Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-10-11
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject Spread the Gospel-Ehorts of
the Churches Should BE Directed
Toward Saving Sinnere-Thsy Should
Get in Sympathy With Strangers.
Copyright l9ou.i

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! WASHINGTON. d. ca this discourse
| DIR. Talmage points to fields of usefulness
that are not yet thoroughly cultivated,
and shows the need of more activity. The
text is Romans XIV, 20, Lest I should
build upon another mans foundation"
In laying out the plan of his missionary
tour Paul sought out towns and cities
which had not yet been preached to. lie
goes to Corinth, city famous for splen-
dor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the
priesthood and the sanhedrin were ready
to leap with both feet upon the Christian
religion. He feels he has especial work
to do, and he means to do it. What was
the result? The grandest life of usefulness
that man ever lived. We modern Chris
tian workers are not apt to initiate Paul.
F., We build on other peoples foundations.
| If we erect church. we prefer to have it
filled with families all of whom have been
pious. Do we gather Sabbath-school class,
we want good boys and girls, hair combed,
faces washed. manners attractive. So
church in this day is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend
ponds and they throw the line into that
church pond and jerk out Methodist,
and throw the line into another church
pond and bring out Presbyterian, or
there is religious row in some neighbor-
ing church. and a whole school of fish
swim off from that pond, and we take
them all in with one sweep of the net.
What is gained? Absolutely nothing for
the cause of Christ. What strengthens an
army is new recruits. While courteous to
those coming from other focks, we should
build our churches not out of other
churches, but out of the world, lest we
build on another mans foundation.
The fact is this is big world. When
in our schoolboy days we learned the dia-
meter and circumference of this planet we
did not learn half. 1t is the latitude and
longitude and diameter and circumference
of want and woe and sin that no figures
can calculate. This one spiritual conti-
zones. and il [ were called to give it's geo.
graphical boundary l would say it was
bounded on the north and south and east
and west by the great heart of Gods SYM
pathy and love. Oh it is great world!
Since o'clock this morning 60S00 persons
have been born, and all these, multiplied
populations are to be reached by the gos
pei In England or in our Eastern Ameri-
can cities we are being much crowded.
! and an acre of ground is of great value,
but in Western America 500 acres is a
small farm, and 10000 acres is no unusual
possession. There is vast field here and
everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room
more not building on another mans foun-
dation.
We need as churches to stop lombard
ing the old iron-clad sinners that have
been proof against thirty years of Chris
tian assault. Alas for that church which
lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending
on one chandelier enough to light 500
souls to glory, and in one carved pillar
enough to have made thousand men
pillars in the house of our God forever"
and doing less good than many log
cabin meeting-hou with tallow candles
stuck in wooden sockets and minister
who has never seen a college and does
not know the difference between Greek
and Choctaw! We need as churches to
get into sympathy With the great outside
world, and let then, know that none are
so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that
they will not be welcomed. No" says
some fastidious Christian; 81 don't like to
be crowded in church. Don't put any one
in my pew"
My brother, what will you do in heaven?
When a great multitude that no man can
number assemblies, they will put fifty in
your pew What are the select few to-day
assembled in the Christian churches com
pared with the mightier millions outside
of them. Many of the churches are like
hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing more than
! toothache or run rounds but no broken
heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured
thighs. Give us for treatment moderate
| With n oloss on II i os thouoh a man
had a farm Of 1000 acres and mt all his
,vorl, on one acre He NAV raise ever 50
larae oars Of cnrn evor so h;g heads Of
Wheat M he would remain moor The
chnrch of Cod has bestowed ;ts chief care
on one acre and has raised snlcnd;d men
,ronan in that small ;nclosnre Int the
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and South Amer;c, Enrone Asia and
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were lest 5e 900 wounded and dving on tbe
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