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R B; V. TVR. TALMAS E
Th* Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: Go<l’ Saving Grace—Religion 1.
au Active Principle Which Work*
Constantly For the Welfare of Bo.ly
anil Mind and Soul—Hope For Sinners.
(Copyright 11*00.1
Washington, D. C.—Dr. Talmage is
now traveling in Norway, where he has
been deeply interested in the natural phe
nomena and the quaint social life of that
wonderful land. In this sermon he ar
gues, contrary to the opinion of many,
that religion is an active principle which
works constantly for the welfare of body
and mind and soul His test is Luke xiv,
34. “Salt is good.”
The Bible is a dictionary of the finest
similes. It employs among living creat
ures storks and eagles and doves and uni
corns and sheep and cattle; among trees,
sycamores and terebinths and pomegran
ates and almcsads and apples; among jew
els, pearls and amethysts and jacinths
and chrysoprases. Christ uses no stale
illustrations. The lilies that He plucks in
His discourse are dewy fresh; the ravens
in His discourses are not stuffed specimens
of birds, hut warm with life from wing tip
to wing tip; the fish He points to are not
dull about the gills, as though long cap
tured. but a-squirm in the wet net just
brought up on the beach of Tiberias. In
my text, which is the peroration of one of
His sermons, He picks up a crystal and
holds it before His congregation as an illus
tration of divine grace in the heart when
He says what we all know by experiment,
“Salt is good.”
I shall try to carry out the Saviour's
idea in this text and in the first place say
to you that grace is like salt in its beauty.
In Gallicia there are mines of salt with ex
cavations and underground passages reach
ing. I am told, 280 miles. Far underground
there are chapels and halls of reception,
the columns, the altars and the pulpits of
salt. When the king and the princes come
io visit these mines, the whole place is
illuminated, and the glory of crystal walls
and crystal ceilings and crystal floors and
crystal columns, under the glare of the
torches and the lamps, needs words of crys
tal to describe it. But you need not go so
far as that to find tire beauty of salt. You
live in a land which produces millions of
bushels of it in a year, and you can take
the morning rail train and in a few hours
get to the salt mines and salt springs, and
you have this article morning, noon and
night on your table. Salt has all the
beauty of the snowflake and water foam,
with durability added. It is beautiful to
the naked eye, but under the glass you see
the stars, and the diamonds, and the white
tree branches, and the splinters, and the
bridges of fire as the sun glints them.
There is more architectural skill in one of
these crystals of salt than human inge
nuity has ever demonstrated in an Alham
bra or St. Peter's.
It would take all time, with an infringe
ment upon eternity, for an angel of God
to tell one-half the glories in a salt crystal.
So with the grace of God; it is perfectly
beautiful. I have seen it smooth out wrin
kles of care from the brow; I have seen it
make an aged man feel almost young
again: I have seen it lift the stooping
shoulders and put snarklo into the dull eye.
Solomon discovered its therapeutic quali
ties when he said, “It is marrow to the
bones.” It helps to digest the food and
to purify the blood and to calm the pulses
and quiet the spleen, and instead of Tyn
dall’s prayer test of twenty years ago, put
ting a man in a philosophical hosnital to be
experimented upon by prayer, it keeps him
so well that he does not need to be prayed
for as an invalid. lam SDeaking now of a
healthy religion— not of that morbid relig
ion that sits for three hours on a grave
stone reading Hervev’s “Meditations
Among the Tombs”—a religion that pros
pers best in a *bad state of the liver! I
speak of the religion that Christ preached.
I suppose, when that religion has con
quered the world, that disease will be ban
ished, and that a man 100 years of age will
eome in from business and say, “I am
tired; I think it must be time for me to
go.” and without one physical pang heaven
will have him.
But the chief beauty of grace is in the
soul. It takes that which was hard and
cokl and repulsive and makes it all over
again. It pours upon one’s nature what
David calls “the beauty of holiness.” It
extirpates everything that is hateful and
unclean. If jealousy and pride and lust
and worldliness lurk about, they are
chained and have a very small sweep.
.Tesus throws upon the soul the fragrance
of a summer garden as He comes in sav
ing, “I am the Rose of Sharon,” and lie
submerges it with the glory of a spring
morning, as He says, “I am the light.”
