Connecticut western news., 1895-10-10
A RECT QUESTION.
REV. OR. TALMAGE PUTS IT POINT BLANK TO MEN AND WOMEN.

REV. DR. TALMAGE PUTS IT POINT
 BLANK TO MEN AND WOMEN. He Speaks Directly to the Hearts of All Who Have Not Definitely Accepted the Free Onsr of Salvation In Christ Jesus. .Is Thine. Hssrs Rishts"
 .NEw YoRK, Oct. 6.-In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage speaks di- rectly to the hearts of all who have not yet definitely accepted the free offer of salvation in Christ Jesus. The subject was, A Point Blank Question, the text beingiu Kingsx, l6, "Is thine heart right?"
 With mettled horses at full speed, for he was celebrated for fast driving, Je- hu, the warrior and king, returns from battle. But seeing JehoDadab, an ac- quaintance, by the. wayside, he shouts, ..Whoa! Whoa! !' to the lathered span. Then leaning over to Jehonadab Jehu salutes him in the words of the text words not more appropriate for that hour and that place than for this hour and place, "Is thine heart right?"
 I should like to hear of your physical health. We'll myself, like to have ev- erybody else well, and so might ask, Is your eyesight right, your hearing right, your nerves right, your lungs right. your, entire body right! But 1 am busy today taking diagnosis of the more inn portant spiritual conditions I should like to hear of your financial welfare want everybody to have plenty of mon- ey, ample apparel. large storehouse and comfortable residence, and might ask, Is your business right, your income right, your worldly surroundings right2 But what are these financial questions compared with the inquiry as to wheth- CT you have been able to pay your debts to God; as to whether you are insured for eternity; as to whether you are ruining yourself by the long credit sys- tenn of the soul? have known men to have no mcse than one loaf of bread at a time, and yet to own.a government bond of heaven worth more than the whole material universe.
 Gospel Truth.
 The question ask you today is not in regard to your habits. I make no in quiry about your integrity or your chas- tity or your sobriety.. dc not mean to stand on the outside of the gate and ring the bell. but coming up tha steps, I open the door and come to the private apartment of the soul, and with the earnestness of a man that must give an account for this days work cry out, Oh, man, oh, woman immortal, is thine heart right?
 will not insult you by an argument toe praxe that we are by nature all wrong. If there 'be a factory explosion and the smokestack be upset, and the wheels be broken in two, and the engine unjointed, and the ponderous bars be twisted, and man should lock in and say that nothing was the matter, you would pronounce him fool We'll, it needs no acumen to discover that our nature is all atwist and askew and un- jointed. The 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 just right, their heart is all right. Im- possible. A farmer never puts the poor est apples on top of his barrel; nor does the merchant place the meanest goods in his show window. The best part of us is our outward life. do not stop to discuss whether we all fell in Adam, for we have been our own Adam, and have all eaten of the forbidden fruit, and have been turned out of the paradise of holiness and peace, and though the flaming sword that stood at the gate to keep us out has. changed petition and comes behind to drive us in, we will not go.
 The Bible account of us is not exag- &erated when it says that we are poor and wretched and miserable and blind and naked Poori The wretch that stands shivering on our doorstep on cold day ia not SO much in~need of bread as we arc of spiritual help. Blind! Why, the man whose eyes perished in the powder blast, and who for these ten years has Kone feeling his way from street to street, is not in such utter darkness as we. Nakedl Why, there is not one rag of holiness left to hide the shame of our sin. Sickl Why, the leprosy has eaten into the head and the heart and the hands and the feet, and the marasmus of an everlasting wasting away has al ready seized on some of us.
 Our Needa-
 But the meanest thing for . man to do is to discourse about an evil without pointing way to have it remedied. speak of the thirst of your hot tongue only that I may show you the living stream that drops crystalline and spar kling from the Rock of Ages and pour . river of gladness at your feet. If show you the rents in your coat, it is on ly because the door of Gods wardrobe now swings open, and here is robe white with the fleece of the Lamb oi God, and of cut and make that al angel would not be ashamed to wear If l snatch from you the blacks mold, bread that you are munching, it is only to give you the bread made out of tn, finest wheat that grows on the celestia hills and baked in the fires of the cross and one crumb of which would b, enough to make all heaven a banquet Hear it, one and all, and tell it to you friends when you go home, that th' Lord Jesus Christ can make the hear right.
 First we need a repenting heart. I for the last 10, 90 or 40 years of life VI have been going on in the wrong way, i is time that we turned around an' started in the opposite direction. fw offend our friends, we are glad to apolo gize. God is our best friend, and ye how many of us have never apologies for the wrongs we have done him!
 There is nothing that we so mucl need to get rid of as sin. It is a horri ble black monster It polluted Eden. killed Christ It has blasted the world Men keep dogs in kennels, and rabbit in . warren, and cattle in pen. Wha . man that would be who would shu then. .pp in his parlori But this fou dog of sin and these herds of transgres