The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-10-12
'ISTHY HEART RIGHT?
DR.. TALwAGE's SUBJECT SUNDAY
An Eloquent Sermon Full Of Touch
ing Appeals.
EXT Sis thins heart riglt?'-1T Kings

WIZ lEel[itl GOISSS dt tOll SpSoH. LN- Nv
| was celebrated for fast driving. Jehu, the
warrior and king, returns from battle. But
sea:nc Jehonadab. an acquaintance. by the
| wayside. ne shouts Whoa Whoan' to the
! ,a;hered span. Then leanirc over to 5ehon-
! adaH Jrhu saluteS him in the words O the
! texi--wtrds not more appropriate Tor tnas
hour and that place than for this hour ana
| place "IS thine heart right:
! I shouM like to hear ol your physical
heath. Well myself. like TO have every
! body else well, and So might ask, Is your
! cy2sichs right. Your hearing right. your
! nerves right. vour lungs right. your entire
! body right? But ! am busy to-day taking
DIAGNOSIS u the moro important spiritual
conditions. T should like TO hear Of your
! financial welfare I want everybody to have
| plentv OF money, ample apparel. largo store
| house anI comfortable residence, and tmiSht
ask. Is your business right. your income
right. yo1r worldly surroundings right? But
what are these financial questions com pared
with the inquiry as to whether you have
| been able IT, pay your debts to God; as to
whether YOU are insured for eternity; as to
whether y0H are running yourself blythe Ions;
credit system Of the soul? have known
men t. have 10 more than ono loaf OF bread
at Il time. and yet to oTu government
bond of heaven worth more thau tho whole
! material universe.
The question ask YOU to-day is not in re-
gard to your habits Imake no inquiry
| about Your integrity or your chastity OF
your sobretv. do not mean to stand on
The outside Of the gate and ring the bell, but
coming W the steps, I open the door and
| come to the private apartment OF the soul.
and with the earnestness Of q man that must
! give 10 account fer this days work I cry OUT,
| On. man. Oh woman INN o-tal. is thine heart
right?
will MT insult you by an argument to
prove that we are by nature all wrong. II
| there he Z factory explosion and the smoke
| stac! be upset and the vheais be broken in
two. and the engine uniointed. anl the
| ponAerous bars be twisted, and 2 man should
! IooS in and say that nothing was the matter,
! vcu would pronounce hin, 4 fool. We'll. it
I needs uc acEnen to discover that our nature
is all atwist and asSeyv and unjointeA Tia
thing doesn't work right. The biggest
trouble we have in the world is with our
! souls. Men SOMETIMES say that though
their lives may not be inst right. their haart
is all right. Inpossibe. \ farmer never
puts the poorest apples On top 0: his BARRE;
nor does the merchant place the maaEes&
| goods in his show window. The bcst part OF
us is our outward life. ] DO not stop 70 dis
cuss whether we all fell in Adam. for wo
have been our own Adam. and have all eaten
| Of the forbidden fruit. anu have baen tIEne l
and though the flaming sword that stood at
the gate to keep US out has changed position
| aud comes behind to drive Us in, we will
not go.
The Biele account OF us is not exaggerated
when it says that We are poor and wcetcaei
and miserable and blind and naked. Poor,
| The wretch that stands shivering oD our
doorstep on q cold day is not 50 much in
need Of bread as we are OF spiritual help.
Blind. Why, the man whose eyes oarished
in the powder blast. and who for these ten
years has gone feeling his way from street
to street, is not in such utter darkness rs
we. Naked! Why, there is not ono rag ci
holiness left 10 hide the shame Of our sin
Sick! Why. the leprosy has eaten into the
| heat aud the t9art and the hands and the
feet. and the marasnlus OF au everlasting
wasting away has already seized on some
Q: Us.
But the mealest thing Tor man 10 do IS
to discourse about an evil without pointing
4 way to have il remcdied. ! speak cf the
thirst cf your hot tongue only that may
show YOU the living stream that drops cryS-
! talline and sparkling from the Rock Of Ages
! and pours (. river 0f cladnes5 at v0ur feet.
| II show YOU the rents in YOUR coat. it is
only because the door Of Gods war!rob"
now swings open. and here is 4 r1ne, white
! With the fleece Of the Lamb Of GoG. and 0F I;
cut and make that an angel would not be
ashamed to rear. II I snatch from you the
! black, moldy bread that YOU are munchiIS.
