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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-2-11, Page 2USEFUL OFFERING DR. TALMAGE PREACHED ON THE EFFICACY OF PAIN. T'.loa nent'Discourse ea the •text, "It Re- ltovett elitist to Sull'er"--eirhy the Pa1114 of lite Savior Were Absolutely %t eossery. Washington, Jan, 31. --Rev. Dr. Tal- mass's subject chosen for to -day -was "Useful Suffering," the text taken be- ing Luke 24-46. "it beboved Christ to suffer." There have been scholars who have ventured the assertion that the pains of our Lord were unnecessary. Indeed, it was a shocking waste of tears and blood and agony, unless some great end were to be reached. If men can prove that. no good result comes of it, then the character of God is impeach- ed, and the universe most stand ab- horrent and denunciatory at the fact that the Father allowed the butchery of Ilia only begotten Sole We alt ad- mire the brave six hundred men de- scribed by Tennysou as dashing into the conflict, when they knew they must die anis knew at the same time that "some one had blunder'd;" but we are abhorrent of the titan who made the blunder, and who caused the sacri- fice of those brave men for no use. But I shall show you, if the Lord will help me, this morning, that, for good rea- sons Christ went through his torture, In other words. "It behaved Cbrist to suffer.` 1. In the first place, i remark, that Christ's lacerations were necessary, because tnan's res?ue was an impossi- bility except by the payment of some great sacrifice. Outraged law bad thundered against iniquity, elan must die unless a substitute can intercept that death. Let Gabriel step forth. He refuses. Let Michael, the Arch- angel, step forth. He refuses. No Roman citizen, no Athenian, no Cor- inthian, no reformer, no angel volun- teered. Christ then bared His heart to the pang. He paid for our redemp- tion in tears and blood, and wounded feet, and scourged shoulders, and torn brow. "et is done." heaven and earth heard the snap of the prison bar. Sinai ceased to quake with wrath the mo- ment that Calvary i•egen to rock in crucifixion. Christ had suffered. "Oh," says some: man, "I don't like this doc- trine of substitution; let every man bear his own burdens, and weep bis own tears and fight his own battles," Why, any brother, there is vicarious suffering all over the world. Do not your parents suffer for you? Do you not suffer sometimes for your child- ren? Did not Grace .Darling suffer for the drowning sailors? Vicarious suf- fering on all sides! Kut how insignifi- cant eompared with this scene of vicari- ous suffering. Was it for crimes that t had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown, And love beyond degree. Christ must suffer to pay the price of our redemption. But i must remark again: The suf- fering of Christ were necessary in order that the world's sympathies migbt be roused. Men are won to the right and good through their sympa- thies. The world must feel aright be- fore it can act aright. So the cross was allowed to be lifted that the world's sympathies might be aroused. Men who have been obturated by the cruelties they have enacted, by the massacre they have inflicted, by the borrors of which they have been guilty, have become little children in the presence of this dying Saviour. What the sword could not do, what Juggernauts could not subdue, the wounded hand of Christ has accom- ;ltshed. There are this moment mil- cas of people held under the spell of hat one sacrifice. 'The hammers that .,truck the spikes into the cross have ,roken the rocky heart of the world, elot:hing. but the agonies of a Saviour's death -throe could rouse the world's sympathies. I remark again: "It behoved Christ to suffer," that the strength and per- tsisteance of the divine love might be demonstrated. Was it the applause of the world that induced Christ on that crusade from heaven? Why, all the universe was at His feet. Could the conquest of this insignificant planet have paid Him for His career ofain, if it had been a. mere matter of� ap- plause? All the honors of heaven surg- ing at His feet. Would your Queen give up her throne that she might rule a miserable tribe in Africa? Would the Lord Jesus Christ, on :the throne of the universe, come down to our planet if it were a mere matter of applause and acclamation ? Nor was it an expe- rtion_ undertaken for the accumula- tion of vase wealth. What could. all the harvests and the diamonds of our little world do for Him whose are the glories of infinite and eternity ? Nor was it art experiment -an attempt to how what He could do with the hard- hearted. race. He who wheels the stars ni their courses and holds the pillars of the universe on the tips of his fin- gers needed to make no experiment to find what He could do. Oh 1 1 will tell you my friends, 'what it -was. It was undisguised, unlimited, all conquering, all -consuming, infinite; eternal, omni- potent love that opened the, gate, that started the star in the .