Milford chronicle., 1893-07-07
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, JULY I, 1898
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE ON THELEssoN OF THE
PHARlsEE AND THE PUBLICAN.

IN ANLWA1E YIN FE LESSON OF III
PHARlsEE AND THE PUBLICAN.
True Repentance Is Cody Sorrow F,
sin-By the Deeds Of the Law No Flies
Can BE Justified, and So the Self satisae
Are Condemned.
BROOKLYN, July 2.-Rev DR.. Talmae
had selected as his subject for today a pl,
ture Of contrast Arrogance and Humi
ity, the text being Luke xviii, l3, "God b
merciful to me, sinnerw
No mountain ever had a more brillian
coronet than Mount Moriah The glorie
of the ancient temple blazed there. TIL
mountain top was not originally larg
enough to hold the temple and so q wal
GOO feet high was erected, and the mountain
was built out into that wall. 1t was at thai
point that satan met Christ and tried tC
persuade him to cast himself down the Coz
feet. The nine gates of the temple flashed
the light Of silver and geld and Corinthian
brass, which Corinthian brass was mere
precious stones melted and mixed and crvs.
tallized. The temple itself was not so very
large a structure, but the courts and the
adjuncts of the architecture made it half a
mile in circumference
We stand and look off upon that won
! drous structure What's the matter? What
( strange appearance in the temple? Is il
| fire? Why, it seems as if it were a man
sion all kindled into flame WHAT'S the
matteri Why, it's the hour of morning
sacrifice, and the smoke on the altar rises
and bursts out Of the crevices and out of
the door and wreathes the mountain top
with folds Of smoke, through which glitter
precious stones gathered and FURNISHED by
royal munificence
see two men mounting the steps of the
building. They go side by side; they are verv
unlike; no sympathy between them-the
one the pharisee, proud, arrogant, POM
pous, he goes up the steps of the building.
He seems by his manner to say; Clear the
track Never before came up these steps
such goodness and conservation"
THE REPENTANT SINNER
Beside him was the publican, bowed
down seemingly with load on his heart
They reach the inclosure worship in the
midst of the temple. The pharisee goes
close up to the gate Of the holy Of hoiies. /
He feels he is worthy to stand there. He .
says practically: Il am so holy want to .
go into the holy Of holies. o Lord, am
a very good man. Pm a remarkably good .
man. Why, two days in the week eat alb
solutely nothing. Pm so good. Pm very
in my conduct toward the poor. l
have no sympathy with the common rab
Bile; especially have none with this poor.
commonplace, wretched publi-
can who happened to come up the stairs
beside me"
The publican went clear to the other side
of the inclosure, as far away from the gate
)f the holy of holies as he could get, for he
elt unworthy to stand near the sacred
place. And the Bible says he stood afar of
standing on the opposite side of this in
'losure he bows his head, and as orientals
When they have any trouble beat their
'reasts, so he begins to pound his breast as
e cries, God be mereiful to me, a sinnerw
Oh, was there ever a greater contrast?
he incense that waited that morning from ,
he priests censer was not so sweet as the .
prayer floating into the opening .
eavens, while the prayer of the pharisee
led on his coutemptuOus lips and rolled :
own into his arrogant heart. Worshipinq =
here they join each other and 90 side by
de down the steps, the pharisee cross. :,
retched, acrid, saturnine; the publican -
18th his face shining with the verv iovs of =
eaven, for Il tell you that this man went :
own to his house justified rather than the Il
her" VI
Now, put this publican's prayer under IL
lalysis, and I discover in the first place a
at he was persuaded of his sinfulness h
e was an honest man, he was a taxgath- 81
er, he was an officer of the government. ii
ne publicans were etaxgatherers, and Cicero m
Us they were the adornment of the state. N
course they were somewhat unpopular. VI
cause people then did not like to nav N.
cir taxes any better than people now like W
pay their taxes, and there were many VI
10 disliked them. Still, l suppose this m
blican, this taxgatherer, was an honor
le man. He had an Office of trust There
re many hard things said about him. IN
d yet, standing there in that inclosure of tn
2 temple amid the demonstrations of sa
DIS holiness and power, he cries out from ei,
, very depths of his stricken soul, God On,
merciful to me, a sinnerl" BY what sa,
'cess shall | prove that / am a sinner? at
what process shall prove that you are elf
innerP Shall | ask you to weigh your
tives, to scan your actions, to estimate tn,
IT behavior? l will do nothing of the de,
ID | will draw my argument rather In
m the plan of the work that God has for
ieved for your salvation. exi
THE IAfPERILED SOUL. m