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THE EXETER PIMB$ THE "IFS' OP 1]'$}; BIBLE, ed as to erralk on weter ? In what part of ever. Is it not time that we take our the earth did law of gravitation make exeep• eternal future , off that swivel ? Is it tion to the rule that a mau will sinkto the nob time that we extirpate that "W' DR. T•ALMAGF1PREl�p,€7Iiases,uNIQUE elbows when he touches the wave of river that miserable "If," that hazardous AND 'CTsiI atra, SERMON. pr lake, and will sink still further unless he "If?" Wo wouldiof allow this uncertain eau swim? But here Peter looks out upon " If" to etay long in anything else of im- the form in the shape of a lean defying the portanee. Let someone say in regard to a 1(t Thou Vitt Eoretve'Pitch tains—aat"7 tr mightiest law of the universe, the law of railroad bridge, "I have reasons for asking Not, Met rte, I Pray Thee, Out or Thy• gravitation, and standing erect on•the top if that bridge is safe," and you would not elooitc." of the liquid.: Yet the inoredulous Peter cross it, Let someone aqy " I have reasons cries out- to the Lord, "If it be Thou." to ask if that steamer is trustworthy," Bitomereex Nov. 1D. -In. the tabernacle, Alas ! for that incredulous " If." It is you r6hy Lad y u woe take passage on it. Let this morning, Rev. Dr. Talmage delivered working as powerfully in the latter part of some one suggest in regard to - one ot his most unique and useful' sermous this'nineteenth Christian century as it did than you arbout to to rc aroperbe from a text never before preached from. in the early part of the first Christian cen- ' y pu base. I have Subject -The "ifs" of the Bible, The text tar Though a small mason to ask if they can give a good title," Y 1 con'unet' ion it is g the conjunction,and you o i1 .,w dnot chosen was s Exodus 32: 32, "'If thou wilt biggest block to -day in the wayof the 1 pay a dollar down until had some skillful.]real estate years forgive their sins—and if not, blot me, I Gospel chariot. " IF !" 'f If i" Wo have examine the title. But x allowed for ..ears pray Thee, out of Thy book," theological seminaries which spend most of of my lifetime, and some of you have allow. There is in our English language a small their: time and employ their learning and ed. for years of your lifetime, and "If" to conjunction, which ,C propose, by Clod's their genius in the manufacturing of "Ifs." stand torsi u in p and down Perhaps y ur help, to haul out of its present rnsignifican• With that weaponry is assailed the Yenta- eternal destiny. Oh, decide. Perhaps vend set upon the throne where it belonge, tench, and the miracles and divinity of arrival here to -da may decide.ps your and that is the conjunction. "If." Jesus Christ. Almost everybodyis chewingtY YliStrangerr hens than thatuhave y.. to flight forever T�otoitwhichever thin turns, letters it is the Dns.If." R'henmany aman bows 'for the c'If "q£nncertainty., P everything r s, All time prayer he puts his knee an an If. The A few Sabbath nights ago,ln this church, and all eternity are at its disposal. We slur door through winch people pass into a man, passing at the foot of the pulpit, it In our utteronee, we ignore it in our ap, infidelity and atheism and all immoralities said to me • of „ I am d bee ra his oat eleeve and none of its reeogntze it as has two doorposts, and the one is made up and then he pnsttod back his. coat sleeve the most tremendous word in all the vola- of the letter " I" and the other of the letter and said t "Do you see that sear on My bulary outside of those words whish "F." arm? I said: "res. You mush have describe Deity. 111 Why that word There aro only four steps between strong had an awful wound therea some time." H1 we bake as a tramp among wards now ap- faith and complete unbelief. first, surren• said ; "Yea; it nearly oost me my life, 1 gearing here, now appearing there, but der the idea of the verbal inspiration of the was in a mine in Rug -land, sips hundred feet haviugno value of its own, when it really Scriptures, and adopt the idea that they underground, g and d ndree miles from the has a inilifonairedom of wards,. and in its were all generally supervised by the Lord, shaft of the mine, and'. a rook fell aft me, train walk all planetary, stellar, lunar, solar Second, surreuder the idea that they were and my fellow-laborerried. *tithe rook an d deatrnies. If the boat of leaves made all generally supervised by the Lord, and I was bleeding to death, a, d he took a water•tfghb, in which infant Most sailed adopt the theory that they were not all, but newapaper from around his luncheon and the Nile, had sunk, who would have led Partly, supervised by the Lord. Third, be. bend it around my wound and the , Israel out of Egypt? If the Red Sea had lieve that they are the gradual evolution of ed me over the three miles fundergroundt o not parted for the escape of one host, and the ages, and men wrote according to the the shaft, where/was lifted to ht t top,any then came together for the submergence w%sdam of the times in which they lived.. when that newspaper was taken off ra of another host, would the Book of Exo- Fourth, believe tbatthe Bible 18 a bad book wound, I read on it somethingthat saved dusever have been written? 