The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-29
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
HE BREACHES ON "THE SOULS
CRISIS" IN LONDON.

Sure Road to Salvation
LONDON, July 24.-The attendances at
the services conducted by Rev. DIR. Tai
mage continue as great as ever. At ev-
cry stopping point during his preaching
tour he is greeted by phenomenal audi
ences. Unless some change in the pro
gramme becomes necessary he WILL dur
ing the next ten days preach in the
leading Scottish cities, as already an
nounced. He has just returned from
Russia, whittier he went with Mr..
Klopsch to supervise the distribution Of
the cargo of The Christian Herald relief
steamer Leo. The reception accorded
DR.. Talmage in the czars capital city by
mobiles, officials and the populace show
that the hold he has upon the hearts of
Christians is worldwide. The arrival
of the Leo was made the occasion of
general rejoicing. The st. Petersburg
officials conferred the freedom of the
city on their American guests. The
Leo's cargo was forwarded to the fam
inc districts without delay. The sermon
selected for this week is entitled "The
Souls Crisis" from Isaiah w. 6, "Seek
We the Lord while he may be found"
Isaiah stands head and shoulders above
the other Old Testament authors in vivid
descriptiveness of Christ. Other proph-
cts give an outline of our Saviour's fea-
lures. Some of them present, as it were,
the side face of Christ; others a bust of
Christi but Isaiah gives us the full
length portrait of Christ Other Scrip
ture writers excel in some things. Eze-
kiel more weird, David more pathetic,
Solomon more epigrammatic, Habak-
kuk more sublime, but when you want
to see Christ coming out from the gates
of prophecy in all his grandeur and glo-
ny, you involuntarily turn to Isaiah.
So that if the prophecies in regard to
Christ might be called the ''Oratorio of
the Messiah, the writing of Isaiah is the
-'Hallelujah Chorus" where all the ba-
tons wave and all the trumpets come in.
Isaiah was not a man picked up out of
insignifcance by inspiration. He was
known and honored. Josephus and
Philo and Sirach extolled him in their
writings. What Paul was among the
apostles, Isaiah was among the prophets.
Ny text finds him standing on noun
tain of inspiration, looking out into the
future, beholding Christ advancing 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
olden 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
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, instead of be-
ing appropriate for one age or for one
land is a circular letter for all ages and
for all lands, and whenever it is pre-
sented for help, the help comes. Seek
ye the Lord while he may be found"
NO HAIRsPUN THEORIES.
come today with no hairspun theo-
ries of religion, with no nice distinc-
tions, with no elaborate disquisition, but
with plain talk on the matters of per-
sonal religion. | feel that the sermon l
preach this morning will be the SAVIOR of
life unto life or 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 Christian.
have been waiting a good while for the
49, l. r. ! II
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-wait-
ing, 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 Il know very well that to seek
thing is to search for it with earnest
endeavor. If you want to see a certain
man in London, and there is matter of
much money connected with your seeing
him, and you cannot at 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 knowing the
street, you go through street after
street, and from block to block, and you
keep on searching for weeks and for
months.
You say, 1T is a matter of 10000
whether see him or not" Oh, that men
were as persistent in seeking for Christi
Had you one-half that persistence you
would long ago have found him who is
the JOY of the forgiven spirit. We may
pay our debts, we may attend church.
we may relieve the poor, we may be
public benefactors, and yet all our life
disobey the text, never seek God, never
gain heaven. Oh that the spirit of God
would help this morning while l 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"
SEEK THE LORD THROUGH PRAYER.
remark, in the first place, you are to
seek the Lord through earnest and be-