Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-04
THE GREAT QUESTION
DR.. TALMAGE ON THE MANY AN
SWERS THAT MAY BE GIVEN.

Hesitating Politician Might, but It
Comes to Every Man Anew = Christ
Must BE Taken to the Heart.
LONDON. July 3.-Dr. Talmage con-
tinues to receive from all classes OF the
English people the warmest of welcomes
and the heartiest greetings. The work
of arranging his tour has been ex-
ceedingly difficult. So numerous were
the invitations awaiting him that to ac-
cept some and 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 do with JeSus:
PLATE was an unprincipled politician.
He had sympathies, convictions of right
and desires to be honest; but all these
were submerged by wish to be popular
and to please the people. Two dlstln-
guished prisoners were in the grasp of
government and the proposition was
made to free one of them. There stands
Barabbas, 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 visaged and cruel eyed Barabbas
goes among his sympathizers, receiving
their coarse congratulations, PLATE turns
to his other distinguished prisoner
mild, meek, inoffensive, loving, self
sacrifcing-and he is COMPOUNDED as to
what course he had better take, so he
L. no u fO decide
saving to them. ''What shall l do, then.
with JesuS?
Oh. it is no dried or withered ques
ton, but one that throbs with warm and
quick pulse in the heart of every man
and woman here. We must do some
thing with Jesus. He is here. You and
are not SO certainly here as he is, for
he fills all this place-the loving, living,
dying Christ-and each one of us viii
have to ask and answer for himself the
question, What shall | do, then, with
jesus Well, my friends, there are
three or four things you can do with
him.
WHEN JESUS COMES.
You can, in the first place, let him
stand without a word of recognition;
but do not think your sense Of common
courtesy will allow that. He comes
walking on such a long journey, you
will certainly give him a chair on which
he may sit. He is so weary, you would
not let him stand without some recognl-
ton IF beggar comes to your door,
you recognize him and say, ''What do
you WANT If you meet a stranger faint
in the street, you say, "What IS the
matter with your and your common
humanity, and your common sympathy,
and your common sense OF proprlety
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 he hurt? who
wounded him? whence came he? whittier
goes he? | know there have been men
who have with outrageous Indifference
hated Christ, but | know very well thai
that is not what you will do with Jesus
Another thing you can do with him
YOU can thrust him back from your
heart and tell him to stand aside Ii
an inoffensive person comes and per
sists in standing close up to you, anc
YOU have in various ways given him tC
understand that you do not want hi;
presence or his society. then You ask the
reason OF his impertinence and bid hin
AWAY. Well, that is what we can dC
with Jesus.
He has stood close by US a great while
ten. twenty, thirty, forty years. IL
has stood close by you three times
dav breaking bread for your household
all night watching by your pillow. HI
has been in the nursery among you
children, he has been in the store among
YOUR goods. he has been in the factor.
amid the flying wheels, and now if yOl
do not like his society you can bid hin
away; aye, if he will not go you Cal
take him by the throat and tell him y01
do not want his interference, that yO1
do not want his breath on you
cheek, that you do not want his eye o.
YOUR behavior. You can bid him away
or if he viii not go in that way, the
you can stamp your foot as you woul
at q dog and cry ''Begone!'
Yet L know you will not treat Jesu
that way When PLATE could not d
that. you could not. Desperadoes and out
laws might do so, but | know that tina
is not the way you will treat him. tina
that is not what you will do with Jesus
There is another thing you can do wit
him-you can look on him merely as a
pptician to cure blind eyes, or an auris
to tune deaf ears, friend, goo
friend, helpful companion, cheerfr
passenger on shipboard; but that wi
amount TO nothing.
FEAR NOT SUFFICIENT.
You can look upon him as a God an
be abashed while he rouses the storm
DR. blasts a fig tree, or heaves roc
ilown the mountain side. That will ne
Ito you any good-no more save you
soul than the admiration you have fc
John Milton or William Shakespear
can think of only one more thing 20
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