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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., NOVEMBER 12•1896. r> THE OUTCRY OF PATH j r rr:V. TALMAGE PREACHES AN- UNIQUE DISCOURSE. lie ( iit'o.M'H 'I- J' < t •'( li'l i Hacrlfl. • » . I'«tr S«mln" m flip nt SVrnion <in»t /i ill. ro? In v*. 8. ■ Clrnr o..? of Wasiuni the. mlinaij \ ]i < 1 rirmonizlng )h tliis roniurkitl' ■' i ’ <i nisi of Dr. Tnlmngo, which wo itii'ii ( tit tcilnj*. IIih text is Romnus ix, It, “I coultl wish that lujsolf were umimfl from Christ for my breth ren, my kinsmen uncording to the flesh. ” A tough pnfsnge, indoed, for those who take PhuJ literally. When some of tho old thetdogians declared that they were willing to be damned for the glory of (tod, tin y said what no ono believed. Paul did not in tho text mean lie was willing to die forever to save his rela tives. Ho used hyperbole, and when he declared, “I could wish that myself were aecu’ sed from Christ for my breth ren, my kiiisim n according to tho flesh,” he meant in the most vehement of all possible ways to declare his anxiety for the salvation of his relatives and friends. It was a p;::: i<m for souls. Not more than one Christian out of thousands of Christians feels it. All absorbing de sire for the betterment of tho physical and mental condition is very common. It would take more of a mathematician than I < ver can bo to calculate how many are, up to an anxiety that some times vii) rot let them sleep nights, planning for tho cflicioucy of hospitals where tho sick and wounded of body are treated utid for eye and ear infirmaries and for dispuisaries and retreats where the poorest may have most skillful sur gery and helpful treatment. Oh, it is beautiful and gn riouB, this widespread and ever intensifying movement to alle viate and euro physical misfortunes. May (Jed < : onvago and help tho thon- funns Is of splendid men and women en gaged in that work. Put all that is outside of my subject today. In i ehaif of tho immortality of q man, the inner eye, tho inner ear, the inner capacity for gladness or dutress, how few f< • 1 anything like tho over whelming cum ntratiou expressed in my text. Kan r than four leaved clo vers, lanr than century plants, rarer than prinia donna!;, have been those of whom it mil.';' bo said, ‘‘They had n passion for fouls. ” You could count on the ling' rs amt thumb of your left hand all the namtH of those you ran recall who in tho last—tho eighteenth—cen tury were so characterized. All the names of ti cso you could recall in our time as having this passion for souls you can count on the fingers and thumbs of your right nud left hands. There arc many more i nch consecrated souls, but they aro scattered ro widely you do not know them. Thoroughly Christian peo ple t y ti.e .hundreds of millions there uro today, but how few people do you know who are utterly oblivious to ev erything in this world except the ro- demption ci n ulst Paul had it when he wrote my t .f, and the time w ill come when th majority of Christians will have it if ti.m world is ever to ho lifted out ' f the. e’eugli in which it has been sin^ug and floundering for near 19 centuries. Ami the betterment had bet ter begin with inys< If and yourself. When a connritteo of the Society of Friends call'd upon a member to repri mand him for breaking some small rule of tho society, tl.o member replied, ‘‘I had a dream in which all the Friends hud n; < r.ibhd t a plan someway to have our met ting bu ;o cleaned, for it was very lilth.y. Many propositions were m ule, but no conclusion was readied until one oi tho members rose and said, fFriendi!, I think if each ono wouh) taken Iran, ml sweep immediately ground his own m at, the meeting house would bo e’n an. ’ ” Ki l:;;ious /.«■»!. !• t the v< rk ef spiritual improvOr mont he::in uivend our own soul. Some one vhbpw. up from tho right hand side of the pulpit and says, “Will you pleuso main ; enm tf the persons in our times who have this passion for souls?” Oh, to! That would ho invidious and imprudent, and tho more mentioning of the names of such persons might cause in them spiritual pride, and then tho Lord would have no more use for them. Some one whispers up from the left hand side < f tho pulpit, “Will you not then mention among tho people of tho past somo Vi ho had this passion for souls?” Oh; ye ! Samuel Rutherford, tho Scotchman i-f 1100 years ago—his im prisonment at Aberdeen for his religious zeal and tin pul lie burning of Ids book, “Lex licx,’ f 'iii Ldinburgh, and Ids un just arraigni en||fov high treason, and other pars* • mmne purifying and sancti fying him i .) that Ids works, entitled “Trial and Triumph of Faith” and “Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself, ” a::d alnvo all, his 215 unpar alleled leto i i bowed that he had tho pan ion for i ah;; Hicliard Baxter, whoso “Paraphraso of tho New Testament” caused him to be dragged before Lord