Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-27
in TRUMPET SOUNDS,
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches A SER
MON FULL OF HOPE.


of Christ-The Need of sympathy--Fui-
Hllment of Great Promise-A Mighty
Gathering.
WASHINGTON Feb. e3.-This sermon
sounds the note of triumph, noto that
all will be glad to hear in these times,
when SO H.any are tutoring and writing
jerelniads of Encouragement. DIR. Tai.
mage took. as his text Genesis Xix, 10,
"Unto him shall the gathering of the
people be-
Through q supernatural lens, or what
might call q prophescopc, dying Jacob
looks down through the corridors of tho
centuries until he secs Christ tho center Of
all popular attraction and the greatest be-
ing in oil tho world, so everywhere ac-
knowledged. 1t was not always so. The
world tried hard to put him down and to
put him out. 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 tho Lord
Jesus Christ, reading in this wise
lin tho ysar II of the empire of Tibori-
us Caesar, and on tho 25th of March, I,
Pontius PLATE, governor of tho Pr;etore,
condemn Jesus Of Nazareth to die between
two thieves, Ouintius Cornelius to lead him
1Ortn 10 tho place Oh execution.
Scofrers ms Worshipers.
Tho death warrant was signed by sever
al names. First, by Daniel, rabbi, Phari-
SEQ; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi third
ly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet u pri-
waite citizen. This capital punishment was
executed according to law. The namo of
the thief crucihed on tho right hand side
of Christ was Dismas; tho name Of the
thief crucifled on the left hand side of
Christ was Gostus. Pontius PLATE de-
soribing the tragedy, says tho whole world
lighted candles from noon until night.
Thirty three years of maltreatmcnt. They
ascribo his birth to bastardy and his death
to cxcruciation. A wall of the city, built
about those times and recently exposed by
archnologists, shows u caricature of Jesus
Christ, evidencing the contempt in which
he was held by many in his day-that
caricature on the wall representing cross
and q donkey nailed to 1t, and under 1t
tho 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 tho worlds abuse. Tho
most popular namo on earth today is tho
name of Christ. Where he had ono friend
Christ has thousand friends. The scott
ers have become the worshipers. OF the
90 most celebrated infdels in Great Brit
ain in our day 10 have come back to Christ,
trying to undo the blatant mischief of
their lives-16 out Of the 20. Every man
who writes letter or signs document,
Willingly or unwittingly, honors Jesus
Christ. We date everything as b. c. or
a. Dbl. c., before Christ; A. D., Ammo
nomini, in the year of our Lord. All tho
ages of history on the pivot of tho upright
hon nf ha - bo nf n1
A. d. do not care what you call him
whether Conqueror, or King or Morning
star, or Sun of Righteousness, or Balm Of
Gilead, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother or
Friend or take the name used in tho verse
from which take my text and call him
Shiloh, which means his Son, or the Tran
quilator, or the Peacemaker, Shiloh. l on
ly want to tell you that unto him shall
the gathering of the people be"
In the first place, the people are gath
cred around Christ for pardon. No sensi-
bic map or BEAUTIFULLY ambitious man is
satisfied with his past life. A fool may
think he is all right. A sensible man
knows he is not. l do not care who tho
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 SO many things
have done ought not to have DONE there
have been SO many things have said l
ought never to have said there have been
so many things I have written l ought
never to have written, there have been so
many things have thought ought new
err to have thought. must somehow get
things readjusted, must somehow have
the past reconstructed; there are days and
months and years which cry out against
me in horrible vociferation." All, my
brother, Christ adjusts the past by oblit-
Grating it. He does not erase the record Of
our misdoing with dash Of ink from q
registers pen, but lifting his right hand,
crushed red at the palm, he puts 1T
against his bleeding 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 iniquities. Oh, never DO anx-
ious about the future; better be anxious
about the past Iput it not at the end of
my sermon; I put it at the front-mcrcy
and pardon through Shiloh, the sin par
doning Christ. unto him shall the gath
ering Of the people be-" "Ohp' says some
man, II have for 40 years been as bad as
l could be, and is there any mercy for
mes" Mercy for you. "Ohl' says some
one here, II had grand ancestry, the
mothers, and for my perfldy there is no
excuse. Do you think there is any mercy
for meY" Mercy for you. But, says an
other man, Il fear l have committed what
they call the objectionable sin, and the
Bible says II a man commit that sin, he is
neither to be forgiven in this world nor
the world to come. Do you think there is
any mercy for me?' The fact that you
have any solicitude about tho matter at
all proves positively that You have not
committed the objectionable sin. Mercy
foryou? Oh the grace OF God which bring
eth salvation!
For the Worst Sinners.
The grace of God Let us take tho sur
veyor's chain and try to measure God S
mercy through Jesus Christ. Let ono sur
veyor take that chain and go to the north,
and another surveyor take that chain and
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 report of the square
miles Of that vast kingdom of Gods mer-
cy. Aye, you will have to wait to all eter-
nifty for the report Of that measurement.
1t cannot be measured. Paul tried to
climb tho height Of 1t, and no went height
over height, altitude above altitude, noun,
tain above mountain, then sank down In
discouragement and gave it up, for he
saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and Matter
horns beyond, and waving his hands bac,
to us in tho plains he says, Past finding
out; unsearchable, that in all things he