Milford chronicle., 1896-01-24
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. JANUARY 81, 1896
A PRACTICAL SERMON
"sAY sop THE SUBJECT or DR.. TAI
MAGE'S DISCOURSE.

"sAY so" THE SUBJECT OF DR.. TAI
MAGE's DISCOURSE.
The Eminent Divine Believes In Outspoiei
Religion Nothing Can Stand Befor'
Prayer-Let the Redeemed Show Theii
Colors-Personal Testimony.
WAsnINGToN. Jan. 19.-Rev DR.. Tai
mage never produced q more practical ant
suggestive sermon than this Of today. W.
believe twill stir Christerd0H His sub
joct was "Say So, and the text selected
was Psalms evil, 2, "Let the redeemed OF
the Lord say SO.
An overture an antlphon, doxology Is
this chapter, ard in my text David calls
for an outspoken religion and requests all
who have been rescued and blessed no
longer to hide the splendid facts, but to
reoite them, publish them and, as far as
possible, let all the world know about it.
"Let the redeemed Of the Lord say So
There is a sinful reticence which has been
almost oanonizod. The people are quite
as outspoken as they ought to bo on all
subjects Of politics and are fluent and vol
uble on the Venezuelan question and bi-
metallism and tariffs, high and low ana
remodeled, and female suffrage and you
have to .skillfully watch your chance II
you want to put into the active converse
tion modest suggestion of your OVID, but
on the subject of divine goodness, religious
experience and eternal blessedness they
are not only silent, but boastful Of their
reticenoe. Now if you have been redeemed
of the Lord why do you not say sof If
you have in your heart the pearl OF great
tho knhInoCW
among Victorian jewels, why not let 9th
ers see it2 If you got off the wreck in the
breakers, why not tell of the crow and tho
stout lifeboat that safely landed you? II
from the fourth story you are rescued In
time of con1agration why not tell Of the
fireman and the ladder down which he
carried you, If you have a mansion in
heaven awaiting yOu, why not show tho
deed to those who may by The same proc
ess get an emerald castle on the same
boulevard? BY the last two words Of my
text avoid calls upon all Of us who have
received any mercy at the hand of God to
stop impersonating the asylums for the
dumb, and in the presence Of mon, wom-
en-, angels, devils and all worlds, say so. "
a Universal Revival.
In these january days thousands of
ministers and private Christians are won
/ dering about the best ways of starting IA
revival Of religion. I can toll you way
of starting q revival, continental, hemi-
spheric and worldwide. You say revival
starts in heaven Well, it starts in heaven
Just as q prosperous harvest starts in heay-
en- Tho sun must shine, and the rains
must descend, but unless you pillow and
sow ana cultivate the earth you will not
raise bushel Of wheat or peck IF corn
between now and the end OF the world.
How, then, shall universal revival start?
BY all Christian people telling tho story of
their own conversion. Let ten mon and
women get up next week in your prayer
meeting, and, not in a conventional or
canting or doleful way, but in the Same
ton5 thay employ in the family or place
Of business, tell hoy they crossed the
line, and the revival viii begin then and
thore If the prayer meeting has not been
so duh as to drive out all except those con-
corning whom it was foreordained from
all eternity that they should be there.
There are so many different ways of bong
converted that we want to hear all kinds
so that our own case may be helped. 1t
always puts me back to hear only one kind
Of experience, such as a man gives when
he tells of his Pauline ConvorsiOn-how lie
was knocked sonseloss, and then had
vision and heard voices, and after cor
tain number Of days of horror got up and |
shouted for JOY All that discourages mo, |
for l was never knocked senseless, and l |
never had such a sudden burst of religious
rapture that lost my equilibrium. But |
after awhile a Christian man got up in /
some meeting and told us how he was |
brought up by a devout parentage and had |
always been thoughtful about religious /
things and gradually the peace of the Cos |
pei came into his soul like the dawn of the |
morning-no perceptible difference be- /
tween moment and moment-but after
awhile all perturbation settled down into
q hope that had ooDsoled ana strengthened
him during all the Yicissitudes Of a life
time. | said ''That is exhilarating; that
was my experience" And so l was
strengthened.
In another prayer meeting man got up
and told us how he oIca hated God, and
went through all the round Of iniquity
until we were all on nettles lest he should
60 too much into the particulars but one
day he was by some religious power hurled
fat and then got up Christian, and had
ever since been going around with Bax-
Ter Bible with largo flaps under his arm,
a floating evangelist Well under this
story many arc not helped at Gil, for they
know they never hated God and they
were never dissolute. But after awhile
some Christian woman arises and says:
g have nothing extraordinary to tell. Yet
] think the cares Of life, the anxieties
about my children, and two graves npOncd
in our family plot made me feel the need
of God, and weak and helpless and heart
broken 1 flung myself upon his mercy,
f,oT hot l,o TQfIe1n on1le hn ]
of God which passeth all understanding,
and l ask your prayers that ] may live
nearer to the Christ who has done so much
for me-" l declare that before that woman
got through we were all crying, not bitter
tears but tears Of joyful emotion, and in
three days in that neighborhood all the
ice had gone out of the river in a spring
time freshot of salvation Let the re-
deemed of the Lord say so"
Personal Salvation.
have but little interest in what people
say about religion as an abstraction, but
J have illimitable interest in what people
say about what they have personally felt
Of religion. It was an expression Of his
own gratitude for personal salvation
which led Charles Wesley, after n season
Of great despondency about his soul and
Christ had spoken pardon, to writo that
immortal hymn:
Oh for thousand tongues to sing
Ny great Redeemer's praisei
It was after Abraham Lincoln had been
,emforted IN the loss Of Tad, the bright
boy Of the White House, that lac said, II Z
now SEQ as never before the preciousness
Of Gods love in Jesus Christ and how we {
are brought near to God as our Father by
him" 7
What thrill went through the meeting
IN Portland, Or, when an ex-attornsy
general Of the United States arose and !
said; Last night I got up and asked the {
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