Jeffreys, who howled at him ns “a ras- pul” and “ndveling Presbyterian” and imprisoned 1dm for t wo years—Baxter, writing 1GN religious books, Ids “Call to the Unconverb d” bringing uncount ed thousands into tho pardon of the gos pel, and Ids “Saints’ Lverlusting Rest” opening heaven to a host innumerable; Richard CYci), Thomas a Kempis, writ ing his “Imitation of Christ” for all ages; Harlan Page, Robert McChcyno, Ncttkton, Finney, and more whom I might mention, tho characteristic of Whoso lives was an overtowering pas sion for souls. A. B. Earl, tho Baptist evaugc list, had it. I. B. Inskip, the Methodist evangelist, had it. Jacob Knapp hud it. Dr. Bacbus, president of Hamilton college, had it, and when told ho had only half uu hour to live, said: “Is that so? Then take mo out of my Led and plaeo mo upon my knees and let n.o spend that time in calling on (Jod for the salvation of tho world.” ^Aud so ho died upon Ids knees. Then Ihcio have been others whoso names fiava been known only in their own family or neighborhood, and hero and there you think of one. What unction thoy had in prayer! What power they had in exhortation! If tiny walked into a homo, every member of it felt a holy thrill, and if they walked into a prayer meeting, the dullm ss and stolidity in stantly vanished. One of them would wake up a whole church. Ono of them would sometimes Hudrify a whole city. But the most womb rful one of that characterization tho world ever saw or hcaid or felt was a peasant in tho far east, wearing a plain blouse like an in verted wheat sack, with three openings, one for the neck and the other two for tho arms. His father a wheelwright and housebuilder, and given to various car pentry. His mother at first under sus picion because of the circumstances of his nativity, and ho chase d by a Hcrodic mania out of Ids native land, to livo awhile under the shadows of tho sphinx and pyramid of Gizi h, afterward con founding tho LL. D.'s of Jerusalem, then stopping the paroxysm of tempest and of madman. His path strewn with slain dropsies and catalepsies and ophthal mias, transfigured on one mountain, preaching on another mountain, dying on another mountain and ascending from another mountain—the greatest, the loveliest, the mightiest, the kind est, the most self sacrificing, most beau tiful Being whose feet ever touched tho earth. Tell us, ye deserts who heard our Saviour’s prayer; tell us, ye sens that drenched him with your surf; tell us, ye multitudes who heard him preach on deck, on beach, on hillside; toll us, Golgotha, who heard the stroke ef tho hammer on the spiki heads and the dy ing groan in that midnight that ciroppe d on midneon, did any me like Jesus have this passion for souls? I.imglnn for Souls. But breaking right in upon me is tho question. How r an we get semi thing rf this Pauline and Dhristly longing for saved immortalities? I answer, by hot ter appreciating the prolongation ef the soul’s existence compand with every thing physical and material. How I hope that surgeen will successfully re move the cataract from that mail’s eye. It is such a sad thing to bo blind. Let ns pray while thedretor is busy with tho delicate operation. But for how long a time will he be able to give his patient eyesight? Well, if the patient be 40 ye ars of age, lie will add to his happiness perhaps 50 years of eyesight, and that will bring the man to 00 years, and it is not probable that he will live longer than that nr that he will live so long. But what is good eyesight for 50 years more as compared with clear j vision for lho soul a billion of centuries? I hope the efTort to drive back the j typhoid fever from yonder homo will be j successful. God hi ly the doctors I We ! will wait in great anxiety until the fires pf that fever are extinguished, and when { the man rises from his pillow and walks | put, with what heartiness we will w< 1- I come him into the fresh air and the | church and business circles. Ho is 80 : years of age, and if he (hull live 00 ! years more that will make him 00. But j what are 00 years more of earthly vigor i compared with the soul’s health for a j quadrillion millenniums — a milieu- j uium, uk,ni’ u know, 1,000 yean? This i world, since fitted up for man’s resi- ! deuce, has existed about 0,000 years, j flow much longer will it exist? We will I suppose it shall last as much longer, 1 which is very doubtful. That will make i its existence 12,000 years. But what j ore or will lie 12,000 years compared ! with the eternity preceding those years | and the eternity following them? Time as ecinparcd to eternity, like the drop i of the night dew shaken firm tho top ' of a grass blade by the cow's hoof on its ! way afield this morning as compand | with Meditirrunoon and Arabian and * Atlantic and I’c.citic watery dominions. A stranger desired to purchase a farm, hut tho owner would not sell it— : would only let it. The stranger hin d it by lease