The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-02
THE SOULS CRISIS.
mayor is the Cup With Which
We Dip
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Refreshment for Our Thirsty aud
Parched Soul-Sermon by Rev.
T. dewitt Talmage,D.D.


.,titled 1.-THE Souls Crisis. from Isaiah
1, q: seek we the Lord while He may
Be found
Isaiah stands head and shoulder.
.hove other Old Testament authors in
,,vd descriptiveness of Christ Other
,rophcts give an outline of our Saviour's
katurcs. Some of them present, as II
ware. the side face of Christ; others a
bust of Christ; but Isaiah gives us the
mll-length portrait of Christ. Other
Scripture writers excel in some
things, Ezekiel more weird, David
more pathetic, Solomon more epigram-
matte, Habaklzuk more sublime; but
when you want to see Christ com
inr out from the gates of prophecy
IN all His grandeur and glory you invol-
unfairly turn To Isaiah. So that il the
prophecies in regard to Christ might be
called the ''Oratorio of the Messiah"
the writing of Isaiah is the 'Hauelujah
Chorus" where all the batons wave and
all the trumpcts come in. Isaiah was
not man picked up out of insignific-
ance by inspiration. He was known
and honored. Joseohu and Philo. and
Sirach cxtolled him in their writings.
What Paul was among the apostles,
Isaiah was among the prophets.
My text finds him standing on a
mountain Of inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ ad-
vancing and anxious that all men
might know him; His voice rings down
the ages: Seek yc the Lord while He
may be found" oh" says some one,
that was for olden times" No, my
nearer. II you have travelled in other
lands you have taken a circular letter
OF credit from some clearinghouse in
London, and I'm St Petersburg, or
Venice, or Rome, or Antwerp, or Paris
you presented that letter and got finan-
cial help Immediately. And / want
you to understand that the text, in
stead OF being appropriate for one age |
or for one land, is a circular letter for |
all ages and all lands, and wherever it |
is presented for help, the help comes:
seek We the Lord while He may be
found"
come to-day with no hair-spun
theories of religion, with no nice dis
tinctions, with no elaborate DISGUST
tons; but with plain talk on the mat
ters personal religion. feel that the
sermon preach this morning will be
the saver of life unto life, or of death
unto death. IN other words, the Cos
pei of Christ is powerful medicine; it
either kills or cures. There are those
who say: II would like to be Chris
IAN have occn waiting n good while
or the right kind of influence to Gomez"
lnd still you are waiting. You are
wiser in worldly things than you are in
ehgious things. And yet there are
nen who say they are waiting to get I
o heaven-waiting waiting but not
With intelligent waiting, or they would
ct on board the line of Christian in
uences that would bear them into the
ingdom of God.
Now, you know very well that TO
EEK u thing is TO search for il with .
arrest endeavor. If you want to see a J
srtain man in London, and there is a .
latter of much money connected with {
our seeing him, and You can not at J
rSt find him, you DO not give up the
arch You look in the directory, but i
IN not find his name; you go in circles S
here You think, perhaps, he may min ;
G. and, having found the part of the I
W where he lives, but perhaps not t
loWing the street, You go through a
rect after street and from block 10 /
oek' and You keep on searching for
neSs and for months. i
ron say: 1T is a matter of 100000 {
hethcr | see him or not" oh that v
Pi were as persistent in seeking for {
'rlSt. Had you onc-half that per- d
'tence you would long ago have found 5
IN who is the joy of the forgiven W
mt We may pay our debts, we may o
tend church, we may relieve the poor N
may be public beucfactors, and yet d.
our life disobey the text, never seek fl
a, never gain Heaven. Oh that the CO
rat OF God would help this morning b
He try TO show you, in carrying out g
Idea of my text, first, how TO seek Il
Lord, and in the next place, when u
seek Him. "Seek We the Lord while do
may be found" OF
remark in the first place, you are 10 in
X the Lord through earnest and be- OF
'ing prayer. God is not an autocrat sa
u dcspot ON a throne with his arms al
ting on brazen lions ana a sentinel pc
ing up and down Mt the foot of the
one. God Is a Father seated in st
ver, waiting for his children to come 10
climb on His knee and get His kiss II
His benediction. Prayer is the cup IL
n which we go to the fountain of tn
ng water" and dip up refreshment si'
n thirsty soul Grace does not come w
tac heart as we set a caslS of water yo
'atch the rain in shower. II is n do
w fnStnnnd In the ihrnnn of God nc