Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-22
IN USKALOOSA, IOWA.
pR. TALMAoE breaches BEFORE AN
ENORMOUS AUDIENCE.

~~'Nr~tff1OV0 FN00t-iNO-~
Heavenly Congratulations the Subject o
sermon Preached from the Seventh
Verse of the Fifteenth Chapter Of TN
Gospel According 20 81. Luke.
OsKALoosA, Feb. 2f.--Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached here today to al
enormous audience. He expects Il
be absent from home about ton days
during which period he speaks in as
meny cities The subject of his ser
mon was Heavenly Congratula
lions His evident intention was tc
make worlds that seem a great way
off from each other appear very
near. His text was taken from Luke
XIV. 2, Likewise Joy shall be in
heaven over one sinner that re-
penteth, more than over ninety and
nine just persons who need no re.
pentance"
Alost sheepl Nothing can be more
thoroughly lost. / look through the
window OF a shepherds house at
night. The candles are lighted. The
shepherd has just placed his staff
against the mantel He has taken
off his coat, shaken out of it the dust
and hung it up. see by the candle
light that there are neighbors who
have come in.
The shepherd, tagged out with the
long tramp, sits down on bench,
and the wife and children and the
neighbors say to him, Come, now,
tell us how you found the poor
thing" ''Well, he says, 'this morn
ing | went out to the yard to look at
the flock No sooner had i looked
over the fence than / saw something
wrong. The fact was that they did
not count right. Ninety-fve, ninety
six, ninety-seven, ninety eight, nine
ty-nine-only ninety-nine. Melon
aid, you know we had hundred.
And wondered which one was gone,
and / began again, and ] counted
ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven,
ninety eight, ninety-nine. Well, /
whistled up the dogs, and started ON
the fields and across the bridges, and
/ tracked the moors, and leaped the
gullies, but no bleating of the poor
thing did hear. l said to myself,
The lamb must have fallen into a
ditch, or pack Of wolves from the
mountains must have torn ii to
pieces and sucked its life out. But
could not give it up You see it was
a pet lamb. II was that one with
the black spot on the right shoulder
that used to come and lick my hand |
as crossed the field, and somehow ] |
could not give it up. So ! went on
and on and on until after awhile !
heard the dogs bark, and | said,
Whats thatq Then ! hastened to
the top of the hill and | looked down,
and there ! saw the poor lamb It
had fallen into the ditch, aud
as / came where it was and bent
over the ditch and stopped down
to lift the poor thing out, wish
you could have seen the loving and
and tender way it looked
at me. ] lifted it out and it was all
covered with the slush and the mud.
II was an awful thing TO do, but
lifted ii out, and it was so lame and
10 weak it could not walk alone, 50 |
threw 1t over my shoulders, and |
started homeward; and the condi. |
ton OF that lamb you may judge of
from the coat which | have Just
hung up. But tramped on and on
until it Is safe in the yard. poor
thingl Thank God, thank Godr
Then the shepherds wife spread the
table and brought out the best fare
that the cabin could afford, and they
sat up very late that night. and they
talked, and they laughed, and they
sang, and they ate, and they drank,
and they danced and told over and
over and over again the story Of the
lost sheep that was found
JOY OVER A REPENTANr SINNER.
With such tenderness and rrsticity
OF illustration does Christ represent
the souls going off ana tho souls
coming back, when he says. Like
wise there is joy in heaven among
the angels of God over one sinner
that repenteth, more than over ninety
and nine just persons that not,d no
To repent Is 10 feel
HAT you arc bad, ana To be s rry
about it and 10 turn over a new lgaf,
lnd 90 pray Tor forgiveness and help.
lust as soon as man does that they
aear right away of it in heaven,
There arc no gossips IN glory
yoing around 30 chatter and laugh
when a man fails; but there are many
ouls in glory who are glad 10 run
bout and tell il when man is saved.
The news goes very quick from gate
o gate and from north wall to south
gall, and from east wall 10 west wall.
nd IN three minutes every citizen
( heaven has heard of il, for there
} JOY ia heaven among the angels OF
iod over one sinner that repenteth. - !
can very ensily understand how
here should be joy in heavy over a
entecost with three thousand souls !
.vod Ia one day no mystery about
vat; can understand how there
lould DO joy in heaven over tho 1
aHish Of Schotts. when four hundred I
luls were saved under one sermon !
Mr.. Livingston; l can understand (
Nv there should be joy Ia heaven
ler the great awakening Ia the time I
Harland Page when la one year I
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