THE PERSUASIVE WORD. Rev. Dr. Talmage Says It Calls All People to Gladness. What We Most Need—The Star of Faith There Is Pardon For All Copyright, 181.1] WASHINGTON, D. C.—In this discourse Br. Talmage calls all people to gladness and opens all the doors of expectancy; texts, Genesis vi. 18, “Come:” Revelation xxi, 17, “Come.” Imperial. tender and all persuasive is the word “come.” Six hundred and sev. enty-eight times 1s it found in the Serip- tures. It stands at the front gate of the Bible, as in my first text, inviting ante- diluvians into Noah's ark. and it stands at the othet gate of the Bible. as in my second text, inviting the postdiluvians of all later ages into the ark of a Saviour's mercy. “Come” is orly a word of four letters, but it is the queen of words. and nearly the entire nation of English vo- cabularv bows to eptre, It 12 an ocean into which emnties ten thonsand rivers of meaning. Other words drive. but this beckons. All moods oi feeling hath that word ‘‘come.” Sometimes it weeps and sometimes it Is Some times pravas, temuols and sometimes it destroys, It sound: from the door of the church and from the raghos of sin, from the gotes of heaven and the gates of hell. It is confluent and accrescent of all power It is the heiress of most of the “Come!” You may pronounce it so that al the heavens will be heard in necs or pronounce it so that all the w and eternity shall reverberate in ita syliable. It is on the : roflizate. It is the mightiest of all zo icitants either for good or bad. To-day T weigh anchor and haul in the planks and set sail on that great word, although I am sure I will not be able to reach the farther shore. 1 will let down the fathoming line into this =ea and trv to measure its deoths, and, though T tie together all the cables and cordage IT have on board I will not be able to touch bot- tom. All the power of the Christian reli gion is in that word “come.” The dicta- torial and commendatory in relicion are of no avail. The imperative mood is not the appropriate mood when we wonld have wveople savinglv ypressad They may be coaxed. bu Vy on yi (rive en. Our hearts are like our home it a friendly kno i 1001 ili but an at won dg 1 prisot Ww 1 i Lie tant theolorical semi ics. whieh keen men three ra in their enrrienium fore launc! J the will do well if is rt a teach the dates § he how t p nl nation and 1i8 8 sometimes it futur me one in of sai and ory nto ministry time th fn hols } SRN : powe who who has that LiaAg and per ople to right quit went Ny cases “eorie” tn conauc: | L E ® . Yect at i Just give me the tistics of how drunkenness. in mm vice of with me gr> what we ble.” * fal res auf ment.” through this doubt and ianity "eo If in your an sana What have that eve. 18 thn ried? Wh him that has Take vour tiger those rpent folds ¢ erughing him Cive ! band, the ore with whom I stan altar rey h me.” ctim ere have been. of Now. want over to harness this word for good as others have harnessed it for evil. and it will draw the five continenis and the seas be. tween them-—yes, it will draw the whole earth back to the God from whom it has wandered. It is that wooing and persna- mve word that will lead men to give up their sing. Was skevticiems ever brought into love of the truth by an ebullition of hot Against infidelity ’ Was ever the biasphemer stopped in his oaths by denunciation of blasphemy? Was ever a drunkard weaned from his cups by the temperance lecturer's mimicry of stag gering sten and hiccoueh? No. It was “Come with me io church to-day and hear our singing” “Come and let me in- troduce vou to a’ Christian man whom you will be sure to admire:” “Come with me into associations Lhat are cheerful and good and inspiring.” “Come with me into Joy such as you ncver before expe rienced.” With that word which hae dons eo much for others I anproach you to-dav. Are you all right with God? “No.” vou say. “I think not I am sometiries alarmed when I think of Him fear 1 will not be ready to meet Him in the last day. My heart is not right with God.” Come, then, and have it made right. Through the Christ who died to save ron come! What in the use in waiting? The longer you wait the farther off you are and the deeper vou are down. Strike out for heaven! » You remember that a few years ago a steamer called the Princess Alice, with a crowd of excursionists aboard, sank in the Thames, and there wae an awful sacrifice of life. A boatman from the shore put ont for the rescue, and he had a big boat, and he got it so full it would not hold another person, and as he Inid hold of the cars to pull for the shore, leaving hundreds heipless and drowning, eried out: “Oh. that 1 had a bigger boat!” Thank Cod I am not thus lim ited. and that I ean promise room for all in this gospel boat, Get in, got in! And yet there is room. Room in the heart of a vardoning God. Room in heaven. also apply the word of my text tn who would like practical comfort. If any ever escave the struggle of life, | ve not found thera, They are not cer tainly among the prosperous classes, In most cases it was o struggle ail the way up till they reached the prosperity, and ner they have reached those Seights have been perplexitios, anxieties and crises whieh were almost enoueh to shatter the nerves and turn the brain, It would be hard to toll which have the biggest fight in this world. the prosper; or the adverailies, the conspicuitics or the obecurities. Just as soon as you have enough success to atiracr the atten. tion of ty the envies and jenlousies are let loose from their kennel. The teat crime £ you ean corumit in frog ten vears v; was we 1 words eatimation of