Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-02-28
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE,
Subject: Ejectment From Eden-It Shows
Idlcness In Bad For Man-Blessin4s of
Labor - Riches Are More Equally
Divided Than is Generally Understood


Idlcness In Bad For Man-Blessin1s of
Labor - Riches Are More Equally
Divided Than Is Generally Understood
Copyright 1911
WASHINGTON, D. C.-There is great
solace in this discourse of DR.. Talmage
for those whose lives have many anxieties;
text, Isaiah iii, 10, "Sav We to the right
eons that it shall be well with him."
Here is a promise for people who are
How many, or rather. how few, people do
you know who are all right? If it were
asked of any assembly that those who
were sinless should rise up. none would
rise, except imbeciles and religious cranks.
An accident happened near sixty centu-
ries ago that started the human race in the
wrong way, and we have not got over it
yet. We know a great many splendid men
and splendid women, but they will tell
you that they have not always done the
right thing or thought the right thought.
II it We're any OF your business, sin they could
takes and infelicities that would be aston
ishing. Here, then, you say, is Bible
promise that goes a-begging. Say We tn
the righteous that it shall be we'll with
1t is my delightful work to-day to show
YOU that all the sons and daughters of
Adam and Eve may appropriate the bene-
diction of my text if they will first do the
right thing. Over here in the next street
was man who in great misfortunes lost
all he had and was positively beggared,
but letter comes from some European
city, where the land records are kept, an
nouncing to him that great fortune is
his. Now he is as opulent as he was pau
perized. He doffs his rags and puts on
respectable attire and moves into home
appropriate for man of vast estate. His
worldly circumstances were all wrong last
oil oh In fho
next street is a man who was from perfect
health prostrated, and he seemed to be
sick unto death, but a skillful physician
took correct diagnosis of his disease, and
by prompt and vigorous treatment re-
stored him to his former vigor. As to his
health he was all wrong before. Now he
is all right In these two ways l illustrate
my theme.
BY sin we have all been morally bank
rupted Christ the Lord from His inf
mite riches pays our debts and empara-
discs us in His mercy. From His richest
wardrobe He put on us the clean robe of
His Righteousness. and gives us palace
in the heavens when we are ready to go
up and take it. Now, as to our spiritual
estate we are all right. We were morally
| diseased. but Christ, the physician, by a
bath in the fountain of His grace, cures us.
| Now, as to our spiritual health we are
all right. That is the way We come to the
righteousness spoken of in the text 1t is
| a contributed Righteousness, q made-over
righteousness, an imputed righteousness.
| The moment you get into right relations
with Christ the Lord that moment you can
appreciate the magnificent comfort of the
text, and defy you in all this great book.
from the first verse of the first chapter of
| Genesis to the last verse of the last chap
ter of Revelation, to find me passage
with higher and deeper and broader and
! longer comfort than that of the text,
,,ah -, he
half way between the continents, and high
as the sun when the clock is striking II
| at noon. But l shall be swamped with
the oceanic tides of this subject unless the
Lord help me to keep foothold. ''Say
ye to, the. righteous that it shall be well
with him"
| Bear in mind that but few people can
stand worldly success. Water is a good
| thing, but too much of it will drown.
Fire is a good thing, but too much of it
will destroy: Light is good thing. but
too much of it dazzles and blinds. Sue
cess is a good thing, but too much of it
has overwhelmed many for this world and
the next. If it were best for us, we would
all be millionaires, live in palaces like the
Alhambra, and be as personally attractive
as Cleopatra appeared to Antony. But
the most of folks could not endure such
superabundance, and it is absolutely neces-
sary in order to keep them right that 999
men out of 1000 should find life a struggle
1t keeps them out of mischief. After
Adam was elected from the premises
where by ten minutes of employment a
day he could keep the garden and dress it
the best thing that could happen to him
was compulsion to work and fight. The
ground that bloomed with spontaneous
flowers and rustled with harvests that
| owed nothing to plow or hoe became hos
tile, and bramble was substituted for rose
and the panther growled where before he
fawned, and horn and fang and hoof be-
came belligerent. That Edenic ejectment
shows us as nothing else ever could that
idleness or only a few minutes of employ
| ment day are doom and overthrow. Put
it down among your blessings that you
have to work hard with brain or hand or
foot or all three of them.
How many men do you know worth
$3.50 900 who are devout and consecrated
and humble and generous and employing
their means for the worlds redemption
You could count them up on the fingers
of your two hands even if by accident or
war you had lost one or two of the fingers
AS to the realm of personal attractiveness
and graceful of form do you know who are
unaffected and natural of manner and
deeply pious before God, using their
beauty for the hetterment of the world
and not for selfish purposes? l only take
the risk of asking the question and leave
things | say to show you that in order to
have the promise of the text fulfilled in
your case it is not necessary you have phe-
nomenal worldly success.
Notice, also that God gives the righteous
the power TO extract good out of evil and
by divine chemistry to change the bitter
into the sweet and the harmful into the
beneficial. The promise that it shall be
well with you does not imply that you are
to be free from trouble There is no es
cape from that. We all have family rea-
tens. and some of them will be making
exit from this world, so that bereavement
is the universal inheritance. The differ
ence between the prospered and those not
prospered is the difference in the amount
they can afford to lose. The more wealth
man has the more he can lose, but one
man can afford to lose a million dollars
where another man cannot afford to lose
one dollar. On larger or smaller scale all
suffer financial loss. Amid the rapidity OF
the revolutions of the wheel of national
and international finance monetary per
plexity is as common as day or night.
So also misnterpretation and slander
come to all who live active lives. Our
| octiopa thnroughlv bona.t aud abovc.