Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-08-04
THE SOULS CRISIS.
Dr.. 'Talmage Makes an Appeal to
Sinners to Mend Their
Ways.
lie Advances the Gospel as a Pow
erful Medium for the Sin
Sick Soul.

LoSDoN,-Cable.-The attend
ances at the services conducted
by Rev. DR.. Talmage continue as great
as ever. The sermon selected for this
week is entitled '"The Souls Crisis"
from Isaiah lv, g.: "seek Ye the Lord
while he may be found"
Isaiah stands head and shoulders
above the other Old Testament auth
ors in vivid descriptiveness OF Christ.
Other prophets give an outline of
our Savior's features.
My text finds him standing on u
mountain OF inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ I'D
vancing and anxious that all men
might know him; his voice rings
down the ages: "Seek ye the Lord
while he may be found" "Oh,"
says some one: that was for old
en- 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 Saint Petersburg,
or Venice, or Rome, or An
twerp, or Brussels, or Paris; you pre-
sented that letter and got financial
help Immediately. And I want you
to understand that the text, instead
of being appropriate for one age, or
for one land, is q circular letter for
all ages and all lands, and wherever
1t is presented for help, the help
comes: "seel ye the Lord while he
may be found"
l come today with no hair spun
theories of religion, with no nice dis
tinctions, with no elaborate disgust
tions; but with a plain talk on the
matters OF personal religion. 1 feel
that the sermon I preach this morn
ing will be the SAVIOR of life unto life or
of death unit death. In other words,
the gospel OF Christ is
A POWERFUL MEDICINE;
it either kills or cures.
l remark, in the first place, you are
to seek the Lord through earnest and
believing prayer. God is not an auto
crat or IL despot seated on throne
with his arms resting on brazen lions,
and sentinel pacing up and down at
the foot of the throne. God is faith
er seated in a bower, waiting for His
children to come and climb on His
knee, and get his kiss and His benedic-
ton.
l do not care so much what posture
you take in prayer, nor how lurge an
amount OF voice you use. You might
get down on your face before God, if
you did not pray right inwardly, and
there would be no response. You
might cry at the top OF your voice,
and unless you had q believing spirit
within, your cry would not 20 farther
up than the shout OF q ploughboy to
his oxen.
Iremark, again, you must seek the
Lord through Bible study. The Bible
is the newest book in the world.
"Oh," you say, ait was made hun
dreds OF years ago, and the learned
men of King James translated it hun
dreds OF years ago." 1 confute that
idea by telling you it is not five min
utes old, when God, by His blessed
spirit retranslates it into the heart.
Ii you will, in the seeking OF the way
of life through Scripture study, i'm
plore Gods light to fall upon the page,
you will find that these promises are
not one second old, and that they
drop straightway from the throne OF
God into your heart.
There are many people to whom the
Bible does not amount to much. If
they merely. look at
THE OUTSIDE BEAUTY.
whyit will no more lead them to
Christ than Washington's farewell ad-
dress or the Koran of Mahomet or
the Shaster of the Hindoos. 1t is the
inward light OF Gods word you must
get or die. Invent up to the church of
the Madeline in Paris, and looked at