>'ast, with fin- ger of light pointing down to the man- ger ; that arrayed the Christmas choir above Bethlehem, 'that opened the .sta- ble door where: Christ was born, that lifted Him on the slots. Love, thirsty at the well. Love at the sick man's conch, Love alt tbe cripple's erutch. Love sweating in 'the garden. Love dy- ing on the cross. Love wi•appecl in the grave. You cannot mistake it. The blindest eye must see it. The hardest heart muvt feel it, . The, deafest ear siluYt hear. .. it.arable end miracle, "1 Q -w i . a s.c t y .....,s,lls x'-� f• • , 1n seaside intervleyv; all seeaes of Ris life, all the suffering of Hlis death, yin- ttproving beyond co i . . ;r.Q 'ei;"±;q 'that for our' xY1r rate earth t od ,yearned with stupendous, inex- tinguishable love. t', ' :lent;` 1 remark a �.a "It behaved. • r. car t, c b st r toR' Tiff r �t suffer," , ha{: the: nature of 'humanuilt might : be demonstrated. .g g. ']here is not a, common-sense man chi the hotse to-ele,y that will not adroit that dl mach. e o iout � e in x'y �of 5 piety is r. Of tsar, that the hu}ztain mind ....and the Innemn heart are disorganized,tba something ought to be done, and 'don right away for its repair and readjus went. But the height, and depot. an length, and breadth, and hate, an recklessness and infernal energy of th human heart. for sin would not hav been demonstrated if against the hol and innocent. One of the Cross it ha not been hurled in one bolt of fire Christ was not: the first man tbat ha been put to death. There had bee many before Him. i ut to death ; hu they had their whims their bodies their sins, their .inconsistencies- Bu when the mob outside of Jerusalem howled at the .Son of God, it was hat against goodness, it was blasphem against virtue, it was eartb agains heaven. What was in that innocen and Ioving face of Christ that excite the vituperation and the , contumely and scorn of men? If He had bantered them to conic oet; if He had laughed them into derision : if He had denounc ed them as the vagabonds that they were, we could understand their fero- elty ; but it was against. inoffensiveness that they brandished t heir spears, and shook their fists and ground their teeth and howled, and scoffed, and jeered, and mocked. What evil had He done? None, Whose eyesight had Ile put out? None ; but He had given vision to the h! nd. Whose child bad He slain? None ; but Ile restored the dead dam- sel to her mother ? What law had Ile broken? None ; but He had inculcated obedience of government. What foul plot had He enacted against the happi- ness of t he rase ? None ; He had come to save the world. The only cruelty He ever e,lactecl was to heal the sick, The only ostentation Ile ever display- ed was to sit with publicans and sin- ners and wash 'the disciples' feet. The Only Selfishness He ever eshibited was to give His life for iris enemies. Anti wor yet, all the wrath of theld surge against His holy -art. Hear the red- hot scorn of the world hissing in the pools of a Saviour's blood 1 And stand- ing there to -day, let us see what an unreasonable, loathsome, hateful, blast- ing, danining thing is the iniquity of the human heart. l'nloosed what will not sin do? It will scale any height, it will fathom the very depth of hell, it will revel in all laseiviousuess. There is no blasphemy it will not utter, there are no cruelties of which it will not revenge itself. It will wallow in filth, it will breathe the air of charnel houses of corruption, and call them aroma; it will quaff the blood of immortal souls and call it nectar. When sin murder- ed Cbrist on the Cross, it showed tivhat it would do with the Lord God Almighty if it could get at Him. The prophet bad declared -i think it was Jere- eniah-..had declared centuries before the truth, but not until sur shot out its forked tongue at the crucifixion and tossed its sting into the soul of a mar- tyred Jesus was it illustrated, that "the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." THE