The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20

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/ child, and ii was the days joy to him to
/ see this little one come out in front of
/ the cabin door and wave to him while he
answered back One day the train was
/ belated. and it came on to the dusk of
/ the evening.
As the engineer stood at his post he
saw by the headlight that little girl on
the track, wondering why the train did
not come, looking for the train. knowing
nothing OF her peril. A great horror
seized upon the engineer. He reversed
! the engine. He gave ii in charge Of
| the other man on board, and then ne
climbed over the engine. and he came
down on the. cowcatcher He said.
though he had reversed the engine, it
seemed as though it were going at
| lightning speed, faster and faster. though
Il was really slowing up, and with al
most supernatural clutch he caught the
| child by the hair and lifted it up, and
when the train stopped and the paSsen-
gers gathered around to see what was
the matter there the old engineer lay.
| tainted dead away, the little child alive
and in his swarthy arms.
oh you say, that was we'll done!'
But / want you 10 exercise some kindness
| and some appreciation toward those In
the community who are snatching the
| little ones from under the wheels OF
temptation and sin--snatching them
from under laundering rail trains of
eternal disaster, bringing them up into
responsibility in this world and into
glory for the world TO come. You APP
pTeciate what the engineer did. Why can
YOU not appreciate the grander work
done by every Sabbath school teacher
and by every Christian worker?
Oh. my friends, / want TO impress upon
myself and upon yourselves that IT is
not the number of talents we possess,
but the use we make of them
The Royal Family.
God has a royal family in the world.
Now, if / should ask. Who are the
royal families of history?' you would
say, House of Hapsburs, house OF
Stuart, house OF Bourbon" They lived
in palces and had great eauipages. But
who are the Lords royal family? Some
OF them may serve you in the house
hold: some Of them are IN unlighted gar
rets: some of them will walk this after
noon down the street, on their arm
a basket of broken food; some of them
are i'm the almhOuse. despised and re-
jected of men. yet in the last great day,
while it Wal be found that some of US
who Jared sumptuously every day are
hurled back into discontinue, they are
the lame that viii take the prey.
One step farther: There are great
many people discouraged about getting
to heaven. At my desk in the Christian
Herald Office | am in daily receipt Of
numerous letters from people brought
up in good families and who had Chris
| tan parentage, but who frankly tell me
| they are astray, thousand miles from
| the right track, and fear their case Is
hopeless. My brothers, 1t is TO You J
| want TO preach now. 1 have been look
! ing for you. / will tell you how you
! got astray. 1t was not righteousness on
| your part 1t was perhaps through the
| geniality and sOCiality of your nature
/ that You fell into sin. You wandered
away from your duty; you unconsciousiy
| left the house of God. You admit the
gospel to be true, and yet YOU have SO
| grievOusly and so prolongedly wandered
/ you say rescue is impossible.
1t would take "A week to count up the
names OF those in heaven who were on
earth worse than you tell me you are.
/ They went the whole round Of iniqlity;
! they disgraced themselves; they dis
| graced their household; they despaired
| of return because their reputation WAS
| gone, their property was gone, every
! thing was gone. But in some hour like
| this they heard the voice of God. and
| they threw themselves on the divine
| compassion, and they rose up more than
| conduerors. And 1 tell you there is the
/ same chance for you. That is one
| reason why 1 like to preach this gospel,
| so free a gospel, so tremendous Cos
| / q
| makes him all right.
In a former settlement where
! preached a member of my congregation
/ Quit the house of God, quit respectable
/ circles. went into all styles of sin and
/ was slain of his iniquity. The day for
| hi burial came. and his body was
/ brought TO the house Of God. Some Of
/ his comrades who had destroyed him
] were overheard along the street on their
| way to the burial saying, Come, let us
! so and hear Talmage damn this old
| sinneri" Oh, I had nothing but tears for
the dead, and 1 had nothing but invita-
/ tions to the living. You see / could not
| seek and save that which lost"
| Christ in his dying prayer said, Father,
/ forgive them" and that was a prayer
for you aud a prayer for me.
On. start on the road to heaven today!
/ You are not happy. The thirst of your
/ tains Of sin. You turn everywhere but
i 10 God for help. Right where you are,
! call on him. He knows you. He knows
! all about YOU He knows all the odds
! against which you have been contend
/ ing in life. Do not so to him with a
long rigmarole of a prayer. but just
look up and say, Help Help
/ Yet you say, My hand trembles so
| from my designations 1 can't even take
hold Of q hymn book to sing" DO not
| worry about that, my brother. i will
| give out a hymn at the close so familiar
you can sing il without a book But
| you say. Il have such terrible habits
on me I can't get rid of them" My
answer is, Almighty grace can break
| up that habit and will break it up" But
| you say, THE wrong l did was to one
| dead and in heaven now, and / can't
correct that wrong" You can correct
it. By the grace of God, go into the
presence Of that one, and the apologies
| you ought to have made on earth make
in heaven.
"Oh," says some man, ''if 1 should
| try to do right. if l should turn away
| from my evil doing unto the Lord,
| would be jostled; l would be driven
| back; nobody would have any sympa-
thy for me-" You are mistaken. Here,
| in the presence of the church on earth
| and in heaven, / give you today the
| right hand of Christian fellowship God
sent me here today to hear this. Let
| the wicked forsake his way and the
| unrighteous man his thought and let
| him return unto the Lord, who will
| have mercy, and unto our God, who
| will abundantly pardon
| Though you may have been the worst
| sinner. you may become the best saint
| and in the great day Of judgment II Will
| be found that where sin abounded
| grace does much more abound" and
while the spoils of an everlasting king
dom are being awarded for your pursuit
! IL will be found that the lame took the
/ prey Blessed be God that we are this
! Sabbath one week nearer the oblitera-
ton of all the inequalities Of this life