Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-14
A BOLD CHALLENGE
DR. TAlNAGES TABERNACLE SERMON YES
TERDAY.
who Is It That Condsmnsih ?"-Christ at The
Right Hand Of God lnisresdirg
for Humanity.

BROOKLYN, August 13.-Rev DR.. Tai
mage to-day chose for his subject "a
Bold Challenge" the text being Romano
6: "a, "WhO is he that cOndemneth? IL
is Christ that died, yea, rather that IS
risen again, who Is even at the right
hand Of God, who also maketh inter
cession for u.s."
This is ting last sermon I shall ever
preach" said Christmas Evans on the
18th OF June, 1885. Three days after
ward he expired. do not know what
his text was, but / know that no man
could choose better theme-thOUgh he
knew it was the last time be should
ever preach-than the subject found in
this text.
Paul flung this challenge Of the text
10 the feet of all ecclesiastical and civil
authority. lie feared neither swords
nor lions, earth nor hell. DiOcietian
slew uncounted thousands under his ad
ministration, and the world has been
full Of persecution; but all the persecu-
tors OF the world could not alright
Paul Was 10 because he was physical
~ strong? Oh, no. 1 suppose he was
very much weakened by exposure and
maltreatment. Was it because he was
lacking in sensltiyeness? No; you find
the most delicate shades OF feeling play
ing In and out his letters and sermons.
Some OF his communications burst into
tears. What was 10 that lifted Paul
into this triumphant mOOdP The
thought OF a Savior dead, a Saviour
risen, a Saviour exalted,
A sAvIOUR ISTERCEDING.
All the world has sung the praise Of
Princess Alice. One child having died
OF contagious disease-she was in the
room where another was dying, andthe
court physician said TO her, "You must
not breathe the breath Of this child, or
yCu yourself will die" But seeing the
Child mourning because OF the death OF
Ter brother, the mother stopped down,
and IN sympathy kissed the little one,
caught the disease and persisted. All
the world sang the herOism and self
Eacrifce OF the Princess Alice, but
have 90 tell you that when our race was
diving the Lord Jesus stopped down and
gave US the kiss OF bis everlasting love,
and persisted that we might live. 1T
IS Christ that died"
Can you tell me how tender-hearted
Paul could find anything 10 rejoice az To
the horrible death scene Of Calvary?
We weep at funerals, we are Sympa-
thetic when we see a stranger die, when
murderer steps upon the sCafiOld we
pray for his departing spirit; and how
could Paul-the great hearted Paul
find anything TO be pleased with at the
funeral OF a God? Besides that, sChriSJ
lad only recently died, and the sorrow
was fresh 10 the memory Of the world,
and how In the fresh memory Of a Sa-
vlour's death could Paul DO eXultant?
IL was because Paul saw I'm that death
his own deliverance and the deliver
ance Of a race from still worse disaster;
he saw the gap into which the race
must plunge, and he saw the bleeding
lands of Christ close il. The glitter
ng steel on the top Of the exeCutioner's
pear 10 his sight kindled into a
-tt1
IGVT- Af,lS rII-AVFNyvAED. =
o prosecutors saw over the cross five
IDS written In Hebrew, Greek and
tin, but Paul saw over the cross Of
rist only one wOrd-"expiatiOn -"
% heard in the dying grOaa of Christ
us wv ~ aAAWA "a NAAA 4aA aAA vi 10 20 ANAA
by another. Paul said to himself" Had
IL not been that Christ volunteered in
my behalf. those would have been my
mauled hands and feet, M gashed side,
my Grim on temples"
''NOw, says Paul, 81 am free, that
suffering purchased my deliverance;
God never collects debt twice: hSve
q receipt In full; II God is satisfied with
me, then hat do all the threats Of
earth and hell amount 10? Bring on
al your witnesses" says Paul
show all your force; do your
worst against my soul. ] defy
yoh; dare you; callenge you. Who
is hs that condemneth? II is Christ
thai died" Oh, what q strong argu-
ment that puts ia the hands Of every
Christian mani Some days all the past
sins Of his life come down on him In
fiery troop, and they pound away at
the gate OF soul, and they say, I'VE
have come for your arrest. Any one
OF as could overcome you; we are ten
thousand strong; surrender And you
open the door, aud single-handad and
alone you content with that troop; you
fling this divine weapon into their
midst, you scatter those sins as quick
as YOU can think t. cit Is Christ that
died" Why then bring up 70 US the
sins OF our past life? What have we TO
do with those 0bsolet things? You know
how hard 10 Is for a wreCker 20 bring
ND anything that is lost near the shore
of the sea; but suppose something be lost
halfway between Liverpool aud New
York; &c cannot be found, it cannot be
fetched up. NOW" says God, ''your
sins / have cast into the depths Of the
sea-" Mid-AtIantic.
ALL The MACHINERY
Ever fashioned 10 foundries Of dark
ness, and launched from the doors Of
eternal death, working for ten thou
sand years, Cannot bring up one OF our
aims forG aBd forgotten and Sunken
into do rs Of the sea. When a
sin is q. it is gOne-it is gone
sU.3kS. q is gone out OF the
nv. IL IS gone out OF existence.
sins and their iniQuities will l
lber no more.
ON other tragedies men have come
exhausted and nervous aud sleep
but there is one tragedy that
res and Gains and saves. calvary
the stage upon WhiCh ~ was eHeC'eu'
urtain Of the night falling AT mid
WAS the drop scene, the thunder
tng rocks the orchestra, angels In
ery aud devils in the pit the
rs. the tragedy a cruclhxion.
rlst that died" Oh, triumph
ht!
must give you the second
auTs exhilaratiOn. II Christ