The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30
rs THINE HEART RIGHT2
Rev. DIR. Talmage Puts "a Point
Blank Question"


the One Thing
The following discourse prepared py
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage for puolca
ton this week asks "A Point Blank
Question which is found in the text:
Is thine heart right-II Kings l.. 10.
with mettled horses at full speed,
for he was celebrated for last ori'inK'
Jehu, the warrior and king, returns
from battle. But seeing Jehonau"o
an acquaintance, by the ways'oe' nc
sbouts: whoa! whoa" to the iath-
cred span. Then leaning over 10 1e
honadab. Jehu salutes him IN the
words of the text-words not more aP-
nroDriate for that hour ana tha'
place. than for this hour and place.
us thine heart rightP
should like to hear ofyour physical
health. Well myself. ! like to nave
everybody else we'll; and SO might ASK,
is your eyesight right, your hearing
right, your nerves right, your lungs
right, your entire body rightf Du1 .
am busy to-day taking diagnosis OF
the more important spiritual condi-
t;ons. / should like to hear OF your
financial welfare I want every
body to have plenty OF money,
ample apparel. large storehouse, and
| comfortable residences; and / might
ask. is your business right, your income
/ right. your worldly surroundings
right? But what are these financial
questions compared with the inquiry
as to whether you have been aoie 70
nav your aebts to God; as to whetner
YOU are insured for eternity; as to
whether you are running youself by
the lonp-credit system of the soul?
have known men to have no more than
one loaf of bread at time, and yet to
own a government bond OF Heaven
worth more than the whole material
universe.
The question ask you to-day is not
in regard to your habits. l make no
inquiry about your integrity. or your
chastity, or your sobriety. 90 no'
mean to stand on the outside OF tne
gate and ring the bell; but coming up
the steps, / open the door and come to
the private apartment of the soul; and
with the earnestness of man thai
must give an account for this days
work. / cry out: Oh, man, oh. woman
= immortal, is thine heart right?
VI ! will not insult you by an argu
a ment to prove that we are by nature
all wrong. If there be a factory ex
q plosion, and the smokestack be upse
s and the wheels be broken in two. ant
IS the engine unjointed, and the ponder
2 ous bars be twisted, and a man shonl'
= look in and say nothing was the nal
"a ter. Won would pronounce him fool
"A Well, it needs no acumen to discove
that our nature is all atwist an
Is askew and unjointcd. The thin
,g doesn't work right. The biggest tror
or BILE we have in the world Is with GU
e- souls. Men sometimes say that, thong
q their lives may not be just righ
~ their heart is all right Impossible
:" A farmer never puts the poorest apple
a on top Of the barrel; nor does the me
II. chant place the meanest goods IN n
I'd show window. The best part OF us
outward life. do not stop to discu
. whether we all fell in Adam, for
. have been our own Adam, and have a
I'LL eaten OF the forbidden fruit, and ha
lIlll been turned out of the paradise
Hill holiness and peace; and though 7
IlIl flaming sword that stood at the ga
|lIIl to keep us out has changed position a.
|Ill [comcs behind to drive us in, we W
Hill not CO.
|I|I The Bible account OF us is not exa
IIHl gerated when it says that we are POI
llllE and wretchcd, and miserable, a
HIN blind, and naked. Poor: the wret
Hill that stands shivering on our doorst
llllII on cold day Is not so much In ne
Hill of bread as we are of spiritual he
lIlH Blind: why, the man whose eyes
HIM ished In the powder blast. and who
llDIl these ten years has gone feeling
IlIlIl wny from street to street, Is not
lEIN such utter darkness as we. Max
lillI why, there is not one rag of holm
Hill left to hide the shame OF our
lI|IIl Sick: why. the leprosy has eaten il
JIM the head, and the heart, and
.l hands. and the feet; and the maj
- mus of an everlasting wasting av
~ has already seized on some of us.
N But the meanest thing for a mar
NJ do is to discourse about an evil w
out pointing a way to have it r
Wy edied. speak of the thirst of y
hot tongue, only that may show
L the living stream that drops crys
-. line and sparkling from the Rock
IL Ages, and pours river OF gladnes'
N your feet. II / show you the rent
YOUR coat. it Is only because the
D of Gods wardrobe now swings o.
{vv and here is robe, white
~ the fleece of the Lamb OF
and of cut and make that an al
lode. would not be ashamed to wear
snatch from you the black and M
n on bread that you are munching, it is
It ly to give you the bread made OF
Cents the finest wheat that grows on
yer. celestial hills. and baked in the
"a of the Cross; and one crumb OF W
ILL.,. would be enough to make all lie
a banquet. Hear it, one and all,
,px. tell it to your friends when yo
- home, that the Lord Jesus Chris
ss's make the heart right.
? First we need a repenting heart
4 for the last ten, twenty or forty ]
of life, we have been going on in
IL wrong way, it is time that we tn
around and started in the opposi
rection. IL we offend our FRIEND
Uus are glad to apologize. God is our
on friend and yet how many of us
IvyI1 o,,o1or;znI for the rrops