The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-02-15
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Or. Talmage Speaks G Comforting
Words for the Righteous.
4 Eoinooarss xor Thoso yyhoao LivoiS
Ss Have Many yAnxtetics--A1l Is Well
/ s}s Cor tho HsIisvcr ~ Trust
3S |5 Thorou9hly in God.
y tCcpyrtsht. 1904. by Louis Ktopsch, II. r!
ts W ssSs Washing on, Fob. 8. 81
l! .Therc 10 a great solace in this dis
Il course OF DR.. ,ralmago forlthose whose
livoa have many anxieties; text
b 14aiah 3,1o. "Sny 20 to the right
sSda that It shall be well with him."
Here 10 o promise for people who
Il 9aro all right, but who will como and
S get It? How many, or, rather, how
Y few, people do you know who are oil
+. right $1f it were asked Of any assem-
5 aly that those who were sinless should
Il rise up, mona would rise oxoopt limbo
Giles and religious cranks. An nc.
%cident happened near so centuries ago
Y that started the human race in ths
wrong way, and wo have not got over
IL. We know q great many splendid
Is men and splendid women, but they
( will tell you that they have not al.
Il ways done tho right thing or thought
= tho right thought. Tit wcro any Of
your business, they could give you an
inTentcry Of frailties and mistakes and
& 1nfelioities that would DO astonishing,
Il Here. then, you say, is Bible prom.
/. 3se that goes a-begging, "Say 70 to
/ sho righteous that IL shall bo well
With him"
g It Is my delightful work to-day to
ahow you that all the aone and daugh.
/ tore OF Adam and Eve may appropri.
& ate the benediction Of my text Il
thoy will fret do the right thing Over
hero In the next street was q man
who In great misfortune lost all he
had and was positively beggared, but
O lettSr oomeB from some European
city whore tho land reoorde are kept
announcing to him that great for.
tune is his. Now lie Ia as opulcnt aa
he waa pauperized. He doffs his rags
and puth on respectable attire and
q moves into homo appropriate for a
man OF vast estate. His worldly cir.
eurnstances were ell wrong last year;
$hey arc oil right this year. On the
next street Is man who was from
perfect health proarated, and he
acemed to be sick unto death, but
( Hhiiifui piiJbioial took correct diaK.
nosis OF his disease and by prompt
and vigorous treatment restored him
20 his former vigor. AS to his health
no waa all wrong before; now he ia
oil right. In thcRe two ways I illus.
s1ate my thome. n.
BY Sin we have all boon morally
bankrupted. Christ Tho Lord from
2ais infinite riches pays our debts and
cmparadiscs ua in His morcy. From
Hin richest wardrobe Ho puts on us
3 the clean robe Of His righteousness
and 8ivea us q palace in tho heavens
when we are ready to 60 up and talso
1t. Now, as to our spiritual estate, we
. are all right. we were morally dis
easod, but Christ the physician, by
e bath IN tho fountain Of grace, cures
us. Now, rs to our spiritual health.
we arc NIL right. That is the way we
como TO tho righteousness spoken Of
y In tho text. Tt Is q contributed right
& aousneas, made-over Righteousness,
!. an imputed righteousness. The mo-
81 nent you got into right relations with
Christ the Lord that moment you can.
appreciate the magnificent comfort Of
4 the text, and defy you, In all this
Y great book, from tho first verse Of
q She s frat chapter OF Genesis to the,
B last verse Of the last chapter Of Rev
\ elation, to find mo q passage with
higher and deeper ard broader and
longer comfort than that OF tho text,
y which is as deep az the Atlantic ocean
half way between the continents and
high as the sun when the clock 10
striking 10 at noon. But { shall be
swamped with tho oceanic tides of
this subject unloss the Lord help mo
20 keep a foothold. "say to the right
eoua thai 1t shall be we'll with him"
Bear in mind that but few people
can stand worldly success. Water is
q good thing, but too much Of It will
drown. Fire is a good thing, but too
much Of It will destroy. lightning is
o good thing, but too much OF II daz-
Eles and blinds. Success Is good
ching, but too much Of It has over
& whelmed many for this world and the
next II It were best for us, we would
all be millionaires, live in palaces like
the eAlhambra and be as personally at
STactive as Cleopatra appeared TO An
A tony. But most Of folks could not
endure such superabundnnce, and It
Is absolutely necessary in order to
keep them right that nino hundred
and ninety-nine men out OF ono thou.
sand should find lifo a struggle. II
keeps them out OF mischief. After
Adam was elected from the premises
where by ten minutes Of employment
% day he could keep tho garden and
ssdrsss IL the best thing that could hap.
{ pen to him was compilation to work
and fight. Tho ground that bloomed
with spontaneous flowers and rustled
with harvests that owed nothing 70
plow or hoe became hostile, and BRAN.
ble was substituted for rose, and the
panther growled where before he
4fawned, and horn and fang and hoof
Became bclligeront. That Edenio eject.
ment shows us as nothing else ever
could that idleness or only o few min
.ntes Of employment day are doom
e hagoyerthIow. Put It down among
your blessings instead Of your mig
2aNtunes that you have to work hard
with brain or hand or foot or all three
OF them.
Flow many men do you know worth
T 9260,0O0 who arc deyout and oor..