Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-07-07
TIE GRf3AT QUESTION
'nR. TALMAeE ON THE MANY AM
sWgRs THAT MAY be GWEN

pR. TALMAeE ON THE MANY AN
sWERs THAT MAY be GIVEN.
Fiinto Asked &c Oaiy$ ns u Amid and
Mesitating Polit,oisa blight, but III
CoRses to Eyssy Man Anew - Chrtss;
Druss he Taken TO the Heart,
LONDON. July 8.--Dr. TalmageF con
nnues to teceiYs fsfGlln titi cii5ssssSs &c She
G~ssEiisAh. Bsss5opiie the warIasss Of !, j;;oofIes !,
and the hoartiest greetings. The work
Of arranging his tour has been OK
ceedingly difficult. So numerous were
The invitations awaiting him that to ac-'
cept some and decline others equally
he has gone the largest churches In the
cities have boon crowded to excess and
could have been filled many times over
Among the sermons he has preached,
tho ono selected for publication this
week Is from the text, Matthew xvii,
%, "Nvhat ahall I do with ~.Tesrta2"
Plate was an unprincipled politician,
Ho had sympathies, convictions of right
and desires to be honest; but all these
were submerged by a wish to be popular
and to please the people, Two distin-
guished prisoners wero In tho grasp Of
government and tho proposition was
made TO free n Of them. There stands
Barabbas, the murderer; there stands.
Christ, the Saviour ofathe world. At
the demand OF the people the renegade
Is set free, but Jesus is held. AS tho,
hard visaged and cruel eyed Barabbas
goes among his syInpathizers, receiving
their coarse congratulations, PLATE turns
70 bis cth5r distinguished pSisonor--
mild, meek, inoffensive, loving, self
Baorifcing--and he is COMPOUNDED as to
what course be had better take, 80 he
impanels the mob as a jury to decide,
saying to them, "'What shall / do, thon.
with Jesus2"
Oh; it ia no dried = w.therad cues
ton, but one that thro' with warm and
quick pulse III the heart Of every man
and woman here. We must do
thing with Jesus. He Is here. You and
l arc not SO certainly here as he is, for
he fills all this place-the loving, living,
dying Chtist-&nd each one Of us will
haze to ask and answer for himself tho
QUO 'tion, "What shall ! do, then, with
Jesus2" Woll, my friends, there T.
three or four things you can do With
him.
WHEN s COMES.
You can, in the first place, let him
stand without a word of recognition;
butt do not think your sense Of common
courtesy will allow that. He comes
walking Oh such q long journey, you
will certainly give him a chair on which
he may sit. He is so weary, you would
mt LOT him ofo,,I ,r,Sl>p,t 49,, ooa..,
ton. IF q beggar to your door,
you recognize him and say, "What do
you want2' If you meet O stranger faint
i'll tho street, you say, what is tho
matter with your and your common
humanity, and your common sympathy,
and your common sense Of .propriety
will not allow You to let him stand
without recognition-tho wounded one
of tho hills. You will ask, What makes
him weep? where was he hurt? who
wounded hiin2 whence came ho2 whittier
goes he2 / know there havo been men
who nave with outrageous Indifference
hated Christ, but l 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 inoffensive person comes and per-
sists In standing close up to you, and
you have in various ways S'',u him to
understand hat you do n Nrant 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.
lilo has stood close by us u great while
ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. Ho
has stood close by you three times a
day breaking bread for your household,
NIL night watching by your pillow. He
hos been in the nursery among your
UniEufo lie has been in the store non
your goods, he has been In tho factory
amid tho flying wheels, and now if you
do not like his society you can bid him
away; aye, If he will not go you can
take him by the throat and tell him you
do not wait his interference, that you
do not want his breath on your
check, that you do not want his eye on
your behavior. You can bid him away;
Or IL he will not go in that way, then
you can stamp your foot as you would
Mt o dog and cry "Begonel"
Yet know you will not treat Jesus
that way. When PLATE could not do
that, you could not. Desperadoes and out
laws might do so, but I know that that
Is not tho 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 tun deaf ears, q friend, q good
friend, q helpful companion, q cheerful
passenger on s%hipboard: but that will
amount 20 nothing.
FEAR o SUFFICIENT.
You can look upon him as q God and
be abashed while he rouses the storm,
or blasts q fig tee, or heaYes u rock
down the mountain side. That will not
do you any good-no more save your
soul h q h admiration yoH have for
John Milton or William Shakespeare.
/ can think Of only one moro 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 tho Lord o%mnipotent by his
spirit hop me to persuade you to do
that. a minister of Christ was sneak
point you to Christ" A little child rose
uie @uuloilCo dhu Caihe up ana put
hor hand in the hand Of the pastor and
said: "Pleaso, sir, take mo to jesus now.
/ want to go now" Oh, that it might
be now with such simplicity Of expert
once that you and / join hands and seok
after Christ and get an expression Of his
~bonofaction and his morcyl
You may take Christ into your conf
dence. IF you cannot trust him, whom
can you trust2 do not offer you n dry,
theological tochnicality. simply ask
you to como and put both feet on tho
"Rock of Ages."- Tako hold of ,Christ's
hands and draw him to your soul with
perfect Abandonment and hurl yourself
into the deep sec &c his mercy. He
comes and says, - will n you" If
you do not think ho is q hypocrito and
n liar when ho says that, believe him
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