The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-08-04
THE SOULS CRISIS.
Dr. Talmage Makes an Appeal to
Sinners to Mend Their
Ways.
he Advances the Gospel as a Pow.
er1ul Medium for the Sin
Sick Soul.

LONDoN,--Cable .-Th attend
Ances at the services conducted
by Rev. Or. Talmage continue as great,
as ever. The sermon selected for this
week is entitled 1The Souls Crisis
from Isaiah ", 8: "seek Ye the Lord
while he may be found"
Isaiah stands head and shoulders
above the other Old Testament auth
ors in vivid descriptiveness OF Christ.
Other prophets give an outline OF
our Savior's features. 81
My text finds him standing on a
mountain Of inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ ad-
yancing and anxious that all men
might know him; his voice rings
down the ages: "seek We the Lord
while he may be found" "Oh,"
says some one: that was for old
en- times" No my nearer. If you
have travelled in other lands you
have taken a circular letter of credit
from some banking house in
London, and in Saint Petersburg,
or Venice, or Rome, or An
twerp, or Brussels, or Paris; you pre-
sented that letter and got financial
help Immediately. And I want you
to understand that the text, instead
of being appropriate for one age, or
for one land, is q circular letter for
all ages and all lands, and wherever
it is presented for help, the help
comes: "Seek We the Lord while he
may be found.'
come today with no hair spun
theories of religion; with no nice dis
tinctions, with no elaborate disguise
tions; but with a plain talk on the
matters Of personal religion. feel
that the sermon preach this morn
ing will be the SAVIOR of life unto life or
of death unto'death. In other words,
the gospel OF Christ is
POWERFUL MEDICINE;
it either kills or cures.
remark, in the first place, you are
to seek the Lord through earnest and
believing prayer. God is not an auto
GRAFT or d despot seated on throne
with his arms resting on brazen lions,
and a sentinel pacing up and down at
the foot Of the throne. God is q faith
er seated in bower, waiting for His
children to come and climb on His
knee, and get his kiss and His benedic-
ton.
| do not care 50 much what posture
you take in prayer, nor how large an
amount OF voice you use. You might
+ get down on your face before God, If
you did not pray right inwardly, and
there would be no response. You
might cry at the top Of your voice,
and unless you had a believing spirit
within, your cry would not 20 farther
up than the shout OF a ploughboy to
his oxen.
Iremark, again, you must seek the
Lord through Bible study. The Bible
is the newest book in the world.
"Oh," you say, sit was made hun
dreds OF years ago, and the learned
men Of King James translated it hun
dreds ofyears ago" l confute that
idea by telling you it is not five min
utes old, when God, by, His blessed
spirit retranslates, it into the heart.
If YOU will, in the seeking OF the. way
of life through Scripture study, inn.
plore God light to fall upon the page,
you will find that these promises are
not one second old, and that they
drop straightway from the throne OF
God into your heart.
There are many people to whom the
Bible does not amount to much. Ii
they merely look at
THE OUTSIDE BEAUTY.
whyit will no more lead them to
Christ than Washiagton's farewell ad-
dress or the Koran OF NIahomet or
the Shaster Of the Hindoos. 1t is the
inward light OF God'swordyo must
get or die. went up to the church OF
the Madeline in Paris, and looked at
the doors width were the most won
derfully constructed I ever saw, and l
could have STAYED there for a whole
week; but had on'y q little time, so
having glanced at the wonderful carv-.
ing OH the doors, / passed in and
looked OF the radiant affairs, ana the.
sculptured dome. Alas, that so many
stop at the outside door of Gods
H0ly Word, looking at the historical
beauties, instead OF going in and look
ing at the affairs OF sacrifice and the
dome OF Gods mercy and salvation
that movers over every penitent and
believing soul!
remark, again, we must seek God
through church ordinances. What
say YOU, "can'ta man be saved with
out going to church," / reply, there
are men, / suppose, in glory, who have
never seen a church; but the church is
the ordainrd means by which we are
to be brought to God; and il truth af-.
fects us when we are alone, it affects
US more NIGHTLY when We are i'll the
assembly--the feelings of others en-
phasizing Our own feelings. The great
law OF sympathy comes into rlay and
a truth that would take hold only
with the grasp OF sick man, beats
NIGHTLY against the soul with q thou
sand heart throbs. When you come
into the religious circle, come only
/ With one notion, and only for one
! purposs-to find the way to Christ.
SIMS
AN AWFUI. DISEASE.
hear people say with q toss OF the
4 hpNd and uyitn q fpivinls Olannpr.