The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-28
FOR CHRIST.
Latest Discourse from Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage.
The People Are Gathering Around Christ
for His PardOn-The World Can Of
fer No Help-Looking to
the Saviour.

The text for the latest sermon
preached hv DR.. Talmage at Washing
ton was from Genesis. xlix:lO: Unto
Him shall the gathering of the people
be-" Following is the sermon:
Through a supernatural lens, or
what | might call prophescope. dying
Jacob looks down through the cor
ridors of the centuries until he sees
Christ the center of all popular attrac-
ton and the greatest being of all the
world, so everywhere acknowledged. 1t
was not always so. The world tried
| hard to put Him down and put Him
out. In the year 1900. while exeavat-
| ing for antiquities 50 miles north of
Rome, copper plate tablet was found
containing the death warrant of the
| Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this wise:
I'm the year u of the empire of
| Tiberius Caesar, and on the 25th of
March, l. Pontius Plate. governor of
the Praetore, condemnC eSus of Naz-
areth to die between two thieves.
| Quintius Cornelius to lead him forth
to the execution"
several names. First. by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes. ra bbi;
thirdly. by Raphael: fourthly. by
Capet. a private citizen. The capital
punishment was executed according to
law. The name of the thief crucifed
on the right hand side of Christ was
Dismas; the name of the thief cruel
fed on the left hand side of Christ
was Gestus. Pontius Plate, discrib-
ing the tragedy, says the whole world
lighted candles from noon until night.
Thirty-three years of maltreatment
They ascribe His birth to bastardv and
His death to excruciation. wall of
the city. built about those times and
recently exposed by psychologists,
shows a caricature of Jesus Christ,
evidencing the contempt in which He
was held by many in His day-that
caricature on the wall represen ting a
cross and a donkey nailed to it. and
under it the inscription: This is Jesus
Christ whom the people worship"
But l rejoice that that day is gone
by. Our Christ is coming out
from under the worlds abuse. The
most popular name on earth to-day is
the name of Christ. Where He had one
friend Christ has thousand friends
The scoffers have become the worship
ers. OF the 90 most celebrated infidels
in Great Britain in our day, 16 have
come back to Christ, trying to undo
the blatant mischief of their lives-1s
out of the 20. Every man who writes
letter or signs a document, Willingly
or unwittingly, honors Jesus Christ.
We date everything as B. 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. d. l do not care
what you call Him-whether Con-
queror, or King, or Morning Star. or
Sun of Righteousness, or Balm of Gill
cad, 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 Peace
you that unto Him shall the gather
ing or the people oe
In the first place, the people are
gathered around Christ for pardon.
No sensible man or BEAUTIFULLY am
bilious 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 be-
fore God and man gives to him no es-
pecial satisfaction. oh" he says,
there have been so many things l
have done l ought not to have done;
there have been so many things / have
said l ought Hever to have said; there
have been so many things | have writ
ten l ought neTer to have written;
there have been so many things l have
thought ought never to have thought,
l must somehow get things readjusted,
must somehow have the past recon-
structed: there are days and months
and years which cry out against me in
horrible vociferation." All! my brother,
Christ adjusts the past by obliterating
it. He does not erase the record of our
with a dash of ink from a
registers pen, but lifting His right !
hand, red at the palms, 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 accusatory /.
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 il at the front: Mercy and pardon /
through Shiloh, the sin-pardoning /
Christ. Unto Him shall the gather /
ing of the people be-"
But, remark again. the people will 1
gather around Christ as a svmpathizer. /
OH we all want sympathy. 1 hear
people talk as though they were indie
pendent of it. None OF US could live
without sympathy. When parts OF our
family are away, how lonely the house
seems until they all get home! But,
alas! for those who never come home.
Sometimes it seems as if it must be i'm
possible What. will their feet never
a. gain come over the threshold? VIII