w wa t you stumbie and fall, They have done e unaccountable meanness toward you. t- Sometimes you feel angry. You feet dass if you would like to retort. Stop l d Look at the closed lips, look at the o still band, look at the beautiful de - e meanor of your Lord. Struck, not y striking back again, Oh ! if you could d only appreciate what He endured in the way of persecution, you never d would complain of persecution. The n words of Christ would be your words: t "Father, if it be possible, let this cup Pass from ma' but if not Thy will 'be t done." "It . belhoved Christ to suffer" persecution, that Ile might show you e how to endure persecution. Y Some of you are bereft. Ti is no t random remark, because there is hard-. t ty a family bore that has not passed d ander the shadow. You have been be - vett. Your house is a different place from evliat it used to be. The same. furniture, the same books, the same - pictures, but there has been a voice hushed there. The face that used ,to light 'up the 'whole dwelling has van-.' fished, The pattering of the other feet does not break up the loneliness. The , wave has gone over your soul, and. you have sometimes thought what you 'would tell him when he comes back, but then the thought has flashed upon you, He will Haver come back! Ah ! my brother, my sister, Christ. has sounded asphere that to -day. 1'3eholdepth, jesusoereft him thef sl knows hwat it is to weep at the tomb. It seems to me that. if all storms of the world's sorrow were compressed into one sob, and. that sob were uttered to two words; "Jesus wept," T close my sermon with a doxology: "Blessing, and glory, and honor, and power be unto Hint that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for- ever. amen, and Amen!" c1 -... Again: " It behoved Christ to suf- fer," that our affections might be ex- cited Christward. Why, sirs, the be- havior of our Lord has stirred the af- fections of all those who bave ever heard of it. It has bung the art -gal- leries of the world with such pictures as Ghirlandajo's " Worship of the Magi ;" Giatto's " Baptism of Christ;" Holman Hunt's "Christ in the Tem- ple," Tintorct's "Agony in the Garden;" Angelo's " Crucifixion," and it has call- ed out Handel's " Messiah," and rung sweetest chimes in Young's " Night Thoughts," and filled the psalmody of the world with the penitential notes of sorrow and the hosannas of Chris- tian triumph, Show , me tiny other king 'tvho• has so many subjects. \\chat is the mostpotent name to -day he the treated States, France, in England, in Scotland, in Ireland? Jesus. Where is the king wbo has so many admiring subjects as Christ ? .Show nee a reg,*i- ment of a thousand men in their army, and l wit Isbow you a battalion of ten thousand men in Christ's army. Show me in history where one man has given bis property and bis life for anyone else and I will show you in history hundreds and thousands of men wbo have cheerfully died tbat Christ might reign. Aye, tbere are a bun- were, would een a! hste s aut; and die for Jepeep us. Their faith may now seem to the faint, and sometimes thay may be incon- sistent; but let the fires of martyrdom be kindled, throw them into the pit, cover them with poisonous serpents, pound them, flail them, crush them, and I will tell you what their last cry would be: " Came, Lord Jesus, come quickly I" Oh the affections ctions eaf e Loll!. ma many sof shas won us. There are some of us who can say this morn - ng " Lord Jesus, my light and, nay song; my hope for time, my expecta- tion for eternity." Altogether lovely Thou art. My soul is ravished' with the vision. Thou art mine. Cfome, let me clasp Thee. Come life, come death, come scorn and pain, come whirlwind of darkness, Lord Jesus, I cannot give Thee up. I have (heard Thy voice. I have seen Thy bleeding side. Lord Jesus, if I had some gar- land plucked from heavenly gardens, I would wreathe it for Thy brow. If I had some gem worthy of the place, I wouidset it in Thy crown. If I had seraphic harp, I would strike it in, Thy praise. But I come lost and ruined and undone, to throw myself at' Thy feet. No price 1 bring ; Simply to Thy cross I cling. Thou knowest ail things. Thou knowest that I love Thee. But I remark again, " It behoved. Christ, to suffer" that the world might learn how to suffer. Sometimes people suffer because they cannot help them- selves; but .Christ had in His hands all the weapons to furnish His enemies, and yet in quiesence He endured all outrage. He might have hurled the rocks of Golgotha upon >Ilis pursuers He might have cleft. the earth until it swallowed up His assailants ; He might have called in reenactment or taken any thunderbolt from the armory of God Omnipotent, and hurled it seething and fiery among leis foes; but He an- swered not again. 