The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-06-09
TALMAGE SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE ~ THE ABLE pI.
y VINE.

VINE.
Subject Religious Creeds-.A Pies q er4 he
Doing Away with the Doxmslc s md
For the Substituting OF Coed
roundeL on Faith In Christ
Z Copyright iasal IN
WASHINGTON. d. Cat time wheU sehe
old discussion efs creeds is being yiR4foasiy
and somewhas bitterly revived thM DIS
course'of Dr.. TNmage has a specN IN
sterest. The text Is John H, - Eoose
him and let him CO." -.
My Bible is, at the place OF III text,
written all over with lead pcaols m4rks
made at Bethany on the ruins ofthea1ddse
Of Mary aud Martha and Lazarus. Wesdts-|
mounted from our horses on--1be, way up
from Sordan to the Dead Sea. Bethany
was the summer evening retreat Oh Jesus.
After spending the day la the hot City OF
Jerusalem He would come out there almost
every evening to the house OF His three
friends. I think the occHpants OF that
house were orphans, for the fath5r and
mother are not mentioned, But the con
and two daughters must have inherited
property, for 1t must have bean, judging
from what saw OF tho -foundations and
the size of the rooms, an opuient home.
Lazarus, the brother, was now Rt the head
os the household, and his sisters depended.
on him and were proud OF him, for he was
very popular, and everybody liked him..
| and these girls were splHndid girls Martha
a first rate housekeeper and Mary q spin
| ituelle, somewhat dreamy, but afYectionate,
| and as>good q girl as could be found In oil
| Palestine. But one day Lazarus got sick.
| The sisters were IN CONSERVATION. Father
| gone and mother gone. they feel very ner-
vous lest they lose their brother also. Dis
I ease did It's quick work. How the girls
hung over his pillow Not mech sleep
tah66l that house-no sleep at all.
l<ffom the characteristics otherwise de-
4 yeloped / Judge that Martha prepared the
medicines and made tempting dishes OF
food for the poor appetite OF the sufferer.
4 but Mary prayed aud sobbed. Worse and
! worse,ge.s Lazarus until the doctor an
nop1ces that&h he can do no more. The
shdeh that went up. from that household
tswzgen, the last breath had been drawn and
4 thb<tWo sisters were being led by sym
4 pathizers into the adj dining room all those
4 zof us can imagine who have had our own
isheafts broken. But why was not Jesus
Tthere, as He so often had been? Far away
X in the country districts, preaching. healing
4 other sick, tUsv unfortunate that this onnf'
jspotent doctor Ind not been at that do
mestic crisis In Bethany. When at last
Jesus arrived In Bethany, Lazarus had
been buried four days. and dissolutio had
taken place. In that climate the breath.
less body disintegrates more rapidly thar
In ours. II Immediately alter decease the
body had been awakened Into life. unbe
iiever8 might have said he WIS only In 4
comatose state or In q sort Of trance ane
full stlmulant vitality had been renewed
Not Four days dead.
At heEoor OF the sepulcher Is GROVE
OF people, but the three most memorable
are Jesus, who was the family friend, ant
the wosbereft sisters. We went Into tn
traditional tomb one December day. nn'
1t Is deep down and dark, and with torcte
We explored 1t. We Hound 1t all quiet tina
afternoon OF our visit, but the day spoken
OF in the Bible there was present an ex
cited multitude. Iwender what Jesus vii
doi Hesorders the door of ths grave re
moved, and then He begins to,dsscend TIL
steps; ;i MARI s5ds and M, Msr, o aI
toars Of Jesus roll ,,eSe 8 cheeks an
plash upon the bac4s CfSHis hands. Wer
: ever so many sorrows compressed into 9
small space as iF that gfoup pressing o
down after Christ all thetime bemoanln
! | that He had not fome before2
Now all the whispering 4nd all the CT.
lug and all the sounds Of sLufiing feet-al
stopped.s It is the silence OF expectanc
II Death has CONQUERED, but now the val
!. qaisher OF death tconfrorted the seen
lAmid the awful hksh offhe tomb the fl
II mifiar name which Christ had often ha
. upon His lips in the hospitalittes OF the vi
: with a pathos and ahalmIghtiness OF While
the resurrection Of The last day shall on
y be an echo He crles1 .sLazarrsscome forth
The eyes OF the sl4mberer open, and,
;. rises and comes to tie fool Of the steps ar
with great dificuI egins to ascend 4, I
, ssa 's IRE fen, rs sis od h'
!, fast, and thesimped. u pts to sif}his NOV
wi ments are SO great THAI Jesns cpmmand
of these cerenah'sfsl Repeov the
. hindranc6sf ~ -
Loose him and e. kha To
/. oh. i am SO glau r5,3and
rofsad I ,azarus He WEI l nsal..
i the loosenipg ottEdE he brea
feet, so that he$ = s7Als6 hound
ing on OF mat the he dld stretSh out
nano1 in Sanitation, and the tearseg on
aIms ~ from around his jaws, SO Cd
,ne ,,Id sneak. What would resqrrect
lie ne have been to Lazarus II ne nao
been freed from oil thoss a tr'P Ehr,at GO
= his bodyf 1 am giaae amanc,nation an
manded his COZ com Ind let him CO."
Ing, Loos.n,,a1ate thing now Is that
Inc Euth.fstians are only half llberate
many Sye been raised from the death a
They, Fof sin into spiritual life, but th
= 4 are like Lazarus, hobbling up the stairs
the tomb bound hand ana foot, and {
D. 1 object OF this sermon Is to help free tn
body and free their soul, and shall try
obey the Masters command that comes
"a me and comes to every minister OF
ligion, "Loose him and let him CO."
20 Manx are bound hand and foot by
ligiots 'creeds. Let no man misinterp
. me as Atagonizlng creeds. 1 have eie
or ten athena creed about religion
creed( bout art, a creed about social II
20 q creed about government. and 30 on.
- creed is something that a man believ
whether 1t be written or unwritten.
n Presbyterian Church Is now agltat
4 about its creed. Some good men In 1t
forkeeping 1t because 1t was framed fr
es this belief OF John Calvin. Other good n
- I'm 1t want revision. I am with melt
Ii party. Instead of revision want sub
y tuition. was sorry to have the quest
q disturbed at all. The creed did not hin
- us from Offering the pa-aon and the &C
fort OF the Gospel to all men, and the W.
IN | minister Confession has not interfered "
me one minute. But now that the ele d
AZ lights have been turned on the impefi
no lions of that creed--and everything t
q. man fashions is imperfect-iet us put
0s old creed respectfully aside and get hrs
oH new one.
1t is impossible that people who IL
hundreds OF years ago should fashion
apuropriate creed for our times. j
Calvin was O great aud good man, but
3N died 1856 years ago. / could call the nal
u. oftwenty living Presbyterian ministers
l. religion who could make better or
y than John Calvin. The nineteenth cent
ought not to be called to sit ut the feet