Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-29
In TRUMPET SOUNDS.
REV. OR. TALMAGE breaches A SER
MON FULL or HOPE.

MON FULL OF HOPE.
Help For the Hopeless Through the Name
of Christ Seed Of sympathy-FuI.
allmcnt of "a Great Promise A Mighty
Gathering.
WAsHINGroN, Feb 23.-This sermon
sounds tho motto ~ triumph, n note that
nll will he glad To hear In these times,
when 50 many arc uttcring and writing
icrcmiads Of encouragement. DIR. Tai.
mage took rs his text Genesis Xix, 10,
Unto him shall the gathering of the
people be-"
Through q supernatural lens, or what
! might call prophcscopc, dying Jacob
looks down through the corridors of the
centuries until he secs Christ the center of
all popular attraction and the greatest be-
ing in nll tho world. SO everywhere nc
knowledgcd IL was not always SO. Tho
world tried hard TO put him down and to
put him ont. In the year 1900 while ex-
cavating for antiquities SO miles northeast
Of Rome, "a copper plato tablet was found
containing tho death warrant OF the Lord
Jesus Christ, reading In this wise:
In the year Il of the empire Of Tibcri-
Us Caesar, and on the 25th of March, !,
Pontius plate, governor Of tho Pr;etorc,
condemn Jesus Of Nazareth to die between
two thieves, Quintius Cornelius To lead him
forth Ia the place Of execution.
scoficrs as worshipers.
The death warrant was signed by sever
al names. First. by Daniel, rabbi, Phari-
see; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi; third
~. by Raphael; fourthly, by Capct, pri-
waite citizen. This capital punishment was
executed according To law. Tho name Of
the thief cruciiicd on the right hand side
of Christ was Dismas; the name of tho
thief cruciiicd ON the left hand side of
Christ was Gcstus. Pontius plate, de-
scribing the tragedy. says the whole world
lighted candles from noon until night.
Thirty-thrcc years Of maltreatment. They
ascribe his birth To bastardy and his death
tu excruciatiun. 4 wall of the city, built
about those times and recently exposed by
archRologisis. shows "a cariCaturc of Jesus
Christ, cVit.cncing the contempt in which
he was held by many in his day-that
cnricaturc ON the wall representing "A cross
and donkey nailed TO ii, and under II
the inscription. "This Is the Christ whom
the people worship" But l rejoice that
that day is gone by. Our Christ Is coming
out from under the worlds abuse. The
most popular name ON earth today Is the
name of Christ. Where lac had one friend
Christ has IA thousand friends. The scott
crs have become the wurshipers. OF the
20 most celebrated inildcls in Great Brit.
ain in our day 10 have come back to Christ,
trying To undo the blatant mischief Of
their liycs-l6 out Of the 90. Every man
who writes letter or signs document,
Willingly or unwittingiy. honors Jesus
Christ. We date everything as i. c. or
\. Dbl. C.. before Christ; 4. d., Ammo
nomini, in the year Of our Lord. All the
ages Of history ON the pivot of the upright
beam OF the cross uf the son of God b. c.,
\. ID. do not caro- what you call him
whether Conqucror. or King. or Morning
star. or sun Of Righteousness, or Balm Of
Gilcad, or Lebanon Cedar. or Brother or
Friend. or take tho name used in the verse
from which take my text, and call him
shiloh. which means his son, or the Tran
quilator, or the Peaccmakcr. shiloh. | ON.
ly want to tell you that unto him shall
the gathering Of the people bc.
In the first place, the people are gath
cred around Christ for pardon. No scnsi
BILE man or hcalthfully ambitious man IL
satisfied with his past life. \ fool may
think he Is all right. a sensible man
knows he Is not. do not care who the
thoughtful man Is, the review OF his life
time behavior before God and man gives
To him no especial satisfaction. ''Oh," he
says, there have been 81 many things
have done ought not To have done, there
have been SO many things | have said !
ought never To have said, there have been
so many things l have written l ought
never To have written, there have been sc
many things | have thought l ought new
or to have thought. i must somehow get
things rcadjustcd, must somehow have
the past reconstructed; there are days anc
months and years which cry out against
me in horrible vocifcration." All, my
brother, Christ adjusts the past by oblit
Grating IL. He does not erase the record OF
our misdoing with dash Of ink from {
registers pen. but lifting his right hand
crushed, red at 10 palm, he puts IL
against his hcta.lng brow, and then
against his pierced side, and with the
crimson accumulation of all those wounds
he rubs out the accusatory chapter He
blots out our iniquitics. Oh, never be anx
ious about the future; better be anxiou,
about the past. put it not at the end Of
my sermon; l put il at the froni-mcrcy
and pardon through shiloh, the sin par.
doning Christ. Unto him shall the gath.
ering Of the people be. OH says somt
man. II have for 40 years been rs bad as
! could he, and is there any mercy fol-
mes" Mercy for you. 'Oh!'' says some
ono here, Il had u grand ancestry, the
hottest 81 fathers and the tcndercst ol
mothers, and for my peridy there is nc
excuse. DO you think there is any mercy
for me." Mercy for you. But" says an.
other man. / fear have committed what
they call the objectionable sin, and the
| Bible says IL "a man commit that sin. be j.
neither To be forgiven in this world MOI
the world To come. DO you think there il.
any mercy for mc;' The fact that yOI
have any solicitude about the matter at
all proves positively that you have not
committed the objectionable sin. Mercy
! for your oh. the grace of God which bring.
eth salvatioE
For the Worst sinnersL
Tho grace of God Lat US take the sur.
vcyors chain and try tD measure God I
mercy through Jesus Christ. Let one sur.
veyor take that chain and go To the north,
and another surveyor take that chain ard
go TO the south, and another surveyor take
that chain and go to the east, and another
surveyor take that chain and go to the
west, and then make "A report Of the square
miles Of that vast Kingdom Of Gods mer-
4 cy. Aye, YEA will have to wait to all eter.
nifty for tho ri port of that measurement.
/ Ii cannot bo measured. Paul tried 20
\ climb the height of il, and he went height
over height, altitude above altitude, noun
tain above mountain, then sank down in
Encouragement and gave il up, for he
saw Sierra Neyadas beyond and Matter
/ horns beyond, and waving his hands back
! To us in the plains ho says, Past finding
out; unscarchablc, that in all things he
might have the pre-emincnce. You no
tice that nearly all the sinners mentioned
I rs hardened in the Bible were great ii n