The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-19
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Religion as an Exhilaration -
Christianity is Uplifting and Dispels
Melancholia and GluOm-Fate of Young
Men Who Go in For Sinful Amusements

Melancholia and GluOm-Fate of Young
Men who Go in For Sinful Amusements
GCoypright 1901
WASHINGTON, ID. C.-In this discourse
DIR. Talmage sets forth religion as an ex-
hilaration, and urges all people to try its
uplifting power; text, Proverbs iii, II,
"Her ways are ways of p~leasantness
You have all heard Of Gods only begot
ten Son. Have you heard of Cod daugh-
ter? She was born in heaven. She came
down over the hills of our world. She had
oueenly step. On her brow was celestial
radiance. Her voice was music. Her name
is religion. My text introduces her. Her
WAYS are ways of pleasautness, and all her
paths are peace" But what is religion
The fact is that theological study has had
a different effect upon me from the effect
sometimes produced. Every year ! tear
out another leaf from my theology until
nave only three or four leaves left-m
other words, a very brief and plain state
ment of Christian belief.
An aged Christian minister said. Nv hen
was a young man, | knew everything;
when | got to be thirty-hye years OF age,
in my creed | had only a hundred doc
trines of religion; when | got to be forty
years of age | had only fifty doctrines OF
religion; when ! got to be sixty years OF
age | had only ten doctrines OF religion,
ana no" l VI usi ny ~, ~. ~, lroyy
OF age, and there Is ouly, lhlhe ! huoW'
and that is that Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners And so ! have
noticed in the study Of Gods word. and IN
nv contemplation Of the character OF God
and OF the eternal world, that 1t is neces.
sary for me to drop this part Of my behet
and that part OF my belief as being non
essential, while l cling to the one great
doctrine that mF a SINNER and Chr'st
is his Almighty "Nlhe SAVIOUR
Now, | take -hree or iour leaves
of my theology. and ind that; IN the
first place and dominant above an otIers,
is the sunshine OF rehgloh' =" men ! go
into a room | have a passion 1or throwing
open all the shutters. That Is what
want to do this morning. we are apt 20
throw so much OF the sepulchTal lnto our
religion and to close the shutters ana TO
pull down the blinds that Is is only
through here and there a crevice that the
light streams. The religion OF the Lord
Jesus Christ is a religion of Joy lndescrlb-
able and unutterahle. Wherever l can
find a bell ] mean to ring it.
If there are any in this house this morn
ing who are disposed to hold on to Their
melancholy and gloom, let them now de,
mart this service before the fairest and
BRIGHTEST and the most radiant being of
ali the universe m in. Gods Son has
left onr world. but Gods daughter is here.
Give her rooml Hail. Princess OF Heaven
Hail daughter of the Lord God Almighty!
Tome in and make this house thy throne
roomi
In setting forth this idea. the dominant
49, 49, ~ Tel;gion ~ one of sunshine, |
fbardlyy know Where to begin, for there are
sn many thoughts that rush upon my soul,
a. mother saw her little child seated on
H. a. !, tho sunshine and with a spoon
~ hnr bond Sba said "NIy darling, what
u y 5n;nn tbera - "Ob" replied the
""h;l} 81 nm Getting a spoonful of this
emIiJ, Would God that to-day I
suhSliine. o"iI 1r;tb n glesming cha
might Ptfsehv 80" everIasting gospel
nee ol III e
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profound satlsiactloh man III any rnriJJiy
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