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ftEV- DU* TALMACE.
T h 0 H»ln*nt Dirins’* Bmnday
Diaoours*.
Sabject: Clirlst Inn Mnladroltness—Work
ers For the Lord Who Are Religious
Blunderers— H*w to Bo Skillful In Spir
itual Archery—More Backbone Needed.
ICopyriL'ht 1901.1
Washington, D. C.—In this discourse
])r Talmage urges all Christian workers
to increased fidelity and shows how much
effort at doing good fails through lack of
•ulroitness; text, Genesis x. 9, “He was
k mighty hunter before the Lord.”
lu°our day the hunting times infested is a sport, of wild but beast* in the
lands and life death with
,t W as a matter of or the
people. It was very different from going
out on a sunshiny afternoon with a patent
breechloader to shoot reed birds on the
flats when Pollux and Achilles and Dio
medes went out to clear the land of lions
and panthers and bears. Xenophon grew
eloquent in regard to the art of hunting.
In the Far East people, Francis elephant I. called mounted,
■based the tiger. was the
father of hunting. And Moses, in my text,
-cts forth Nimrod as a hero when it pre
sents him with broad shoulders and shaggy
apparel and sun-browned face and arm
Lunched with muscle—“a mighty hunter
before the Lord.” I think he used the
how and the arrows with great success
practicing archery.
I have thought if it is such a grand
tiling and such a brave thing to clear wild
beasts out of a country if it is not a bet
ter and braver thing to hunt down and de
stroy those great evils of society that are
stalking the land with fierce eye and
bloody paw and sharp tusk and quick
spring. I have wondered if there is not
such a thing as gospel archery, from by which
those who have been God flying and heaven. the truth
may be captured for The
3>ord Jesus Christ in His sermon used the
art of angling for an illustration when He
said. "I will make you fishers of men.”
And so I think I have authority for using
hunting as an illustration of gospel truth,
and I pray God that there may be many a
man enlisted in the work who shall begin
to study gospel archery, of whom it may,
after awhile, he said, “He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord.”
How much awkward Christian work
there is done in the world! How many
good people there are who drive souls
away from Christ instead of bringing _
them to Him! All their fingers who are thumbs
—religious blunderers upset more
than they right. Their gun has a crooked
barrel, and kicks as it goes ofF. along They are
like a clumsy comrade who goes with
skillful hunters. At the very moment he
ought to be most quiet he and is crackling frightening an
alder or falling over a log Christian people
away the game. How few
have ever learned how the Lord Jesus
Christ at the well went from practical talking about relig
a cup of water to the most
ious truths, which won the woman’s soul
for God! Jesus in the wilderness was
breaking bread to the people. I think it
was very good bread. It was very light
bread, and the, yeast had done its work
thoroughly. Christ, after He had broken
the bread, said to the people, of “Beware the Phari- of
the yeast or of the leaven
sees.” So natural a transition it was, and
how easily they all understood Him! But
how few Christian people there are who
understand how to fasten the truths of
God and religion to the souls of men!
The archers of olden time studied their
art. They were very precise in the mat
ter. The old books gave special directions
as to how an archer should go and as to
what an archer should do. He must stand
erect and firm, his left foot a little in ad
vance of the right foot. With his left hand
he must take hold of the bow in the mid
dle, and then with the three fingers and
the thumb of his right hand he should lay
hold the arrow and affix it to the string, But
so precise was the direction given.
how clumsy we are about religious work!
How little skill and care we exercise! How
often our arrows miss the mark! I am
glad that there are institutions estab
lished in many of the cities of our land
where men may learn the art of doing
good—studyng spiritual archery and be
come known as “mighty hunters before
the. Lord.”
In the first place if you want to be ef
fectual in doing good you must be very
sure of your weapon. There was some
olden thing very fascinating about the archery of
times. Perhaps you do not know
what they could do with the bow and ar
row. English Why, the chief battles fought by the
bow. They Plantagenets would were with the of long- pol
ished take the arrow
wood and feather it with the plume
of a bird, and then it would fly from the
bowstring fields of Agincourt of plaited silk. The bloody
and Solway Moss and
■Neville’s Cross heard the loud thrum of
■ he archer’s bowstring. Now, my Chris
tian friends, we have mightier weapon
than that. It is the arrow of the gospel.
It is a sharp arrow; it is feathered from
the wing of the dove of God’s Spirit: it
flies from a bow made out of the wood of
the cross. As far as I can estimate or cal
culate, it has brought down 400,000,000 of
souls. Paul knew how to bring the notch
of that arrow on to the bowstring, and its
whir was heard through the Corinthian
theatres and through the courtroom until
the knees of Felix knocked together.
