The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-07-08
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
EUROPEANS TURN QUITO HEAR
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE.
Large and Enthusiastic Audiences Greet
Him Everywhere A Sermon on
the Life and Death Of Jesus
Christ.

LONDON, England, July 3, lS92-Dr. TalmAge
continues TO receive from all classes OF the En-
glish people the warmest OF welcomes and the
heartlest greetings The work OF arranging
his tour has been exceedingly die1cult So
numerous were the invitations awaiting him
that 10 accept some and decline others equally
pressing seemed invidtUus. 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 2:22:
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 Barabbas goes among his sympa-
thizers, receiving their coarse congrat-
ulations, PLATE turns to his other dis
tinguished prisoner--m meek, inof-
fensive, loving, self-sacrifcing-andhe
is COMPOUNDED as to what course he had
better take, so he impanels the mob as
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-the
loving, living, dying Christ-and each
one of us will have to ask and answer
for himself the question, What shall
l 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 chair on
which he may he sit He is so weary,
you would not let him stand without
recognition. If a 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
to let him stand without recognition
the wounded one of the hills. You
will ask, what makes him weep? where
was he hurt? who wounded him2
whence he came? whittier he goesP
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 inoffensive person comes and per
sists 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
. | L. ,,,,k1, 10 hop ekAnI n1nCn Iv
us a great whie-ten, twenty, thirty,
forty years. He has stood close by you
three times day, breaking bread fol
your household, all night watching by
your pillow. He has been in the nur
sery among your children, he has beer
in the store among your goods, he hal
been in the factory amid the flying
wheels, and now if you dc
not like his society you car
bid him away; ay, if hi
will not go you can take him by the
throat and tell him you do not wan
his interference, that you do not wan
his breath on your cheek, that you d.
want his eye on your behavior. You
can bid him away, or if he will not g.
in that way, then YOU can stamp you
foot as you would at dog, and cry
"Begone!" Yet l know you will no
treat Jesus that way. When PLAT
could not do that, you could not. Des
7 peradoes and outlaws might do so, bu
know that that is not the way 70,
will treat him, that that is not wha
you will do with Jesus Their
is another thing you can do with him
= you can look on him merely as an Opt
clan to cure blind eyes, or an aurist I
tune deaf ears, a friend, good friend
= a helpful companion, a cheerful passer
8 ger on shipboard; but that will amour
to nothing. You can look upon him a
q God, and be abashed while he rouse
the storm, or blasts the ig-tree, @
heaves rock down the mountain. side
That will not do you any good; n
more save your soul than the admire
ton you have for John Milton or Wi
liam Shakespeare. can think Of onl
one more thing you can do wit
Jesus. and that is to take him int
: your hearts, That is the be-
y thing you can do with him; that is th
8 only safe thing you can do with hin
Y and may the Lord omnipotent by h
. Spirit help me to persuade you to d
q that. A minister of Christ was speal
= ing to some children, and said: 81 wi
Y point you to Christ" A little chi
z rose in the audience, and came up al
Y put her hand in the hand of the paste