0, my hearer, has there ever been in the history ofthe world such an ex- ample of enduring patience as we find in the Cross? Some of you suffer pbysi-. sal distresses, some of you have long - life ailments, and they make you 'fret- ful. Sometimes you think that. God has :given you a cup too deep and too brimming. Sometimes yoursee the world .laughing and romping on the highways of life, and you look/ out of the window while seated in invalid's' chair. I want to show you this morning oris tivho bad worse saint in the:reat, t than you have ever had whose sell; b was scourged, who Was wounded in tbe, hands and wounded in the feet, and suffered all ever, and .I.wa,,nt that ex- ample to 'make you say, "ii ather, not my will, but Thine be done." Teat never have had any bodily pain, and you will never have any'bodily pain that; equalled Christ's torture. ''It be- hoved. Christ to suffer,fd that he might show you how physically to suffer. Some, ofare ou , erseeuted. There Y A are those who ate you. The `crib- Gise you.They would be glad to see ffiE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 14. "Tice Prison Opened," Acts 3. 11.3it. Golden Text, Amis 3. 23. GEN.FRAL SCAT el N'r. The five verses between the last. les- son and this tell of the continued mir- aculous power given to the apostles, of the regular tneetings of the Church in Solomon's porch, of the increased popu- larity of the Christian movement, and of the steady increase of Christian membership. So great became the rep- utation of Peter as a wonder -worker, that the sick were brought in beds to the streets that his shadow, falling up- on them might exert curative influ- ence. The incident told in this lesson follows immediately after the last les- son. The date is not exactly ,known, but it was probably between A. D. 30 and 33. The first scene in the story is in the hall of the Sanhedrin, the next a prison, the third the temple courts - all in. Jerusalem. Behind the story of the lesson lie three great facts, which have to do both with the spiritual and natural world. The first fact is illus- trated in the first two verses. Always Satan and his minions are plotting against the followers of Jesus. Always the success of the Gospel fills with in- dignation the hearts of those who hate it. Always, except when checked by fear, the spirit of evil will use force against Christianity and persecute where it cannot seduce. The secondfact is that God's angels minister to all believing souls. To what extent each' of us is attended by a guardian angel we. may not know, but we do know that all natural forces and all heavenly forces are alike " ministering spirits seat forth to minister to the heirs of salvation." For us prison doors may not be shot back; miracles may no longer be within our reach; tut if we are true believers "sickness and sor- row, pain and death " are all heaven- ly attendants -angels sent, not only to beckon us nearer to God, but to enhance our comfort on earth and our felicity in heaven. The third fact is the worth- lessness of public opinion. It is a great dead force, like physical weight, which by the movement of the center of grav- ity may suddenly lurch over from one side to the other. The changes of view recorded in the gospels and the Acts - of the common people concerning Jes- us; of the disciples concerning their Master ; of the Pharisees concerning the Christian movement ; in short, of all classes of the people -are very full of edification to faithful readers now. The voice of the people is not the voice of God. Nevertheless, it is a good thing to have a restraining public sense when bad. men are seeking the over- throw of God's work in the world. PR,A.CTICAL NOTES, Verse 17. The high priest; Either Ca- iaphas, who was actual high priest, or Annus, who in some way still retained the name and touch of the power. Rose up. Was aroused to action. It was time for them to ''rise up " if they meant to save their cause. They that were : with hien. His associates ; relig- ious and political leaders; See Acts 4. 