Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-14
TALMAGF'S SERMON.
PEACEFUL DEATH AND eL,ssFul
ETERNITY COST NOTHING.
Rev. DR.. Talmase Peaches Another Re.
markabie. sermon Through the Prem-
Rhetorical Faith and Faith In the Rock Of
AIes-The Lamp Above the Grave.
The Great Bescue.

Rhetorical Faith and Faith In the ROCK Of
AIes-The Lamp Above the Grave.
The Great Rescue.
Rev. Or. Talmage, who is still absent
In the South Pacific, has selected. az
the subject of this weeks sermon
through the press 1.-THE Rescue" the
text CHOSEN being Acts xvi, 81, "Be.
lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ. and
thou shalt be saved"
Jails are dark. dull, damp, loathsome
places even now. but they were worse
In the apostolic times. / imagine to-
day we are standing in the Philippian
dungeon. Do you not feel the chill?:
DO YOU not hear the groans of those
~!ncarcerated ones who for ten years
have not seen the sunlight and the
deep sigh OF women VINO remember
their wasted estates: Listen again.
1t is the cough OF aconsumptive or the
struggle OF one in the nightmare of a
great horror. You listen again and
hear a culprit, his chains rafting as
he rolls over in his dreams. and you
say. God, pity the prisoner" But
there is another sound in that prison.
It is the song of Joy and gladness.
What a place to sing in! The music
comes winding through the corridors
OF the prison, and in all the dark wards
the whisper is heard: whats that:
What's that"
1t is the song of Paul and Silas.
They cannot sleep. They haze been
whipped-very badly whipped. The
long gashes on their backs are bleed
ing yet. They lie fiat on the cold
ground, their feet fast in wooden
sockets, and of course they cannot
sleep. Blu: they "a sing. Jailer,
what are you doing with these people?
Why they have beenputin here: oh,
they have been trying to make the
world better. Is that ali? That is all.
Daniel. A blazing furnace for Shad
rach. Clubs for John Wesley. An
anathema for Phillip Melanchthon.
A dungeon for Paul and Silas.
An Earthquake Shock.
But while we were standing in the
gloom OF the Phillippian dungeon, and
of sob and groan and blasphemy and
hallelujah, suddenly an earthouake !
The iron bars of the prison twist, the
pillars crack OH, the solid masonry be-
gins to heave, and all the doors swing
open. The jailor. feeling himself re.
sponsible for these prisoners and be-
lieving in his pagan ignorance, suicide
to be honorable-since Brutus killed
himself. and Cato killed himself, and
Cassius killed himself-puts his sword
to his own heart, proposing with one
strong, keen thrust to put an end to
his excitement and agitation. But
Paul cries out: t'Stop, stop! Do thy
self no harm! We are all here!"
Then 1 see the jailor running
through the dust and amid the ruin Of
that prison, and 1 see him throwing
himself down at the feet of these pris-
oners, crying out: "What shall 1 do?
What shall 1 do?" Did Paul nswer
Get out of this place before there is
another earthquake. Put handouts
n hopples on these other prisoners
lest they get away No word of that
kind. His compact. thrilling, tremen-
dous answer, memorable all through
earth and heaven. was: s.Believe On
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt
be saved"
Well, we have all read of the earth
quake at Lisbon, in. Lima, in Alleppo
and in Caracas, but we live in a lati-
tude where in all u memory there
has not been one severe volcanic dis
turbance: And yet we have seer SO
earthquakes. Here is a man who has
been building up a large fortune. His
bid in the m6Aey market was felt in
all the large cities. He thinks he has
got beyond all annoying rivalries in
trade, and he says to himself, s.NOw
am free and safe from all possible per.
t%urbation." But in 1857 or in 1878 q
national panic strikes the foundation
OF the commercial world, and crash
goes all that magnificent business es.
Enlistment!
Here is a man who has built up a
very beautiful home. His daughters
have just come home from the semi.
nary with diplomas of graduation. His
sons have started in life, honest, TEN
perate and pure. When the evening
lights are struck, there is a happiness
and unbroken family circle. But there
has been an accident down at Long
Branch. The young man ventured too
far out in the surf. The telegraph
hurled the terror up to tho city. An
earthquake etruck under the founda-
ton OF that beautiful home.
Trust and Believe.
The piano closed; the curtains
dropped: the laughter hushed. Crash
go all those domestic hopes and pros,
poets and expectations. So, my friends,
we have all telt the shaking down oi
some great trouble, and there was g
time when we were as much excited
as this man osthe text, and we cried
out as he did: "What shall l do:
What shall I do?" The same reply
that the apostle made to him is al.
Propriate. to US. "Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. and thoushalt be saved:
There are some IL nts of SO little
Importance that you do not care to put
any more than your last name under
them, or even your initials. but there
are some documents of SO great import.
ance that you write out your full name
So the Savious in some parts Of the
Bible is called "Lord," and in other
parts of the Bible He is called "Jesus.H
and in other parts OF the Bible He Il
called Christ" but that there might
be no mistake about this passage ali
three names come together-''the Lord
Jesus Christ"
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