Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-01-31
REV. DR. TALMA ICE
The Eminent Washington Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Subject, ''SaE Ses"


This chapter, and in my text David calls for
az outspoken religion and requests all who
have been rescued and blessed no longer to
hide the splendid facts; but TO recite them,
publish them ard as far as possible let all the
world know about it, "Let the redeemed of |
tho Lord sayso." There is a sinful reticence !
which has been almost csnoh!2ed: The |
people are quite as entspoken as they ought |
to be on al subjects of politics and are fluent |
and volGble on the Venezuelan question |
and bimetallism and tariffs high and low
an% remodeed and female suffrage, and you
have to s&ilfully watch your chance If you
want to Put into the active conversation
modest suggestion OF your own, but
on tho subject OF divine goodness, reli-
eious experience and eternal blessedness
they are not only silent, but boastful OF their
reticence. Now, ii you have been redeemed
of the Lord, why do yoa not s&y so? ltyou
have in your heart the pearl OF great price,
worth more than tho Kohinoor among VIC
torian Jewels why not let others see it? II
| you got off the wreck In the breakers, why
not tell of the crew and the stout lifeboat
/ that safely landed you? II from the fourth
1 story you are rescued in time OF con1agra-
ton. why not tell Of the fireman and the lad
der down which he carried your II you
have mansion in heaven awaiting you,
why not show the deed ID those who may by
the same process get an emerald castle on
the same boulevard? By the last two words
OF my text David calls upon all OF us who
have received any mercy at the hands OF
God to stop impersonating the asylums for
the dumb and in the persence efme1, women,
angels, OWLS and oil worlds "say so.'
In these JanGary 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, hemisphere aud world
wide. You say 4 revival starts In heaven.
Well, II starts in heaven just as q prosperous
harvest starts in heaven. The sun must shine
and the rains must descend, but unless you
p!ow and SOW and utivate the earth you
will not raise bushel Of wheat or peck OF
corn between now and the end OF the world. /,
How. then, shall universal revival 5tart2
By all Christian pecpe telling the story OF
their own conversion. Let ten men and wo-,
men get up next week in your prayer meet
ing and, not in a conventional or canting or
do!eful way, but Id the sanie tone they en-
| ploy In the family or place Of business,
tell how they crossed the line, and
the revival will begin then and there, II
the prayer meeting has not been so dull
as 10 drive out al except those concern
ing whom ii was foreOrdained from al
eternity that they should be there. There
are sc many different ways Of being con!
Verted that We want to hear all kinds, so that
our own case may be helped 1t always puts
me back to hear only onekind of experience,
such as man gives when he tellS OF his
Pauline conversioD--how lie was Knocked
senseless, and then had vision and heard
voices, aud after certain number OF days
| of horror got up and shouted for JOY All
that discourages me, for was never knocked
senseless, and l never had such a sudden
burst of religious rapture that lost my
equilibrium. But after awhile Christian
man cot ND in some meeting and told US how
h he was brought up by devout parentage,
and hal always been thoughtful about re-
igious things, aul gradually the peace OF
I the gospel came into his soul Ike the dawn
= Of the morning-nO perceptible difference
between moment and moment-but alter
- awhile all eriurbation settled down into &
ts hone that had conso!ed and strengthened
him during ali the vicisstudes of lifetime
said, "That is exhiarating; that was ny
al experience" And so was strengthened.
So In another prayer meeting man got VI
and told us how he once hated God AM
went through all the round of iniquity unit
W we were all OF nettles lest he should go to-
much into the particulars. but one Gay n
was by some religious power hurled hat ant
IL then got up q Christian and had ever sine
es been going around with "a Bax er Bible wit
- large flaps under his arm. floating evanSe
list. Well, under this story many arc no
helped at all, for they know they never hate
nv Sod and they were never dissolute. But a.
ri Ter awhile some Christian woman arises an
Saws. "I have nothing extraordinary
tell. vet think the cares of life, the anxietie
about my children and two grave
opened in our family plot made nae feel tn
need of God, and weak and helpless TN
III heartbroken l flung myself upon His mere,
es. and feel what the Bible calls the peace {
God which passeth all understanding an
ask your prayers that l may live nearer
the Christ who has done so much for me-
en- declare that before that woman got throu2
i 10 we were all crying not bitter tears b.
Tears of ioyiul emotion, and in three days
that neighborhood all the ice had gone Of
- of the river in a springtime freshet OF salv
ton. LET the redeemed of The Lord say So
I have but little interest in what Peep
FAY about religion as an aostration, put
have inimitable interest in what people 81
about what they have personally felt OF I
Ike ugioD. 1t was an expression OF his oy
ali gratitude for personal salvation which j
:. Charles Wesley, after season OF great d
'''' snondency about his soul and Christ HI
Dh' SPOKEN pardon, to write that immort
hymn:
ON Oh. for thousand tongues TO sing
Ids My great Redeemer's praise!
ON TWAS after Abraham Lincoln had be'
us, comforted in the loss OF TAD, the prlgnt Ok
by of the White House, that he SAID, Il now
MS never before the preeiousness OF 0o'
love in Jesus Christ and how we are oroug
= near to God as our Father by Him.
What q thrill went through the meeting
"a Portland, Or, when an ex-Attorney-Gene
y of the United States rose and sald IL
night got upand asked the prayers OIL u %
people. Ifeel now perfectly satisfied. !
burden isrolled off and all gone, and l
that l could run or fly into the arms OF Jes
81 Christ"
ass What a record for all time and etern
- was made by Gellacius, the play actor,
18th the theatre at Heliopolis. A buriesque
~'e Christianity was put upon the stage. In
rision of the ordinance of baptism ba
lub filed with water was put uponthe sta
and another actor, in awful blasphel
e dipped Gelacus, pronouncing over nm
esS words, ~ baptize thee in the name oil
ne Father. of the Son and Of the Holy GnoS
But coming forth from the burlesque D
h tism he looked changed and was chang
and he cried out, II am Christian. '
die as n Christian" Though he was drag
&c out and stoned to death, they could
-, drown the testimony made under sucn aW
ON, circumstances; 81 am Christian.
All die as Christian. LET the reoeene'
tied the Lord say Sc" :,
)rk What confirmation would come IL all
lad answers TO prayers would speak out
q allmerchants in tight places because OF n
"a times would tell how in response to sup
n cation they got the money to pay the n
81 II all farmers in time of drought would
"a how in answer to prayer the rain came
a in time to save the crop; il all parents
<Xi nraved for a wandering son TO come IL
III would tell how not long after they III