Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-22
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
40 rAlMAeE CHOOSES THE MAGIC
woRp "coME" FOR A TEXT.

ui.ht Times in the BiDle-lt Is One OF
!. uost wonderful Words in the Lam
ruage.
pnooKI,N. Jan. '1S--Dr. Talmage
-,cbed the following sermon this norm
y 20 an OVERLOOKING congregation in the
.sademy of Music, this city. At night,
asan The Christian Herald service was
VA in the New York Academy of Music,
sailv sx thousand persons were massed in
,he large building. A marked solemnity
sarvaded the assembly, and at its close
INV nersous in various parts of the house
-ase AZ the invitation Of the preacher to
- for PRAYERS for their salvation. DIR.
Talmage chose the following texts for his
asrmon: Come" (Gen. vi. 1S); Come"
Rev. xxi, 10.
Imnerial, tender and all persuasive is
~ word Gomez Six hundred and sew
snty-eight times is it found in the Script
nres II stands at the front gate of the
Rible as in my first text, inviting antedi-
lnyians into Noah's ark, and it stands at
he other gate of the Bible as in my second
tsyt. inviting the postdiluvians into the
.rk of a Saviour's mercy. Come is only
word Of four letters, but it is the queen
AZ words. and nearly the entire nation of
English vocabulary bows to its scepter. 1t
san ocean into which empty ten Thousand
rivers of meaning. Other words drive, but
this beckons.
All moods of feeling hath that word
acomer Sometimes it weeps and some
times il laughs. Sometimes it prays, some
times il tempts and sometimes it destroys.
II sounds from the door of church aud
from the seraglios of sin, from the gates of
heaven and the gates of hell. 1t is con
fluent and accrescent of all power. 1t is the
beiress of most of the past and the almoner
of most OF the future. Gomez You may
popounce it so hat all the heavens will
be heard in its cadences, or pronounce it so
that all the woes of time and eternity shall
reyerberate in its one syllable. 1t is on the
liz Of saint and profigate. 1t is the might
lest Of all solicitants either for good or
bad.
A WORD oF lords
Today ! weigh anchor and haul in the
blanks. and set sail on that great word, al
though | am sure / will not be able to reach
the further shore. | will let down the
~fatboming line into this sea and try to
measure its depths, and though | tie to-
gether all the cables and cordage / have on
board, | will not be able to touch bottom.
All the power of the Christian religion is
in that word Come" The dictatorial
and c~ommandatory in religion is of no
avail. The imperative mood is not the ap-
u%rOpriate mood when we would have peo-
BIZ ~sayingly impressed. They may be
coaxed, but they cannot be driven.
Our hearts are like our homes; at a
friendly knock the door will be opened.
bnt an attempt TO force open our door
would land the assailant in prison. Our
theological seminaries. which keen Young
men three wears in their curriculum before
launching them into the ministry. will do
well If in so short a time they can teach
the candidates for the holy office how to
saw with right emphasis and information
and mower that one word Comet, That
man who has such efficiency In Christian
work and that woman who has such
mower to Dersuade neoDle To amt the
wrong and begin the right. went through
aseries of losses. bereayements persecu-
tons and the trials of twenty or thirty
Years before they could make il n triumph
Of grace every time they uttered the word
Come
CONES oMETIME WAR.
You must remember that in many cases
our Gomez has u mightier Come" to
conquer befoSe it has any effect at all.
Just give me the accurate census, the sta
tistics, of how many are down in fraud, in
Drunkenness, in gambling, in impurity, or
in vice of any sort, and | will give you the
accurate census or statistics of how many
have been slain by the word Come"
Come and click wine glasses with me at
this ivory barr Come and see what we
can win at this gaming table" Come,
enter with me this doubtful speculation"
aComs viii naa and raad tbose in6deI
tracts on Christianity" Come with me
to a place of bad ~musement.n Come
with me in a gay bout through under
grOund New York" If in this city there
are twenty thousand who are down in
moral character. then twenty thousand
fell under the power of the word Come"
was reading of a wife whose husband
bad been overthrown by strong drink, and
she went TO the saloon where he was
ruined, and she said. give me back my
husband. And the bartender. pointing
toa maudlin and battered man browsing
in the corner of the barroom. said: "There
he is. Jim, wake up: here's your wife
come for your And the woman said:
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