CHRISTIAN WORKERS.
Dr. Talmage Talks About Workers for
the Lord Who Are Religious
Blunderers.
How to Be Skillful in Spiritual Archery~
More Backbone Needed.
Copyright 1801.1
WASHINGTON, D. (.—In this discourse
r. Talmage urges all Christian workers
to increased fidelity and shows how much
effort at doing good fails through lack of
adroitness; text, Genesis x. 9 “He was
& mighty hunter before the Lord.”
In our day hunting is a sport, but in the
lands and the times infested of wild beasts
it was a matter of life or death with the
people, It was very different from going
oui on a sunshiny atternoon with a patent
breechloader to shoot reed birds on the
flats when Pollux and Achilles and Dio-
medes went out to clear the land of lions
and panthers and bears. Xenophon grew
eloquent in regard to the art of hunting.
In the Far East people, elephant mounted,
chased the tiger. Francis t was called the
father of hunting. And Moses. in my text,
sets forth Nimrod as a hero when it pre-
sents him with broad shoulders and shaggy
apparel and sun-browned face and arm
bunched with muscle—""a mighty hunter
before the Lord.” 1 think he used the
bow and the arrows with great success
practicing archery.
1 have thought if it is such a grand
thing and such a brave thing to clear wild
beasts out of a country if it is not a bet-
ter and braver thing to hunt down and de-
stroy those great evils of society that are
stalking the land with fierce eye and
bloody paw and sharp tusk and quick
spring. 1 have wondered if there is not
such a thing as gospel archery, by which
those who have been flying from the truth
may be captured for God and heaven. The
Lord Jesus Christ in His sermon used the
art of anghng for an illustration when He
said, “I will make you fishers men.”
And so I think 1 have authority for using
hunting as an illustration of gospel truth,
and I pray God that there may be many a
man enlisted in the work who shall begin
to study gospel archery, of whom it may,
after awhile, be said, “He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord.”
How much awkward Christian work
there is done in the world! How many
good people there are who drive souls
way from Christ instead bringing
them to Him! All their fingers are thumbs
—religious blunderers who upset more
than they right. Their gun has a crooked
barrel, and kicks as it goes off. They are
like a clumsy comrade who goes along with
skillful hunters. At the very moment he
ought to be most quiet he is crackling an
alder or falling over a log and frightening
away the game. How few Christian people
have ever learned how the Lord
Christ at the well went from talking about
a cup of water to the most practical relig-
ious truths, which won the wom
for God! wilderness was
breaking bread to the people
was very good bread. It was
bread, and the yeast had do i
thoroughly. Christ, after He ha
the bread, said to the people, “Bey
the yeast or of the leaven of
sees.’ So natty a transit
how easily they all understoo
bow few Christian people there
understand fasten the
God and rel the souls of
The archers of olden time studiec
art. They were very precise in the mat-
ter. The old books gave special directions
as to how an archer should go and as to
what an archer should do. He must stand
erect and firm, f a little in ad-
vance of the right fo i
he must take hols
dle, and then wit}
the thumb of |
hold the arrow
a
how
How Ii
often our
glad that there
ished in many of
where men may learn tl
gore 1 stud t sy # 1
come known
the Lord.”
In the first place if
fectual in doing good
sure of yo ¢ There
thing very fasci bout the
olden times. erhaps you d«
what they the i
row. Why, the chief battles fo
English Flantagenets were wit}
bow. They would take the arrow of
ished wood and feather it with the plume
f
of
of
Jesus
an's soul
Jesus in the
foot
With his left
he bow in the mid
and
precise
miss
are
want to be ef
be
very
ailk
suk.
bowstring of plaited The
fields of Agincourt and Solway Moss and
the archer's bowstring. Now. my
tian friends, we have mightier
than that. It is the arrow of the ospel
It is a sharp arrow; it is Seatheres
the wing of the dove of God's Spirit; it
flies from a bow made out of the wood of
the cross. As far as I can estimate or cal
culate, it has brought down 400,000.000 of
sols. Paul knew how to bring the notch
Chris
theatres and through the courtroom until
the knees of Felix knocked together
heart when he cried out
Oh, my sine!”
head it kills his ske ticism ; if
him in the heel it will turn his step; if it
“Oh, my sina!
hands, as did one of old when wounded in
in the battle, crying, “O Galilean, Thou
hast conquered!”