fur only one crop, but he sowed j acorns, and to uialvre that crop 800 ; years were necessary. That was a prac ticed deception, but I deceive you not when I tell you that tho crop of the soul takes hold of unending ages. I see the author of my text seated in the house of Gains, who entertained him at Corinth, not f:;r from tho over hanging fortress of Acro-Corinthus, and meditating on tho longevity of tho soul and getting more and more agitated about its value and tho awful risk some of his kindred were running concerning it, and he writes this letter containing the text, which Chrysostom admired so much he had it read to him twice a week, and among other things ho says those daring and startling words of my text, “I could wish that myself were apeursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh. ” Force of Ti-nrn. Another way to get something of the Paulino longing for redeemed immor talities is by examining the vast ma chinery arranged to save this inner and spiritual nature. That machinery start ed to revolve on the edge e>f the garden of Eden, just after the cyclone of sin prostrated its sycamores and tamarisks and willows and will not cease to re volve until the last soul of earth shall get rid of its last sin and enter the heav enly Eden. On that stupendous ma chinery for soul saving the patriarch put his hand, and prophet his hand, and evangelist his hand, and apostle his hand, and Christ his hand, and almost every hand that touched it became a crushed hand. It was the most cxpoi^ pi vo machinery ever constructed. It cost more to start it and lias cost and will cost more to keep it running than all the wheels that ever made revolution on this planet. That machinery turned not by ordinary motive power, but by force of tears and blood. To connect its bic.ds of influence, made out of human and Christly nerves, with all parts of the earth, millions of good men and women nro now at work and will be at work until every wilderness shall become a garden, and every tear of grief shall bo a tear of joy, and tho sword of diviuo victory shall givo tho wound to the old dragon that shall send him howling to tho pit, the iron gate clanging against bim, never again to open. All that, ami infinitely more, to save tho soul! Why, it must be a treuu ndous soul—tremen dous fir good or t n niendous for evil, tre- mendous for hnj pim i* or tremendous for woe. Put on the left side of tho largest sheet, of p iper that ever came from paper ir.i’l a ning’e unit, the fig- mo 1, and how many i"';.! i rs would you have to mfd to thr j in Jit if that figure to express the soul s value, each cipher adding tenfold? Working into that scheme cf the soul’s redemption, how many angels of God, diseeuding and ascending? How n any storms swooping on Lake Galilee? How many earth quakes opening dungions and striking cataclysms through mountains, from top to base? What noonday sun was put on retreat? What omnipotence lifted, and what Godhead v. as put to torture? All that for th • soul! No wonder that Paul, though possess ing great equipoise >1 temperament, when he thought what his friends and kindred were risking conei ruing their souls, flung aside all his ordinary modes of speech, argument and apt simile and bold metaphor and learned allusion as unfit, to exprcfs how he felt, and seizing upon the appalling hyperbolism of my text cries out, “I could wish myself ac cursed”—that is, struck of the thunder bolts of the omnipotent God, sunk to unfathomed depths, chained into servi tude to Abaddon and thrust into fur naces whose fires shall never burn out, if only those whom I li ve might now and forever be saved. Mind you, Paul dots not say, ‘‘I do wish.” He says, “I eeuld wish.” Even in the agony ho felt for others he did not lose his bal ance. “1 could wish myself accursed.” I could, but I do not. Only one being that ever lived was literally willing to give up heaven for perdition, and that was tho divine peaf ent whom I mcn- ticned a few moments ago. lie was not only willing to exchange dominions of bliss for dominions if wretchedness, hut he did so, for that, he forsook heaven witness the stooping star and all those who saw his miracles of mercy, and that he actually entered the gales of tho world of perpetual conflagration the Bi ble distiuetly declares. Ho did not say, with Paul, “I eon Id, ” but he raid, “I will, I do,” and for the souls of men ho “descended into bell.” I’aiil'a Ontcry, In this last half of the last decade of the nineteenth century the temperature in the ohurehes is very low, and most of the piety would spoil if it were not kept on ice, and taking things as they are ordinary Christians will never reach the point whore the outcry of Paulin the text will not seem like extravaganza. The proprieties in most of tho churches are so fixed that all a Christian is ex pected to do on Sunday is to get up a little later iu tho morning than usual, put on that which is