The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-07
TALMAGE's SERMON.
unto Him Shall the Gathering Of
the People Be-"
The Blessings Of Christ's Lovs-A Plea for
. GsasrAl Awakening In Religion
Striking SMILES and
Metaphors.

text:
Unto him shall tho gathering of the people
be. Genesis Xix, 10.
Through a supernatural lens, or
what might call prophescope, dy'
ing Jacob looks down through the cor
ridors Of the centuries until he sees
Christ the center of all popular at
traction and the greatest being in all
the world, SO everywhere acknowl-
edged. 1t was not Away so. The
world tried hard to put Him down and
to put Him out. In the year 1900, while
excavating for antiquities SO miles
northeast of Rome, copper-plate tab
let was found containing the death
warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, read
ing in this wise:
''In the year II Of the empire OF Ii
berius Ce sar, and on the @5th Of March.
/, Pontius Plate, governor of the
Praetore, condemn Jesus of Nazareth
to die between two thieves, Quintius
Cornelius 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, rab-
bi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by
Capet, private citizen. The capital
punishment was executed according to
law. The name of the thief crucified
on the right hand side of Christ was
Dismas; the name of the thief crucifed
on the left-hand side of 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 excruciation. A wall OF the
city, built about those times and re-
Gently exposed by psychologists, shows
a caricature of Jesus Christ, evidenc-
ing the contempt in which He was
held by many in His day-that Carl
cature on the wall representing cross
and donkey nailed to it, and under it
the inscriptions: This is the Christ
whom the people worship"
But rejoice that that day is gone
by. Our Christ is coming out from un-
der the worlds abuse. The most popu-
lar name on earth to-day is the name
of Christ. Where He had one friend
Christ has thousand friends. The
scoffers have become the worshipers.
OF the 20 most celebrated infidels in
Great Britain in our day, 16 have come
back to Christ, trying to undo the bla-
tant mischief of their lives-16 out of
the 20. Every man who writes let
ter or signs document, Willingly or
unwittingly, honors Jesus Chris3.
We date everything AS d. C. or
A. D.-B. c., before Christ; A. D.,
Ammo Domini, in the year of our Lord.
All the ages of history on the pivot of
the upright beam of the cross OF the
Son of God b. c., A. ID. do not care
what you callHim-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 the verse
from which / take my text, and call
him Shiloh, which means his son, or
the tranquilator, or the peacemaker,
Shiloh. l only want to tell you that
unto Him shall the gathering of the
people be-"
In the first place, the people are
gathered around Christ for pardon.
No sensible man or BEAUTIFULLY ambi-
tious 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 the thoughtful man is, the
review of his lifetime behavior before
God and man gives to him no especial
satisfaction. "Oh," he says, there
nave been so many things have done
/ ought not to have done, there have
been so many things i have said
ought never to have said, there have
been so many things have written
l ought never to have written,
there have been so many things
have thought never ought
to have thought, / must some
how 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 obliterating 1t. He
does not erase the record of our misdo-
ing with dash of ink from a 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 He rubs out the ac-
cusatory chapter. He blots out
our iniquities. Oh! never be
anxious about the future; better be
anxious about the past. put it not
at the end of my sermon; put it at
the front: Mercy and pardon through
Shiloh, the sin-pardoning Christ. "Un-
to Him shall the gathering of the peo-
pie be-" "Ohw says some man, II
have for 40 years been as bad rs
could be, and is there any mercy for
me2" Mercy for you. "Oh!" says some
one here, II had a grand ancestry, the
hottest of fathers, and the tenderest Of
mothers, and for my perfidy there is
no excuse. Do you think there il
any mercy for me?" Mercy for you.
"But," says another man, ~ fear
have committed what they call the un-
pardonable sin, and the Bible says IL
q man commit that sin, he is neither
to be forgiven in this world nor the
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