The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1898-03-18
Talmage's Sermon.


and rapturous view OF the world |
10 come. Acts vii, $500: Behold |
| see the heavens opened etc.
Stephen had been preaching a |
rousing sermon, and the people |
could not stand it. they resolved
@, do a. men some times would like
TO do in this day, Il they dared,
with some plain preacher OF right
eousness-kill him. The only way
% silence This man WAS 10 knock
be breath cut o. him. 30 they
r-i- he'd stephen out OF lhs gates Of
the city, and Nithca and whOcr
aud bees oN They brought him TO
the III, aswas their custom when
a- wanted % jAae away lie by
ls,adiuI Having brought him t.
h-. e. = 81 the Ell, they pushed
! nlm OF. After he had fallen they
came aud LOGGED down. and seeing
tIat he was not yet dead, they be-
gan 10 drop stones upon him, stone
a ter stone. Amid this horrible
ran % mis- e., stepsen chambers
Ip on iiis knees and folds his hands
@hi tie tl0od drips FROM his
temples to hi, cheeks, from his
:uetk- to his garments, from his
garments to the ground and then,
1 cooking up, hs makes two prayers
-cne for himself and one for his
nurdertrs Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit" that wss for himself.
"LJrd. lay not this sin 10 their
charge; :" that was for his assail-
ants Then, from pain and loss OF
blood. he swooned away and fell
asleep.
l want to show you today some
pictures. Stephen gazing into
heaven. Stephen looking at Christ.
Stephen stoned. Stephen in his
dying prayer. Stephen asleep.
Firstlook at stephen gazing in
to heaven. Before yOn take leap
you want TO know where you a,e
going to land. Before you climb
ladder you want to know to what
point the ladder reaches. And 1t
was right that stephen, within a
a few moments Of heaven, should
be- gazing into it. We would all do
well 10 be found in the same pos
ture. There is enough in heaven
to keep Us gazing. a man Of large
wealth may have staIuary in the
hall. and paintings in the sitting
room. and works of art in all parts
Of the house, but he has the chief
pictures in the art gallery, and
there hour after hour you walk
with catalogue and glass and ever
increasing admiration. Well, heav-
en- Is the gallery where God has
gathered the chief treasures OF His
realm. The whole universe is His
lpaIace but heaven is the gallery il
which the cdsef glOries are gather,
led. There are the brightest robes
There are the richest crowns
There are the highest e1hilarztions
DO you wonder that god people
lOf-e M, ike stephen looking
INTO heaven? Ne have many
friends there.
Pass ON now, and see Stephen
Iouking upon Christ. Mytext -sy.
n "a the Son Of man at the right
lsnd Of God. Just hoW Christ
cooked il this world, just how Tic
ppks 10 heaven, We cauuOt say
And vt there is a way OF seeing
and hearing Him nos. ! have iC
a. l7eii son 10 VI unless you see anC
the Ch,ist on rtrth, yng vi nov
r- - aud near Him 10 h-aven
III, voice comes down to you thi:
ias-com+s down 10 the blindest
l1tbe deafest soul, saying: aLons
uDjo M. all 80 ends Of the earth.
and be ye saved. Tor l am God aud
l.r- i none s-.r
oh. wonderfui nviratinu. You
can take it r,.ial and siaad Al tn.
head Of she darkest alley 10 any
city, aad say: Come! Cpthe
for yOar rags, -slye FOR yonr sure,
a throne ftr Your etara a. rvigui !. >
4 Christ that ;aiks llk7 ihst. alc
acts ike that, sad pardsus lisy
ithat-i1 Won wonder that stephen
stood looking at him: l hope To
spend eternity doing the same
lihng. ] must see Him; / must
ii0gk upon that .ace once clouded
with my sin, but now radiant with
my pardon. Behold HIN, earth
Behold Him, heaven. What =
moment when all the nations oi
the saved shall gather around
Christ, All faces that way. Al!
Thrones iha; way, gazing on Jesus
l pass on now, aud look at Steph
en- s;one,l. The world has always
wantei II get rid Of good men
Their very life is an assault upoI
wickedness. II al men speak wei
l0iyou, it Is because you are eithe
a laggard OF dOlt. Brave soldier
% Jesus Christ will hear the car
bines click. When | see 8 maj
with voice, and money, and infiu
ence all on the right side, and som
J earicatare him, and some sneer a
. him, and some denounce him, an,
men who pretend 10 be aeluAted b,
right motives conspire to crippl
him, to east him out, to dsstro.