The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-12
PILATES QUESTION,
what Shall I Do Then With
Jesus9'
Each one Of You VIII Have to Ask and
Answer For Himself That Question
sermon by Rev. r. Dewitt Tat
mage, ID. ID.

Among the sermons preached 10y Kew.
Or Tamage in England, the one Sc
lected for publication this week is from
the texts Matthew xvii %, What
shall do with Jcsus?"
PLATE was an unprincipled politician.
He had sympathics, convictions of right
| and desires To be honest; but all these
were submerged 10y wish to be popu-
lar and 10 please the people. Two dis
tinguishcd prisoners were in the grasp
of government, and the proposition was
made 10 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
visagcd and cruel eyed Barabbas goes
among his sympathizcrs, receiving their
coarse congratulations, Plate turns to
| his other distinguished prisoncr-mild,
meek, inoffensive, loving, sclf-sacritic-
| ing--and he is COMPOUNDED as TO what
| course he had better take, 50 he inn
| panels the mob as II jury To decide, say
| ing 10 them: What shall | do, then,
| with Jcsus?'
or, i: il no dried or withcrcd question,
| quick pulse in the heart Of every man
and woman here. We must do some
| thing with jesus lie i here. You
| and are not so certainly here as He is,
! for lie fills all this p,acc-thc loving,
! living, dying Christ--aud each one OF
us will have % ask and answer for him
! self the question, What shall | do,
! then. with JCSus?" Well my friends,
| there are three or four things YOU can
! Go with him.
You can. in the first place, let Him
stand without word of rccognition;
! bat do not think Your sense of com
mon courtesy will allow that He
comes walking on such long Journey,
You will certainly give Him "A chair ON
which lie may sit lie is so weary, You
would not let Him stand without some
recognition, ii a bcEgar comes 10 your
door YOU recognize him and say:
what do YOU want?" II you meet
stranger faint in the street, you say:
| what is the matter with you?' and
your common humanity, and your com
mon sympathy, and your common sense
Of propriety will not allow YOU 10 let
Him stand without recognitinn-the
wounded One of the hills. You viii
ask: What makes Him weep? where
was He hurt? who wounded Him?
whence came lie? whittier goes He?
know there have been men who have
with ulagcous Indifference hated
Christ, but know very we'll 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 10 stand aside II an
inoiTcnsivc person comes and persists in
standing close up Ia you, and You have
in various ways given him to under
stand that You do not want his presence
or his society, then YOU ask the reason
OF his impcrtinence and bid him away.
| Wei, that is what we can do with
| Jesus.
lie has stood close 10y us great
whiie-tcn, twenty, thirty, forty years.
He has stood close by you three times a
day, breaking bread for your household,
all night watching by your pillow: He
has been in the nursery among your
children; lie has been in the store
among your goods; lie has been in the
factory amid the flying wheels, and now
ii YOU do not like His society YOU can
bid Him away; aye, If lie will not 90
you 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 check; that You do not
want His eye on your behavior You
can bid Him away, or If He will not go
ia that way, then You can stamp your
foot, rs you would at a dog, and cry,
"Bcgonc"
Yet | know you will not treat Jesus
, that way When PLATE could not dc
that, You could not, Desperadocs and
outlaws might do So, but | know tina,
Is not the way you win treat him, tina,
, 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 artist
10 tune deaf ears, friend, Il good
. friend, helpful companion, Il
. cheerful passenger ON shipboarl; but
4 that will amount to nothing. Nou can
. lool, upon him rs "a God and bc ahashcd
whilc nc rouscs the storm, or blasts q
: fig tree, or heaves rock DOM tn,
\ mountain side. That will not do you
, any good; no more save your soul thar
! the admiration You have for John Mil
ton or William Shakespeare.
: can think of only one more thing
= You can do with Jesus, and that is &c
a take Him into your hearts. That is the
' best thing you can do with Him; that /,
: the only safe thing you can do with
Him, aud may the Lord omnipotent 10y