Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-03
ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED.
THRILLING SERMON AT NEW
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
DR.. Taimsge breaches from Isaiah
So, 6-An We Like sheep Have
Gone Astray, and the Lord Hath
Laid ON Him Our Iniquity.

cldedly evangelical character as TO
prove conclusively that while so many
eminent preachers of the day are drift
ing away from the old-fashIoned Cos
pei he remains firm in the path of Or
thodoxy. His subject is "Astray, but
Recovered" and his text, Isaiah SO q |:
"All we like sheep have gone astray:
-. 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
absorbing and momentous. The
first half of my text is
have gone astray." Some one says:
is too general; that sweeps too great a
circle" Some man rises in the audi
ence and he looks over on the opposite
side of the house, and he says; There
is blasphemer, and understand how
he has gone astray. And there in
another part of the house is 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 start
ed, when it says: "All we like sheep
have gone astray." | can very easily
UNDERSTANDABLE Martin Luther threw up
his hands after he had found the Bible
and cried out: so! 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 as he smote
upon his breast: God be merciful to
me, a sinner"
Did your business associates in that
day of darkness and trouble give you
any especial coincidence? Business ex-
asperated you, business wore you out,
business left you limp as a rag, bust
ness made you made. You got dollars,
but you got no peace. God have
mercy on the man who has moth
ing but business to comfort him.
The world afforded you no luxtriant
pasturage, A famous English actor
stood on the stage impersonating, and
thunders of applause came down from
the galleries, and many thought it was
the proudest moment of mis- life; but
there was a man asleep just in front
of him and the fact that
that man was Indifferent and
somnolent spoiled al the occasion for
him, and he cried "Wake up, wake up"
So one little annoyance in life has
been more prevailing in your mind
than all the brilliant congratulations
and successes! Poor pasturage for
your soul you found in this world. The
world has cheated. Some of you got
astray by looking for better pasturage;
others by being scared of the dogs.
The hound gets over into the pasture
field The poor things fly in every
direction. In few moments they are
torn of the hedges and they
are FLASHED of the ditch, and the lost
sheep never gets home unless the far
mer goes after it. There is nothing SO
thoroughly lost as lost sheep. 1t
may have been in 1857, during the
financial panic, or during the financial
stress in the fall of 1873, when you got
astray. You almost became an atheist.
You said: "Where is God. that honest
men go down and thieves prosper?" You
were logged of creditors, you
were logged of the banks, you were
logged of worldly disaster, and some
of you went into misanthropy, and some
of you took to strong drink, and others
of you fed out of Christian association,
and you got astray. o! man, that was
the last time when you ought to have
forsalxen God. Standing amid the
laundering of your earthly fortunes,
how could you get along without God
TO comfort you, and God to
deliver you, and God to help you, and
God to save you? You tell me you
have been through enough business
trouble almost to kill you. / know it.
I cannot understand how the boat
could live one hour in that chopped
sea- But do not know by what pro-
cess you got astray; some in one way,
and some in another, and if you could
really see the position some of you &C.
cupy before God this morning, your soul
would burst into an agony of tears and
you would pelt the heavens with the
cry: ''God have mercy" Sinai's bat
teries have been unlimbered above
your soul and at times you have
heard it thunder "The wages of sin Is
death" "All have sinned and come
short of the glory of God" by one
man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin: and so death passed upon
oil men, for that all have sinned." 1.-The
soul that sinneth, 1t shall die"
But the last part of my text opens q
door wide enough to let us all out and
to let all heaven in. Sound it on the
organs with all the stops out. Thruu
it on the harps with all the strings
atune. With all the melody possible
let the heavens sound it to the earth
and let the earth tell it to the heavens
"The Lord hath laid on him the mi
putty of us ALL" 1 am glad that the
prophet did not stop to explain WHOM
he meant by chin" Him of the maV.
ger, him of the bloody sweat, him of tn,
resurrection throne, him of the cruel
fixion agony. ION him the Lord hatl
laid the iniquity of us all"
Sin has almost pestered the life out
of some of you. At times it has mad.
you cross and unreasonable, and it hal
spoiled the brightness of you
days and the peace of your nights
There are men who have beef
riddled of sin. The world cal
give them no solace. Gossame
and volatile the world, while eternity
as they look forward to it, is black a
midnight. They writhe under tn,
stings of a conscience which propose