Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-02-07
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SPEAKS OF THE CONSOLA-
TONS OF RELIGION.
Some Comforting Thoughts for Those
Who's, Lives Have Many Anxieties--
The InsuficIency OF Worldly Success
Trust Thoroughly In God,

kho Au8uHCioucy oh SUCCESS
Trust Thoroughly In God,
Copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N "
Washington, Feb. 3.-There is a
great solace in this discourse of DIR.
Talmage for those whose lives have
many anxieties; text, Isaiah iii, 10,
Say we to the righteous that it shall
be we'll with him."
Here is a promise for people who
are all right, but who will come and
gst It? How many, or rather, how few.
people do you know who are all right?
II it were asked of any assembly that
those who were sinless should rise up,
none would rise except imbeciles and
religious cranks. An accident happen
ed near sixty centuries ago that start
ed the human race in the wrong way,
and We have not got over it. We know
did women, but they will tell you that
they have not always done the right
thing or thought the right thought II
1t were any of your business. they
could give you an inventory of frailties
and mistakes. and infelicities that
would be astonishing. Here, then. you
say, is Bible promise that goes a-beg-
ging, Say ye to the righteous that 1t
shall be well with him."
Moral bankruptcy.
By sin we have all been morally
bankrupted. Christ the Lord from his
infinite riches pays our debts and en-
paradises us in his mercy. From his
richest wardrobe he puts on us the
clean robe OF his Righteousness and
gives us a place in the heavens when
We are ready to go up and take 1t.
Now, as to our spiritual estate We are
all right. We were morally diseased,
but Christ, the Physician, by 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 contributed righteousness,
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 chap
ter of Genesis to the last verse OF the
last chapter of Revelation, to find me
passage with higher and deeper and
broader and longer comfort than that
of the text, which is as deep as the At
lantic ocean half way between the con-
tinents and high as the sun when the
clock is striking IL 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."
Riches and Good Works.
How many men do you know worth
$3.50 900 who are devout and consecrat-
ed and humble and generous and en-
ploying their means for the worlds re-
demption? 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, how many
women radiant of countenance and
graceful of form do you know who are
unaffected and natural of manner and
deeply pious before God, using their
beauty for the betterment of tie world
and not for selfish purposes? l only
take the risk of asking the question
and leave to you the risk of answering
it. These things l say to show you
that in order to have the promise OF
the text fulfilled in your case it Is not
necessary you have phenomenal world
ly success.
Misery OF Loving Too Much.
Financial loss, which | just now said
is sure to come, never breaks up a man
who has strong faith in God. In most
cases it is loss of surplus or 1t is the
Punishment of luxuries. Most of the
wants of the prosperous classes are
artificial wants. The late Mr.. Armour
of the s60,000,0OO estate pointed to one
Of his clerks on ordinary salary and
said, "That man has better appetite
than I, sleeps better nights and enjoys
life more than do" Oh, the gigantic
miseries of those who have too much!
A man in Solomon's time expressed as
philosophic and reasonable a wish as
any man Of those times or OF our times.
| His name was Agur, and he offered a
prayer that he might never have a
superabundance or deficit, crying out,
Give me neither poverty nor riches"
| On the one side he had seen the awful
struggle of the poor to get food and
J clothes and shelter and to educate
their children, and on the other side
he had seen the equity foot, and the in
digestion, and the insomnia, and the
anxiety about large investments, and
the threatening paresis often character
\ istic Of those who are loaded up and
down with too many successes. Those
people who are generally called the
I masses-that is, the most OF folks
have the things absolutely necessary
for their well being. They have no
Murillos on their wall, nor "Belshaz-
zar's Feast" in their dining room, nor
a pair of $4,000 sorrels at their door
way. But they have something which
those superabundantly supplied seldom
have. They have better health because,
being compelled to walk. they get the
necessary exercise, and. their diet be-
ing limited to plain food. they do not
suffer from midnight salads and are
not victimized by rare caterers. They
retire for wholesome sleep at the very
hour in which others are leaving their
homes for the dance or the card party.
They will sleep the last sleep Just as
we'll in the plain graveyard as those
who have over them an arch OF sculp-
'tured granite in the costliest metropolis
or most historical abbey.
Lot Well Enough Alcrs.