Connecticut western news., 1891-07-02
THELORD BEARETH THEM
PHILOSOPHY OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS ETERNAL NECESSITY.

PHILOSOPHY OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS ETERNAL NECESSITY. As the Ambulance Is for the Wounded and the Hospital for the Sick, So the Gospel Is for All the Sinful, That Is for All Mankind
 BRooK1YN, June 29.-Dr. Talmage's sermon today is of so decidedly evan gelcal character as to prove conclu-. sively that while SO many eminent preachers of the day are drifting away from the old fashioned Gospel he re- mains firm in the paths of orthodoxy. His subject is "Astray, but Recovered" and his text, Isaiah lii 6: "All we like sheep have gone astray: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all"
 WithiEss ninety years at thee 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 f1nality. Such considerations make this occasion absorbing and mo- mentous 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 word2 that is too general; that sweeps too great circle" Some man rises in the audience and he looks over on the opposite side of the house, and he says: 'There is blas- phemer, and understand how he has gone astray. And there in another part of the house is defrauder, and he has gone astray. And there is an i'm pure person and he has gone astray." Sit down, my brother, and look at home. My text takes us all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room and comes back to the point where it started, when it says:
 'Al we like sheep have gone astray." I can very easily understand why Mar tin 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 as he smote upon his breast,
 "God be merciful to me sinner"
 FOR FRIGHT OR FOR WANTONNESs Twas, 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 it says, "An we like sheep have gone
 astray." Sheep get astray in two ways;
 either by trying to get into other pas
 ture, 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 oaks on the other side of some hill, we might be better fed
 wanted other pasturage than that
 which God through Jesus Christ gave our soul, and we wandered on and we
 wandered on, and we were lost. We
 wanted bread, and we found garbage. The further we wandered, instead of finding rich pasturage, we found blasted heath and sharper rocks and more stinging nettles. No pasture. How
 was it in the worldly groups when you lost your child9 Did they come around and console you very much? Did not the plain Christian man who came into your house and sat up with your dar- ling child give you more comfort than all worldly associations2 Did all the convivial songs you ever heard comfort you in that day of bereavement so much as the song they sang to you,
 perhaps the very song that was sung by your little child the last Sabbath after noon of her life2
 There is happy land, far, far away, Where saints immortal reign, bright, bright as day.
 Did your business associates in that day of darkness and trouble give you any especial condolence? Business ex-
 asperated you, business wore you out,
 business left you limp as rag, business l made you mad. You got dollars, but you got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business l to comfort him. The world afforded
 you no luxuriant pasturage. A famous l English actor stood on the stage imper- 1 sonating, and thnders of applause
 came down from the galleries, and
 many thought it was the proudest mo
 ment of all his life; but there was a man
 asleep just in front of him, and the fact I that that man was indifferent and somnolent spoiled all the occasion fol him. and he cried. 'sWake up! wake l upl"
 So one little annoyance in life has
 been more prevailing to your mind than all the brilliant congratulations
 and successes. Poor past11rage fol
 your soul you found in this world. The
 world has cheated you, the world Ina!
 belied you, the world has misiuterpretec
 you, the world has persecuted you. Il
 never co4forted you. Ohl this world i
 8 good rack from which horse may pick his hay; it is a good trough from l which the swine may crunch their mess but it gives but little food to sou blood bought and immortal What i.
 a soul9 It is hope high as the throrH of God. What is a man2 You say
 'It is only man." It is only a mar
 gone overheard in sin. It is only g
 man gone overheard in business life.
 THE VALUE OF ONE MANS SOUL. ] What is a Inan2 The battle ground
 of three worlds, with his hands taking
 hold of destinies of light or darkness l A mani No line can measure him. Nc
 limit can bound him. The archange \ before the throne cannot outhve him N Tho stars shall die but he will watct