The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-01
TALMAGE's SERMON.
n You Have Received Gods Ar-
tcy Make Il Known
ssop Inpersonsting the Asyizns for -
Dumb. and In the Presenee Of
Men. Women. AnSeis snd
Devils Say So

Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage delivered the
following practical and suggestive ser
mon on TIE subject, '-Say So before
his Washington congregation, taking
for his text:
lie; the -edsened Of The Lord saJ So
| tsal-os evil,
An overture. an antiphon- doxol-
ogy Is this chapter. and in my text
( David calls for an outspoken rei gion,
and requests ali who have been res
cuei and blessed, no longer 20 hide
| the splendid facts, bat TO recite them
publish them, and as far as possible,
let all the world know about l. Let
the redeemed OF the Lord say So
There Is a sinful reticence " hich has
been almost canonized- The people
are quite as outspoken as they ought
10 be on al subjects Of politics and
are fluent and vsluble on the Vene-
zuelan question. and bine.slisSn- and
tariffs. high and Inv and renodeled.
and female suffrage, and ron have to
skilItulIy watch your chance Il you
want 20 put into the active con-
versation a modest suggestion Of
your own; but on the subject
Of divine goodness, religious expe-
r;ence, and eternal blessedness they are
not only silent, but boasttul Of their
setieence. Now, II you have been re-
deemed Of the Lord, why do you not
say so? !, you hare in your heart the
pearl OF great price, worth more than
the Koh-i-noor among Victorian jew
els, why not let others see IL? II you
got of the wreck in the breakers. why
not tell Of the crew and the stout lie
boat that safely landed you? II from
the fourth story you are rescued
In time OF confagration, why not tell
Of the fireman and the ladder down
which he carried you? II you have
mansion in Heaven awaiting ron, why
not show the deed % those who may
By the same process get an emerald
castle on the same boulevard? 1.y the
last two words 81 M text David calls
upon al OF Us who have received any
mercy az the hand OF God 20 stor i'm
personat;ng the asyluns for the dumb,
sDd in the presence Of men, women. an
gels. devils, and al worlds, say 50 "
In these January days thousands of
ministers and private Christians sre
wondering about the best ways Of
starting a revival Of religion. can
tell you of starting a revival, conti-
mental, hemisphere, and worldwide.
You say a revival starts in Heaven.
Well, it starts in Heaven just as pros
porous harvest starts in Heaven. The
sun must shine and the rains must de-
scend, but unless you plow and SOW
and cultivate the earth you will not
raise bushel Of wheat or peck of
corn bet reen now and the end of the
world. How, then, shall universal
revival start? By al Christian people
telling the story OF their own CONVEX
sion. Let ten men and women get up
next week in your prayer meeting
and, not in a conventional or canting
or doletul way, but in the same
tone they employ in the family
or place OF business, and tell
how they crossed the line, and the
revival will begin then and there, IL
the prayer meeting has not been 50
dull as 10 drive out all except those
concerning whom it was fo-eordained
from all eternity that they should be
there. There are SO many different
ways of being converted that we want
20 hear all kinds, 50 that our own case
may be helped. II always puts me
back 70 hear only one kind Of expert
ence, such as o man gives when he
tells Of his Pauline conversion-how
he LIZ
had a vision and heard voices. and
after a certain number of days of hor-
ror got up and shouted for Joy. All
that discourages me, for / was never
knocked seDseless, and / never had
such sudden burst Of religious rap
ture that lost my equilibrium.
But after awhile Christian man got
up in some meeting and told as how
he was brought up by devout parent
age, and had always been thoughtful
about religious things, and gradually
the peaceto of the Gospel came into his
soul like the dawn of the morning-no
perceptible difference between mo-
ment and noment-but after awhile
all perturbation settled down into a
hope that had consoled and strength
ened him during all the vicissitudes of
lifetime. / said: THAT is exhila-
rating; that was my experience" and
30 / was strengthened. In another
prayer meeting man got up and told
Us how he once hated God, and went
through all the round Of iniquity, until
we were all on nettlcs lest he should
go too much into the particulars, but
one day. he was by some religious pow
er hurled fiat, and then got up Chris
tian, and had ever since been going
around with a Baxter Bible with large
flaps under his arm, floating evan
gelist. Well, under this story many
are not helped at all, for they know
they never hated God, and they were
never dissolute. But after awhile some
Christian woman arises and says: II
have nothing extraordinary TO tell;
yet l 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 heart
broken, flung myself on His mercy,
and / feel what the Bible calls the