Democratic messenger., 1892-07-09
TALMAGES SERMON.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE BE
FORE LONDON AUDI
ENCES.
\ Stirring Question FrOpOunle ed
and Answcred-Any Person
Untouched by the Storyof
the Sayiour's Love II
Monster of Ingrati-
fIle and Crime

Ties 10 receive from all classes of the
English people the warmest of welcomes
and The hear,iest Of greetings The work
of arranging his tour has been exceed
insly difficult. So numerous were the
invitations awaiting him that to accept
some aud decline others equally pressing
seemed invidious Wherever he has gone
the largest churches in The cities have
been crowded TO excess and could have
been filled many times over Among the
sermons he has preached the one selected
for publication this week is from the
text Matthew xvii, -: "What Shall I
do with Jesus"
PLATE was an unprincipled politician
lie had sympathies, convictions of right
and desires 10 he honest. but all these
were submerged by wish To he popular
and 10 please The people. Two dstin-
suisned prisoners were in the grasp of
government. and the proposition was
made To free one of them. There stands
Barabhas. the murderer; there stands
Christ. the Saviour of the world. At the
demand of the people the renegade is set
free, but Jesus is held As the hard Wis
aged and cruel-cyed Barabbts goes among
his sympathizers, receiving their coarse
congratulations. PLATE turns to his other
distinguished prisoncr-mild, meek inof-
fensive. loving, self sacrificing - and he is
confOunded as Ia what course he had
better take. so he impanels the mob AS u
jury To decide, saying 10 them: what
shall do with Jesus ~
Oh F. it is no dried or wiihercd question
but one that throbs with warm and quick
pulse in the heart of every man and wo-
man here. We must do something with
Jesus He is here. You aud arc not so
certainly here rs He is. for lie fills all this
place-the loving. living, dying Christ
and each one nf MS will have to ask and
answer for himself the question. What
shall do then with Jesus ?" Well. nv
friends. there are three or four things YOU
can do with him
You can. in the first place, let Him
stand without word oi recognition; but
do not think your sense of common
courtesy will allow that. lie comes
walking ON such long journey, You will
certainly give Him char on which lie
may sit. lie is so weary you would not
lei Him stand without some recognition
Ia bergar comes TO your door. sou rec
ognize him and say what do you
WANT" you meet a stranger faint in
the street. you say what is the matter
with You ?" and your common humanity
and your common sympathy. and your
common sense OF propriety will not allow
you to let Him stand without recognition
the wounded One of the hills. You will
ask. What makes him weep, where was
lie hurt who wounded Him? whence
lie came: whittier lie goes; | know
there have been men who with outrage.
Gus Indifference hated Christ, but know
very well that that is not what you will
do with Jesus
Another thing that you can do with
/ IIim-yOu can thrust Him back from
your heart. and tell him To stand aside II
an inoffensiye person comes and persists
in standing close up TO you. and you have
in various ways given him to understand
/ that you do not want his presence or hi,
society, then you ask him the reason o
his impertinence and bid him away. Well
that is what we can do with Jesus. IL,
has stood close by us II great while-l0
20 30, 40 years lie has stood close by yor
three times day, breaking bread f0l
your household, all night watching by
;Gur pillow. lie has been in the nursery
among your children, lie has been in TIN
store among your goods. lie has been il
the factory amid the flying wheels, an,
now If you do not like his society yo,
can bid Him away ay, il lie will not go
you can take him by the throat and tel
Him you do not want His interference
y
cheek ; that you do not want His eye on
your behavior. You can bid Him away
or il he will not go in that way. then yo,
can stamp your foot as you would AT
dog, and cry, "Begonew ~ Yet know yol
will not treat Jesus that way. When ri
late could not do that, YOU could not
naFaInS .apI 10, 4 I,.,
know that that is not the way you viii
treat Him; that that is not what YOU vii
do with Jesus.
There is another thing you can d,
with Him: YOU can look on Him mcrel,
MS an optician to cure blind eyes, or al
aurist To tune deaf ears; friend goo,
friend, helpful companion, cheerful
passenger on shpbOard; but that vii
amount To nothing. You can look upoI
Him as God and he abashed while II,
ronses the storm, or blasts "A fig-tree, %
heavcs rock down the mountain side
That will not do you any good; no NOR
save your soul than the admiration yDl
/ uaNc ioI doHH MlItuH OF W lIIiaIl SHhkc
spearc. can think of only one NOR
thing you can do with Jesus. and that i
10 take Him INTO your hearts. That i
the hest thing you can do with Him; tina
is the only safe thing you can do will
Him; and may the Lord Omnipotent b
His Spirit help me to persuade you TO d'
that. A minister OF Christ was speakin,
10 some children, and said; II will poin
you to Christ" A little child rose in th
audience, and came up and put her han,
in the hand of the pastor and said
l"Please, sir take me 10 Jesus now
want 10 go now" oh that il might b
now with such simplicity of expcrienc
that you and join hands and seek afte
Christ and get AN expression Of Ills hen
efaciion and His mercy!
You may take Christ into your conf
| dence If yuu cannot trust Him whom