The Red Cloud chief., 1892-08-05
NO EXCUSE FOR DELAY.
DR.. Talmage Continues His Dis
courses While Abroad.
The Gospel n Powerful Medicine For the
Disease of sin salvation Free For
All - None Can Escape no
Final Judgment.

INV
crowds while abroad. The sermon
selected for publication the past week
was entitled 1.-THE Souls Crises" from
Isaiah Nv. o: ''Scck We the Lord while
He may be found" Following is the
sermon:
Isaiah stands head and shoulders
above the Old Testament authors in
vivid descriptivcncss of Christ, Other
prophets give an outline of our S%aviour's
features. Some Of them present, as IL
were, the side face e Christ; others u
bust of Christ; but Isaiah gives us u full
length portrait of Christ Other Scrip
ture writer's excel in some things.
Ezekiel more weird, David more pa
thctic. Solomon more epigramatic, Hab-
akkuli more sublime; but when you
want to see Christ coming out from the
gates of prophecy in all His grandeur
and glory, you involuntarily turn to
Isaiah. SO that II the prophecies in re-
gard to Christ might be called the "Or-
atorio of the Messiah" the writing of
Isaiah IL the "Hallelujah Chorus"
where all the batons wave and all the
trumpets come in. Isaiah was not n
man picked up out Of insigniiicance by
inspiration. lie was known and hon
orcd. Josephus and Philo, and Sirach
extolled him in their writings. What
Paul was among the apostles, Isaiah
was among the prophets.
My text finds him standing on n
mountain Of inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ adj
vancing and anxious that all men might
know Him: his voice rings down the
ages: seek yc the Lord while lie may
be found" 60" says someone, that
vas for oldcn times" No, my nearer.
II You have travelled in other lands you
have taken n circular letter of credit
from some banking house in London,
and in st. Petersburg, or Venice, or
Rome, or Antwerp, or Brussels, or
Paris, you presented that letter and got
financial help Immediately. And / want
you to understand that the text. in
stead of being appropriate for one age.
or for one land, is u circular letter for
all ages and for all lands, and whenever
it is presented for help, the help comes:
Seek we the Lord while lie may be
found"
/ come to-day with no hair spun
theories of religion, with no nice dis
tinctions, with no elaborate disquisi-
ton, but with % plain talk on the mat
tcrs Of personal religion. ! feel that
the sermon ! preach this morning will
be the SAVIOR of life unto life, or of death
unto death. In other words, the gospel
of Christ Is "a powerful medicine; it
either kills or cures. There are those
who say: 81 would like to become n
Christian. / have been waiting u good
while for the right kind Of influence to
come" and still you are waiting. You
are wiser in worldly things than you
are in religious things. And yet there
are men who say they are waiting to
get to Heaven-waiting, waiting, but
not with intelligent waiting, or they
would get on board the line of Christian
influences that would bear them into
the Kingdom of God.
Now you know very well that to seek
q thing is to search for it with earnest
cndeavor. IL you want to see n certain
man in London, and there Is u matter
OF much money connected with your
seeing him, and you cannot ut first find
him, you do not give up the search.
You look in the directory, but cannot
find the name; you go in circles where
you think, perhaps, he may mingle,
and, having found the part of the city
where he lives, but perhaps not know.
ing the street, You go through street
after street and from block to block,
and you keep on searching for weeks
and for months.
Won eut,. ssIf - n NATHAN ~ tnn, <1,A,
sand pounds whether | see him or not"
o that men were as persistent in seek
ing for Christ! Had you onc-half that
persistence you would long ago have
found Him who is the Joy OF the for.
given spirit. We may pay nj debts,
we may attend church, we may relieve
the poor, we may be public be~nefactors,
and yet all our life disobey the text;
never seek God; never gain Heaven.
o that the spirit of God would help this
morning while ] try to show you in
carrying out the idea of my text, first,
how to seek the Lord, and in the next
place, when TO seek him. ''Seek We the
Lord while he may be found"
! remark, in the first place, You are to
seek the Lord through earnest and be-
llcVlng prayer. pOu Is not an uutOcrat
or dcspot seated on a throne with his
arms resting on brazen lions and q SEN
tinel pacing up and down at the foot Of
the throne. God is a father seated in q
bower, waiting for his children to come
and climb on his knee and get his kiss
and his benediction. Prayer Is the cup
with which we go TO the fountain Of
living water and dip up rcfreshment
for our thirsty soul. Grace does not
come to the heart as we set a cask of
water to catch the rain in the shower.
1t is a pulley fastened to the throne Of
God which we pull, bringing the bless
ing.
do not care SO much about what pos
ture You take In prayer, O how large
an amount Of voice you use. You might
get down on your face before God, il
you did not pray right inwardly, and
there would he response. You might
cry ut the top of your voice, and unless
you have a believing spirit within your
cry would go no farther up than the
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