Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-01-22
COME /! COME !! COME (!
DR.. TALMAGE SOUNDS THE GREAT
GOSPEL INVITATION.
A Sermon Preached in the Brooklyn
and New York Academies of Music
Which Caused a Great Awakening.

| Sermon Preached in the Brooklyn
and New York Academies of Music
Which Caused a Great Awakening
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. 1s.--Dr. Tai
mage preached tho following sermon thi.
morning to an oyer1owing congregation in
the Academy Of Music, this city. At
night when service was held in the New
York Academy Of Music, fully six thousand
persons were nassed in the large building.
A marked solemnity pervaded the assem-
bly, and at its close many persons in
various parts of the house, rose at the
invitation of the preacher to ask for
prayers for their salvation. DR.. Talmage
chose the following texts for his sermon:
''Come." Gen. 6 :1s. Come" Revela-
ton 22 IL.
Imperial, tender and all-persuasiye is
this word Come Six hundred and
seventy-eight times is it found in the
Scriptures. 1t stands at the front gate of
the Bible as in my first text, inviting ante.
diluvians into Noah's ark. and it stands at
the other gate of the Bible as in my second
text, inviting the post-diluvians into tho
ark Of SaViour's mercy. Come" Is only
q word of four letters, but it is the queen
OF words, and nearly the entire nation of
English vocabulary bows to its sceptre.
1t is an ocean into which empties ten
thousand rivers of meaning. Other words
drive, but this beckons AL moods of
feeling hath that word Come" Some
times it weeps and sometimes it laughs.
Sometimes it prays, sometimes it tempts,
and sometimes it destroys. 1t sounds from
the door of the church and from the serag-
lios Of sin, from tho gates of heaven and
the gates Of hell. 1t is continent and
accrescent OF all power. 1t is the heiress
Of most of the past and the almoner of
the future. Gomez You may pronounce
it so that the heavens will be heard in its
cadences, or pronounce it so that all the
woes of time and eternity shall reverberate
In its one syllable. 1t is on the lip of saint
and proligate. 1t is the mightiest of all
solicitants either good or bad
You must remember that in many cases
our Come has mightier ''Come" to
conquer before it has any effect ct all
Just give me the accurate census, the
statistics, of how many are down in fraud,
in drunkenness. in gambling, in impurity,
or il vice of any sort, and l 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 BAR Come and see what we
can win at this gaming table" Come,
Onter with ne this doubtful speculation :"
''come with me and read those infidel tract.
on. Christianity" Come with me to 9
place Of bad amusement" Come with
me in a gay bout through underground
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"
Now we want all the world over to har-
ness this word for good as others have
harnessed it for evil, and it will draw the
Ave continents and the seas between them,
yea, it will draw the whole earth back to
the God from whom it has wandered. 1t
Is that wooing and persuasive word that
will lead men TO give up their sins. Was
scepttcism ever brought into love OF the
truth by an ebullition of hot words against
Infdelity? Was ever the blasphemer stop
ped in his oaths by denuaciation of
Was ever drunkard weaned
from his cups by the temperance lecturers
mimicry of staggering step and hicccugh?
No. 1t was: Come with me to church
today and hear our singing" Come and
let me introduce you to a Christian man
whom you will be sure to ADMIRE" "Come
with me into associations that are cheer.
full and good and inspiring;" Come with
me into Joy such as you never before ex-
perienced."
also apply the word of my text to those
wno would like practical comfort. If any
ever escape the struggle of life have not
found them. They are not certainly among
The prosperous classes. In most cases it
were struggle all the way up till they
reached the prosperity, and since they have
reached these heights there have been per-
pleXities, anXieties and crises which We're
almost enough to shattcr the nerves and
turn the brain. 1t would be hard to tell
which have the biggest fight in this world
the properties or the Universities, the con-
spicuities or the obscuritieS. Just as soon
as you have enough success to attract the
attention of others, the envies and
IealOusies are let loose from their kennel
The greatest crime that you can con nit in
the estimation Of others is to get on better
than they do. They think your addition is
their subtraction. Five hundred persons
start for a certain goal of success: one
reaches it, the other four hundred and nine
ty-niue are mad. It would take volumes
TO hold the story of the wrongs, outrages
and defamations that have come upon you
as result of your success. The warm sun
of prosperity brings into life swamp-full
of annoying insects. On the other hand
the unfortunate classes have their struggles
for maintenance. To achieve livelihood
by one who had nothing to start with, and
after a while for family as well. and car
ry this on until children are reared and
educated and fairly started in the world,
and to do this amid all the rivalries OF
business and the uncertainty of crops, and
the ficlleness of tariff legislation, with an
OCCASIONAL labor strike and here and there
a financial panic thrown in, is mighty
thing TO do, and there are hundreds and
thousands such heroes and heroincs who
live unsung and die unhonored. What we all
need, whether up or down in life or half.
way between, is the infinite solace of the
Christian religion. And 50 we employ the
Come"
But the word Come" applied to those
who need solace will amount TO nothing
unless it be uttered by some one who has
the responsibility of giving this Gospel
call among a great many. Those who
have lost property and been consoled by
religion in that trial, are the ones to invite
those who have failed in business. Those
who have lost their health and been con-
soled by religion are the ones to invite
those who are in poor health. Those who
have had bereavemcnts and been con.
soled in those bereavements are the ones to
sympathize with those who have lost
father or mother or companion or hid or
friend. What multitudeS of US are alive
today and in good health and buoyant in
this journey of life, who would have been
broken down or dead long ago but for the
sustaining and cheering help of our holy
religion! So we say-'Comew The
well is not dry. The buckets are NOT
empty. The supply is not exhausted.
There is just as much mercy and condol.
euce and soothing power in God as before
the first grave was dug, or the first tear
started, or the first heart broken, or the
first accident happened, or the first for
tune vanished. Those of US who have
felt the consolatory power Of religiol. have
n right IN sneak ont of our own exDeri-