Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-09
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE'S APPEAL TO THE IN
DIFFERENT AND PROCRASTINATlNG.

The Refinements of Life Are Good Things
and So Are Wealth and Comfort, Friend
ship and Loves but One Thing Thou
Lackest Yet.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 1.-The deep re-
ligious feeling manifested in Dr. Tai
IMAGES congregations since his recent
arousing Appeal to Outsiders" has
apparently encouraged him to continue
preaching distinctively evangelistic ser
mons Today he delivered another
discourse of the same gospel type, both
at the morning service in the Academy
Of Music. in this city. and at The Chris
tian Herald service at night in the New
York Academy of Music. His text was
taken from Mark X, 21: Zone thing
thou lackest.
The Young man of the text was
splendid nature We fall in love with
him at the first glance. He was ami
able and frank and earnest and edu-
Gated and refined and respectable ana
moral, and yet he was not a Christian.
And so Christ addresses him in the
words that | have read to you, 'One
thing thou lackest. | suppose thar
that text was no more appropriate to
the Young man of whom | have spoken
than it is appropriate to great multi
tude Of people in this audience. There
are many things in which you are not
lacking For instance, you are not
lacking III a good home. 1t is perhaps no
more than IN hour ago that you closed
the door, returning to see whether 1t
was we'll fastened, of one of the best
homes in this city The younger chill
dren Of the house already asleep, the
older ones, hearing your returning foot
steps. will rush to the door to meet you
And in these winter evenings, the
children at the stand with their lessons,
the wife plying the needle and you read
ing the book or the paper, you feel that
Won have Il good home. Neither are
YOU lacking in the refinements and
courteSies of life You understand the
polite, phraseology of invitation, regard
and apology You have on appropriate
apparel | shall wear no better dress
at the wedding than when | come to
the marriage of the kings son If am
well clothed on other occasions | will
be in religious audience However
reckless | may be about my personal
appearance at other times, when |
come into consecrated assemblage
shall have on the best dress | have.
We all understand the prOprieties of
everyday life and the proprieties of
Sabbath life
WORLDLY SUCCESS HAS IT'S VALUE.
Neither are You lacking in worldly
success You have not made as much
money as you would like to make, but
Won have an income While others are
false when they say they have no in
come or are making no money, you
have never told that falsehOod- You
have had a livelihood or you have
fallen upon old resources. which is just
the same thing, for God is just as good
to us when he takes care of US by a
surplus of the past as by present sue
| cess While there are thousands OF
men with hunger tearing at the throat
with the strength of a tigers paw, not
one Of you is hungry
Neither are you lacking in pleasant
friendship You have real good friends
| If the scarlet fever should come to
night to your house, you know very
well who would come in and sit VI
| with the sick one; or if death should
| come. YOU know who would come il
and take your hand tight in theirs will
that peculiar grip which means, 'Pl
stand by you" and after the life ha!
fled from the loved one take you b.
the arm and lead you into the mex
room, and while you are gone to Green
wood they would stay in the house anc
| put aside the garments and the play
things that might bring to your minC
| too severely your great loss Friends
! You all have friends
Neither are you lacking in your ad
| miration of the Christian religion
There is nothing that makes you sc
angry as to have a man malign Christ
| You get red in the face and you say
Sir. | want you to understand tina
| though am not myself a Christian,
| don't like such things said as that il
| nv store" and the man goes off, givins
you a parting salutation, but you hard
" answer him You are provoked be
yond all bounds. Many of you hav
been supporters of religion, and hav
given more to the cause of Christ thai
some who profess his faith There
nothing that would please you NOR
than to see your son or daughter stand
inc at the altar of Christ, taking tn
vows of the Christian
1t might be Il little hard on you, an
might make you nervous and agitate
for a little while, but you would b
man enough to say MY child, that
right. Go on. am glad you haven
been kept back by my example, hop
some day to join you" You bellev
all the doctrines of religion. A ma
ont wonder says, II am sinner" 70
resDond. 80 am l." Some one says
Il believe that Christ came to save tn
world" You say, 80 do l." Loci
ING at your character, at your SUI
roundings, | find a thousand thing
about which to congratulate you, an
vet l must tell you in the love and fea
of God, and with reference to my la
account, lone thing thou lachest."
THE CHRISTIANS HAPPINESS.
You need, my friends, in the fir
place, the element of happiness. Son
day you feel wretched. You do M
know what is the matter with yo1
You say Il did not sleep last night.
think that must be the reason of IL
restlessness;" or Il have eaten som
thing that did not agree with me, an'
l think that must be the reason" An
you are unhappy. Oh, my friends
happiness does not depend upon phys
ical condition. Some of the happies
people 1 have eyer known have bee
those who have been wrapped In cor
sumption, or stung with neuralgia, c
burning with the slow fire of some feve1
l never shall forget one man In N
first parish, who in excruciation
body cried out: Mr.. Talmage, TO
get all my pain in the love and JOY
Jesus Christ. I can't think of my SUI
ferings when think of Jesus" VIII.
his face was nluminedl There al
young men in this house who woul
give testimony to show that there
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