Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-07-29

LONDON, July 2E-The attendances at the
services conducted by the Rev Dr. Talmage
continue as great as ever. At every stopping
point during his preaching tour he is greeted
by phenomenal audiences, Unless some change
In the program becomes necessary, he will,
during the next ten days preach in the leading
Scottish cities. as already announced. He has
Just returned from Russia, whittier he went
with Mr.. Klopsch 10 supervise the distribution
Of tho cargo of The Christian Herald relief
steamer, Leo. The reception accorded DR.
Talmage in tho Cars capital city by mobiles,
officials and the popuhce shows that the hold
he has upon the hearts of christians is world
wide The arrival OF the Leo was made the
occasion of general rejoicing. The St Peters
burg officials conferred the freedom OF the city
on their American guests. The Iseois cargo
was forwarded 10 the famine district without
delay. The sermon selected for this week is
entitled "lhe Souls Crisis from Isaiah 5l;6
Seek he the Lord while he may b. foun ~
Isaiah stands head and shoulders
above the other Old Observation-Disclosures
in vivid 'descripSiveness of Christie her
prophets give an outline of our Savior's
features. Some of them present, as il
were, the side face of Christ; others
bust of Christ; but Isaiah gives us the
full length portrait of Christ. Other
scripture writer's excel in some things
Ezekiel more weird. David more pa-
thetic, Solomon more epigrammaticI
Habakkuk more sublime; but when
you want to see Christ coming out
from the gates of prophecy in all his
grandeur and glory, you involuntarily
turn to Isaiah. So that if the proph-
ecies in regard to Christ might be called
the ''Oratorio of the Messiah," the
writing of Isaiah is the "Elallelujah
Chorus" where all the batons wave
and all the trumpets come in. Isaiah
was not man pick up out of insigniti-
canoe 10y inspiration He was known
and honored. Josephus, and Philo,
and Sirach extolled him in their writ
ings. What Paul was among the apos-
ties, Isaiah was among the prophets.
My text finds him standing on n
mountain of inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ adj
vancing and anxious that all men might
know him; his voice rings down the
ages: Seek we the Lord while he
may be found" 60" says some one:
that was for olden times" No my
nearer. If you have travelled in
other lands you have taken
circular letter of credit from
some banking house in London, and in
st. Petersburg, or Venice or Rome, or
Antwerp, or Brussels, or Paris, you
presented that letter and, got financial
help Immediately. And want you to
, understand that the text instead of
being appropriate for one age, or for
one land, is a circular letter for all
ages and for all lands, and wherever it
is presented for help, the help comes:
Seek we the Lord while he may be
found"
come to-day with no hair-spun the
cries of religion, with no nice destipc.
tions, with no elaborate dlsquisitior.;
but with plain talk on the matters of
personal religion / feel that the ser
mon that preach this morning will be
the SAVIOR of life unto life, or of death
unto death. In other words, the Cos
pei of Christ is powerful med
icine; it either kills or cures.
There are those who say: AZ
would like TO become a Christian.
have been waiting a good while for the
right kind of influence to Gomez" aud
still you are waiting. You are wiser in
worldly things than you are in religious
things And yet there are men who
say they are waiting to get to heaven
waiting, waiting, but not with intelli-
gent waiting, or they would get on
board the line of Christian influences
that would bear them into the king
dom of God.
Now you know very well that TO seek
a thing is TO search for it with earnest
endeavor If you want to see a certain
mali in London, and there is matter
of much money connected with your
seeing him, and you cannot at first find
him, you do not give up tile search.
You look in the directory, but cannot
find the name, you go in circles where
you think, perhaps, he may mingle,
and, having found the part of the city
where he lives, but perhaps not know
ing the street, you go through street
after street. and from block to block,
and you keep on searching for weeks
and for months.
You say: 'It is matter of e10, 900
whether see him or not" o that men
were as persistent in seeking for Christ!
Had you one-half that persistence you
would long ago have found him who is
the JOY of the forgiven spirit. We may
pay our debts, we may attend church.
we may relieve the poor, we may be
public benefactors, and yet all our life
,disobey the text, never seek God, never
gain heaven. o that the spirit of God
would help this morning while try to
show you in carrying out the idea of
my text, first, how TO seek the Lord,
and in the next place, when to seek
him. "Seek We the Lord while he may
; be found"
: do not care so much what posture
you take in prayer, nor how large an
amount OF voice you use. You might
get down on your face before God, if
you did not pray right inwardly, ;.ld
there would be no response. You
might cry at the top of your voice, and
unless you had believing spirit within,
your cry would not go farther up than
the shout OF a plough-boy TO his oxen.
Prayer must be believing, earnest, low
ing. You are in your house some sum-