11 the ship and not, only unworthy of credence, but my soul, and it was one of yor sermons. ou which Columbus sailed for America pei'nioious and debasing and cruel. Only Good night," he said as he passed ou, leav had gone down in an Atlantic oyolono, our stops from the afoot faith in whish the ing me transfixed with grateful emotion. howmu ll longer would it have taken for martyrs died to the blatant caricature of And who knows but the words I flow the discovery of Ole,. continent? If Christianity as the greatest sham of the (peak, blessed of God, may reach some Grandly had come with reinforcements centuries, But the door to all that preci i. wounded souldeep clown in the black mine in time to give the French the victory at tation and horror is madeout of an " if." of sin, that these words may be blessed to Waterloo, what would have been the The mother of unrest in the minds of Chris. the staunching of the wound and the eter- fate of Europe? If the Spanish ..rmada tion people and in. those who regard snored nal life of the soul ? Settle this matter ((pp had not been wrecked off the coast, how things as the' If of incredulity. In 1879, etantly, positively and forever. Slay the different would have been many chap- in Scotlalid, 1 saw a letter which had been last If. Bury deep the last "If," How tera in Engliah history? If the battle of written many years ago by Thomas Carlyle to do it 2 Fling body, mind and soul in a Plestiege, or the battle of Pultowa, or to Thomas Chalmers. Carlyle, at the time prayer as earnest as that of idoses in the e the battle of Valmy, or the battle of of writing the letter,wee ayoung man. The text. G'au you doubt the earnest. .Mataurua, or the battle of Arbela, or the letter was not to he published until after ness of this prayer of the text ? It is battle of Chalons, cash one of which turned the deathof Carlyle,. Iiia death having taken so heavy with emotion that it breaks down the world's destiny had been doolded the place)the Letter ought to bepublished. Items in the middle. It was so earnest that the other way. If Shakespeare had never been a letter in which Thomas Carlyle expresses translators in the modern copies of the Rib's born for the drama, of Handel had never the tortures of his own mind while relax- were obliged to put a mark, a straight line, been born for music, or Titian had never ing his faith in Christianity, while at the a dash, for an omission that will never be been born for painting, or Tilorwalduen had same time, he expresses his admiration for filled up. Spelt an abrupt pause, such a never been barn for scripture, or Edmund Dr. Chalmers, and in. which Carlyle wishes sudden strapping off of the sentence. You Burke had never beeu born for elognenco,or that he had the same faith that the great cannot parse my text. It is an offence to Socrates had never been born for philoso. Seotoh minister evidently exercised. Roth grclnmatfoateonstruotion. lint thatdash put pine or Blackstone had never boon born for hitt that Thomas Carlyle ever wrote in m by the typesetters is mi hbil su es Pv e. the law, or Copernicns had never been born barter Ras irtus, or the "French Revolts. " If thou wilt forgive their sin (then Gomes for aap tronomy, or Luther had never been tion," or his Life of Cromwell, or his inn the dash)—; "and if not, blot me, I pray born for the reformation 1 oh, ;lcon• mortal Essays, had in it more ivondrotte thee,out of shy book." Some of file most junction "If 1" Flow much has depended power than that letter which bewailed hie earnst prayers ever tittered could not be on it. The height of it, the depth of it, own doubts and extolled the strong faith parsed, and were poor specimens of language. ti io length of it, the breadth of it, the im• of another. I made an crept Dopy of that They lialted, they broke down, they passed mensft of the 'infinity letter, sobs or groans or silence. God cares nothing for the syntax of prayers, nothing a � Y , for the rhetoric of prayers. Oh, the word- less 1sa e prayers s-1 If the p Y y were piled up they would roach to the rainbow that arches the throne of God, .A deep sigh may mean more than a whole litur',g . Out of the one hundred and sixteen thousand words of the English