next to his host at- iire—not the very best, for that has to be reserved for tho loveo—inter the church with stately step, Low his head or at any rate shut his eyes in prayer time or close them enough to lock sleepy, turn toward the pulpit with holy dull ness while the preacher speaks, put a 5 cent piece or if tho times be hard a 1 cent piece, on the collection plattir, kind of shoving it down under the other coin so that it might be, for all that the usher knows, a $5 goldpicec, and then, after tho benediction, go quietly home to the biggest mpast of all tho week. That is all the majority i f Christians j are doing for the rectification cf this planet, and they will do that until, at the close of life, the pastor opens a black book at the hi ad of their casket | and reads, “Blessed aro tho dead who, die in the Lord; they reft from their la bors, and (heir works do follow them.” The sense of the ludicrous is so thor oughly developed in me that when I hear these Scripture words read at the ! obsequies of one of the religious do nothings iu the churches it is too much for my gravity. “Their works do follow them.” What works? And iu what di rection do they follow them—up or down? And do they follow on foot or on tho wing? And how long will they follow before they catch up? More appropriate funeral text for all such religious dead beats would be the words iu Matthew I xxv, 8, “Our lamps are gone out. ” One would think that such Christians would show at least under whoso banner they arc enlisted. In one of tho Napoleonic wars a woman, Jeannette by name, took her position with the troops and shoul dered a broomstick. The colonel said, “Jeannette, why do you take such a useless weapon into tho ranks?’* “Well,” she said, “I can show at least which side I am on. ” NoWi the object of this sermon is to stir nt least one-fourth of yon to an am bition for that which my text presents in blazing vocabulary—namely, a pas sion for souls. To prove that it is pos sible to hnvo much of that spirit, I bring tho consecration of 2,fh)Q foreign mis sionaries. It is usually estimated that there are at least 8,000 missionaries. I make a liberal allowance and admit there may bo 10 bad missionaries out of the 8,000, but I do not believe there is one. All English and American mer chants leave Bombay, Calcutta, Amoy and Poking as soon us they make their fortunes. Why? Because no European or American in his senses would stay in that climate after monetary induce ments have ceased. Now, the mission aries them aro put down on the barest necessities, and most of them do not lay up |1 in 20 years, Why, then, do they stay in those lands of intoloiable heat and cobras and raging fevers, the thermometer sometimes playing at 180 and 140 degrees of oppressiveness, 19,- 000 miles from home, because of tho unhealthy climate and tho prevailing immoralities of those regions com pel led to send their children to England or Bcotland or America, probably never to see them again? O blcssi d Christ 1 Can it be anything but a passion for souls? It is easy to understand all this frequent depreriation of foreign missionaries when you know that they are all oppos ed to the opium traffic, and that inter feres with cnuiiucrrc, and then the mis- siouurioa aro moral, and that is an of fense to many of tho merchants—not all of them, but many of them—who, absent from all home restraint, aro so immoral that we can make only faint allusion to the monstrosity of their abominations. Oh, I would like to bout the gate of heaven when those mission- lines g,> in, to see how they will have tho pick ct coronets and thrones and mansions on the best streets of heaven. We who have had r«<!y pulpits and lov ing congregations, cmeriug heaven will, in my opinion, have to take our turn and wait for the Christian workers Who, amid physical sufferings and men tal privation and environment of squa lor, have done their work, and on tho principle that in proportion as ono has hern self sacrificing mid suffering for Christ’s sake on earth will be their ce lestial preferment. Four Anne lloleyn. Who is that young woman on tho worst street in Washington, Ncv/ York or London, Bible in hum! and a little package in which are small vials of mtiliciucs, and another bundle in which are biscuits? How dare she risk hirst If among those “roughs,” and where is she going? Bhc is one of the queens of heaven, limiting up tho sick and hun gry, and before night she will have read Christ’s “Let not your heart be trou bled” in eight or ten places and count ed out from those vials tho right num ber of drops to ease pain and given food to n family that would otherwise have had nothing to cat today and taken tho measure of a dead child that she may prepare for it a shroud, her every act of kindness for the body accompanied with a benediction for tho soul. You see nothing but the filthy street along which she walks and tho rickety stairs up which she