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! Peace between your repenting soul
and a pardoning dost 1 you ak. we,
Will vou
conld
will
unlock your inecar
¢ ’
has
Ome
to Christ, 1
in an
gospel
greal
had
wore wait
One day a
ran amon
“Who saya pence?’ |
Ring, des ares 4 oi face i
you!” “Peace of Go t passeth |
understandiog!” Everlasting peace! .
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