Oh, how much that grace did for the
Ihree Johns! It took John Bunyan, the
foul mouthed, and made him John Bun
yun, the immortal dreamer; it took John
Newton, the infidel sailor, and in the midst
of the hurricane made him cry out, “My
mother’s God, have mercy upon me!” It
took John Summerfield from a life of sin
and by the hand of a Christian maker of
edge tools Jed him into the pulpit that
burns still with the light of that Christian
eloquenee which charmed thousands to the
Jesus whom He once despised. Ah, you
may search all the earth over for anything
so beautiful or beautifying as the grace of
God! Go all through the deep mine pas
sages of Wieliezka and amid the under
ground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt and
show me anything so ivanseendently beau
tifui as this grace of God fashioned and
liung in eternal crystals.
Again, grace is like salt in the fact that
it is a necessity of life. Man and beast
perish without salt. What are those paths
across the western prairie? Why, they
were made there by deer and buffalo going
to and coming away from the salt “licks.”
Chemists and physicians all the world over
tell us that salt is a necessity of life. And
so with the grace of God; you must have it
or die. I know a great many speak of it
as a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder
strap adorning a soldier, or a light, froth
ing dessert brought in after the greatest
part of the banquet of life is over, or a
medicine to be taken after powders and
mustard plasters have failed to do their
work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a
string of bells around a horse’s neck while
he draws the load and in nowise helping
him to draw it. So far from that I declare
tire grace ox God to be the first and the
last necessity. It is food we must take or
starve into an eternity of famine. It is
clothing, without which w? freeze to the
mast of infinite terror. It is the plank,
and the only plank, on which we can float
shoreward. It is the ladder, and the only
ladder, on which we can climb up into the
light. It is a postive necessity for the
soul. You can tell very easily what the
effect would be if a person refused to take
salt into the body. The energies would
fail, the lungs would struggle with the air,
slow fevers would crawl through the brain,
the heart would flutter, and the life would
be gone. Salt, a necessity for the life of
the body; the grace of God, a necessity
for the life of the soul!
Again, I remark that grace is like salt in
abundance. God has strewn salt in vast
profusion all over the continents. Russia
seems built on a salt-cellar. There is one
region in that country that turns out 90,000
tons of salt in a year' England and Russia
and Italy have inexhaustible resources in
this respect. Norway and Sweden, white
with snow above, white with salt beneath.
Austria, yielding 900,000 tons annually.
Nearly all the nations rich in it—rock salt,
spring salt, sea salt.
Christ, the Creator of the world, when
He uttered our text, knew it would become
more and more significant as the shafts
wore sunk, and the springs w'ere bored.
and the pumps were worked, and the crys
tals were gathered. So the grace of God is
abundant It is for all lands, for all ages,
for all conditions. It seems to undergirt
everything—pardon for the worst sin, com
fort for the sharpest suffering, brightest
light for the thickest darkness, <
Around about the salt lakes of Saratov
there are 10,000 men toiling day and night,
and yet they never exhaust the saline treas
ures. And if the 1,600,000.000 of our race
should now cry out to God for llis mercy
there would be enough for all—for those
furthest gone in sin, for the murderer
standing on the drop of the gallows. It is
an ocean. of mercy, and if Europe and
Asia, Africa, North and South America,
and all the islands of the sea went down
m it to-day they would have room enough
to wash and come up clean.
Let no man think that his case is too
tough a one for God to act upon. Though
your sin may be deep and raging, let me
tell you that God’s grace is a bridge not
built on earthly piers, but suspended and
spanning the awful chasm of your guilt,
one end resting upon the rock of eternal
promises and the other on the foundations
ot heaven. Demeiriup wore a robe so in
crusted with jewels that no one after him
ever dared to wear it. But our King, Jesus,
takes off the robe of His righteousness, a
robe blood dyed and heaven impearled,
and reaches it out to the worst wretch in
all the earth and says: “Put that on! Wear
it now'! Wear it forever!”
Again, the grace of God is like salt in
the way we come at it. The salt on the
surface is almost always impure—that
which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and
the South American pampas and in India
—-but the miners go down through the
shafts and through the dark labyrinths and
along by galleries of rock, and with
torches and pickaxes, find their way under
the very foundations of the earth to where
the salt lies that makes up the nation's
wealth. To get to the best saline springs
of the earth huge machinery goes down,
boring depth below depth, depth below
depth, until from under the very roofs of
the mountains the saline water supplies
the aqueduct. This w'ater is brought to
the surface and is exposed in tanks to the
sun for evaporation, or it is put in boilers
mightily heated and the water evaporates,
and the salt gathers at the bottom of the
tank. The work is completed, and the for
tune is made.
