The Dickinson press., 1892-08-06

ways. .
He Advances the Gospel as a Pow.
erlul Medium for tho Sin
Sick Soul.
LoNDoS,-Cable.-The attend.
Ances at the services conducted
by Rev. Dr.. Talmagecontinue us great
as ever. The sermon selected for this
week is entitled "Ihe Souls Crisis"
from Isaiah Nv, 6: "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.
My text finds him standing on a
mountain Of inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ nd
yancing and anxious that all men
might know him; his voice rings
down the ages: "seck ye the Lord
while he may be found" "Oh,"
says some one: that was for old
ell times" No my nearer. If you
have travelled in other lands YOU
have taken n 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 l 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
1t Is presented for help, the help
comes: "Seek We the Lord while he
may he found"
l come today with no hair spun
theories OF religion, with no NICE dis
t%inctions, with no elaborate DISGUST
%tions; but with u plain talk on the
matters OF personal religion. l feel
that the sermon l 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.
l remark, i'll the first place, you are
to seek the Lord through earnest and
believing prayer. God is not an auto
crat or II despot seated on q throne
with his arms resting on brazen lions,
and a sentinel pacing up and down at
the foot OF the throne. God is a faith
er seated in q bower, waiting for His
children to come and climb on His
knee, and get his kiss and His benedic-
ton.
lido not carr SO 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 ut the top OF your voice,
and unless you had q believing spirit
within, your cry would not go farther
up than the shout OF q ploughboy to
his oxen.
l remark, again, you must seek, the
Lord through Bible study. The Bible
is the newest book in the world.
"Oh," you say, cit was made hun
dreds of years ago, and the learned
men OF King James translated it hum
dreds OF years 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.
Ii you will, in the seeking of the way
Of life through Scripture study, i'm
plore Gods light to fall uponthe page,
you will find that these promises are
drop straightway from the throne OF
God into your heart.
There are many people to whom the
Bible does not amount to much. If
they merely look at
II OUTSIDE BEAUTY.
whyit will no more lead them to
Christ than Washington's farewell ad-
dress OR the Koran OF Mahomet or
the Shaster of the Hindoos. 1t is the
inward light OF God'sword you must
get or die. went up to the church of
the Madeline III Paris, and looked at
the doors with were the most Won
derfully constructed l ever saw, and l
could have stayed there for a whole
week; but l had only Il little time, SO
having glanced at the wonderful carv-
ing on the doors, l passed in and
looked at the radiant affairs, and the
sculptured dome. Alas, that SO many
stop at the outside door of Gods
Holy Word, looking at the rhetorical
beauties, instead OF going in and look
ing at the affairs OF sacrifice and the
dome OF Gods mercy and salvation
that hovers over every penitent and
believing soul!
! remark, again, we must seek God
through church ordinances. "What,"
say you, "can't u MAJ be saved with
out going to church," l reply, there
are men, l suppose, in glory, who have
never seen n church; but the church is
the ordainrd means by which we are
to be brought to God; and if truth af-
fects us when we are alone, it affects
us more nightly when we are in the
assembly-the feelings of others en-
phasizing our own feelings. The great
law of sympathy comes into play and
q truth that would take hold only
with the grasp of a sick man, beats
nightly against the soul with thou.
sand heart-throbs. When you come
into the religious circle, come only
with n notion, and only for one
purpose-to find the way to Christ.
SIMS