Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-29
.ASTRAY But RECOVERED
DR.. TALMAGE PRGhcHes ON THE
/ NECESSITY or A REDEEMER.

BRooRLYN, June 2S.--Dr Talmage's ser
mon today is of 80 decidedly evangelical a
character as to prove conclusiyely that
while so many eminent preachers of the
day are drifting away from the old fash
Toned Gospel he remains firm in the paths
OF orthodoxy. His subject Is "Astray, but
Recovered" and his text, Isaiah Iii, g..
"All we like sheep have gone astray: Z"
and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us ALL"
Within ninety years at the longest all
who hear or read this sermon will be in
eternity. During the next fifty years you
will nearly all be gone. The next ten years
will cut wide swath among the people
The year 1891 will to some be the fnality
Such considerations make this occasion alb.
sorbing and momentous. The first half of
my text Is an indictment, "All we like
sheep have gone astray," Some one says
"Can you not drop the first word? That Is
too general; that sweeps too great a circle"
Some man rises in the audience and he
looks over on the opposite side of the house,
and he says; "Fhere is n basphemer, and
understand how he has gone astray. And
there in another part of the house Is n de-
frauder, and he has gone astray. And
there Is an impure person, and he has gone
astray."
Sit down, my brother, and look at home
My text takes us all in. 1t starts behind
the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room
and comes back to the point where it
started, when it says; "All we like sheep
have gone astray." can very easily under
stand why Martin Luther threw up his
hands after he had found the Bible and
cried out, "Ohl my sins, my sins" and why
the publican, according to the custom to
this day in the east when they have any
great grief began to beat himself and cry
ms he smote upon his breast, "God be merci
full to me $inner"
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SHEPHERDS LIFE.
was, like many Of you, brought up in the
country, and know some of the habits Of
sheep and how they get astray, and what
my text means when ii says, All We like
sheep have gone astruy" Sheepget astray
in two ways, either by trying to get into
other pasture, or from being scared by the
dogs In the former way some of us got
astray. We thought the religion of Jesus
Christ short commons. We thought there
was better pasturage somewhere else. We
thought If we could only lie down on the
banks of distant streams or under great
oNiN1 y" V"' "'H'i 'iN' VI 'N'iAS H''i We
might be better fed.
we wanted other pasturage than that
which God through Jesus Christ gave our
soui' ana we wandered on ana we wan.
dered on, and we were lost We wanted
bread and we found garbage. The further
wa wandered, instead OF finding rich pas
turage, we found blasted heath and sharp.
er rocks and more singing nettles, No
worldly
groups when you lost your chiIdy Did
they come around ana console you very
IhuchF Diu not Vne PI'''H Ch'lst'lh nun
VINO cahe INTO your mousse ana sat up win
your darling enid give you more comfort
than all worldly assOCiHtOnS2 Did all the
convivial songs you ever heard comfort
you in that day of bereavement so much
us the song they sang to you, perhaps the
very song that was sung by YOUR little
child the last Sabbath afternoon of her
lifeY
There is a happy land far far away,
Where saints immortal reign, brgAh bright
AS daS'
Did your business associates in that Gay
OF darkness and trouble give you any esre'
cial condOlchceY business cXasperated you,
business wore you out, business lett you
limp as - rag, business made you mad
You got dollars, but you got no peace.
God have mercy on the man who has moth
ing but business to comfort him, Tho
world afforded you no iuXuriant pastur
age. Il famous English actor stood on the
stage impersonatlng, ana thunderS of APP
plause came down from the galleries, and
many thought it was the proudest moment
of all his life; but thcrc@was a man asleep
Just in front OF nm, ana the TACT That that
man was indifferent and somnolent spoiled