Have you not been in enough trouble to
have that work go on? I was reading of
Aristotle, who said there was a field of
flowers in Sicily so sweet that once a
hound, coming on the track of game, came
to that field and was bewildered by the
perfumes and so lost the track. Oh, that
our souls might become like “a field which
the Lord hath blessed” and exhale so much
of the sweetness of Christian character
that the hounds of temptation, coining on
our track, might lose it and go Howling
back with disappointment!
But I remark again that the grace of
God is like the salt in its preservative
quality* You know that salt absorbs the
moisture of articles of food and infuses
them with brine, which preserves them for
a long while. Salt is the great antiputre
factor of the ■world. Experimenters, in
preserving wood, have tried sugar and
smoke and air-tight jars and everything
else, but as long as the world stands
Christ’s words will be suggestive, and men
will admit that as a great preservative
“salt is good.”
But for the grace of God the earth would
have become a stale carcass long before
this. That grace is the only preservative
of laws and constitutions and literatures.
Just as soon as a government loses this
salt of divine grace it perishes. The philo
sophy of this day, so far as it is antagonis
tic to this religion, putrefies and stinks.
The great want of our schools of learning
and our institutions of science to-day is
not more Leyden jars and galvanic batter
ies and spectroscopes and philosophical ap
paratus, but more of that grace that will
tench our men of science that the God of
the universe is the God of the Bible.
How strange it is that in all their mag
nificent sweep of the telescope they have
not seen the morning star of Jesus, and
that in all their experiments with light and
heat they have not seen the light and felt
the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness!
\Ye want more of the salt of God’s grace
in our homes, in our schools, in our col
leges, in our social life, in our Christianity.
And that which has it will live; that which
has it not will die. I proclaim the tenden
cy of everything earthly to putrefaction
and death, the religion of Christ the only
preservative.
My subject is one of great congratulation
to those who have within their souls this
gospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve
them through the temptations and sor
rows of life and through the ages of eter
nity. I do not mean to say that you will
have a smooth time because you are a
Christian. On the contrary, if you do your
whole duty 1 will promise you a rough
time. You march through an enemy’s
country, and they will try to double up'
both flanks and to cut you off from your
source of supplies. The war you wage will
not be with toy arrows, but sword plunged
to the hilt, and spurring on your steed
over heaps of the slain. But I think that
God omnipotent will see you through. I
know He will. But why do I talk like an
atheist when I ought to say I know He
will ? “Kept by the power of God through
faith unto complete salvation.”
When Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania,
died years ago I lost a good friend. He
impressed me mightily with the horrors of
war. In the eight hours that we rode to
gether in the cars he recited to me the
scenes through which he had passed in the
civil war. He said that there came one
battle upon which everything seemed to
pivot. Telegrams from Washington said
that the life of the nation depended on
that struggle. He said to me: “1 went into
that battle, sir; with my son. His mother
and I thought everything of him. You
know how a father will feel toward, his
son who is coming up manly and brave and
good. Well, the battle opened and con
centered, and it was awful. Horses and
riders bent and twisted and piled up to
gether. It was awful, sir. We quit firing
and took to the point of the bayonet.
Well, sir, I didn’t feel like myself that day.
I had prayed to God for strength for that
particular battle, and I went into it feel
ing that I had in my right arm the
strength of ten giants,” and as the Gov
ernor brought his arm down on the back
of the seat it fairly made the car tremble.
“Well.” he said, “the battle was desperate,
but after awhile we gained a little, and we
marched on a little. I turned round to the
troops and shouted, ‘Come on, boys!’ and
I stepped across a dead soldier, and 10, it
was my son! I saw at the first glance he
was dead, and yet I did not dare to stop a
minute, for the crisis had come in the bat
tle, so I just got down on my knees, and I
threw my arms around him, and I gave
him one good kiss and said, ‘Good-by,
dear,’ and sprang up and shouted, ‘Come
on, boys!’ ” So it is in the Christian con
flict. It is a fierce fight. Heaven is wait
ing for the bulletins to announce the tre
mendous issue. Hail of shot, gash of sa
bre, fall of battleax,groaning on every side.
We cannot stop for loss or bereavement
or anything else. With one ardent em
brace and loving kiss we utter our fare
wells and then cry: “Come on, hoys!”
There are other heights to be captured,
there are other foes to be conquered, there
are other crowns to be won.”
Yet as one of the Lord’s surgeons I
must bind up two or three wounds. Just
lift them now, whatever they be. I have
been told there is nothing like salt to stop
the bleeding of a wound, and so I take this
salt of Christ’s gospel and put it on the
lacerated soul. It smarts a little at first,
but see, the bleeding stops, and lo the flesh
comes again as the flesh of a little child!
“Salt is good.” “Comfort one another
with these words.”
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