Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-07
HOW TO MEET JESUS.
Dr.. TttsAcs ON The FAMOUS CUES
TON OF PLATE.


Into the Heart.
loNboN. july 3-Dr. Talmage continues
70 receive from all classes Of the English
/ people the waFnsest Of welcomes and the
heartieSt greetings The work of arraug-
ing his tour las been exceedingly difficult.
/ so numerous were the Invitations awaiting
/ him that 10 accept some aud decline others
equally pressing seemed inyidous. Wher-
/ ever he has gone the largest churches in
/ the cities hare been crowded to excess and
could have been iillcd many times over.
Among he sermons he has preached the
one selected for publication this week i
from the text. Matthew xvii. y. What
shall do with .Jesussn
| PLATE was IN 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 distiR-
guishet prisoners were in the grasp OF
government. aal the proposition was
made TO free one OF them There stands
Barabbas the murderer: there stands
Christ, the Saviour Of the world. At the
demand Of the people the renegade is set
free. but Jesus Is held. As the hard Wis
agel and erHel eyed Barabbas goes among
his sympathizers, receiving their coarse
congratulations. plate turns 10 his other
distinguished prisoner-milil, meek, inof-
fensive, loving. self ierfcing--and he is
| COMPOUNDED as to what course be lad bet
ter take SO he impanels the mob a a jury
20 decide, saying TO them, what shall I
do then, with .lesuss''
oh. il Is no dried or withered question
but one that throhs with warm and quick
pulse Ia the heart Of every man and WON
an here. We must do something with
Jesus He is here You and are not SO
certainly here rs he is. for he fills all this
plaee-the loving, living. dying Christ
and each one OF Us will have TO ask and
answer for himself the question. What
shall do, then. with Jesusfp Well, my
friends. there are three or four things you
can 90 with hini.
THE C,,NTE,iPTuOus WAY.
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 a 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 ignition. Ii beggar
comes to your door, you recognize him and
say, Nv hat do you wantsn II you meet
stranger faint in the street. you say,
What is the matter with youg" and your
common humanity. and yoar common
sympathy, and your common sense of pro-
priety will not allow you to let him stand
without recognition-the wounded one OF
the hills You will ask. What makes him
weep; where was he huriy who wounded
him. whence came heY whittier goes he's
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 you can do with him
YOU can thrust him back from your
heart and tell him to stand aside. Ii an
inoffcnsive person comes aud persists 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 stool close BY us a great while
ten. twenty. thirty, forty years. He has
stool close by you three times day.
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 las been in the factory amid the flying
wheels, and now if you donot like his soeie-
" you can bid him away; aye, II he will not
20 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 eye on your
behavior. You can lid him away, or if he
will not go in that way, then you can stamp
your foot. as you would at dog, and cry,
"Begoner'
Yet know you will not treat Jesus that
way. When PLATE could not do that, you
could not. Desperadoes 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 optician TO
cure blind eyes, or an aurist to tune deaf
ears, a friend. good friend, helpful
companion, a cheerful passenger on ship
board: but that will amount to nothing
You can look upon him rs a God and be
abashed while he rouses the storm, or
blasts fig tree, or heaves rock down the
mountain side. That will not do you any
good. no more save yOur soul IMAM TIE
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. A minister of
Christ was speaking to some children and
said, Il will point you to Christ" A little
child rose in the audience and came upand
put her hand in the hand Of the pastor and
said: PLEASE, sir, take me to Jesus now.
want to go now" Oh, that it might be
now with such simplicity Of experience
that you and l join hands and seek after
Christ and get an expression of his bene-
faction and his mercy!
THE TRUSTING WAY.
You may take Christ into Your conf
dence. If you cannot trust him, whom can
you trust, do not offer you dry, theo-
logical technicality. / simply ask you to
come and put both feet on the Rock OF
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