The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-07-16
4 Sermon in Kentucky.
DIR. IALMAGE CALLS THE
" | [ y ESSES TO THE
POWER OF CHRIST.
Not Logic, Not IEctaphy>ic>, Not
antiquarian Research. bat
Faith Can Make Is Whole.
THE GOStEL IN INDIA, CHI
MA. TAHITI, AND NADIA
GASCAR.

GASCAR.
Hon BRIDGE, Ky. July ia vast
ooncourse Of people assenbled this
morning on the historic camp ground
at High Bridge. KY. TO hear Dr.. Tai
mage preach. They came from all the
surrounding cities, towns and neighbor-
hood A large contingent from Louis
vile and another from Cincinnati were
present Many of the visitors have re-
mained here since yesterday afternoon,
when DR.. Talmage preached In the
samo place. The text Of his sermon
this morning was from Acts Iii, 15. I'VE
are witnesses.
Standing amid the hills and groves of
Kentucky and before this great multi
tude that no man can nuInber, most of
whom | never saw before end never will
see again in this world, choose q very
practical theme. In the days of George
Stephenson, the perfector of the lomo-
motive engine, the scientists proved
conclusively that n railroad train couId
never be driven by steam powor sue
cessfully without peril; but the rushing
express trains from Liverpool to Edin-
burgh and from Edinburgh to London
have made all the nation witnesses of
the splendid achievement
Machinists and navigators proved
conclusively that a steamer could never
cross the Atlantic ocean, but no sooner
had they successfully proved the i'm
possibility of such an undertaking than
the work was done, and the passengers
on the Cunard, and the Inman, and
the National, and the White Star lines
are witnesses. There went up guffaw
of wise laughter at Professor Morse's
proposition to make the lightning of
heaven his GRAND boy, and it was
proved conclusively that the thing
could never be done, but now ali the
news of the wide world put in your
hands every morning and night has
| made all nations witnesses
WITNESSES OF THE RESURRECTION.
So in the time of Christ it was proved
ucrUiusISoiy sIt.v rU-''s.y- '--.f,>,-. .'s,~
him to rise from the dead. It was
shown logically that when a man was
dead, he was dead, and the heart, and
the liver, and the lungs having ceased
to perform their offices, the limbs would
be rigid beyond all power of friction or
arousal They showed it to be an alb
solute absurdity that the dead Christ
should ever get up alive; but no sooner
had they proved this than the dead
Christ arose, and the disciples beheld
him, heard his voice and talked with
him, and they took the witness stand
to prove that to be true which the wise
acres of the day had proved to be i'm
possible; the record of the experiment
and of the testimony is in the text,
Him hath God raised from the deed,
whereof we are witnesses.
Now, let me play the skeptic for a
moment There is no God, says the
skeptic. for l have never seen him
with my physical eyeeight. Your Bi-
BILE is pack of contradictions. There
never was miracle. Lazarus was not
raised from the deed, and the water
wes never turned into wine Your re
ligion IS an imposition on the credulity
of the asea' There Is an aged man
moving in that pew as though he would
like to respond. Here are hundreds o.
people with faces q little flushed al
these announcements, and all through
this throng there is q suppressed feeling
which would like to speak out In be
half of the truth of cur glorious Chris
tianity, as in the days of the text, cry
ing out, I'VE are witnessesr'
The fact Is, that If this world Is eve
brought to God it will not be through
argument but through testimony. Yos
, might cover the whole earth with apol
! ogies for Christianity, and learnet
treatises in defense of religion; yo,
would net convert q soul. Lectures on
the harmony between science and re
lieion are beautiful mental discipline
but have never saved a soul and neve
will save soul. Pat q man OF the work
and man of the church against eael
other, and the man of the world viii
in all probability. get the triumph
There are thousand things IN our re
Tgion that seem Illogical to fhe worl
and always viii seem illogical.
t TRIUnIPHs OF THE GOSPEL.
t Our weapon In this conflict is faith
, not logic; faith, not metaphysics; faitf
not profundity; faith, not scholasti
: exploration. But then, in order to nav
D faith, we must have testimony, and
flye hundred men, or one thousan
men, or Eve hundred thousand men, c
five million men get up and ten N
: that they have felt the religion of Jesu
Christ a Joy, comfort, help, an II
= spiration, / am bound as fair minde
a man to accept their testimony. l war
g Just now to put before you three propt
1 .,itions, the truth of which | think tn
i audience will attest with overwhelmln
{ unanimity. The first proposition il
: We are witnesses that the religion {
Christ Is able to convert a soul III
e Gospel may have had a hard time
, conquer us, we may have fought
back, but we were vanquisbed. 10
say conversion Is only an inaSfnal
= thing. We know better. We al
:, witnesses. There never was so gres
+ change In our heart and life on ar
!. subject as on this.
d People laughed at the missionaries
|, Madagascar because they preached tt
n years without one convert, but the
n are many thousands of converts in Ma
@ agascar today People laughed at d
IT Judson, the Baptist missionary, b
t cause he kept on preaching In Burint
Eve years without single convert. b