Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-16
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Hev. DR.. Talmage Talks About tho
Grace Of God.
O"o =, 'ne Essential Works to be Accom-.
pi,sned by Those Seeking Pardon is a
genf Search Of the Scriptures
Prayer is Also Potent
Means Of Saving Souls,

| Inc subject Of Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
IMAGES latest sermon, preached to ,
vast audience in the Academy of Music
New York, was ''Salvation,' the tex
selected being Isaiah iv. 9: ssSeel, v,
inc Lord while He may be foundo
Isaiah stands head and shoulder,
above the other Old Testament author,
IN vivid descriptiveness of Christ. Othe,
prophets give an outline of our Saviour,
features. Some of them present, as i,
We're, the side face of Christ: others a
Dust OF Christ; but Isaiah gives us the
Iull-length portrait Of Christ. Other
scripture writers excel in some things,
Ezekiel more weird, David more ma
thetic, Solomon more epigrammatical,
Habakkuk more sublime, but when YOU
want to see Christ coming out from
the gates ofprophecy in all His grandeur
and glory, you involuntarily turn to
Isaiah. So that if the prophets in re-
gard to Christ might be called the
"Oratorio of the Messiah the writing
OF Isaiah is the ''Hallelujah Chorus, .
where all the batons wave and all the
trumpets come in. Isaiah was not a
man picked up out of insignifcance by
inspiration. He was known and hon
oreo. Josephus, and Philo and Sirach
extolled him in their writings. What
Paul was among the apostles, Isaiah
was among the prophets.
My text finds him standing on a
mountain of inspiration, looking out
into the future, beholding Christ adj
vancing and anxious that all men might
know him; his voice rings down the
ages: "Sasls We the Lord while He may
be found.s so" says some one, shat
was for olden times" No, my nearer.
If you have travelled in other lands
you have taken circular letter of
credit from some banking house in New
York, and in st. Petersburg, or Venice,
or Rome, or Melbourne, or Calcutta,
you presented that letter and got finan-
cial help Immediately. And want you
to understand that the text, instead of
being appropriate for one age, or for
one land, is a circular letter for all
ages and for all lands, and wherever
it is presented for help the help comes
Seek We the Lord while He may be
found"
come, to-day, with no hair-spun thee
cries of religion, with no nice distinc-
tions, with no elaborate disquisition;
but with an urgent call to personal re-
ligion. The Gospel of Christ is pow
erful medicine; it either kills or cures.
There are those who say: II would like
to become Christian. | have been
waiting good while for the right kind
Of influence to Gomez" and still you are
You are wiser in worldly
things than you are in religious things.
If you want to get to Albany, you go
to the Grand Central depot, or to the
steamboat wharf, and, having got your
ticket. you do not sit on the wharf or
,it in the depot; you get aboard the
boat or train. And yet there are men
Who say they are waiting to get to
waiting, but not with
Intelligent waiting, or they would get
in board the line of Christian influences
hat would bear them into the king
ION of God.
Now you know very well that to seek
thing is to search for it with earnest
,ndeavor. If you want to see GER
ain man in this city, as,d there is a
natter of $4,000 connected with your
eeing him, and you cannot at first
ind him, you do not give up the search.
You look in the directory, but cannot
ind the name; you go into circles where
-ou think, perhaps, he may mingle,
md, having found the part OF the city
where he lives, but perhaps not know
ng the street, you go through street
Ifter street, and from block to block,
md you keep on searching for weeks
md for months.
''You say: ut is matter OF $4,000
whether see him or not" O, that men
we're as persistent in seeking for Christ.
lad you one-half the persistence you
would long ago have found Him who is
he ioy of the forgiven spirit. We may
ay our debts, we may attend church,
We may relieve the poor, we may be
ublic benefactors, and yet all our life
isobey the text, never seek God, never
ain Heaven. O, that the spirit Of God
yould help me, while I try to show you
4 CARRYING out the idea of my text,
rst. how to seek the Lord, and in the
ext place, when to seek Him.
remark, in the first place, you are
. seek the Lord through earnest and
elieving prayer. God is not an auto
rat or despot seated on throne,
18th His arms resting on brazen lions,
nd sentinel pacing up and down at
ne foot of the throne. God is father
Gated in bower, waiting for His chill
rem to come and climb on His knee and
ct His kiss and benediction. Prayer is
,e cup with which we go to the "foun-
Lin Of living water" and dip up re-
.esbment for our thirsty soul. Grace
oes not come to the heart as we set !
,sls at the corner of the house to catch
,e rain in the shower. 1t is pulley ]
.stened to the throne of God, which {
e pull, bringing the blessing.
I do not care SO much what posture s
ii take in prayer, nor how large an
mount of voice you use. You might
i down on your face before God; II
~ did not pray right inwardly' there
ould be no response. You might cry
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