The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-07
REV. DIR. TALMAGE
TUE NOTED DlvuNE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject "say So"

An overture, an onuphon. doxolorv a
thh chapter and In my text David calls FOR
an ouApoken religion and requests all who
nave been rescued and blessed no longer to
hide the splendid facts, but 10 reeite them.
publish them and as inras possible let an the
world know about u. "Let the redeemed of
tne Lord snyHo.' Thor0 Is a sinful reueenc8
which has been almost canonzei. Tho
people are quite as OutsnOkan as they ought
20 be on all subjects OF politics and are fluent
aud voiuDlo on the Venezuelan question
ana blmetalliem and tariffs high and low
and romOdeled and female aue-age, and Won
have 90 skiliully watch your chance "a Won
want 70 put into the active conversation
modest suggestion of your own, but
on the subject OF divine goodness. reli-
Rtous experience and eternal blessalne7s
they are not only silent. but bonstlul OF their
reucenee. Now, III you have been redeemed
0ttbe Lord, why do You not say SOP Ifyou
nave In your heart the pearl OF grent price.
worth more than tho KOhln00r among Vic
torian Jewels why not LET others see Il? III
You got on the wreck ia the breakers whv
not tell OF the crew and the stout ufeboat
that safely landed your il from the fourth
story you ars rescued in time of eonnagra-
tor, why nos tell of the 1rBmnn and the lad
der down which he carried your IN Won
have mansion In heaven awaiting YOU.
why not show the deed to those who may by
the same process get an emerald cnstle on
the same boulevard2 By the last two words
OF my teXt David calls upon all OF us VINO
nave received Gay mercy ut the hands OF
God TO stop impersonatng the asylums for
tne uum0 ana inthepersence oimen, women,
angels, devils and all worlds "say So"
In these January days. thousands OF min
listers aud private Christians are wondering
about the best ways OF starting q revival OF
religion. can tell yon way OF starting
revival. continental hemsuharic and world
wide. You say revival starts IN heaven.
Well, 1t starts in heaven Just as q prosperous
harvest starts in heaven. The sun must shine
ana the rains must descend, but unless YOU
pillow and SOW and cultivate the earth Won
will not raise a bushel OF wheat or n neck OF
corn between now and the end OF the world
How, then, shall universal revival start?
by all Christian people telling the story Of
their own conversion Let ten men and wo-
men set up next week in your prayer meet
ing ana, not In a conventional or canting or
doleful way, but in the same tone they em-
ploy in the family or place OF business,
tell how they crossed the line, and
the revival viii begin then and there. II
the prayer meeting has not been so duh
as TO drive out all except those concern
ing whom II was forgordained from al
eternity that they should be there. There
are so many different ways OF being con-
verted that we want to hear all kinds, so that
our own case may be helped. Railways puts
me back to hear only one kind OF experience.
such rs a man gives when he tells Of his
Pauline cOnversion-how he was knocked
senseless, and then had a vision and heard
voices, and after certain number of DAYS
OF horror got up and shouted for Joy. All
that discourages me, for was never knocked
senseless, and / never had such a sudden
burst OF religious rapture that I lost my
equilibrium. But after awhile q Christian
man got up in some meeting and told us how
he was brought up by devout parentage,
and had always been thoughtful about re-
iigious things, and gradually the peace Of
the gospel came into his soul like the dawn
OF the mOrninC-nO perceDtible difference
between moment and mOment-but after
awhile al perturbation settled down into
Nope that had consoed and strengthened
him during all the vicissitudes of a lifetime
1 said, "Ihat is exhilarating; that was my
experience" And so I was strengthened.
In another prayer meeting a man got up
and told us how he once hated God and
went through all the round OF iniquty until
we were all on nettles lest he should go TOO
much into the particulars. but one day he
was by some religious poWec hurled fat and
then got up a Christian and had ever since
been going around with Baxter Bible with
large flaps under his arm. floating evange-
list Well, under this story many are not
helped at all, for they know they never hated
God, and they were never dissolUte. But af-
ter awhile some Christian woman arises and
says. "I have nothing extraordinary to
tell, yet think the cares OF life, the anXieties
about my children and two graves
opened in our family plot made me feel the
need Of God, and weak and helpless and
heartbroken flung myself upon His mercy,
and I feel what the Bible calls the peace Of
God which passeth all understanding and
i ask your prayers that may live nearer to
the Christ who has done so much for me"
declare that before that woman gotthrough
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 springtime freshet OF saliva
ton "Let the redeemed OF the Lord say So"
have but little interest in what people
cay about religion as an abstraction, but
have illimitable interest in what people say
about what they have personally felt Of re-
Iigion. It was an expression OF his OWL
gratitude for personal salvation which led
Charles Wesley, after aseason OF great de-
gpondency about his soul and Christ had
spoken pardon, to write that immortal
hymn:
Oh, for thousand tongues TO sing
My great Redeemers praise!
It was after Abraham Lincoln had been
-comforted in the loss OF Tad, the bright boy
OF the White House, that he said, u now see
as never before the preciousness Of Gods
love in Jesus Christ and how we are broughi
near to God as our Father by Him"
What thrill went through the meeting IL
Portland, Or, when an ex-Attorney-Ge Genera
of the United States rose and said; elias
might got upand asked the prayers OF God
people. ! feel now perfectly. satisfied. Ih
burden isrolled off and all gone, and fee
that could run or fly into the arms of Jesul
Christ"
What a record for all time and eternit,
was made by Gellacius, the play actor, il
the theatre at Heliopolis A buresque 0
Christianity was put upon the stage In de
rision OF the ordinance Of baptism a bath
tub filed with water was put upon the Stage
and another actor, in awful blasphemy
dipped Gellaeius, pronouncing over him tn
words, 81 baptize thee in the name of tn
Father, Of the Son and OF the Holy Ghost.
But coming forth from the burlesque bar
fism he looked changed and was changed
and he cried out II am Christian. vii
die as a Christian" Though he was dragge
out and stoned TO death. they could ne