It was that arrow that stuck in Luther’s
heart when he cried out: “Oh, my sins!
Dh, my sins!” If it strike a man in the
head it kills his skepticism: if it strike
him in the heel it will turn his step; if it
strike him in the heart lie throws up his
hands, as did one of old when wounded in
jn the battle, crying, “O Galilean, Thou
hast conquered!”'
in the armory of the Earl of Penbroke
tuere are old corselets which show that
the arrow of the English used to go
through ihe the breastplate, througli the body
warrior and out through the back
Piate. What a symbol of that gospel which
ls sharper to the than a two-edged sword, pierc
ln g dividing asunder of soul and
way and of the joints andmarrow! Would
Ti, i' ve ^ il( ^ m °re faith in that gospel,
the humblest man in the World, if he
had enough faith in it, could bring a hun
dred souls to Christ—perhaps 500. Just in
proportion as this age seems to believe
. ® and less in it I believe more and more
ia it. What are men about that they will
,s • ot.hing accept their own deliverance? There
n proposed bv men that can do
anythmg ike like this gospel.
V'vu religion Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson
t-hcodore Parker of icicles; the religion
I was a sirocco of the
oesert, , covering up the soil with dry sand;
leiieving e religion of Renan was the romance of
almost nothing; the religion of
In tluxleys and the Spencers is merely a
• . °. n which human philosophy sits
* v ' er jfrg in the night of the soul, looking
I' to the stars, offering no help to the na
*r J} 8 that crouch and groan at the base,
y frfrj where there is one man who has
jected that gospel for another who is
.ytjted ; r°j^Iy in his satisfied skepticism, and helped and I will and take con
hin) Car ^morrow and ride 500 miles to see
be,, ie tu P° w er of the gospel has not yet
‘‘touched. , , As throws
i,., fr a frd and a sportsman flying up
t i,,„ catches the ball
U -(‘ t le frfr’- i ust 80 easily will this gos
-k1 er awhile catch this round world
u, iV’fr? • tr , its
•f art om „°f Christ. orbit, and bring it back to
■rid 'j will Give it full swing,
pardon every sin, heal every
'ver’i ) .“lave CUre and ever Y trouble, emancipate
, ransom every nation.
Uf'fr. arc !t you want to be skillful in spir
, uery, you must hunt in unfre
tho'V frfrfrter , an< f deluded three places. four days Why into does the
p. Sylvania go or
Uke forest s _ or . over Raquette
It ! s tfc; wilds of the Adirondacks?
only way to do. The deer are
shy, and one “bang" of the gun clears the
forest. From the California stage vou see
as you go over the plains, here mid there
a coyote trotting along almost within
range of the gun—sometimes quite within
range of it. No one cares for that: it is
worthless. The good game, is hidden and
secluded. Every hunter knows that So
manv of the souls that will be of most
worth for Christ and of most value to the
church are secluded. Thev do not come in
your way. You will have to go where thev
are. •
1 remark further, if you want to succeed
m spiritual archery you must have cour
age If the hunter stands with trembling
hand or shoulder that flinches with fear,
instead of his taking the catamount the
catamount takes him. What would be
come of the Greenlander if when out hunt
ing for the bear he should stand shivering
with terror on an iceberg? What would
have become of Du Chaillu and Livings
tone in the African thicket with a faint
heart and a weak knee? When a panther
conics within twenty paces of you, and it
has its eye on you, and it 1ms squatted for
the fearful spring, “Steady there!” Cour
age, O ye spiritual archers! There are
great monsters of iniquity prowling all
around about the community. Shall we
not in the strength of God go forth and
combat them? We not onlv need more
heart, but more backbone. What is the
church of God that it should fear to look
in the eye any transgression? There is the
Bengal tiger of drunkenness that prowls
around, and instead of attacking it how
many of us hide under the church pew or
tne communion table! There is so much
invested in it we are afraid to assault it—
millions of dollars in. barrels, in vats, in
spigots, in corkscrew's, in gin palaces with
marble floors and Italian top tables, and
chased ice coolers, and in the strychnine,
and the logwood, and the tartaric acid,
and the mix vomica that go to make up
with onr “pure” wondering American drinks. I looked
eyes on the “Heidelberg
tun.” It is the great liquor vat of Ger
many, which is said to hold 800 hogsheads
of wine and only three times in a hundred
years it has been filled. But as I stood
and looked at it I said to myself: “That is
nothing—800 holds hogsheads. Why, our Ameri
can vat 10,200.000 barrels of strong
drink, and we keep 300,000 men with noth
ing to do but to see that it is filled.” Oil,
to attack this great monster of intemper
ance and the kindred monsters of fraud
and uncleanness requires you to rally all
your Christian through coJbage! Through through the
press, the pulpit, the
platform, you God must that assault it.
