Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-03-02
RELIGION A soLACE.
Or. Talmage Speaks Comforting
Words for the Righteous.
Discourse Cor These whc-s Lives
n.ve Aasy Anxtetses-All Il Wen
for the Denevsr Trust
Thoroughly an God

There is n great soisce in this dis
course OF DIR. Teln,aee FOR those whose
lives have many anxisties: text.
Isaiah $40: Say We TO the right
eous that IL shall be well with him"
Here is promise for people who
are all right. but who viii come and
get it2 How many. Or. rather. how
Few. people DO you know who are al
righs2 IL IL were asked OF any assem-
bly, that those who were sinless should
rise up. none would rise except im5e-
Giles and religious crauks. An &C
cident happened near 60 centuries ago
that started the human race ia the
wrong way. and we have not got over
". We know a great many splendid
men and splendid women. but they
viii tell you that they have not al
wsys done the right thing or thought
the right thought. II It were any OF
your business they could give YOU an
Inventory OF fraiiiseS and mistakes and
.nfelicities that would be astonishing.
Here. then. you say. j. a Bible prom
ise that goes abe gging: Say We TO
the righteous that it shall be well
with him
Il is my delightful work to-day %
show you that all the sons and daugh-
tiers Of Adam and Eve may appropri-
ate the benedicticn OF my text n
they will FIRST do the right thing. Over
here In the next street was man
who in great misfortune lost al he
had and was positively begEared. hut
letter comes from some European
city where the land records are kept
announcing 20 him that = great for
tune IS his Now he is as opulcnt a.
ne was pauperized. he doffs his rags
and puts OF respectable attire and
/ moves into = home appropriate for
nan OF vast estate. His worldly cir
rumstance- were all wrong last year;
/ they sire all right this year. On the
next street is man who was from
perfect health FRUSTRATED. aud he
! seemed 20 he sick unto death. but
/ skillful physician took correct dag
nosis OF his disease and by prompt
and vigorous treatment restored Aim
20 his former vigor. As 20 his health
he was 81 wrong before; now he SIS
All right IN these two ways I Illus
trete my theme.
By sin we have all been morally
bankrupted Christ the Lord from
i Akic AAAtAANN At---Fa 20. - RAAA nv "t' 49,
snparadises Us in His mercy. From
His richest wardrobe IL puts on rs
the clean robe Of His righteousness
and gives uH palace In the heavens
when we arc ready 10 GO ND snd take
IL. Now. IS 20 our spiritual estate. ue
ere al right we were morally DIS
eaScd. but Christ the physician. ~
bath in the fountain OF Grace. cures
O.. Now. as 20 our spiritual health.
we are all right. That is the way we
some 70 the righteousne spoken OF
p the text. IL IS a contributed right
eousneSs. a made-over Righteousness.
an imputed righteousncss. The mo-
msnt YOU get into right relations with
Chris the Lord that moment Won can
appreciate the magnificent comfort ~
the text. and 7 defy YOU. in All thi'
great book. from the first verse a
the hrst chaptrr OF Genesis 20 thS
LIST verse % the last chapter % Rev
citation. 10 find me a passage with
, | higher and deeper and broader an,
longer comfort than that OF the text
= which i as deep sS the Atlantic occaT
half way between the continents ans
high az the sun when the clock !
striking Y at noon But 7 shall ~
swamped with the oceanic tides o
this subject unless the Lord help IN
TO keep a foothold. SAY 10 the right
eous that IL shall be wei with him"
Bear IN mind that bus few peoni
. ran stand worldly success. Water {
good thing. but too much OF IL Wi
drown Fire j. q good thing. but TO
much Of II viii destroy. Lightning !
q good thing. but too much OF IL da7
EIes and blinds. Success Is goo
thing. hut too much Of il has over
whelmed many FOR this world aad IN
next. II 81 were best for us, we woul
all be miliionaires. live IN palaces Tx
the Albambra and be a. personally Al
tractive a. Cleopatra appeared 20 81
:. tony But most OF folks could NJ
endure such superabundsnce. and
= I. absolutely necessary in order Z
y keep them right that nine huudre
ard ninety-nine men ont OF one thol
a sand should find life struggle
a, keeps them ont Of mischief Aft.
: Adam was elected from the prcmis,
r where by ten minutes % employing,
"a day he could keep the garden ar
= dress it the best thing that could Ia
"a pen 10 him was compuision 80 woi
a and fight. The ground that blooms
- with spontaneous flowers and rusti,
re with haryests that owed nothing
IA plow OF hoe became hostile. and braI
= bic was substituted FOR rose. and II
- panther growled where before
er fawned. aud horn and fang and no
ig became belligerent. That Eeenic eies