The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-06-01
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
REWARDS OF ENDEAvOR SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
From the Following Text - Have
Finished the Work Which Thou Gavest
Me to Do"-John XVII, 4-The Fruits
of Well Won Victory.

copyright, 1900 by Louis Klopsch.1
There is a profound satisfaction In
the completion of anything we have
undertaken We lift the capstone with
exultation, while, on the other hand,
there is nothing more disappointing
than after having toiled in certain
direction to find that our time Is vast
ed and our investment profitless.
Christ came to throw up highway on
which the whole world might, II 1t
chose, mount into heaven. He dld IL.
The foul mouthed crew who attempted
to tread on him could not extinguish
the sublime satisfaction which he ex-
pressed when he said, IL have finisheu
the work which thou gavest me 10
do"
Alexander the Great was wounded,
and the doctors could not medicate MS
wounds, and he seemed to be dying,ahd
in his dream the sick man saw plant
with a peculiar flower, and he dream
ed that that plant was put upon MS
wound and that Immediately IL was
cured. And Alexander, waking from
his dream, told this to the physician,
and the physician wandered out until
he found Just the kind of plant whlch
the sick man had described, brought
it to him. and the wound was healed.
Well, the human race had been hurt
with the ghastliest of all wounds
that of sin. 1t was the business Oh
Christ to bring a balm for that wound
the balm of divine restoration. IN
carving this business to a success
full issue the difficulties were stupen-
dous.
The Spiritual Upbuilding.
Tn MANY of our plans we have our
friends to help us; some to ara"
sketch of the plan, others to help us
in the execution. But Christ fought
every inch of his way against DUET
hostility and amid circumstances all
calculated to depress and defeat.
In his fathers shop no more inter-
course was necessary than is ordinar-
ilv necessary in bargaining with men
that have work to do; yet Christ, WIN
hands hard from use of tools OF trade
was called forth to become a puplic
sneaker. to preach in the face OF moos'
while some wept and some shook tnelr
fists and some CRASHED upon him WIN
their teeth and many wanted him out
of the way. To address orderly ana
respectful assemblages is not so easy
| as it may seem, but it requires more
energy and more force and more con-
centration to address an exasperateo
mob. The villagers of Nazareth heard
the pounding of his hammer, out al
the wide reaches of eternity were &c
bear the stroke of his spiritual up
building. :.
So also the habits of dress and diet
we're against him. The mighty men OIL
Christ's time did not appear in appare!
without trinkets and adornments
None of the Caesars would have ap-
reared in citizens apparel. Yet mere
was a man, here was protested KING
who always wore the same coat. In
deed. it was far from shabby, for attei
he had worn it long while the gam
blers thought it worth rafting about
hut still it was far from being al
immortal robe 1t was coat that an!
ordinary man might have worn on al
ordinary occasion.
Neither was there any pretenslon IL
his diet. No cupbearer with goldei
cbalice brought him wine to drink
On the seashore he ate fish, first nav
ing broiled it himself No one fetchee
him water to drink; but, bending ovel
the we'll in Samaria, he begged
drink He sat at only one banquet
and that not at all sumptuous, for Il
re1ieve the awkwardness of the hos
one of fhe guests had to prepare wine
for the company.
Man without q Diploma.
All this was against Christ. So thu
fact that he was not regularly gradu
ated was against him. If man conn
with the diplomas of colleges ant
schools and theological seminarles
and he has been through foreign trav
el the world Is disposed to listen. Blu
here was a man who had graduated
at no college, had not in any acad
emy by ordinary means learned tn
alphabet of the language he spoke,an'
vet he proposed to talk, to instruct IL
subjects which had confounded tn
mightiest intellects. John says: TN
Jews marveled. saying. How hath thi
man letters, having never learned!
We. in our day. have found out tina
man without diploma may know
as much as man with one and tina
college can not transform slug
gard into a philosopher or theolog
zeal seminary teach a fool to preach
An empty head after the laying on
hands of the presbytery is empty still
But 1t shocked all existing prejudice
| in those olden times for man wit
no scholastic pretensions and no grad
uation from learned lnciiiution to Sc
himself up for a teacher. II wa
against him.
So also the brevity OF his life wa
against him. He had not come to wha
| 40 call unfd-lffa Rut very few men q