Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-06
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: Come"

Imperial, tender and all persuasive is this
word Come" Six hundred and seventy.
eight times it is found in the Scriptures 1t
stands at the front gate of the Bible as in nv
nrst text, inviting antediiuvians into Noah
ark, and 1t stands at the other gate of the
Bible as i'll my second text, inviting the
postdlluvians into the ark Of Saviour's
mercy. tome" Is only a word of four
letters, but it is the queen of words and
nearly the entire nation of English vocabu-
larry bows to its scepter. It 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
1t laughs. Sometimes it prays, sometimes it
tempts and sometimes it DESTROYS. It sounds
from the door of church and from the serag-
Los Of sin, from the gates of heaven and the
gales of hell. 1t is continent and accrascent
of all power. 1t is the heiress of most of the
past and the almOner of most of the future
come" GU 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 IL its one syllable
1t is the migEtiest of all solicitants either for
good or bad
To-day weigh anchor and haul in the
planks, and set sail on the great word, al
though l am sure | will not be able to reach
the further shore. I will let down the faith
oning line into the sea and try to measure
its depths, and though [ tie together all the
cables and cordage | have on board, will
hOC Do dUl0 20 UOucQ DOCCOm. All the power
or the Christian religion is in that word
Come" The dictatOrial and commandatory
IN religion IS of no avail. The imperative
mood Is not the appropriate mood when we
would have people savingly impressed. They
may be coaxed, but they cannot be driven
Our hearts are like our homes; at friend
ly knock the door will be opened, but an at
Eanpt to force open our door would land the
assallant in prison. Our theological semin-
aries, which keep young men three years in
fhnIs I<NF<~
the ministry, will do well if in so short a
time they can teach the candidates for the
molly office how to say with right emphasis
and 1ntonatlOn and power that one word
Come" That man who has such efficiency
an CHRISTIAN work, and that woman who has
such power to persuade people to quit the
wrong and begin the right, went through a
series of losses, bereavements prosecutions
and the trials of twenty thirty years be-
fore they could make it triumph of prace
every time they uttered the word Come"
You Hust remember that in many cases
our Come" has a r1ightier ''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 drunken |
ness 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"
'Cotne and see what we win at this gam
ing table" 'Come, enter with me this
doubtful speculation" Come with me and
read those inf1del tracts on Christianity" |
Come with me to place Of bad amuse-
ment." Come with me in a gay bout
through underground New York" If in this
city there are twenty thousand who are down
IN moral character, then twenty thousand
fell under the power Of the word "Come"
l 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 back my husband" And
the bartender, pointing to a maudlin and
battered man browsing in the corner of the
barroom said: There he is. 'Jim wake up;
here's your wife come for YOU" And the
woman said: "Do you cali that my husband?
What have you been doing with him? Is
that the manly brow? Is that the clear eve?
Is that the noble heart 7 married? What
vile drug have you given him that has turned
him into fiend? Take your tiger claws off
of him. Uncoil those serpent folds of evil
habit that are crushing him. Give me back
my husband, the one with whom I stood at
the altar ten years ago. Give him back to
me-" Victim was he, as millions of others
nave been, Of the word Gomez
With thai word which has done so much
Tor others approach you to-day. Are Won
all right with God? NO" you say, II
think not; am sometimes alarmed when I
1hlnk OF HIM: fear will not be ready to
meet him in the last day; my heart is not
right with God" Come then and have it
made right. Through the Christ who died
to save you, come! What is the use in
waiting? The longer you wait the further
on you are and the deeper you are down
Strike out for heaven You remember that 1
a few years ago steamer called the Princess
Alice, with a crowd of excursionists aboard
sank IN the Thames and there was anawfui
sacrifice of life. A bOatman from the shore 6
put out for the rescue and he had a big boat
and he got it so full it would not hold an
other person, and as he laid hold of the oars :
70 pull for the shore, leaving hundreds help '
less and drowning, he cried out, ''Oh, that [ !
had bigger boatm Thank God, I am not }
thus limited, and that / can promise room !
Tor all III this Gospel boat. Get in: get in! 7
AND yet there is room. Room in the heart :
OF pardOnlng God. Room in heaven =
L also apply the word of my text to those 9
who would like practical comfort If any =
ever escape the struggle OF life I have not .
found them. They are not certainly among y
Cne prosperous classes. In most cases it WAS -
a struggle all the way up till they reached :,
Ine prosperity, and since they have reached Y
o otl nelgnts there ha7! been perplexities, f
anxletleS and cries which were almost =
enough to shatter the nerves and turn the
ofa!n 1t would be hard to tell which have ~
Tue biggest hight in the wOrld-the prospali =
JteS OF the adVersItleS, the conspicuties or the !
obscurltles. just as soon as YOU have enouch !
success 10 attract the attention OF others the :
'hVeS ana JealouSleS are let loose fro n thei, !
Kennel. The greatest crime that Y II CON II
commit IN the estimation of others is to pat !
N oetter than they do. They think v0ur u
oulClon is their subtraction. Five hundred / :,
'ersons start for certain goal of success. -
ne reaches 1t and the other four hundred y,
nd ninety nine are mad II womb tnI1a "
oIumeS TO hold the story of the wrongs ont -
ages and uefamations that have come uDoo I;
GU as result of your success The warm | -
I'm OF prosperity brings into life a swami | T
I'LL OF annoying insects L