Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-07-07
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
EUROPEANS TURN OUT TO HEAR
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE.
Large and Enthusiastic Audiences Greet
Him Everywhere A Sermon on
Christ.

LONDON, England July 3, ls9s.-Dr. Talmage
| continues to receive from all classes of the En-
| gIish people the warm@st of welcomes and the
| heartiest greetings. The work OF arranging
| his tour has been exceedingly dincult So
| numerous were the invitations awaiting him
! that to accept some and decline others equally
| Pre- sSng seemed inyidious. 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 publica-
| ton this week is from the text Matthew T:2!
! 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 distinguished prisoners were in
the grasp of government, and the
proposition was made to free one of
them. There stands Barabbas, the muir
derer; there stands Christ, the Saviour
of the world. At the demand of the peo-
pie the renegade is set free. but Jesus
is held AS the hard-visaged and cruel
eyed Bi.rabbas goes among his Sympa-
thizers, receiving their coarse congrat-
ulations, PLATE turns to his other dis
| tinguished prisoner--mild, meek, inOt-
! fensive, loving, lf-sacrifcing-an he
! is COMPOUNDED as to what course he had
better take, so he impanels the mob as
J jury to decide, saying to them,
"What shall 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
! something with Jesus. He is here.
! You and are not so certainly here as
he is, for he fills all this place-thc
loving, living, dying Christ-and each
one of us will 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.
You can, in the first place, let him
stand without word of recognition;
but do not think your sense of com
mon courtesy will allow that. lie
comes walking on such long journey,
you will certainly give him a chair on
which he may he sit. He is so weary,
recognition If Il beggar comes to
! your door, you recognize him and say,
What do you WANT" If you meet a
stranger faint in the streets, 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
/ IL.
the wounded one of the hills. You
will ask, what makes him weep? where
was he hurt? who wounded him?
( whence he came? whittier he goes? |
know there have been men who have
with outrageous Indifference hated
Christ, but know very well that that
Is not what you will do with Jesus
Another thing that you can do with
him-you can thrust him back from
your heart, and tell him to stand aside
/ If an inotfensive person comes and per-
Bists in standing close up to you, and
YOU have in various ways given him to
understand that you do not want his
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 while-ten, twenty, thirty,
forty years He has stood close by you
three times day, breaking bread for
your household, all night watching by
your pillow. He has been in the nur-
sery among your children, he has been
in the store among your goods, he has
been in the factory amid the flying
wheels, and now if you do
not like his society you can
bid him away; ay, If he
will not go you can take him by the
throat and tell him you do not want
his interference, that you do not want
his breath on your cheek, that you do
want his eye on your behavior. You
can bid him away, or if he will not &C
in that way, then you can stamp your
foot, as you would at a dog, and cry,
'Begone," Yet | know YOU will not
treat Jesus that way. When PLATE
could not do that, you could not. Des,
peradoes 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 opti
clan to cure blind eyes, CT an aurist tc
tune deaf ears, friend, a good friend
a helpful companion, a cheerful passen
ger on shipboard; but that will amount
to nothing. You can look upon him a!
a God, and be abashed while he rouse!
the storm, or blasts the fg-tree, o.
heaves a rock down the mountain. side
That will not do you any good; NJ
more save your soul than the admira
ton you have for John Milton or vii
liam Shakespeare. | can think of only
one more thing you can do will
Jesus, and that is to take him int
your hearts. That is the bes
thing you can do with him; that is tn,
only safe thing you can do with him
and may the Lord Omnipotent by hi
Spirit help me TO persuade you to d,
that. A minister of Christ was speak
ing to some children, and said: civil
point you TO Christ" A little chill
rose in the audience, and came up AM
put her hand in the hand of the pastor
and said; Please, sir, take me t
Jesus now. want to go now" oh
that it might be now with such sim
pIicity of experience that you and
join hands and seek after Christ an
get an expression of his tenefactio
ana his mercy.
You may take Christ into your conf
: dence. IT you clnnCt trust him, WHOM
can you trust? do not offer you
dry, theological techIicality. simpl
J ask you to come and put both feet O
the Rock of Ages" Take hold {
I. Christ's hands and draw him to you
y soul with perfect abandonment, an
:, huri yourself into the deep sea Of hi
a mercy. lie comes and says, 81 wi
Is save you" If you do not think he is
. hypocrite and liar when he says tina
believe him, and say, Lord Jesus,
believe; mere is my heart. Wash i
Save it. Do it now. Az, it is don,