The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-30

A Sermon Which Appeals 10 the un-
controverted Everywhere.
The uocrys "sirs, what Must 4 DO to I've
saeed7'-Th's was the Cry OF nm As,-
tatec soui--Dr Taimagc Discourses
on Qoestion OF ineompara-
BILE Importance. FL #%#.


Rev DIR. Talmagc chose subject
which appeals to the rnconverted
everywhere--viz. The Philippian iail-
err" The text selected was, "Sirs what
must do TO DO saved?n Acts xvi, 80.
Incarcerated in a Philippian peni.
tertiary, a place cold and dark and
damp and loathsome and hideous, unil.
lumined save by the torch OF the official
who comes to see IL they are alive vet,
are two ministers of Christ, their feet
fast in instruments of torture, their
shoulders dripping from the stroke of
leathern thongs, their mouths hot
with inflammation OF thirst, their
heads faint because they may not lie
down. In comforta BILE room OF that
same building and amid pleasant sur
roundings is paid officer of the gov.
eminent whose business il Is 10 super
wise the prison. 1t is night, and all is
still in the corridors of the dungeon
fsve as some murderer struggles with
horrid dream, or a rufIian turns over
In his chains, or there is the cough of
dying consumptive amid the damp
ness, but suddenly crash go the walls!
The two clergymen pass out free. The
fail Keeper, although familiar with the
darkness and horrors lowering around
the dungeon, is startled beyond all
bounds, and, hambeau in hand, he
rushes through amid the falling walls.
shouting at the top of his voice, "Sirs
what must do to be saved?".
Istand now among those who are
asking the same question with more or
less earnostness and 1 accost you in
this crisis Of your soul with a message
from Heaven. There are those ia this
audience who might be more skillful
in argument than / am; there are those
here who can dive into deeper depths
of science, or have larger knowledge:
there are in this audience those before
whom ! would willingly bow as the in.
ferior to the superior, but / yield TO NO
one in this blage in desire to
have all the people saved by the power
of an omnipotent gospel
shall proceed TO characterize the
question of the agitated Jail keeper
And, first, / characterize the question
as courteous. He might have rushed
in and said Paul and Silas you vag-
abonds, are you tearing down this
prison? Aren't you satisfied with dis.
turbing the peace of the city by your
infamous doctrines? And are you now
going to destroy public property?
Backwith you to your places, you vaga-
bondsF de said no such thing, The
word Of four letters, 'sirs," equivalent
20 lords" recognized the majesty and
the honor OF their mission. Sirsl II
man with a captious spirit tries to find
the way to Heaven, he will miss it. II
man comes out and pronounces all
Christians as hypocrites, and the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ as fraud, and /
asks irritating questions about the |
mysteries and inscrutable, saying: |
Come, my wise man, explain this and |
explain that; If this be true, how eau |
that be true?' no such man finds the |
way to Heaven. The question of the |
text was decent, courteous, gentleman
ly, deferential Sirs! a=%
Again, | characterize this question |
of the agitated Jail keeper by saying |
that il was a practical question. He |
did not ask why God let sin come into |
The world, he did not ask how Christ |
could be God and man in the same per-
son, he die not ask the doctrine of the |
DEGREES explained or want to know |
whom Cain married, or what was the |
cause of the earthquake. His present
and everlasting welfare was involved
IN the question, and was not that prac-
tcal? But ] know multitudes of peo-
pie who are bothering themselves
about the non-essentials of re-
ligion. What would You think
Fof man who should, while dis
cnssing the question of the light and
heat of the sun, spend his time down
10 coal cellar when he might come
gout and see the one and feel the other?
Yet there are multitudes of men who,
y discussing ths chemistry Of the gos-
ri, spend their time down in the dun
gson OF their unbelie. when God all
we while stands telling them to come
Out into the MONDAY light and warmth
q the sun of righteousness The ques-
Won for you, my brother, TO discuss is
\ aot whether Calvin or Arminius was
( right, not whether a handful of water
4 "a holy baptism or a baptistery is the
ovtter, not whether REORGANIZATION and
B IRE agency can be harmonized. The
I Ysactical question for you TO discuss
ahd for me to discuss is, Where will "A i
'ptnd eternity?"
ARaln | characterize this question or
Me agitated Jail keeper as one personal
Y himself / have no doubt he had
Msny friends, and he was interested in
Weir welfare. have no doubt he
'pund that there were persons in that
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