Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-11-06
REV. DR.. TaLaAGE.
The Brooklyn Divlne's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject, can Heaven Looking On ~

SupJects Au heaven LOOKING On."
The subject OF DR.. Talmage's opening ser
mon In Washington was: GAIL Heaven
Looking On" the text selected being the
famous passage from Hebrews xii. 1: "See-
ing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud OF Witnesses
In this nv opening sermon in the National
Capital give you heartiest Christian saluta-
tion- bethink myself OF the privilege OF
standing in this historic church, so long pre-
sided over by one Of the most remarkable
men OF the century. There are plenty o!
good ministers beside DIR. Sunderland, but
do not know OF any man except himself with
enough brain to have stood successfully and
triumphantly forty-three years in this con-
spicnous pulpit. Long distant be the year
when that gospel chieftain shall put down
has marshaled the hosts Of Israel Of
sheathe the sword with which he has
struck such mighty blows for God and
righteousness. I come to you with the same
gospel that he has preached and to join ou
In all kinds OF work for making the world
better. and hope to see YOU all In your own
homes and have you all come and see me-
bur don't all come at once. And without any
preliminary discourses as to what propose
to do begin here and now to cheer you with
the thought that all heaven is sympathetic
callv looking on. "Seeing we also are com.
passed about with so great cloud Of wit
nesses."
Crossing the Alps by the Mont Gents pass.
or through the Mont Cents tunnel. you are
in few hours set down at Verona, Italy
and in few minutes begin examining one
OF the grandest ruins in the world-the
amphiiheater. The whole building sweeps
around you in circle. You stand in
the arena where the combat was once
fought or the race run. and on all sides the
seats rise tier above tier until YOU count forty
IL - n
to call them-in which sat the senators,
the kings and the 25, 1000 excited specta-
tors. At the sides of the arena and under
the galleries are the cages in which the lions
and tigers are kept without food until,
frenzied with hunger and thirst. they are let
out upon some poor victim. who. with his
sword and alone. is condemned to meet
them. Think that Paul himself once stood
in such a place. and that it was not only
figuratively. but literally. that he had
"fought with beasts at Ephesus."
The gala day has come. From all the
world the people are pouring into
Verona. Men, women and children.
orators and senators, great men and
small, thousands upon thousands come.
until the first gallery is full, and the
second, the third. the fourth, the fifth
all the way up TO the twentieth, all the
to the fortieth. Every place Is filled.
Immensity OF audience sweeping the
great circle. Silence! The time for the
contest has come. A Roman official leads
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creak open. Ont plunges the half starved
lion. his tongue athirst for blood, and with
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feTs when he savI s.Wa ars comnssssS about
with 60 Great a clor 4 Of Witnesses y
The fact is that evarv Christian man bas
The re, n,tes 81 m. arena bavs hasn onansd oTnp
and this tiger has come ont to dsstrop von,
sorl t. b.s I.carataa ,,o,, ,r;th 49,, 49,.
wonr5 ynn bay, h,,., ;bra,vn nv ~ 80
and agai, hnt in the s,rangth 81 Gn5 von
have arisen 70 drive it back verify be.
Iieve Won will connuer think that the
temptatian ia getting weaker md weaker
You have given II 40 many wonnds that the
nrosne.t is that II will die onS Won sban hs
victor through Christ. COURAGE brotherI
Do moi LET the sands OF the arena drink the
blood of your soull
You NAV have contended against n twentv
years, but it is strong of body and thirsty OF
tongue. You have tried to fight II back
with broken bottle or empty wine flask.
Nav. that is NOT the weanoni with one bor
rihis roar he viii seize thee bv the throat
and reod thee li,nb from limb Taka This
weanon sbarp and keen-reach mn and 1et
it from Gods armory. The sword of the
Spirit. With that thou mayest drive him
back and conquer!
But why specify when every man and wo-
man has a lion to fight2 III there be one
here who has no besettjnp sin. let him sneak
out, for him have I ofYended. II YOU have
not fought the lion. il ts because YOU have
let the lion eat you up. This yerv moment
the contest goes on The Traian celebration.
where 10000 eladiators fought and IL 600
wild beasts were slain. was mot 40 terrific a
struggle as that which at this moment goes
on in many soul, That combat was for the
life Of the BODY: this ia for the life of the
soul. That was with wild beasts from the
Jungle; this is with the roaring lion of hell.
Men think. when they contend against
an evil habit. that they have to fight it ali
alone. No! They stand in the center Of an
immense circle of sympathy. Paul had been
reciting the names Of Abel. Enoch- Noah
Abraham, Sarah. Isaac. Josepb. Gideon and
Barak and then savs. Being comnassed
about with so great a cloud of WITNESSES"
Before get through 1 will show Won that
you fight in an arena around which circle in
galleries above each other, all the kindling
eyes and all the sympathetic hearts of the
as, aer, an anu d, e'efy victory gained there
80. ,,,, ,i,it,I., az. ~, ,., apPiause OF
in,. Com nasssS ahS,nt rr;tb a. ,,uaat
Witnesses"
On the first elevation of the ancient amphi- |
theater. on the day OF celebration, sat
Tiberius, or Augustus. or the reigning king. |
So in the great arena of spectators that
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