The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-12-23
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
1 BRIEF SYNOPSIS or rhF D.Y.Ns's SUI
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subject: Lay Hold OF Christ-The Help.
fuiness of Religion In Fighting Life's
Battie-Be Bold Fer the Right and
Trust In the Son OF God.
fCopyripht. Louis Klopscb 1890

! ASS9 VA AsohSaoh IA
Battie-Be Bold Fer the Right an
Trust In the Son OF God.
| tCopyright, Louis Klopsch, 1891
| WASHINGTON, d. Gin this discourse Or
Talmage employs very bold figure OF tn,
Bibls to bring out the helpfulness Of re
ligfon for all those in any kind OF struggle
The text il Isaiah XIV, ii, HE shall spreaG
forth bis hands In the midst Of them, as b.
that swimmeth spreadsth forth his hands, n
| In the summer season multitudes OF PEG
| PIE wade into the ponds and lakes ant
| rivers and seas to dive or float or swim. In
world the most OF which Is water all mer
and women should learn to swim. Some o.
| you have learned the side stroke intro
daced by George Pewters In 1850, each
stroke Of that kind carrying the swimme,
| distance OF six feet, and some Of You may
| use the overland stroke invented by Gar
| dener, the expert who by 1t won the 50(
| yard championship In Manchester in 1862
| the swimmer by that stroke carrying hi,
arm In tie air for more heightened reach
and some OF you may tread the water al
| though you had been made to walk the sea
but most OF you usually take what Is call.
cd the breast stroke, placing the hands
with the backs upward, about five inches
| under the water, the inside Of the wrists
touching the breast, then pushing the
| arms forward coincident with the stroke of
the feet struck out to the greatest width
possible, and you thus unconsciously Illus
trato the meaning OF my text, "He shall
spread forth his hands In the midst OF them.
as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his
hands to SWIM"
hooks. You stand all day on the bank Of
river In the broiling sun and fling out
your line and catch nothing, while an ex-
pert angler breaks through the jungle and
goes by the shadow Of the solitary rock
and, In place where no fisherman has
been for ten years, throws out his line and
comes home at night. his face shining and
his basket full. I do not know why we
ministers OF the gospel need always be
fishing in the same stream and preaching
from the same texts that other people
preach from. I cannot understand the
policy of the minister who In Blaekfrlars,
London. England, every week for thirty
years preached from the Epistls to the
Hebrews. 1t is an exhilaration to me
when / come across a theme which feel
no one else has treated, and my text Is one
Of that kind. There are paths In Gods
word that ars we'll beaten by Christian
feet. When men want to quote Scripture,
they quote the old passages that every one
has heard. When they want a chapter
read, they read chapter that all the other
people have been reading. SO that the
church to. day Ia ignorant OF three-fourths
OF the Bible.
You so into the Louvre at Paris. You
sonfine yourself to one corridor of that
opuient gallery Of paintings. As you come
out your friend says to you, "Did you see
that Rembrandt2" mo" Did you see
that Rubens2" mo" "Did you see that
Titian?" mo" "Did you see that Raph-
ael?" "No." "WelI," says your friend.
"then you did not see the Louvre" New,
m fr}pp1- fhiDH N TOO ,ab -
sonflne ourselves to one OF the great CORR
doris of Scripture truth, and so much so
that there Is not one person out of a mil.
lion who has ever noticed the all sngges-
tive and powerful picture in the words Of
my text.
This text represents God as strong
swimmer, striking out to push down iniq-
nity and save the souls of men. "He shall
spread forth his hands In the midst of
them, as he that swim meth spreadeth forth
his hands to SWIM" The figure is bold and
many sided. Most OF you know how to
swim. Some OF you learned it In the city
school, where this art is taught; some Of
you in boyhcod, In the river near your
fathers house; some OF you since you came
to manhood or womanhood, while sum-
mering on the beach Of the sea. 1t Is
good thing to know how to swim, not only
for yourself, but because you will after
awhile perhaps have to help others.
do not know anything more stirring or
sublime than to see some man like Norman
Mckenzie leaping from the ship Madras
Into the sea to save Charles Turner, who
had dropped from the royal yard while
trying to loosen the sail, bringing him back
to the deck amid the huzzas Of the passen-
gers and crew. II a man has not enthusi-
asm enough to cheer in such circum-
stances, he deserves himself to drop into
the sea and have no one help him. The
Royal Humane Society Of England was es-
tablished in 1774. its object to applaud and
reward those " no should plue up life from
the deep. Any one who has performed
such deed OF daring has all the particu-
lars of that bravery recorded In public
record and on his breast medal done In
blue and gold and bronze, anchor and mon
egram and inscription, telling to future
generations the bravery OF the man or
woman who saved some one from drown
Ing. But IL 1t is such a worthy thing to
save body from the deep ask you If it is
not worthier thing to save an immortal
soul. And you shall see this hour the Son
"He shall spreld forth his hands In the
midst OF them, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to SWIM
In order to understand the full force of
This figure, you need to realize that our
race Is In sinking eondftioK.raHou some
Yeen4ss
consider the most beautiful words ~ ~
our language. One man says 1t is ''hotiie,''
another says 1t Is the word "mother," an
other says it the word Jesus" but / tel!
you the bitterest word in all our Language,
the word most angry and baleful, the wnr,!
saturated with the most trouble, the word
that accounts for all the loathsomeness
and the pang and the outrage and the bar
rowing, and that word is "sin." You spell
1t with three letters, and yet those three
letters describe the circumference and
pierce the diameter OF everything bad In
the universe. Sin is a siblant word. You
cannot pronounce il without giving tire
Ass Of the fame or the hiss OF the serpent.
Sin! And then IL you add three letters to
that word 1t describes every one of US by
WI have outraged the
law Of God, not OF ,asionally, or now and
then, but perpstualIy. The Bible declares
1t. Harkl 1t thunders two claps: 1.-THE
perateiy wicked" "THe sonl that sinneth
1t shall die" What the Bible says our
swn conscience afTirms.
After Judge Morgan had sentenced Lady
Jane Grey to death his conscience troubled
him so much for the deed that he became
insane, and all through his insanity hs
kept saying: Take her away from mol
Lady Jane Grey! Take her away! Lady
Jane Greyl' 1t was the voice OF conscience.
And no man ever does anything wrong,
however great or small, but the conscience
brings that matter before him, and at
every step of his mis5ehavior it says,
wrong. wrons!' Sin is ieprosy; sin is a
paralysis; sin is a consumption, sin Is pollu-
ton; sin Ia death. Give II a fair chGnce.
and 1t will swamp you and me. body, mind
and soul forever In this world IL only