Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-11-02
TALMAGES SERMON.
THE CALL TO GLADNESS, LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
Text: Genesis VI: Is: Come" Also
Revelations xxi: II: "Come"-The
Solace of the Christian Faith-Two
Things Believe.

[Copyright, 1901 by Louis Klopsch, N. VI
Washington, Oct. 20-In this dis
course Dr.. Talmage calls all people to
gladness and opens all the doors of
expectancy; texts, Genesis vi, 18,
Come" Revelations xxi, II, Come"
Imperial, tender and all persuasive
is the word Come" Six hundred and
seventy-eight times it is found in the
Scriptures. 1t stands at the front gate
of the Bible, as in my first text, invit
ing antediluvians into Noah's ark, and
it stands at the other gate of the Bible
as in my second text, inviing the post
diluvians of all later ages into the ark
of Savior's mercy. Come is only
a word of four letters, but it is the
queen of words, and nearly the entire
nation of English vocabulary bows to
its scepter. 1t is an ocean into which
empties ten thousand rivers of mean
ing. Other worSs drive but this beck
ons. All moods of feeling hath that
word Come" Som times it weeps
and sometimes it laughs. Sometimes
it prays, sometimes it tempts, and
sometimes it destroys. 1t sounds from
the door of the church and from the
seraglios of sin, from the gates of hea-
ven and the gates of hell. 1t is con-
fluent and acc-e escent of Il power. 1t
is the heireSs of most of the past
and the almoner of most of the future.
"Come!" You may pronounce it so
that all the heavens will be heard in
its cadences or pronounce it so that all
the woes of time and eternity shall
reverberate in it's one syllable. 1t is
on the lip of saint and profiigate. Il
is the mightiezt of all solicitants either
for good or bad.
Slain by the Word Come"
You must remember that in many
cases our Come" has a mightier
Come" to conquer before it has any
effect at al. Just We me the accu-
rate census, the statistics of how many
are down in fraud, in drunkenness, in
gambling, in impurity or in vice of
any Sort and 1 will give you the ac-
curate census or stat sites of how many
have been slain by the word Come" !"
Come and click wineg!azses with me
at this ivory bar" Come and see
what we can win at this gaming table. -
Come, enter with me this doubtful
speculation" Come with me and
read those infide1 tracts on Christian
ity." Come, with me to a ace of
bad amusement. Come with me in a
t gay bout through the underground Life
of the city" If in this city there are
twenty thousand who are down in
moral character, then twenty thousand
fell under the power of the word
Come" was reading of a wife
whose husband had been overthrown
by strong drink, and she went to the
saloon where he was ruined, and she
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the bartender, pointing to a maudlin
and battered man browsing in the cor
ner of the barroom, said: There he
is. Jim, wake up; here's your wife
come for you" And the woman said:
do you call that my husband? What
have you been doing with him? Is
that the manly brow, is that the clear
eye, is that the noble heart, that 1
married? What vile drug have you
given him that his turned him into a
f1end? Take your tiger claws off of
him. Uncoil those serpsnt folds of
evil habit that are crushing him. Give
me back my husband, the one with
whom I stood at the a tar ten years
ago. Give him back to me-" Victim
was he, as many millions of others
have been. of the word ''Come!"
With that word which has done so
much for others 1 approach you today.
Are you right with God? NO" you
say, Il think not; I am sometimes
alarmed when 1 think of him; fear i
will net be ready to meet him in the
last day; my heart is not right with
God" Come then and have it made
right. Through the Christ who died to
save you, comet What is the use of
waiting? The longer ycu wait the fur
ther off you are and the deeper YOU
are down. Strike out for heaven,
You remember that a few years ago a
steamer called the Princess Alice, with
a crowd of excursionists aboard, sank
in the Thames, and there was an awful
sacrifice of life. A boatman from the
shore put out for the rescue, and he
had a big boat and he got it SO full
it would not hold another person, and
as he laid hold of the oars to pull for
the shore, leaving hundreds helpless
and drowning, he cried out, "Oh, that
/ had a bigger boat" Thank God
that am not thus limited and that i
can promise room for all in this gospel
boat Get in; get ini And yet there
is room. Room in the heart of a par
doning God Room in heaven
There Is No Escape.
also apply the word of my text to
<hoco Who would Hko r,roofico1 o<>~,