Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-05
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Tho Power OF Hope-No Better
Medicine Did . Man Ever Take-For-
give the Repentant-The Perfect Life
to Come-Cultivate Hope.
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to Come-Cultivate Hope.
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WASHINGTON, d. C.-In this discourse
DR.. Talmage would lift people out of de-
10y, into earthly depression. The text is
Hebrews vi, 10, (Which hope"
There is an Atlantic Ocean of depth
and fullness in the verse from which
my text is taken, and | only wade into
the wave at the beach and take two
pressive of delight or adherence, words
that easily find their way from brain
to lip, words that have in them mornings
and midnights, laughter and tears, thun-
derbolts and dewdrops. In all the lexi-
ions and vocabularies there are few words
that have for me the attractions of the
last word of my text, (Which hope"
! There have in the course of our life
been many good angels of God that have
| looked over our shoulders, or met us on
the road, or chanted the darkness away,
or lifted the curtains. of the, great future,
or pulled US back from the precipices,
or rolled down upon us the rapturous
music of the heavens, but there is one of
| these angels that has done so much for us
| that we wish throughout all time and
! st. Paul makes it the center of a group
hope. charity And, though he says that
charity is the greatest of the three, he
does not take one plume from the wing, or
one ray of luster from the brow, or one
from from the voice of the angel of my
text, (which hope"
That was great night for our world
| when in Bethlehem caravansary the
| Infant Royal was born, and that will
be great night in the darkness of your
pointing to the Matt 1 wip not
bother you with the h of de- tion
and tell you what hope is. Whe, sit
down hungry at a table, we do 1ant
an analytical discourse as to v 'ead
is. Hand it on; pass it round s
'pure hope;" Peter calls it "livey
hope;", Paul styles it a good hope"
''sure hope" a rejoicing hope, And all
up and down the Bible it is spoken of as
an anchor, as harbor, as helmet, as
door.
When we draw check on bank, we
must have reference to the amount of
money we have deposited, but Hope
makes draft on bank in which for her
benefit all heaven has been deposited.
Hope! May it light up every dungeon,
stand by every sick kbed, lend helping
hand to every orphanage, loosen every
chain, caress every forlorn soul and
turn the unpctured room of the aims
house into the vestibule of heaven! How
suggestive that mythology declares that
when all other deities fled the goddess
of Hope remained!
1t was hope that revived John Knox
when on. shipboard near the coast of
Scotland he was fearfully i'll, and he was
requested to look shoreward and asked if
he knew the village near the coast, and he
answered: II know it well, for see the
steeple of that place where God first
opened my mouth in public to His glory,
and | am fully persuaded how weak that
ever now appear l shall not depart this
life till l shall glorify His holy name IN
the same place" His hope was rewarded,
and for twenty-five years more he
| tanned Mr.. Morrell of Norwich when de.
parting this life at twenty four years, OF
age he declared 81 should like to under
stand the secrets of eternity before to-
morrow morning" That was the kind of
| hope that the corporal had in the battle
| when, after several standard bearers had
fallen, and turned to a lieutenant,colonel
and said, "'If fall, tell my dear wife that
/ die with good hope in Christ and
| that / am glad to give my life for my
country" That was the good hope that
| DR.. Goodwin had in his last hour when
I he said "Ah, is this death? How have
dreaded as an enemy this smiling
friend!'
No better medicine did man ever take
than hope. 1t is stimulant, febrifuge,
tonic, a catholicon Thousands of peo-
pie long ago departed this life would
have been living to-day but for the reason
they let hope slip their grasp. have
lung was gone and disease had seemed to
lay hold of every nerve and muscle and
artery and bone.
Alexander the Great starting for the
wars in Persia divided his property among
the Macedonians He gave a village to
! 10 fold 10
and all his estate to his friends. Then
Perdccas asked, What have you kept for
yourself?" He answered triumphantly,
''Hope"
And, whatever else you and I give away,
we must keep for ourselves hope-all COM
forting, all cheering hope. In the heart
of every man, woman and child that hears
or reads this sermon may God implant this
principle right now!
Many have full assurance that all is
right with the soul. They are as sure of
heaven as if they had passed the pearly
panels of the gate, as though they were al al
ing the hbretto of the heavenly chorister.
I congratulate all such. l wish l had it,
too-full assurance-but with me it Is
hope. (Which hope" Sinful, it expects
forgiveness; troubled. it expects relief;
bereft, it expects reunion; clear down, 1t
expects wings to lift; shipwrecked, it ex-
poets lifeboat; bankrupt, it expects eter-
nal riches; a prodgal, it expects the wide
open door of the fathers farmhouse. 1t
does not wear itself out by looking back
ward; it always looks forward. What is
the use of giving so much time to the re-
hearsal of the past? Your mistakes are
not corrected by review. Your losses
cannot, by brooding over them, be turned
into gains 1t is the future that has the
most for us, and hope cheers us on. We
have all committed blunders, but does the
calling of the roll of them make them any
the less blunders? Look ahead in all mat
ters of usefulness. However much, you
may have accomplished for God and the
worlds betterment your greatest useful
ness is to come. "No," says some one,
"my money is gone" NO" says some
one, ''the most of my years are gone and
therefore my usefulness" Why, you talk
like an infdel. Do you suppose that all
your capacity to do good is fenced in by
this life? Are you going to be a lounger
and do nothing after you have quit this
world?
1t is my business to tell you that your
faculties are to be enlarged and intensified
and your qualifications for usefulness mul-
tiplied tenfold hundredfold, thousand