News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-22
A WONDERFUL WORLD.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE breaches AN
ABLE SERMON ON COME

This Word May Be Used for Good or for
Evil-It Is Found Many Times in the
scriptures-It Beokons. Other Words
Drive.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 18.-Dr. Talmage
preached the following sermon this
morning to an OVERLOOKING congregation
in the Academy of Music, this city. At
night, when The Christian Herald ser
vice was held in the New York Acade
my of Music, fully six thousand persons
were massed in the large building. A
marked solemnity pervaded the assem-
bly,, 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.. Tai
mage chose the following texts for his
sermon: Come" (Gen vi, 49,; Come
iRev. xxi, 10.
Imperial, tender and all persuasive is
this word Come" Six hundred and
seventy-eight times is it found in the
Scriptures. 1t stands at the front gate
of the Bible as in my first text, invit-
ing antediluvians into Noah's ark, and
it stands at the other gate of the Bible
as in my second text, inviting the post
diluvians into the ark of Saviour's
mercy. Come is only a word of four
letters, but it is the queen of words,
and nearly the entire nation of En-
glish vocabulary bows to its scepter.
l. ir,+D .r-bioI, toy,
thousand rivers of meaning Other
words drive, but this beckons
All moods of feeling hath that word
Come. Sometimes it weeps and
sometimes it laughs Sometimes it
prays. sometimes it tempts and some
times 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 continent and
accrescent of all power. 1t is the heiress
of most of the past and the aImoner of
most of the future. ''COmel" You
may pronounce it so that all the heavens
will be heard in its cadences, or pro
ncunce it SO that all the woes of time
and eternity shall reverberate in its one
syllable. 1t is on the lip of saint and |
prolligate. 1t is the mightiest of all |
solicitants either for good or bad.
ALL TIE POWER OF CHRISTIANITY Is
IN THAT WORD.
Today | weigh anchor, and haul in |
I'll. planks and set sail en- that great
v.rl, although am sure will not be
ALE 70 reach the farther shore | will
let down the fathoming line into this
sea and try to measure its depths. and,
though | tie together 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 COM
mandatory in religion is of no avail.
The imperative mood is not the appro-
'prjate mood when we would have PEG
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
wonid land the assailant in prison. Our
Theological Summaries, which keep
young men three years in their curric-
alum before launching them into the
ministry, viii do well if in so short a
time they can teach the candidates for
the holy Office how to say with right
emphasis and information and power
that one word Gomez That man
who has such efficiency in Christian
syork. and that woman who has such |
power 10 persuade people to quit the
wrong and begin the right, went
<f.,c,,1rh IF 1. ,
Inents, prosecutions. and the trials of
twenty or thirty years before they {
could make it a triumph of grace every l
time they uttered the word Come"
MANY SLAIN 81 THAT WORD COME. {
You must remember that in many {
cases our come has a mightier g
come" to conquer before it has any 6
effect at all Just give me the accu
rate census the statistics. of how t
Enany are down in fraud, in drunken. 1
mess, in gambling, in impurity or in {
vice of any sort. and will give you :
she accurate census or statistics of how i
Euany have been slain by the word
leone. Come and click wine glass {
es with me at this ivory bar :" Come I
and see what we can win at this gam |
lng table" Come, enter with me this |
doubtful speculation" Come with s
Eme and read those inffdel tracts on | t
Come with me TO a
place Of bad amusement" Come {
with me in 4 gay bout through under {
ground New York" If in this city |
there are twenty Thousand who are i
down in moral character, then twenty t
Thousand fell under the power of the |
WORD come"
was reading of a wife whose hus- {
band had been overthrow by strong q
drink, and she went to the saloon s
where he was ruined and she said, {
Give me back my husband" And S
the bartender, pointing to a maudlin a
and battered man browsing in the S
corner of the bar room said, There he f
Is. jim. wake up; here's your wife s
come for you" And the woman said: t
DO you call that my husband2 What f
have you been doing with him? Is h
that the manly brow2 Is that the Il
clear eye? Is that the noble heart that o
nIarried2 What vile drug have you
given him that has turned him into a
iend2 Take your tiger claws off of "
him Uncoil those serpent folds of d
evil habit that are crushing him. Give NJ
ne back my husband, the one with y
whom | stood at the altar ten years "
lso Give him back to mel" Victim n
vas he, as millions of others have been, al
If the word ''Comel" kl
COME WITH rs ST
Now we want all the world over to 50
arness this word for good as others ia
ave harnessed it for evil, and it will OF
raw the five continents and the seas ce
etween them; yea. it will draw the til
Ihole earth back to the God from til
Thich it has wandered. 1t is that WOO &C
lg and persuasive word that will lead tn
len to give up their sins Was skep- tn
icism ever brought into love of the TO
ruth by an ebullition of hot words SID
gainst infidelity2 Was ever the bias Gu
heIner stopped in his oaths by denun- ST
iation of blasphemy2 Was ever nj
runkard weaned from his cups by the til
lecturers mimicry of stag To-
ering step and hiccough? No. 1t was, be
Come with me to church today and is
ear our singing" Come and let me er
ltroduce you to Christian man whom ha
GU will be sure to ADMIRE" ''Come IN
it'll me into associations that are cheer fir
II and good and inspiring;" Come to