others ie to ger on het. than do, ‘Lhey think your addi tion is their subtraction. Five hundred persons start for a certain goal of sue cers. (ne reaches it, and the other 499 are mad. Tt would take volumes to hold the story of the wrongs. outrages and defamations that have come upon you as a result of your success. The warm sun of prosperity brings into life a swamp full of annoying insects, On the other hand. the unfortunate classe: have their stride ries for maintenance. To achieve a liveli- aood hy one wio had nothing to start with and after awhile for a family as well and carry this on wntil children are reared and educated and fairly started ® the world and to do this amid all the rival- ries of business and the nneertainty of erops and the fickleness of tariff legisla tion, with an occasional labor strike and here and there a financial paric thrown in. i= a mighty thing to do. and there are hundreds and thousands of such heroes and heroines who live unsung and die un honored. What we al! need. whether un or down in life or bali way between, is the mfinite solace of the Christian relicion And so we employ the word “come.” It will take all eternity to find out the number of business men who have been strengih- ened by the promises of God and the peo ple who have been fed by the ravens when other resources gave out and the men and women who, going into this bat- tie armed only with needle or saw or axe or vardstick or nen or type or shovel or shoelnst, have gained a vi~‘ary that made the heaven resound With all the re sources of Cod for every exi- geney no one need be loft in the lurch. I like the faith disnlaved vears aco in Drury lane. in an humble hore where every particle of food had qiven out and a ki with tea 1 kat promised ’ y Landon, entered ind found the he tea, "The benevolent said. 8 ‘hat vou bave the ua had no tea in the hon dauvehter in the wold have me and when TOINge Ko son} lice tle on for ten when And the “Mother nut the kettle en the fire. I said, “What ge of when w» have nothing in the she smd: “Mr child, Cad will Pro. Thirty vears He hes already pro- vided for me through all pein and help- and He will nat leave me ta starve at last He w'l send us help thongh we do not see how. We have b en warting all day for something to come. but until we saw vou we knew not how it was to come.” Puch things the world may eall but I ecail ‘hem Almighty deliverances, and, though you do not he i them. thoy are ceenrring { every day and in all ports s 3 home anid: 1 the bonse * vide, lessness. coincidences, advice time of perplexity are for it ie on hewildered another bewildered son! hose who have in eve on the ! an faith ean find their wav rong enough to leas * inviiat SAVE some people keep telling us to do not i re all not } ¢ on yme believing ¥ repost After all that Cod G00 vears w sone! who follow the 1 wuch morninge on. fe one, von ‘core.’ vou That WeAsIoOn {ome been nétimes through nro cummins Golgoth i, CAN ' Core yet teil 1 how fa cow ’ this { ine! hax for Ye throuch throurh the 1 \ one thin will not w ur coming her at vast out- and and s rkle with gn to construct a 1 on for his “On 3 DArs ttatues parks? nel inerey } His great all along the « I vour hes pa sed You Lot i n heir or will then the nheritance deel dividends until long after the stars are N - Halleluiah! Prince of lod, why from dead io Princesa of the Lord Almighty, you mot mount vour throne? into the light. Your boat why do you not go ashore? your feet hard down, under them the Rock of Ages challenge the universe for one stance in which a man in the risht sist appealed for the salvation of the gospel and did not get it. going to let all the years of vour life go AWAY now Pass Just plant expectancy? price hie in the dust at your feet becaua: you are too indolent or too stoop down and pick it up? wear the chain o by you is the hammer that one stroke snap the shackle? 3Y In wpel key that could ceration? No, ne! As the ons word “come’ times brought many souls will try the experiment 4 raountain and then send down avalanche of power many of these comes.” “Come thov and all thy hese into the ark;” “Come unio Me, all ye who labor and are keavy laden, and’ I will give you rest” “Come. for all thires we now ready:” “Come with pa, and we vill do vou good:” “Come and see;” The Spirit and the bridle say ‘come,’ and let him that hearcth say ‘come,’ and et him that is athiret ‘come.’” The stroke of one bell in a tower may be siveet, but a» score of bells well tuned and rightly lifted and skillfully swang in ofe great chime fill the heavens with music almost celestial. And no one who his heard the mighty chimos in the tow. ers of Amaterdam or Ghent or Capenha- gen can forget them. Now, it seems to me that in this Sabbath hour all heaven is chiming. and the voices of denarted friends and kindred ring down the shy, saying, “Core!” When Russia was in one of her ware, the suffering of the soldiers been long and bitter. and they ing for the end of the strife. mesenger in great excitement’ the tents of the army shouting, * Pece! Peace!” The sentinel on guard asked, “Who sava peace? And the sick soMier asked. “Who says ‘peace? ” And all np and down the encampment of the Rus. Mans went the quesddon, “Who says ‘peace? "Then the mewwnger respund. ed, “The Czar says ‘peace’ ” That was enough. That meant going home, That meant the war was ower. No more wounds and no more long marches, Ko today, as one of the Lord's messensers, I move through these great encampments of souls and crv: “Peace between carth and heaven! Dence between God and man! 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