/ it is only to give you the bread made cut Of
| the inest wheat that grows on the celestial
| hills and baked il the fires OF the cross. and
one crunb Of which would b. enough IL
make all heaven a banquet. Hear il. one and
eli. aud tell il 20 ycur friends when y0ll z"
! home. that the Lord Jesus Christ can make
the heart right.
First we need repen,in@ heart. II for
| the last ten. twenty or forty years OF life VIZ
| have been going OF in the wrong way, it is
time that we turned around and started in
| The opposite direction. Il Ne offend our
| friends, We are glad 70 aYologiz?. Go1 is
| our best friend and yet how many oi II:
| have never arolosiZed for tho wr3ng= ".
| have done Hin.
There is nothing that We So much n"2i :,
! get rid Of as sin. It is 4 b9rIibie black mon
ster, It polluted I lea. I: killed Christ. Il
| has blasted the world. Man keep do35 in
! kennels, and rabbits in = warren, ana cattle
! in pen. What man that would be WHO
would shut them up in his parlor. But this
! toui dog Of sin and these keris Of trarSGfes.
| sion we have entertained for many & long
| veal III LUZ utdlt NUl-u SiOulH IL lI2
,leenest. bright est room in al! our nature.
! Out w:,h the Vie herI! Gesone. ye D9::pa y
ers Of an immortal nature.
TIN Ont the beasts and let Christ ",:!l
il: \ heather came t. al eariy 'C.!r>.ia1
who had the reputation Of curing di$..a:es
The Christian said. You must have al "a
idols DESTROYED" The hea!han gave to tI;,,
Christian the key to his house, that he ii; ghi
50 in and destroy the idols. He tattc-e t.
pieces all ha saw. but still the man did not
set well. The Christian said to hin. 'iIiinr.'
must be som" idol in Your house nc: v1i Dc
stroyel.' The heathe1 consessa thGt tilar"
was one i.lol OF balte1 gold th:5 h "p1lA
not hea: TO give ur. After awhile. wIea
that was destroyed. in answer 20 tn '-2E:'-'
Of TIE Christian, the S;c& man %, WI.
Many a man has awakened III ;i- 'i:iu.::
lou: to 1nu his sins ail atou. hin. Ib"y
clanhergl UP On the r;s;,t st.r s.; t!" J..
and On til" left side, aud o7er ;:a hra!i'l IL.
and over the foothoard. aul hr-;;;:'i: IT,
voured the soul.
R@p"nt the VOICE celestial cries.
Nor longer dare delay.
The wretch that s"orns IA" i:lVn ia-e LIS
And meet: 4 fiery day.
Again. we ncci believing Ir;r; j A:;,.l
! ,Eurl wears ago Il weary one went ~, n:i. .,
:
On his buck cried out - all tue W'orl,!. Offer
, lIS to carry their sins and sorrow+. .F;;"y
pursued Him. They slappc Hin il the i;t::".
| They mocked Hin. When Hc ::r"aH":!. tjHy,
| Sroancd. They shook their fists AZ iti&.
| They spat ~ Him. They t:0Un32.l Ili:;i =
| though Hc We're wild beast. His i,r::';.-
| Of the sick. His sigut giving 70 the blind. His
| mercy 70 the nptcaSt. .silcnced not the re-
vaD-e oitiA wor,G. His prayers and i.en@aic-
tons'werc los. IL ihat wh;r;wD;i of nZe"ra-
| tor: Away with Him, Away with Him
! -Ah il W.; no: merely tho tw' pieces u
wco;l iha! r. carried: i: Wa the tr;s3sgres=-
ions of tie race. The aOSriisA y: tic ages. The
| wrath OF God. the s"rrows Of hell. the stu
lan :uous Interests OF ~ u1"ndug eternity!
NJ wonder His back bent. 40 wonder the
hiOaG started from every pore. NJ W0aIer
that He crouched under Il turtIrc that mad.
the sun faint ami IA. everlasting hills tren-
hle and the dead rusl ~ in their win|iipg