Would to all our American
Christians would band together, not for
crackbrained fanaticism, but for holy
Christian reform! I think it was in 1793
that there went out from Lucknow, India,
under the sovereign, the greatest hunting
party that was ever projected. There were
10,000 armed men in that hunting party.
There were camels and horses and ele
phants. ladies On some princes rode, and royal
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and the des
olate places of India were invaded by this
excursion, and the rhinoceros and deer and
elephant fell under the stroke of the sabre
and bullet. After awhile the party brought
back trophies worth 50.000 rupees, having
left the wilderness of India ghastly Would with
the slain bodies of wild beasts. to
God that instead of here and there a strag
gler going out to fight these the great millions monsters of
of iniquity in our country
members of our churches would band to
gether and hew in twain these great crimes
that make the land frightful with their
roar, and are fattening upon the bodies
and souls of immortal men! Who is ready
for such a party as that? Who will be a
mighty hunter for the Lord?'
I remark, again, if you want to he suc
cessful in spiritual archery you need not
only to bring down the game, beautiful but bring it
in. I think one of the most “Autumn.” pic- It
tures of Thorwaldsen is his
represents a sportsman coming home and
standing under a grapevine. He lias a
staff over his shoulder, and on the other
end of that stafF are hung a rabbit and a
brace of birds. Every hunter brings home
the game. No one would think of bring
ing down a roebuck or whipping lie up in a
stream for trout and letting the them is
the woods. At eventide camp
adorned with the treasures of the forest—
beak and fin and antler.
If you go out to hunt for immortal souls,
not only bring them down under the ar
row of the gospel, but bring them into the
church of God, the grand home and en
campment we have pitched this side of the
skies. Fetch them in. Do not let them lie
out in the open field. They need our pray
ers and sympathies and help. That is the
meaning of the church of God—help. 0
ye hunters for the Lord, not only bring
down the game, but bring it in!
If Mithridates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he never went indoors,
what enthusiasm ought we to have who
are hunting for immortal souls! If Domi
tian practiced archery until he could stand
a boy down in the Roman amphitheatre spread apart,
with a hand out* the could fingers shoot
and then the king wounding an arrow
between the fingers without
them, to what drill and what practice
ought we to subject ourselves in order to
become spiritual areners and “mighty
hunters before the Lord!”
But, let me say, you will never work any
better than you pray. The old archers
took the bow, put one end of it down beside
the foot, elevated the other end, and it
was the rule that the bow should be just
the size of the archer. If it were just his
size, then he would go into the battle with
confidence. Let me say that your powei
to project good in the world will corre
spond exactly ‘to your own spiritual thing stat
ure. In other words, the first in
preparation for Christian work is personal
consecration.
“Oh, for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly the frame, road
7 ’ A light to shine
upon the Lamb!’ ;
That leads me to
I am sure that there are some men who
at some time have been hit by the gospel
arrow. You felt the wound of that con
viction, and you plunged into the world
deeper, just as the stag, when the hounds
are after it, plunges into Schroon Lake,
expecting in that way to escape. Jesus
Christ is on your track to-day. O impeni
tent man, not in wrath, but in mercy. O
ve chased and panting souls, here is the
stream of God’s mercy and salvation,
where you may cool vour thirst!
Stop that chase of sin to-day. By the
red fountain that leaped from the heart
of my Lord I bid you stop! Ihere is
mercy for you—mercy that paidons, The twelve mercy
that heals, everlasting stand mercy. Enter and
gates of God’s love open,
be forever safe.
There is in a forest in Germany a place
they call the “deer leap”-two crags, about
eighteen yards apart, between them a fear
ful chasm. This is called the ‘ deer leap
because once a hunter was on the track or
a deer. It came to one of these crags.
There was no escape for it from the pur
suit of the hunter, and in utter despair it
gathered itself up and in the death agony
attempted to jump across. Of course it
fell and was dashed on the rocks far be
neath. Here is a path to heaven . It is
plain; it is safe. Jesus marks it O for
every man to walk in. But here isi.i man
who savs “I won t walk in that path, I
will take’my confronts own way.” the chasm He comes that div‘Jes on up
until he Now his last hour
his soul from heaven. that lie will leap
has come and he resolves heights of earth to
that chasm from the Stand back
the heights of heaven. now
and that givf successfully. him full swing, Let him for no try. soul Jump! ever
did the mark, and he goes down,
He misses depth, “destroyed without
depth below angels, deviis, what shafi
remedy.” Men, of awful catastrophe?
we call that place forever the soul s death
Let it be known as
leap. — ------
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