climbs, but she is accom panied by an unseen cohort of angels with drawn swords to defend her, and with garlands twisted for her victories, all up and down the tenement house districts. I tell you there was not so much excitement when Anne Boleyn, on her way to her coronation, found tho Thames stirred by 50 gilded barges, with brilliant flags, iu which hung small bells, rung Ly each motion of the wind, noblemen standing in scarlet, and wharf spread with cloth o£ gold, and ail the gateways surmounted by huzzaing admirers, and the streets hung with crimson velvet, and trumpets and cannons sounding the jubilee, and Anne, dressed in snreoat cf silver tis sue, and brow gleaming with a circlet of rubies, and amid fountains that poured Rhenish wine, passed on to Westminster hall and rode in on a ca parisoned palfrey, its hoofs clattering on the classic floor, and, dismounting, pass ed into Westminster abbey, and, be tween tho choir and high altar, was crowned queen amido rguns and choirs chanting the “Te Dcum”—I say there was not much in all that glory which dazzles tho eyes cf history when it is compared with the heavenly reception which that ministering spirit if tho buck alley shall receive whi n she goes up to coronation. When she goes iu, what welcome on the river of life, its hanks of pearl lined with splendors se raphic, and iu temples of eternal wor ship, whoso music is commanded by swing of archangelic scepter, and before thrones where sit those who have reign ed a thousand years, but have just be- ' gun their dominion. Boor Anne Boleyn in two years after that pageant lost life and threno by one tdroko of headsman, , but those Who on earth have a divine ! passion for souls shall never lose their j thrones. “They shall reign forever and I ever. ’ ’ But aft(f all, tho best way to culti vate fhat divine passion for souls is to j work for their salvation. Under God i save one, and you will want right away to khyq two. Bavo two, and you will I want to save 10. Bare 10, and yon will 1 want to save 20. Save 80, and you will want to save 100. Buve 100, and you will want to save everybody. And what is the use of talking about it, when tho place to begin is hero and the time is now? And while you pray I will in ono minute tell all there is cf it: Full par don for the worst muu on earth, if ho will believe in Christ, whoso blood can instantly wash away the foulest crimes. Full comfort lor tho most harrowing distress that ever crushed a human be ing. At your first moment of belief, a process by which the whole universe of God will turn clear around for your eternal advantage. For the me^ asking, if tho asking bo in ^arufst and you throw everything intpthat asking, com plete solace apd helpfulness for tho few’ years of this life, and then a wide open heaven, which you cun reach iu less time than it takes me to pronounce that imperial word, flashing with all the joy that an infinite God knows how to bi- stow’—licaven. Tbe Gospel Diviuo. In this world God pever does his best. He can hang on the horizon grander pioruings than have ever yet been kin dled and rainbow tho sky with richer colors than hnvo ever been arched and attune the oceans to more majestic dox- ologics than have ever yet been attuned, but as near as I can tell, and I speak it reverently, heaven is tho place where God has done his best. He can build no greater joys, lift no mightier splendors, roll no loftier anthems, march no mora imposing processions, build no greater palaces and spread out and iuterjoin and wave no wore transporting mag nificence, I think heaven is tho best heaven God can construct, and it is all yours for tho serious asking. How do you like tho offer? Do you really think it is worth accepting? If so, pray for it. Get not up from that pew where you are sitting, nor move one inch from where you are standing, before you get a full title for it, written iu the blood of tho Bon of God, who would have all mi u come to life present and life over- lasting. If yon have been iu military life, you know what soldiers call tho “long roll.” All the drums beat it because tho enemy is approaching, and all tho troops mast immediately get into lino. What scurrying around tho camp ai)^ putting of tho arms through tin' ytrups of tho knapsack and saying '“Uoodby!“ to comrades you may never meet again l Homo of you Germans or Frenchmen may have heard that long roll just be fore Sedan. Some of you Italians may have heard that long roil just before Bergamo, bomo of you northern and southern men may Imvn | raid it just before the battlei f ti e Wilderness. You know i:s stirring and rohmn meaning, and so I sound the be g roll today. I beat this old gripel einni that has for centuries been calling thousands to take their placer, in lino for this battle, on one side of whi'!i are ail tho forces beatific and i n the i‘her side all tho force demon i;o. 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