The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-10-05
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE By THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject Spread the Gospel Efforts Of
the Churches should Re Directed
Toward saving sinners-rbey should
Get An sympathy with Strangers.
Iconyriehtlsaal

DR.. lalmage points - fields ot usefulness
that are not vet thoroughly cultivated.
and shows the need of more activity. The
text Is Romans xv. ~. Lest | should
build upnn another mans foundation.
In lavins out the plan of his missionary
tour Paul sought out towns and cities
which had not vet been preached TO. lie
goes 20 Corinth, a city famous for splen-
dor and vice. and Jerusalem. where the
priesthood and the sanhedr,n were ready
20 leap With both feet rpon the Christian
relirion lie feels he has especial work
70 do, and he means 10 do a. What was
the result The grandcst life OF usefulness
that a man ever lived We modern Chris.
tian workers are not apt to initiate Paul.
We build on other peoples foundations.
II We erect 4 church, we prefer 10 have Il
filled with families all NJ whom have been
piouS Do we gather a 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 ont
of other churches Some ministers spend
all their time in fishing IN other peoplc's
ponds. and they throw the line into that
church po-i and Jerk out \ Methodist,
and th.ow the line into another church
n0nd and bring out a Presbyterian, or
there Is a religious row In some neiehhor'
lng church and 4 whole school OF fish
swim of from that pond. and we take
them all in with one sween Of the net.
What is gaired' Absolutely nothing for
the cause of Christ What strengthens an
army - new recruits While courteous to
those coming from other tlocks. we should
build our churches not out Of other
chuvhcs. hut out Of the world lest We
build oN another mans foundation.
The fact il this is big world When
IN our sChoo)hoy davs we learned the dia-
meter and circumference Of this nlarct we
l. 4 u -. A IL. L. 4
longitude and diameter and circumference
of want and woo and sin that no figures
can calcul e. This one sniritunl cont.
nent OF wretchCdness reaches across all
zones and II were called to give It's geo.
Graphical boundary | would say II was
bounded on the north and south and east
and west lv the great heart Of Gods s"r'-
rathy and love Oh, it il a great world!
Since O'Clock THIS rorring 6O,SO) nersNns
have been born. arA all these multiplied
ponula 'ons arc 10 bc reached bv the gos.
pei. IN England or in our Eastern Amor.
can cities we are being much crowded.
and an acre Of ground is of great value,
but in Western America eco acres ~
small farm, and % 900 acres is NO unusual
possession There is a vast field here and
everywhere unoccupied, nlenty of room
more not building on another mans foun'
dation.
We need as churches 10 stop lombard.
ing the old iron clad sinners that have
been proof against thirty years of Chris.
tlan 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 20 have made a thousand men
pillars in the house Of our God forever,
and doing less good than many log
cabin meeting house with tallow candles
stuck IN wooden sockets and a minister
who has never seen A college and does
not know the difference between Greek
and Choctawl We need "a churches To
get into sympathy with the great outside
world and let them know that none are
so broken hearted or hardly bestcad that
they will not be welcomed mo" saws
some fastidious Christian; II don't like TO
be crowded in church. Don't put any one
i'm my pew
NV 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 mightieT millions outside
OF them Many of the churches arc like
a hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing more than
toOthachc or run rounds but no broken
heads. no crushed ankles. no fractured
sinners, velvet coated sinners aud sinners
with a gloss on II Is "a though a man
had farm of 5000 acres and nut all his
work on one acre. He may raise ever 80
large ears of corn. ever 50 big heads OF
wheat -- he would remain poor The
church OF God has bestowed ts chief care
on ono acre and has raised splendid men
women in that small incosure, but the
field IL the world. That means North
and South IuVnpn Auta aud
Africa and all the islands Of the sea. II
~ as though. after a great battle there
were left 10000 wounded and dying on tho
held and three surgeons gave all their
time Tn three patients under their charge
The MAJOR general comes IN and says TO
the doctors. Come out here and look at
the nearly 10000 diving for lack of surgi-
cal attendance" NO. say the three doc.
tors. standing there tanning their patients.
eve have three important cases here. and
we are attending TO them and when we
are not positively busy with their wounds
n takes all our time 90 keep the flcs of
In this awful battle OF sin and sorrow.
where millions have fallen on millions. do
not Jet us spend all our time IN taking
care Of a few people, and when the com
mand comes "Go into the world" say
practically: No, ! cannot ! have here
n few choice cases and ! am busy keeping
of the flies There are multltudes to
day who have never had any Christian
worker look them IN the eye and with
carncstness in the acccutuation say,
"Comer or they would long ago have
been IN the kingdom. Ny friends rcii.
Cion - either a sham Or great reality.
II II be sham, let NJ disband our
churches and Christian associations. n
it be n reality. then great populations are
on the way 10 the bar Oi God untitled for
the ordeal And what are we doing,
In order 10 reach the multitude Of out.
sders We must drpu all tcchnicalitics out
Of our religion When we talk 10 people
about the hypo.tatic union and French
encycopedlanism and Erastinianism and
Complutensianisn, We are impolite and as
little understood a. n a physician should
talk 10 an ordinary patient about the per
icardum and intercosta muscle and scor.
butte mptOms Many Of us come ont ot
the theological seminaries 30 loaded up
that we tazc the first ten years 30 show
our people how much we know and the
next ten years 30 get our people 70 know
a. much as We know, and at the end we
find that neither Oi ~ knows anything
az we ought % know Here are hundreds
of thOusan le Oi shining. struggling and
diving people who need ~ realize Just one
thing that Jesus Christ came % save
them and Will save them now. But we
GOT On profound and elaborate dehni.
ton Of hat iustiic-tlon j., and after an
the work there are not. outside ~ the
learned professions. 1000 people who can
tell what iustihCatiDn o. ] will read YOU
the definitions "lustihca IDn BE- purely q
forensic act, the a-t Of a .udgc sitting M
the forum. IN which the Supreme Ruler
and Judge. who D. accountable 20 none
and WhO alone knows the manner IN which
the ends of Hts universal government can
best be- obtained reckOns that which was
done by the substitute in the same man
ner a. % % had been done by those who
believe In the substitute and purely On
n, cunt ~ this gracious method Of reck.