Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-03
ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED.
THRILLING SERMON AT NEW
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
DIR. Taimage breaches from Isaiah
SO, 6-All We Like sheep Have
Gone Astray, and the Lord Hath
Laid on Him Oar IniquIV.


| Talmage's sermon to-day is of SO de-
cidedly evangelical a 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: 8 :
"All we like sheep have gone astray:
and the Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all"
Within ninety years ut 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 finality. Such
considerations make this occasion
absorbing 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 n
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 l 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
understanding Martin Luther threw up
his hands after he had found the Bible
and cried ont: 80! my sins, my SINS"
and why the publican, according to
the custom TO this day in the last,
when they have any great grief, began
to beat himself and cry as he smOte
upon his breast: God be merciful TO
| me, sinner
Did your business associates in that
day of darkness and trouble give you
any especial coincidence? Business eX-
asperdted you, business wore you out,
business left you limp as 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 lux RANT
! 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 man asleep just in front
of him and the fact that
that man was indifferent and
somnolent spoiled all 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 fled out of Christian association,
and you got astray. O. man, that was
the last time when you ought to have
forsaken God. Standing amid the
laundering of your earthly fortunes,
how could you get along without God
to comfort you, and a 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,
/ 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 1.-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
all men, for that all have sinned." 1.-The
soul that sinneth, it shall die"
But the last part of my text opens a
door wide enough TO let us all out and
TO let all heaven in. Sound it on the
organs with all the stops out. Thrum
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 ii to the heavens,
1.-The Lord hath laid on him the ini-
guilty of us ALL / am glad that the
prophet did not stop to explain whom
he meant by chin" Him of the man
ger, him of the bloody sweat, him of the
resurrection throne, him of the cruel
fixion agony. ION him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us ALL"
Sin has almost pestered the life out
Of some of you. At times il has made
you cross and unreasonable, and it has
spoiled the brightness of your
days and the peace of your nights
There are men who have beer
riddled of sin. The world car