In the armory of the Earl of Penbroke
the arrow of the English used to go
plate. What a symbol of that gospel which
18 sharper than a two-edged sword, piere-
ing to the dividing asunder of al and
body and of the joints and marrow! Would
to (iod we had more faith in that gospel.
The humblest man in the world, if he
bad enough faith in it, could bring a hun.
dred souls to Christ—perhaps 500. Just in
yroportion as this age seems to believe
ess and less in it I believe more and more
in it. What are men about that they will
nct acept their own deliverance? There
8s nothing proposed by men that can do
anvihing fice this gospel,
The religion of Ralph Waldo Emerson
was the philosophy of icicles; the religion
of ad Parker was a siroceo of the
desert, covering up the soil with dry sand;
the religion of Renan was the romance of
slieving almost nothing; the religion of
the Huxleys and the Spencers is merely a
pedestal on which human philosophy sits
shivering in the night of the soul, lookiey
up to the stars, offering no help to the na
tions that crouch and groan at the base.
Tell me where there is one man who has
rejected that gospel for another who is
thoroughly satisfied and helped and con-
tented in his skepticism. and I will take
the car to-morrow and ride 500 miles to see
im.
The full power of the
been touched. As a sportsman throws up
his hand and catches the ball flying
through the air, just so easily will this gos
| after awhile catch this round world
goapel has not yet
vi
the heart of Christ. Give it full swing,
and it will pardon every sin, heal every
wound, cure every trouble, emancipate
every slave and ransom aver} nation,
in, if you want fo be skillful in spir-
; you must hunt in unfre.
ented and secluded places. Why does
hunter go three or four days into the
nevivania forests or over uette
e into the wilds of the Adirondacks?
is the only way to do. are
itual arche
siry, and one “bang” of the gun clears the
forest. From the California stage you see,
as you go over the plains, here and there
a coyote trotting along almost within
range of the gun—sometimes quite within
range of it. No one cares for that; it ia
worthless. The good game is hidden and
secluded. Every hunter knows that. So
many of the souls that will be of most
worth for Christ and of most value to the
church are secluded. They do not come in
vour way. You will have to go where they
are
I remark, further, if you want to miceeed
in spiritual archery you must have cour
age. If the hunter stands with trembling
hand or shoulder that flinches with fear,
instead of his taking the catamount the
catamount takes him. What would be-
come of the Greenlander if when out hunt-
ing for the bear he should stand shivering
with terror on an iceberg? What would
have become of Du Chaillu and Livings-
tone in the African thicket with a faint
heart and a weak knee? When a panther
comes within twenty paces of you, and it
has its eve on you, and it has squatted for
the fearful spring, “Steady there!” Cour.
age, O ye spiritual aréhers! There are
great monsters of iniquity prowling all
around about the community. Shall we
not in the strength of God go forth and
combat them? We not only need more
heart, but more backbone. What is the
church of God that it should fear to laok
in the eye any transgression? There is the
Bengal tiger of drunkenness that prowls
around, and instead of attacking it how
many of us hide under the church pew or
tue communion table! There is 80 much
Investea in it we are afraid to assault {t—
millions of dollars in barrels, in vats, in
spigots, in corkscrews, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables, and
hased coolers, and in the strychnine,
: gwood, and tartaric acid,
and the nux vomica that go to make up
ur “pure” American drinks. 1 looked
with wondering eves the “Heidelberg
tun.” It the great liquor vat of Ger.
many, which is said to hold 800 hogsheads
f wine and only three times in a hundred
ars it has been filled. But as I stood
1d looked at it I said to myself: “That is
nothing—800 hogsheads. Why, our Ameri-
ean vat holds 10,200,000 barrels of strong
drink, and we keep 300,000 men with noth-
ing to do but to see that it is filled.” Oh,
to attack this great monster of intemper-
ance and the kindred monsters of fraud
and uncleanness requires you to rally all
your Christian courage! Through the
press, through the pulpit, through the
platform, you must assault it.
Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together, not for
crackbrained fanaticism, but for holy
Christian reform! I think it was in 1703
that there went out from Lucknow, India,
under the sovereign, the greatest hunting
party that was ever projected. There were
10,000 armed men in that hunting party.
were camels and horses and ele-
vhants. On some princes rode, and royal
ladies under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and the des-
olate places of India were invaded by this
he rhinoceros and deer and
he stroke of the sabre
ile the party brought
50.000 rupees, having
wilderness of India ghastly with
n bodies of wild beasts. Would to
here and there a strag-
10e
the
elephant
and bull
God that instead
of mign
members of our
gether and hew
that mn
Toar,
and soul
for such a
mighty
ons of
band to-
ain these great crimes
land frightful with
upon the bodies
I men! Who is ready
as that Who will be a
Lord?
I remark, again, if you want
cessful in spiritual archery you need
only to bring down the game, but brin
in. I think on® of the most beautiful pie
tures of Thorwaldsen is his “Autumn.” It
presents a sportsn coming home and
tanding under a grapes He has a
+ his shoulder on the other
staff are hu i
i Every |}
No one would
a roebuck whipy
ut and letting them lie in
At eventide the camp
f { the forest
y in our country the m
churches would
in tn
their
hunter for the
to be sue
Aan
or
the treasures of
id antler
it to hunt for in rial souls
own under the
pel, but bring them into the
vod, the grand home and en
campment we have pitched this side of the
Fetch them in. Do not let them lie
out in the open field. They need our pray
ers and sympathies and help. That is the
meaning of the church of God heip. O
ye hunters for the Lora, not only bring
down the game, but bring it in!
them d ar
church of
skies,
!
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what enthusiasm ought
are bunting for immortal souls!
tian pra
If Domi
iced archery until he could stand
with appand out, the fingers apread apart,
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become spiritual
hunters before the Lord
Bat, let me say, you will never work any
better than you pray. The old archers
§
was the rule that the bow should be just
the size of the archer.
confidence.
tre
consecration.
“Oh, for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!”
ArTow,
viction, and you plunged into the world
deeper, just as the stag, when the hounds
are after it, plunges mto Schroon Lake,
expecting in that way to escape. Jesus
Christ is on your track to-day. O impeni-
tent man, not in wrath, but in mercy. O
ye chased and panting souls, here is the
stream of God's mercy and salvation,
where you may cool your thirst!
Stop that chase of sin to-day. By the
red fountain that leaped from the heart
of my Lord bid you stop! There is
mercy for you-merey that pardons, mercy
that , mR everlasting mercy. The twelve
ates of God's love stand open. Enter and
Fe forever safe.
There is in a forest in Germany a place
they call the “deer leap” —two crags, about
eighteen yards apart, between them a fear
ful chasm. This is called the “deer leap”
because once a hunter was on the track of
a deer. It came to one of these crags.
There was no escape for it from the pur-
suit of the hunter, and in utter despair it
gathered itself up and in the death agony
attempted to jump across. Of course it
ashed on the rocks far be
th to heaven. It is
plain; it is safe. Jesus marks it out for
every man to walk in. But here is a man
who says, “I won't walk in that path; I
will take my own way.” He comes on up
until he confronts the chasm that divides
his soul from heaven. Now his last hour
has come, and he resolves that he will leap
that chasm from the heights of earth to
the heights of heaven. Stand back now
and give him full swing, for no soul ever
did that successfully, Let him try, Jump!
He misses the mark, and he goes down,
depth Felow depth, “destroyed without
remedy.” Men, angels, desils, what shall
we call that place of awfu! ea he ?
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