6. The sect of the Sa,ciducees. Christians and Sadducees are at ernes purposes through all time;. must be so. Filled with indignation. Because their au- thority was contemned. They were bound to defend their own notions at all hazards and against all evidence ; for, if the cause of Jesus went upttheirs must go down. 18. Laid their hands on the apostles. Not personally, but by the proper offi- cers, Probably all the twelve Were arrested. prison./ In the common / now " Ln public ward." They were thus marked with disgrace as criminals. It was now probably afternoon, and their trial. could not be held till the next day. Durin gthe interval theywould food, according to oriental get no custom, ex- cept by the pitiful care of friends. 19. The angel. It was. God's purpose;. to'cowince the Sanhedrin, that it Was warring .:with omnipotence. The angel is sent not to preach, but to liberate the imprisoned preachers, for men, not an- gels, are to call their fellow -Men, to repentance, any night. 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This may be a mere repetition for the sake of em- phasis, or it may mean that the em- ergency was so great that the high priest and they that were with him recognized unusual need of counsel, and` clealled together men of age and acknow- dged wisdom, 22, 23. The officers. Policemen we should now call them, They were Lev- itate under orders of the Sanhedrin and high priest. The prison truly found we shut. An empty prison, with floors se- curely shut, and military guards with stiff precision standing at their respec- tive posts With all safety. Clearly. this prison had not been broken open. Are we to picture the angel opening the doors, leading out the twelve, and replacing locks and bolts, while the keepers, wide awake, still knew nothing of it; ? The mere facts are stated; of the details we are not told. No man with- in. This probably, means " within" the cells ined. in which the apostles had been 24. The captain of the .temple. The commander of the Levite police. Chief priests, not high: priests, but leading members of the priestly aristocracy. They ,doubted of them. " They were mach peapleated concerning' them." Whereunto this would g w:What would come of all this. It really seem- ed as if this strange force which made illiterate men wise,. restored health and life and flung back prison bars, might be "of God," 25, Carne one and told them. What be told; them was even more astonish-. og, if possible, than was the emptiness of thea , risonThis quiet defiance of p religious and civil authority present- ed resented a problem even harder to . explain than the mirai,ie.' Why didthe alms" tleS not • hide i 26. The captain himself arrested them this time. \Vithout. violence. To -day's courtesy was unlike yesterday's brut- ality. The apostles didnot fear the rulers, but tea rulers feared the peo- ple, which shows the steady increasing popularity of the apostles. They were loved and revered for their piety, for their supernatural power, and, perhaps, most of all "for the enemies they had made." Stoned Most of the ' ston- ings " recorded in the New 'testament were due to mob violence, and the peo- ple were uow greatly excited. a17. When they had brought them. Across the temple courts from Solo- mon's parch to the," hall Ga•zith," where the Sanhedrin stately mei:. They set, them before. On that very spot,sur- rounded by these judges, Jesus had stood: Peter and Jahn had been there a few weeks before; now all the apostles are to be tried. The high priest.Eit:h- er Annas or Caiaphas, as we. have seen Dr. Gloag believes the Sanhedrin to have been divided into two factions, led respectively, by Annas, the Saddueoe and Gama liel the Pharisee. Asked them The high priest conducted all "examinee -bons before this court. ,28. Did not we straitly eoinnxand you that ye should not teach? So the first charge is disobedience to magistrates. See Acts 4, 18. Why did they not hsk. "How did you escape?" Perhaps they did not dare Co.. In this name. Con- cerning this person. Ye have filled, Jerusalem with your doctrine, Jerus- alem was the heart of Hebrew worship- " Doctrine," means teaeb]ng. The charge is, You are infecting our entire holy nation with your heresy.". Intend to bring this man's blood dpon us. The rulers wanted to shuffle' their guilt on Judas and Pilate, but their own impre- cation, "' His blood be on us and on our children." drtn. (Matt. 27. 