The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-15
PILATES QUESTION.
GWhat Shall 1 Do Then With
Jesus?"
Each One of You viii Have to Ask and
Answer For Himself That Question
Sermon by Rev. 7. Dewitt Tai
mage, ID. ID.

Among the sermons preached by Rev.
DR.. Talmage in England, the one Sc
lected for publication this week is from
fhe text: Matthew xvii %, "What
shall Pdo with Jesus?'
Plate was an unprincipled politician.
He had sympathies, convictions of right
and desires to be honest; but all these
were submerged by a wish to be popu-
lar and to please the people. Two dis
tinguished prisoners were in the grasp
of government, and 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
visared and cruel eyed Barabbas goes
among his sympathizers, receiving their
coarse congratulations. PLATE turns to
his other distinguished prisoner-mild,
meek. inoffensive, loving, self-sacrific-
ing-and he is COMPOUNDED as to what
course he had better take, so he i'm
panels the mob as a jury to decide, say
irg to them: what shall l do, then,
with Jesus?"
Oh. it is no dried or withercd question,
hut one that throbs with warm and
quick pulse in the heart of every man
and woman here. We must DO some
thing with Jesus. He is here. You
and l are not 50 certainly here as He IS
for lie fills all this place-the loving,
living. dying Christ-and each one of
Us will have to ask and answer for him
self the question, "What shall | do.
then. with Jesus?" Wei, 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;
hut do rot think your sense Of COM
mon courtesy viii allow that. He
zones walking on such n long Journey,
vou viii certainly give Him chair on
which Tie may SIT. He is so weary, you
would not let Him stand without some
recognition. If n bergar comes to your
door. you recognize him and say:
'What DO You want?" If you meet
stranger faint in the street, You say:
What is the matter with yOu?" and
your common humanity, and your con-
mon sympathy, and your common sense
Of propriety will not allow You to let
L ~ SLauu NlL4AOut INtt- lAiS
wounded One of the hills. You will
ask: What makes Him weep? where
was He hurt? who wounded Him?
whence came He? whittier goes He? 1
know there have been men who have
with outrageous Indifference hated
Christ, but I 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. If an
ircfensive person comes and persists in
standing close up to you, and you have
IL various ways given him to under
stand that You do not want his presence
or his society, then You ask the reason
OF his impertinence and bid him away.
Wen. that is what we can do with
jesus.
He has stood close by us a great
-vEile-ten. twenty. thirty, forty years
He has stood close by you three times
CAV. breaking bread for your household,
aI night watching by your pillow; He
las 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
l. ron 30 not like His society you can
bid Him away: aye, # He will not go
voa can take Him by the throat and
tell Him you do not want His inter
ference: that you do not want His
breath on your cheek: that you do rot
want His eye on your behavior. You
can lid Him away. or if He will not so
IL that way, then you can stamp your
foot. as You would at dog, ard cry,
"'Eegone.'
Yet l know you will not treat Jesus
that way. When PLATE could not do
that. YOU could not Desperadoes and
outlaws might do so, but I know 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
L;2-vou can look on him merely as an
optician TO cure blind eyes, or an artist
to tune deaf ears. a friend, = good
friend. a helpful companion, q
cheerful passenger on shipboard; but
that viii amount to nothing. You can
look upon him IS a God and be abashed
while he ro1Ses the storm, or blasts
5g tree, or heaves 4 rock down the
mountain side That will not do you
any Cood; no more-save your soul than
the admiration you have for John Mil
toa or William Shakespeare.
can think OF only one more thing
vou 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 omripotent by
spirit help me to persuade you to do
that. a minister of Chr st was speak
ing to some children aiId said, Il will
point YOU to Christ 4 little child rose
IL the audience and came up and put
her hand in the hand of the pastor and
said: please, sir, take me to Jesus
now. want to so now" Oh, that il
might be now with such simplicity of
experience that you and join hands
and seek after Christ and get an express
sion OF his benefaction and his mercy!
You may take Christ into your conf
6ence. If you can not trust Him, whom
can you trust? do not offer you dry,
theological technicality. simply ask
you to come and put both feet on the
Crock of Ages" Take hold of Christ's
hand and draw Him to your soul with
perfect abandonment and hurl yourself
into the deep sea of His mercy. He
comes and says, Il will save you" If
you do not think He is hypocrite and
a liar when He says that, believe Him
and say: Lord Jesus believe; here is
my heart. Wash it Save it Do it
now, Aye, it is done; for obey thy
promise and come / can do no more.
That is all Thou hast asked come.
Christ is mine Pardon is mine Heaven
Is mine"