Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-30
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DEsP0NDENCY THE SUBJECT OF
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE.
From Hebrews, Chapter vi, Verso 19,
Follows: (which Hope, We as an
Anchor of the Soul Both Sure and
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Copyright. 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. "
Washington, Nov. 17.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage would lift people
out of dependency and bring some
thing of future Joy into earthly depres-
sion. The text is Hebrews vi, 19,
Which hope"
There is an Atlantic ocean of depth
and fullness in the verse from which
my text is taken, and 1 only wade into
the wave at the beach and take two
words. We all have fayorite words
expressive of delight or adherence,
words that easily find their way from
brain to lip, words that have in them
mornings and midnfghts, laughter and
tears. thunderbolts and dewdrops. In
all the lexicons and vocabularies there
are few words that have for me the
attractions of the last word of my
text. Which hope"
There have in the course of our life
been many angels Of God that have
looked over our shoulders, or met US
on the road, or chanted the darkness
away, or lifted the curtains of the
great future, or pulled us back from
the precipices, or rolled down upon us
the rapturous music of the heavens,
but there Is one of these angels who
has done so much for us that we wish
throughout all time and all eternity to
celebrate 1.-THE angel of Hope. St
Paul makes it the center of group of
three, saying, Now abideth faith,
hope, charity" And, though he says
that charity is the greatest of the
three, he does not take one plume from
the wing or one ray of luster from the
brow. or one aurora from the cheek.
or one melody from the voice of the
angel of my text, Which hope"
An Ample Deposit.
When we draw a check on bank
we must have reference to the amount
OF money we have deposited, but Hope
makes a draft on a bank in which for
her benefit all heaven has been depos-
tied. Hopei May it light up every
dungeon, stand by every sickbed, lend
a helping hand to every orphanage,
loosen every chain, earess every for
1orn soul and turn the unpictured
room of the almshouse into the vesti-
bule of heaveni How suggestive that
mythology declares that when all
other deities fed the earth the god
dess Hope remained!
1t was hope that revived John Knox
when on shipboard near the coast of
Scotland he was fearfully ill, and he
was requested to look shoreward and
asked If he knew the village near the
coast. and he answered, 81 know it
well, for 1 see the steeple of that place
where God first opened my mouth in
public to his glory. and am fully per-
suaded how weak that ever 1 now
appear 1 shall not depart this life
till my tongue shall glorify his holy
name in the same place" His hope
was rewarded, and for twenty-five
more years he preached. That is the
hope which sustained Mr.. Morrell of
Norwich when departing this life at
twenty-four years of age he declared,
"I should like to understand the
secrets of eternity before tomorrow
morning" That was the kind of hope
that the corporal had In the battle
when, after several standard bearers
had fallen, he seized the flag and
turned to a lieutenant colonel and
said, IF fall, tell my dear wife that
I die with good hope in Christ and
that 1 am glad to give my life for my
country" That was the good hope
that DR.. Goodwin had in his last
hour when he said: "Ah. is this
death? How have 1 dreaded as an
enemy this smiling fr1endi
Assurances of Heaven.
Many have full assurance that all is
right with the soul. They are as sure
of heaven as IL they had passed the
pearly panels of the gate, as though
they were already seated in the temple
of God unrolling the Hbretto of the
heavenly chorister. I congratulate all
such. I wish 1 had 1t, too-full assur-
ance-but with me 1t Is hope. (which
hope" Sinful, 1t expects forgiveness:
troubled. 1t expects relief; bereft. it,
expects reunion; clear down. it expects
wings to lift; shipwrecked, it expects
Hfeboat; bankrupt, 1t expects eternal
riches: a prodigal. 1t expects the wide
open door of the fathers farmhouse.
1t does not wear itself out by looking
backward; IL always looks forward.
What is the use of giving so much
time to the rehearsal of the past? Your
mistakes are not corrected by a re-
view, your losses cannot, by brooding
over them. be turned into gains. 1t is
the future that has the most for us,
and hope cheers us on. We have all
committed blunders, but does the call
Ing of the roll of them make them the
less blunders? Look ahead in
all matters of usefulness. However
much you may have accomplished for
God and the worlds betterment, your
greatest usefulness is to come. NO."
says some one. my health is gone"