The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-11
A PURE HEART.
DIR. Talmage Propounds Pointed
Question.
II Is as Important to Have Pure Heart -
Healthy Physical System-Facts
for All Christians to Con-
slider.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage was: "A Point
Blank Question" the text being taken
from II. Kings, X. Is, rs thine heart
riRht?' DIR. Talmage said:
With melted horses at full speed,
for he was celebrated for fast driving,
Jehu, the warrior and king, returns
from battle. But seeing Jehonodab. an
ACQUAINTANCE by the wayside, he shouts
whoa! whoar' 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?"
should like to hear of your ply
steal health. Well, myself, 1 like to
have everybody else we'll; and so might
ask, is your eyesight right, your hear
ing right, your nerves right, your lungs
right, your entire body right? But l
am busy to-day taking diagnoses of the
more important spiritual conditions
Ishould like to hear of your financial
welfare. l want everybody to have
plenty of money, ample apparel, large
sstorehouses. and comfortable resi-
dence: and l might ask, is your bust
ness right, your income right, your
worldly surroundings right? But what
are these financial questions compared
with the inquiry as to whether you have
been able to pay your debts to God.
The question ask you to-day is not
au regard to your habits. l make no
inquiry about your integrity, or your
chastity, or your sobriety. l do not
nean TO stand on the outside of the
gate and ring the bell; but coming up
the steps. | open the door and come to
she private apartment of the soul; and
with the earnestness of man that
must give an account of this day
work, / cry out, o man. woman i'm
mortal, is thine Geart right?
will not insult YOU by an argument
to prove that we are by nature all
wrong. If there be 4 factory eXplo-
sion, and the smokes tack be upset, and
the wheels be broken in two, and
the engine unjointed, and the
ponderous bar be twisted, and a
man should look in and say that moth
ing was the matter, you would pro-
uounce him fool Well, it needs no
all atwist and askew and unjointed.
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
lust right, their heart is all right. I'm
possible A farmer never puts the
poorest apples on top of his barrel; MOI
does the merchant place the meanes'
goods in the show window. The bes'
part of us is our outward life.
The Bible account of US is not exag
zgerated when it says that we are poor
and wretched and miserable and blind
and naked. Poor; the wretch thai
stands shivering on our doorstep on .
cold day is not so much in need o
bread as we are of spiritual help
Bind; why, the man whose eyes per
ished in powder blast, and who fo
these ten years has gone feeling hi
way from street to street, is not IL
such utter darkness as we. Naked
why, there is not one rag of holmes
1eft9o hide the shame of our sin. Sick
why, the leprosy has eaten into the
head and the heart and the hands ant
the feet, and the marasmus of an ever
lasting wasting away has alread.
seized on so ne of US.
But the meanest thing for man Z
do is to discourse about the evil with
out pointing way to have it remedieo
I speak of the thirst of your no
tongue, only that l may show you tn
living stream that drops crystallin
hn Of rras
and pours a river of gladness at you
feet If 1 show you the rents in you
coat, it is only because the door c
Gods wardrobe now swings open, an
here is a robe, white with the fleece o
the Lamb of God, and of a cut an
make that an angel would not b
ashamed TO wear. If l snatch froI
YOU the black, moldv bread that yo
are munching, it Is only to give 70
the bread made out of the finest whea
that grows on the celestial hills, an
baked in the fires of the Cross; and on
crumb of which would be enough
make all Heaven a banquet Hear
one and all, and tell it to your friend
when you go home, that the LoT
Jesus Christ can make the heart rig
First we need a repenting heart
for the last ten, twenty. or forty yea1
of life, we have been going on IN ii
wroRg way, it is time that we turne
around and started in the opposite d
rection. If we offend our friends "
are glad to apologize God Is our be
friend, and yet how many OF US ha'
never apologized for the wrongs Y
have done Him.
There is nothing that we so muC
need to get rid of as sin. 1t is horn
BILE black monster. 1t polluted Eide
1t killed Christ 1t has blasted tt
world. Men keep dogs in kennels, al
rabbits in a warren, and cattle IN pc
What a man that would be who won
shut them up in the parlor? But Ii
foul dog of sin, and these herds
transgression, we have entertain'
for many a long year in our hear
which should be the cleanest, brig
test room in all our nature. Out wi
the vile herd,
Turn out the beasts and let Chr1
come in! a heather came to an ear
Christian, who had the reputation
curing diseases. The Christian sal
tsYou must have all your idols c
,stroyed" The heather gave to I
Christian the key to his house, tn
he might go in and destroy the lido
he battered to pieces all he saw, 3
sin the man did not get we'll L
Christian said to him: There must
some idol in your house not yet
stroyed" The heather confessed tn
there was one idol of heather &C
that he could not bear to give L