Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-04
HOW TO TREAT JESUS
You Will Surely Not Ignore Him Nor
Drive Him Away From Yoa.
REGARDED AS A FRIEND OR A GOD
But the Very Best Plan Is to Take Him to
Your Heart of Hearts.
TALMIGES LATEST LONDON SERMON

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
LONDON, July 3-Among the sermons
DR.. Talmage has preached by invitation il
the metropolis this week the one selected
for publication is from the text, Matthew
xvii, %: "What shall do with Jesus?'
Pilate 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 tc
please the people.
Two distinguished prisoners were in the
grasp of government, and the proposition
was made to free one of them. There stand:
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 and
cruel-eyed Barabbas goes among his SYM
pathizers, receiving their coarse congratu-
lation, PLATE turns to the other distin.
guished prisoner-mild, meek, inoffensive,
loving, self-saerifcing-and he is con-
founded as to what course he had better
take so he impanels themob as a jury to de-
eide, saving to them, "What shall 1 do
then with Jesus?"
Oh, it is no dried or withered question,
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.
What You May Do 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 a
word of recognition; but do not think
YOUR sense of common courtesy will allow
that. He comes walking on such long
journey, you will certainly give him chair
on which he may sit. He is so weary, you
would not let him stand without some rec
ognition. 1 know there have been men
who have with outrageous Indifference hated
Christ, but 1 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 inoffen-
sive person comes and persists in standing
close un 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 you can
do with Jesus.
He has stood close by us a great while
90 80, 40, years. He has stood close by
you three times dav, breaking bread for
your household, all night watching by
your pillow. He has been in the nursery
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 not want His eve on your behavior.
You can stamp your foot, as you would at
dog, and cry: ''Begone?'
The Best Way to Treat the Savior.
Yet know you will not treat Jesus that
way, When PLATE could not do that, you
could, not There is another thing you can
do with Him; you can look on Him merely
as an optician to cure blind ewes, or an
aurist to tune deaf ears, a friend, good
frienh, s helpful companion, cheerful
passenger on shipboard; but that will
amount to nothing.
You can look upon Him as a God, and be
abashed while He rouses the storm, or blasts
q fg-tree, or heaves a rock down the noun
tain-slde That will not do you any good;
no more save your soul than the admiration
YOU have for John Milton or William
Shakespeare.
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 Omnipotent by His Spirit help me to
persuade you to do that
You may take Christ into your confidence
If you cannot trust Him, whom can you
trust? do not offer you a dry, theological
technicality. / simply ask you to come and
put both feet on the "Rock of Ages
Take hold of Christ's hands and draw Him
TO your soul with perfect abandonment, and
hurl yourself into the deep sea of His
mercy. He comes and says 81 will save
you" If you do not think He is hypocrite
and liar when He saws that, believe Him,
and say, Lord Jesus, believe; here is my
it is done; for 1 obey Thy promise and come
1 can do no more. That is all Thou hast
asked. 1 come. Christ is mine. Pardon is
mine. Heaven is mine"
The Reluctance to Trust Jesus.
Why. my friends, you put more trust in
everybody than you do in Christ, and in
everything; more trust in the bridge cross
ing the stream, in the ladder up to the loft;
more trust in the stove that confines the
fire; more trust in the cook that prepares
your food; more trust in the clerk that
writes your books, in the druggist that
makes the medicine, in the bargain maker
with whom you trade; more trust in all
these things than in Christ. although He !
stands this moment offering without limit,
and without mistake, and without excep- |
tion, universal pardon to all who want it.
Now, is not that cheap enough-all things |
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pei as understand it, and if you believe |
that Christ died to save you, you are saved. |
When? Now. No more doubt about it |
than that you sit there. No more doubt |
about it than that you have right hand |
No more doubt about it than that there is a |
God. If you had committed 500, 900 trans
gressions, Christ would forgive you Just as
freely as if you had never committed but
one; though you had gone through the
whole catalogue of crimes-arson, and bias
pheny, and murder-Christ would pardon |
you just as freely, you coming to him, as
though you had committed only the slight |
est sin of the tongue. Why, when Christ |
comes to pardon a soul, He stops for moth |
ing. Height is nothing. Depth is moth
ing Enormity is nothing. Protractedness
is nothing.
Ger sins like mountains for their size,
The seas of sovereign grace expand,
The seas of sovereign grace arise.
The Spirit in Which to Approach Him.
Lord Jesus, I give up alb other props, |
yive up all other expectations. Ruined and |
lndone, l lay hold Thee. plead Thy prom
ses. l fly to Thy arms. "Lord save me; 1
perish"
When the Christian Commission went
INTO the army during the war there were
lreat multitude of hungry men and only
ew loaves of bread, and the delegate of the
commission was cutting the bread and
irving il out to wounded and dying men.