The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-07-16
|TALMAGE'S TALKS.
The Eloquent New York Clergyman
breaches a Stirring Sermon on an
Important Question.
A Good Lot of Wholeso ONE Advice Of
fered to Mankind--A Thrilling
r. Appeal.


LoNDoN(SpeciaD-Dr. Talmage con-
tinues to receive from all classes of
English people the warmest OF well
come, and the heartiest o. greetings.
Among the sermons he has preached,
the one selected for publication this
week is from the text, Matthew
xvii. %: "What shall l do with
Jesus?"
PLATE was an unprincipled polite
ian. He had sympathies, convictions
of right, and desires to be honest; but
oil these were submerged by q wish to
be popular, and to please the people.
Two distinguished prisoners were in
the grasp OF the government. ard the
proposition was made to free one of
them. There stands 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-vis-
aged and cruel-eyed Barabbas goes
among his sympathizers, receiving
their oars congratulations, PLATE
turns to- his other distinguished pris-
oner-mild, meek, inoffensive, loving,
acknowledgement he is confounded
as to what course he had better take,
so he empanels the mob as a jury to
decide, saying to them, "What shall l
do then with Jesus?"
Oh, it is no dried or withered ques-
ton, but one that throbs with warn
and quick pulse in the heart of every
man and woman here. We must do
something with Jesus. He is here.
You and l are not 80 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 A WORD OF RECOGNITION,
but l do not think your sense OF COM
mon courtesy will allow that. He
comes walking on such along journey,
you will certainly give him q chair on
which he may sit. He is SO weary,
you would not let him stand without
some recognition. If " beggar comes
to your door, you recognize him and
say, "What do you want?" If you
meet a stranger faint in the street, you
say, What is the matter with your
and your common humanity, and
your m sympathy, and your
common sense of propriety will not
allow you to let him stand without
recognition-the wounded one of the
hills. b.
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 persists in standing close up to
you, and you have in various ways
given him to understand that you dc
not want his presence or his society
then you ask the reason of his imper
Thence and bid him away. Well, that
is what we can do with Jesus. He
has stood close by us q great while
10, 20, 80, 40 years. He has stood
close by you three times aday, break
ing bread foryou all night watching by
your pillow. He has. been in the nur'
sery among your children, he has been
in the store amongyour 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, i
he will notgo 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 bid him away, or if he will
not 60 in that way, then you car
stamp your foot, as you would at g
dog and cry, "Begone!" Yet know
you will not treat Jesus that way
When PLATE could not do that, you
could not. D~esperadoes and outlaws
might do SO, but I know that is not
the way you will treat him, that
is not what you will do with Jesus.
There is another thing you can dc
with him; You can look on him mere
" as an optician to ire BLIND eyes
or an aurist to tune deaf ears, afrienc
a good friend, a helpful companion, c
cheerful passenger on shipboard; but
that will amount to nothing. YOU
can look upon him as q God and b.
abashed while he rouses the storm
or blasts a fig tree, or heaves a rocl
down the mountain side. That will
not: do you any good; no more saw
your soul than the admiration 70,
have for John Milton OF William
Shakespeare. lean think OF only on
more thing you can do with Jesus ant
that is to take him into your hearts
That is the best thing you can do will
him; that is the only safe thing yo'
can do with him; and may the Lore
Omniponent by his Spirit help me tx
persuade you to do that.
You may take Christ into your con
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