25.), was still" ern their memory. ,The high priest calls Jesus this name and this man as if feeling a. contempt fox him, and disdain- ing to speak his name. • 29.i• P.ter and the other apostles. Peter was clearly the foremost of the apostles, We ought to obey God rather than men. A thoroughly safe rule, but we must be sure that God really commands us. We she uld'o be every e cry law except it P,. requires us to : do wrong. When waok- ed milers command us to sin against conscience on cieiice we -must refuse, and submit to the penalty. 4114 (44. a` { 30. Th God of our fathers, of Aline ham, Isaac, and Jacobi, the .God of our nation and of our religion, whom W: all adore, raised up Jesus from the . grave, the ver•? Jesus tvhoiri ye slew. Hanged on it tree. Crucified him, Ye slew him, but God raised him. Of what use was it to prohibit such men from proclaiming the resurrection? 31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Sav- iour. Peter declares that the proud- est of his ,judges owes allegta.nee to i the. carpenter Rabbi. The word repen- f:a.nce had no technical. theological meaning in those days. Peter declares that Israel's duty is to " turn about " in heart and .life, so as to gel. forgive- : nets of sins. 32. Wit are his witnesses. We are not rabbis, -we are not: theologians, we are not doctors. we are not priests; we are witnesses of the life and -death and resurrection of Jesus. And so are we, as truly as was Peter. So is also the Holy Ghost. God himself was bearing testimony to their mission, giving di vine attestation, not only by the per- form.nce of miracles, but by the trans- formation of their characters. TIl•E, INDIAN ARMY. -The Secretary of State for India, .Lord George Hamilton, replying to ques- tions based on the statement made in the Indian press that only 24,000 of the whole British •garrison were free from contagious disease in some shape or oth- er, and that 522 per 1,000 of 'the troops were actually ineapacitated by disease, admitted that there were 3522 hospital cases per 1,000, but explained that this did not; mean 522 men, the average per- manent incapacitation due . to -'discs se being 4 6 men e r 1,000. He added dd ed that a department committee was now en- quiring into the subject, and 'o on re, celpt of its reports . the Government would carefully consider the whole question, A1I T e , THE R AL CL'S� T . Louisa o'. d youconsider ons' e rd1ls seal a true fr iisiid ? Yes,indeed, she has remised Pme that; if I- e suddenly she will come' right overg and straighten'up the house.. be- fore to husband's folks get there, LIABILITIES OF DOCTORS. ire They Responsible tor the Result or it Wrong ltingnosis ? The question of the liability of doc- tors for the results of their unskillful or negligent treatment of patients is again before the law courts in Eng- land. The children of Samuel Dew, .,.: a lawyer in Bangor, fell mysteriously ill of a disease which Dr. Edwards, the family physician, diagnosed as "malig- nant sore throat." The 6 -year-old boy died within a few days, and: the 6 - months -old baby died later, according to Dr. Edwards, of laryngitis coupled with bronchitis. Meantime, as the dis- ease, whatever it might be, was not considered infectious or contagious, ml precautions in the way of isolation, etc., were ordered or carried out, with the natural result that other members of the household fell ill. The optimistic doctor, in fact, repeatedly declared that no danger existed for anybody, and the also notified the local sanitary authori ties. When the anxious father had lost his two children he thought it about time to bave additional advice, and th'e new doctors instantly and un- hesitatingly diagnosed diphtheria as the cause of all the trouble, and there was much consequent burning of bed- ding and lavish uget of disinfectants, .But, Dr. Edwards stood to his " guns and declared, in effect, that all the oth- er local doctors' were fools, and he alone was a worthy representative of modern medical science. The father brought an action a for. ' damages, which was tried last week at t n a There he Car von Assizes. zes. therewas t - niendo s re e us'array of•;ex orfs -on both sides. p Dr. Lennox Brown, perhaps the great- est living authority on throat diseases, was brought front London, andro- nounced •f for diphtheria. The famousbas- p1\ teriol ist o yvlio :had analysed. apor- tiong �Y of one little victim's membrane foundi d hthHritic, microbes flourishing lr 5 therein, and was prepared to produce I P them in t. �But other r bar experts were produced ed on the other ids, the lay mind .became hopelessly lesslY fogged, and thetrial ended -unexpectedly lnajudg- mentent for the defendant..