language th. o may not be a enough express bs sant. effective , e been Y it, u ty of it, who can with the understanding it should not be published until after death of Thos. Carlyle, yl , but, returning to any hotel in Edinbtirgh, I felt uneasy lest somehow that letter should get out of my possession and be published before its time. So I took it bank to the person by whose permission I had copied it. All reasone for its privacy ving vanished, I wish it might be pub. hed. Perhaps this sermon finding its way into a'cottish home may suggest its printing, fa- than letter shows more mightily than aneshing I have ever read the differs between the "I„know” of Paul know" if Job and the" Ikno C'halmeihand the "I k who holdalls'' 3,., C on the one s tormin on th that a steams "Goal ineasuro? It would awe'np anything abut Omt i i oteuee. But I niusbnoann Fe myself today to the "Ifs" of the Bible, and in do. ing so I shall apeak of the "If" of over - p voriug earnestness, the "If" of ineredu- the "If" of :segue i north . MOS 13 door, D. Exeter, Ont, First.,, the "1 ' o ness. My text gives it. The Iraclitel have been worshiping an idol, notwith. Mann -lug all that God has done for therm, an ow Robots offers the .most vehement r of all history, and tuna upon an "If thou wilyforgive their sins; - 1 not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of book." Oh, what an overwhelming re It wages much as to say. "if Thou not pardon them do not pardon me; hoe wilt not bring them to the Pronds- Land ; if they must perish let me perish ith them; in that book where thon re- rdest their doom, record my doom ;• if they aro shut out of heaven; let me be shut out of heaven; if they go down into 'lark - nese, let me go down.into darkness." 'What vehemence and holy recklessness of prayer Yet there are those here who, I have no doubt, have, in their ell.absorbingdesire to havo others saved, risked the same prayer, for it is a risk, You must not make it unless you are willing to balance your eternal salvation an such an "If." Yet there has been eases where a mother has been so anxious for the recovery of a wayward son that her prayer has swung and trernbled and poised on an "If " like that of the text. " If not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book. Write his name in the Lamb's Book of Life, or turn to the page where my name was written ten or twenty or forty or sixty years ago, and with the black ink of everlasting midnight erase my first name and my last name and all my name. If he is to go into shipwreok, let mo be tossed amid the same breakers. If he cannot be a partner in my bliss, let me be a partner in his woe. I have for many years loved Thee, 0 God 1 and it has been my expectation to sit with Christ and all the redeemed at the banquet of the skies, but I now give up my promised place at the feast, and ; my promised robe, and my promised crown, and my pro- mised throne, unless John, unless George, unless Henry, unless my darling son can share them with me. Heaven will be no heaven without him. 0 God, save my boy, or countme among the lost." That is a terrible prayer, and yet ,there is a young man sitting in the pew on. the main floor, oria the lower gallery or in the top gallery, who has already crushed such a prayer from bis mother's heart. He hardly ever writes home, or living at home, what does he care how much trouble he gives her? . Her tears are nomore to him than the rain thatdrops from the caves of the house on a dark night. The fact that she docs nob sleep because watch- ing for his return late at night does not choke his laughter or hasten his step forward, She has tried coaxing and kind- ness and self-sacrifice and all the ordinary prayers that mothers make for their obit. dren, and all have failed.' She is coming toward the vivid and,.turesome and terrific .prayer 'of my toffs: She isoin to lift her own eternity and set. it, upon that one "If," by which she expects to decide whether you will go up with her et she down with you. She may be this, moment looking heavenward, and saying, " 0 Lord, ieelaim him by Thy grace,' and then add. in,g that heartrending "If" of Only text : 'filet blot me, I' pray Thee out of Thy. book." After three years of absence a son wroto his mother in one of the Xepv Eng. land whaling villages that, he was corning homy in a certain -ship. Mother `like, she stood watching, and the ship was fn. tJ)e offing, but it fearful storm struck it a dashed the ship on the 'rocks that nig Al? that ; night the mother prayed for safety of her don, and just ai, »dawwn there was a knock at the cottage door, and the can' entered, crying out, " Mother, I knew you would pray me home !" 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