t is only man gou
, overheard in business life. What is a man
The battle ground of three worlds, with hi
hands taking hold of destinies of light o
darkness. A mani No line can measur
him.. No limit can bound him. The arch
angel before the throne cannot outliv
him. The stars shall die but he will watcl
their extinguishment- The world vii
burn, but he will gaze~on the conf1agra
tion. Endless ages will march on; he will
watch the procession. A mani The mas
terpiece of God Almighty. Yet you say
1T is only a man. Can a nature like tina
be fed on husks of the wildernessf
Substantial comfort will not grow -ss
On natures barren soil;
All we can boast till Christ, we know
Is vanity and toll. -
THOSE WHO STRAY, IN TROUBLE
Some of you got astray by looking fc
better pasturage; others by being scared {
the dogs The hound gets owl into th
pasture field The poor things ny in ever