The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-03-04
A NOTE OF TRIUMPH.
REV. Or. TALMAGE'S SERMON OF RE.
JOGGING.

World-His Earne the Most Popular on
Ea-th-SccGers Eave Become Worship.
ers-In1dels Return to God.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-This sermon
sounds the note of triumph, note that
all will be glad to hear in these times,
when so many are uttering ard writing
jeremiads Of discouragement. Dr. Tai
mage took as his text Genesis xix, 10,
"Unto him shall the gathering Of the
people be-. -
Through supernatural lens, Or what
I might call prophescope, dying Jacob
looks down through the corridors Of the
centuries until he sees Christ the center
Of all popular attraction and tie greatest
being in all the world, SO everywhere
acknowledged. It was not always so.
The world tried hard to put him down
and to put him out. In the year 1900,
while eycavating for antiquities So
miles northeast CT Rome, q copper plate
tablet was found containing the death
warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, read
ing i'll this wise:
''In the year II Of the empire Of Ti-
berius Caesar, and on the 25th Of March,
I, Pontius PLATE, governor CT the PrSe-
tore, condemn Jesus Of Nazareth to die
between two thieves, Quintius Cor
nelius to lead him forth to the place Of
execution.'
The death warrant was signed BY
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi; ;
thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Cape5,
private citizen. This capital punish
ment was executed according to Jaw.
The ramo Of the thief crucifed on the
right hand side Of Christ was DisInas.
The name Of the thief crucifed Oh tic
left hand side cf Christ was Gestus.
Pontius Plate describing the tragedy
says the whole world lighted candles
from noon until night. Thirty-three
years Of maltreatment. They ascribe his
birth to bastardy and his death to ex-
cruciation. a wall CT the city, built
about those times and recently exposed
by archaologists, shsws caricature Of
Jesus Christ, c7idencing the contempt
in which he was held by many il his
day, that caricature on tire wall repro
senting cross and donkey nailed to
it and under it the inscription, "This is
the Christ whom the people worship" "
But I rejoice that that day is gone By.
Our Christ is coming cut from under
the worlds abuse. The most popular
nane on earth today is tie name Of
Christ. Where he had cne friend Christ
has a thousand friends. The scofeTs
have become tho worshipars. O. The 20
most celebrated infdels il Great Britain
il our day 16 have come back to Christ,
trying to undo the blatant mischief Of
their liveS-l6 out OF the 20. Every
man who writes q letter Or signs doc
ument, Willingly or unwittingly, konors
Jesus Christ. We date everything as 3.
G. or A. D.-B. c., before Christ; &.
D., Ammo Domini, in the year Of our
Lord. All tie ages OF history on the
pivot Of the upright beam Of the cross
of the Son Of God, B. c., A. D. I do
not care what you call him-whether
Conqueror o. King Or Morning Star CT
Sun Of Righteousness or Balm OF Gilead
Or Lebanon Cedar Or Brother CT Friend
or take the name used in tie verse from
which I take rsy text and call him
Shiloh, which means his Soo, Or the
TranquiIatcr, or the Pcacemaker, Ghi
lob. only want to tell you that unto
him shall the gathering CT the people
be-
Gathering Around Christ.
In the first place, the people are gath
cred around Christ for pardon. No SEN
siblc man or healthfully ambitious man
is satisfied With his past life. A fool
may think he is all right. y sensible
man Knows he IS not. I do not care
who the thoughtful man is tho review
Of his lifetime behavior before God and
man gives to him no especial satisfac-
tion. "Oh," he says, "there have been
so many things I have dono l ought net
to have done; there have been SO many
things have said ought never to have
said; :here have been SO many things I
have written l ought never to have
written; there have been so many
things have thought ought never to
have thought! I must somehow get
things readjusted. must somehow
have the past reconstructed. There are
days and months and years which cry
out against me III horrible vociferati0n.
Ah, my brother, Christ adjusts the past
by obliterating i. He does not erase
the record Of our miSdoinS with q dash
of ink from registers pen, but lifting
his right hand, crushed, red at the
palm, he puts it against his bleeding
brow and then against his pierced side,
and with the crimson accumulation Of
all those wounds herQbs out the accusa-
tory chapter. He blCts cut our iniQui-
ties. Oh, never be anxious about the
future; better be anxious about the
past put it not at the end Of nly SER
mon; put it at the front-mercy and
pardon through Shiloh. the sin pardon
ing Christ. Unto him shall the gath
ering CT the people be. " "Oh, says
some man, 81 lave for 40 years been as
bad as I could be, and is there any mer-
cy for me:' Mercy for yea. "Oh, " says
some one here, Il had a grand ancestry,
the holiest Of fathers and the tenderest
of mothers, and for ny perGGy there IS
no excuse! Do yon think there is any
mercy for me:" Mercy for you. But, "
says another man, II fear l have COM
mitted what they call the unpardonable
Sin, and tho Bible says if 4 llan COM
init that sin he is neither to be forgiven
il this world nor the world to CONF.
Do you think there is any mercy fer
me:" The fact that you have any sollc!-
tude about tie matter at ali proves posi-
lively that you have not committed 'he
unpardonable sin. Mercy for yon: Oh,
the grace Of Gcd which bringeth saliva
tion
Gcd's Mercy Imreasur2hie.
The grace CT Goi! Let Us take the
surveyors chain end Try tt measure
Gods merry through Jesus Christ Let
one surveyor take that chain and 50 to