Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-24
DIR. 7. DEWITT TALMAGE.
A GREAT SERMON DELIVERED by
THE FAMOUS PULPIT ORA
TOR LAST SUNDAY.
The Question n Asked You. care You All
Right with Code" What the World
Calls Lucky Coincidence" the
Doctor Calls Almighty
DeliVere

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Talmage yesterday morning preached
the following powerful sermon to an eX
ceedingly large congregation in the
Academy of Music:
A marked solemnity pervaded the As
sembly, and ut its close many person,
in various parts Of the house, rose al
the invitation of the preacher to ask fol
prayers for their salvation.
DIR. Talmage chose the following
texts for his sermon: Come" Genesis
vi, Is. Come" Revelations, xii. II.
Imperial, tender and all persuasive il
this word Come Six hundred and
seventy-eight times is il found in the
Scriptures. 1t stands ut the front gate
of the Bible as in my first text, inviting
antediluvians the pOstdiluvians into the
ark OF a Saviour's mercy, Come" is
only word OF four letters. but it is the
queen of words, and nearly the entire
nation OF English vocabulary bows TO its
sceptre. 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
sometimes it laughs. Sometimes it
prays, sometimes it tempts, and some
times 1t destroys. 1t sounds from the
door Of the church and from the serag-
lious of sin, and the gates of heaven and
the gates OF hell. 1t is continent and
accrescent of all power. 1t is the heir
ess of most of the past and almoner of
most Of the future. Come" You
may pronounce it so that all the
heavens will be heard in its cadences.
or pronounce it so that all the woes of
time and eternity shall reverberate in
its one syllable. 1t is on the top lip of
saint and profligate. 1t is the might
lest Of all solicitants either for good or
bad.
CHRIsT1ANITY's GREATEST WORD.
To-day / weigh anchor, and haul in
the planks, and set sail on that great
word, although am sure | will not he
able to reach the further shore. / will
let down the fathOming line into this
sea and try to measure its depts, though
tie together all the cables and cordage
l have on board. will not be able 10
touch bottom. All the power of the
Christian religion is in that word
Come" The dicatorial and command
atOry in religion is of no avail The i'm
perative mood is not the appropriate
mood when we would have people saving
" impressed. They may be coaXed.
but they cannot be driven. Our hearts
are like our homes: ut 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 launch
ing 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-''COme.' That
man who has such efficiency in Chris
tian work, and that woman who has
such power to pursuade people to quit the
wrong and begin the right, went
through a series OF losses, bereavements,
prosecutions and the trials of twenty or
thirty years before they could make it a
triumph of grace every time they utter
ed the word Come"
You must remember that in many
cases our ''COme" has mightier Come
to conquer before it has any effect at all.
Just give me the accurate census, the
statistics of how many are down in
fraud, in drunkenness. in gambling, in
impurity or in vice of any sort, and l
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 infidel tracts on
Christianity" Come with me to a
place OF bad amusement" Come with
me in a gay bout through underground
New York"
AN INVITATIONS DIRE ABUSE.
If in this city there are 10000 who are
down in moral character. then 10000
are under the power of the word Come.
| was reading Of wife whose husband
had been overthrow by strong drink.
and she went to the saloon where he
was ruined, and she said: Give me
hack nv husband" And the bartender,
pointinr to q maudlin and battered man
browsing in the corner Of the baIr0Om.
said: ''There he is: Jim, wake up: here's
YOUR wife come for you" And the
woman said: DO you call that my hus-
band? What have you been doing with
him? Is that the manly brow! Is that
the clear eye? Is that the noble heart
that I married? What vile drug have
YOU given him that has turned him into
q fiend? Take your tiger claws of 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 alter ten years ago. Give
him back to me-" Victim was he, as
millions Of others have been, OF the
word .'Come."
Now we want all the world over TO
harness this word for good as others
have harnessed il for evil and 1t will
draw the five continents and the seas
between them: yea. il will draw the
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