The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-04
TALMAGEON HISTRAVELS
TIE WARMEST OF WELCOMES
GIVEN HIM EVERY WHERE.

ga Stirring Question" the Subject OF
One OF the Sermons Delivered Dur
ing the Wesk-the Sermon Taken
From the Treatment of the Savior
by Plate.
LONDON, ENGLAND, July 3.-Dr. Tall
mage continues 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 accept
some and decline others equally pressing
seemed invidious. Wherever he has gone
thelargest churches in the cities have been
crowded to excess and could have been
filed many times over. Among the SER
mons he has preached. the one selected for
publication this week is from the text
Matthew xvii, ~: "Whas shall do with
Jesusn
PLATE was an unprincipled politician. He
had sympathies, convictions Of right and
desires to be honest; but all these were sub
merged by wish to be popular and TO
please the people. Two distinguished pris-
oners 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 Savior Of the world.
At the demand of the people the renegade
is set free, but Jesus is held. As the hard
visaged aud cruel-eyed Barabbas goes
among his sympathizers, reseiving their
coarse congratulations, PLATE turns to his
other distinguished prisoner-mild, meek,
inoffensive, loving, self-sacrihcing be
ia COMPOUNDED as tG what course he had bet
ter take 50 he impanels the mob as jury
to decide, saying TO them: "What shall
do then, with JesusF'
o, it is no dried or witbered question, buh
one that throbs with warm and quick pulse
10 the heart of every man and woman here
We must do something with Jesus. He 10
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
will have to ask and answer for himself the
question: "What shall | do then with
Jesusp Well, my friends, there are three
or four things you can do with him.
You can, in the first place, let him stand
without word Of recognition; but | do
not think your senss of common courtesy
will allow that. He comes walking on suoh
a long journey you will certainly give him
a chair on which he may sit. He Is so weary
You wonld not let him stand without soma
recognition. II a beKGar comes to your
door you recognize him and say, "What do
you want ~ IL 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 COM
mon sense OF proprlety will not allow you
to let him stand without recognition-the
wounded ono OF the hills. You will ask,
What makes him weepl where was he hurti
who wounded hinll whence he oames whittier
he Roesf know there have been men who
have with outrageous Indifference hated
Christ, but know very we'll that this is not
what you will do with Jesus.
Anpfhar fhinar fbat ~ Nth him
you can thrust him back from your heart,
and tell him TO stand aside. IL any inoffen-
sive person comes and persists IN standing
close up to you, and you have in various
ways given him 20 understand that you do
not want bis presence or his society, then
you ask the reason of his impertinence and
bid him away. Well, that is what we can do
with jesus. he has stood close by US a great
whils-ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. He
has stood close by you three times a day,
breaking bread for your household, all nighE
watching by your pillow. He has been in
the nursery among your children. he hus
been in the store among your goods. he has
been in the factory amid the flying wheels,
and now IL you do not like his society you
can bid him away; ay, IL he will not 60 you
caa take him by the throat and tell
him you do not want his interfer-
ence, that you do not want his
breath on your check, that you do not want
ulb eye On your DOndVlOT. 1Ou Dhh
him away, or IL be will not go III that way,
then you can stamp your foot, as you would
at dog, and cry, BegoneW Yet l know
you will not treat Jesus that way. When
PLATE could not do that, you could not
Desperadoes and outlaws might do so, but
know that that is not the way you will
treat him that that is not what you will do
with Jesus. There is another thing you can
do with him, you can look on him merely as
an optician TO cure blind eyes, or au auriss
to tune deaf ears, a friend, a good FREUD. a
helpful companion, u cheerful passenger on
sbipboard, but that will amount to moth
ing. You can look upon him as q God and
be abashed while he rouses the storm. or
blasts O fig tree, or heaveS a rock down the
mountain side. That will not do you any
good, no more save your soul than the ad-
mtration you have for John Milton
or William Shakespeare. l can
think OF only one more thing you
can do with Jesus, and that is TO take him
into your hearts. That is the best thing
you can do with him; that is the only safe
thing you can do with him; and may the
Lord omipotent by his spirit help me TO
persuade you TO do that. A minister of
Christ was speaking TO some children, and
said; II will point you to Christ" A lit
tie child rose in the audience and came up
and put her hand in the hand OF the pastor,
and said: PLEASE, sir. take me 20 Jesus
now. want to go now" ., that 1t might
be now with such simplicity OF experience
that you aud join hands and seek after
Christ and get an expression Of his bene-
faction and his meroyl
You may take Christ into your conii-
dence. II you cannot trust him. whom can
you trust l do not offer you a dry, theo-
logical technicality. / simply ask you to
come and put both feet on the Rock Of
Ages lake hold of Christ's hands aud
draw him 70 your soul with perfect aban-
donment. and hurl yourself into the deep
sea Ct his mercy. He comes and says II
will save you" II you do not think he is a
hypocrite and liar when he says that. be-
lieve him, and say, Lord Jesus, / believe;
here is my heart. Wash ii. Save IL. Do
it now. Ay, 1t Is done; for obey Thy
promise and come. l can do no more.
That is all thou hast asked. / come. Christ
10 mine. Pardon Is mine. Heaven is mine"
Why, my friends, you put more trust i'll
everybody than you do i'll Christ, and in
everything; more trust In tie bridge cross
ing the stream, in the ladder up TO the loft;
more trust in the stove that contines the
fire; more trust In the cook that prepares
your food; more trust in the clerk thas
writes your books, in the druggist that
makes the medicine, in the bargain maker
with whom you trade; more trust Ia all
these things than In Christ. although he
| stands this moment Offering without limit,
Il