The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-06
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE ,BRooKLyN DFvENEs SUN
DAY SERMON.
Bnhjecti witnesses 90 -the Truth
Of ChrisfianifyF Preached
at High Bridge, KY

no man can number, most of whom never
eaw belorQnnd never win ses again IN this
world. choote q ygy practical theme. In
the days II George Stephenson, tho perfector
of the locomotiye engine, The sclentista
proved cohclnsiyely Sat - railroad train
could novfr bedriven by steam power arc.
cessfnlly without peril; but tho rushing OK.
press trains from Liverpool % Edinburgh.
ana from Edinburgh 10 London, have made
all the nation witnesses of the splendid
achievement
Mnchinists and navigators proved conciu.
eivey that n steamer could never cross the
Atlantic, but no sooner had they siicccfs-
fully proved tha impossibility Of such an IN.
dertnking than tho work was dope and tho
passengers on the Cunnrd and the Tnfnan
andthe National, aud tho White Btnr lines
are witnesses. There went up n guifaw Of
wise laughter nt Professor Morse's proDosl-
ton " make tilQa1Nh thing Of heaven his er-
rand boy. npH PAS proved conclusivey
That the thinH N'4 1ieyer be done; hut now
all the nswA 81 ID wide world nut in your
hands svptf Nfhing and night mas made al
NATIONS wiI6AAses.
Sointbe time OK Christ II was proved con-
clusiyely that II was impossible for Him 10
rise from the dead. IL was shown logically
that when man was dead he was dead and
the heart, and tbs liver, and the lungs bav-
ing ceased 10 perform their offices, the limbs
would be rigid beyond all power Of friction
or aTousal. They showed II 70 b0 an hbso-
lutte absurdity that the dead Christ should
ever got np alive; but no sooner had they
proved this than the dead Christ arose, aud
the disciples behsId Him. heard His voice
and talked with Him. aud they took tho Wit
ness stand 10 prove that 10 be true which the
wiseacres Of the day had proved 10 be impos.
sible this record Of tho experiment and OF
the testimony Is In the text Him hath
God raised from the dead. whereof wo arc
witnesses"
-. -. a.. -. AZ 4.
"There II no God /" says tho alsep.ic, "for
have never seen Him with my physical eye
sight. Your Bible IL pack Of contradic.
lions There never was a miracle. Lazarus
was not raised from the dead, and the water
was never turned into wine. Your religion
~ an imposition on the credulity u the ages
There Is an aged man moving IN that pow
IAN though he would like 10 respond. Hersare
hundreds Of people with faces a little flushed
mt these announcements, aud all through
this throng there Is suppressed feeling
which would like 70 speak out in behalf OF
the truth Of our glorious Christianity. as IN
the days Of the text, crying out I'VE are
witnesses"
The fact Is that II this world IL ever
brought 10 God u will not DO through nren.
ment, but through testimony. You might
cover tho whole earth with apologies for
Christianity and learned treatses IN defense
OF religion--you would not convert soul
Lectures on the harmony between science
and religion are beautiful mental discipline
Int have mover saved a soul and never will
rave soul Put man of the world and n |
man of the church against each other. and |
the man OF the world will, IN all probability, |
net the triumph. There are a Thousand |
things IN our religion that ssem illogical 10
the world, and always will seem illogical.
Our weapon IN this conflict Is filth, not
logic; faith, not metaphysics; faith, not
profundity; faith, not scholastic exploration.
But then IN order 10 have faith we must
have testimony, and II five hundred men, or
one thousand men, or I've hundred thousand
men, or tivp million men get up and tell me
thar they have felt tho religion OF Jesus
Christ joy, a comfort, n help, an insp!ra-
ton, am round as "a fair-niinded man, 20
accept their testimony. want 10 put be-
fore you three propositions the truth Of
which think this audiences will attest with
overwhelming unanlmity. The first propo-
sition isi We ARE witnesses that the religion
OF Christ IL able to convert soul The Cos.
pei may have had q hard time 20 conquer ne,
wemay have fought IL back. but we were
vanqulshed. You say conversion Ia only IN
imaginary thing. We know better 1--WE
arc witnesses There never was so great
change la our heart and life on any other
subject as on this.
People laughed at the missionaries IN Mad
agakcar because they preached ten years
without one convert bus there are mapy .
day, People laughed az Dr. Judson. the
Baptist missionary because ha kept on
preaching In burmah five years withou.
single convert; but there are many thou
sands OF Rapiists m Burmah to-day, penpio
laughed ~ DIR. Morrison Ia China for preach
ing there seven years without single con
version. hut there are many thousands o.
Christians in China to-day. People laughed Z
a. tie missionaries Tor preaching 40 Tahiti
for fifteen years without single conversion,
and &C the missionaries for preaching in Ben. {
gal seventeen years without single CONVEX ,
aion yet in all those lands there are multi. !
tudes OF Christians to-day. 4
But why 90 SO far 60 find evidences OF The q
Gospels power to save a soulg I'VE ars Wit /
nesses We were so proud that no man y
could have humbled US: we were SO hard {
ihat no earthly power could have melted us. {
Angels OF God were nil around about Us; they Il
could not overcome us. hut one dav parhans Il
at Methodist anxious seat or a; a Presby- G
terian catechetical lecture or st a burial or h
on horseback, power seized US and made us "
get down and made us'trsmble and made MS 81
knee and made us cry Tor mercy and we d
tried 10 wrench ourselves away from tho
grasp. hut We could not. IL flung Us fnt q
and when we arose view ere as much chanrei $,
As Gourgis, tho heather, who went into a
prayer meeting with dagger and gun 10 "
disturb the meeting end destroy il, but the Il
next day was found crying "Oh, my great q
fluoi Otl, my great NANiouFt ana Tor u
eleven years preached the Gospel OF Christ h
30 his fellow mountaineers, the last words I
on his dying lips being FIRES gracew Oh, lip
Il was free eracel h
There is q man who was for ten years a v
hard drinker. The dreadful apostle had
sent down lis roots around tho palatc AMI e
tho tongue, aud on down untl they were Q
interlinKed with the vitais OF the body, mind s
and soul, but he has not taken any stimu- G
lnnts for two years. What did that Not Z
societies. Not prohibition laws :
Not moral snesion. Conversion did it.
ssWhy. said one upon whom the great ,
change had come. 'sir. 1 feel Just as though Z
were somebody else" There is a SEA cap y
tain who swore all the way from New York q
20 Havana. and from Havana to San Frsn- =
cisco. and when be was in port he was worse n
than when he was on sea. What power was y
L that washed his tongue clean OF pro. T
fanitics aud made him psalm Slngerf Con
version hy the Holy Spirit There are thon- Il
sands Of pepple hero TODAY who are no more
what they once were than a water lily Is a a
nirhfshade. or a morning lark Il n vulture, h
,r day + night n
Nos. IL I - nd demand that all thosa p
,eonie here prts,nt who have iels the Goa n
rerflnx power % religion should rise, 50 far h
rom being ashamed they would spring 70 G
heir feet with lar more alarrity t1an they "
lrsr srrarr 70 the dance. the tears mingiing d
rith their exhilarAIInn as they cried. We q
re witne>ssr And if they tried % sing @