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A STflOfG SWIMMER From Him Dr. Ttlmage Draws a Noble Lesson. M A. m- ... S’. M ■» Lr 1 JE; . The Al«r>n Ready Relptahieu of Reunion (or Thou Who St runVia Agalpit Adveru ClrcamUaeei. (Copyright. Louis Klopsch, 1899.) Washington. Oct. XL In this discourse Dr. Talmage employs a very bold figure of the Bible to bring out the helpfulness of religion for all those in any kind of struggle. The text is Isaiah 25:11: “He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his bands." In the summer season multitudes of people wade into the ponds and lakes and rivers and seas-to dive or float or swim. In a world the most of which is water all men and women should learn to swim. Some of you have learned the side stroke introduced by George Pewters in 1850, each stroke of that kind carrying the swimmer a distance of six fee), and some of you may use the overhand stroke invented by Gardener, the

expert who by it won the 500 yard championship in Manchester in 1862, the swimmer by that stroke carrying his arm in the air for a more lengthened reach, and some of you may tread the water as though you had been made to walk the sea, but most of you usually take what is called the breast stroke, placing the hands with the backs upward, about five inches under the water, the inside of the wrists touching the breast, then pushing the arms forward coincident with the stroke of the feet struck out to the greatest width possible, and you thus unconsciously illustrate the meaning of my text: “He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim.” The fisherman seeks out unfrequented nooks.*1’ You stand to-day on the bank of a river in the broiling sun and fling out your line and catch nothing, while an expert angler breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock and, in a place where no fisherman has been for ten years, j throws out his Tine and comes home at | night, his face shining and his basket j full. I do not know why we ministers | of the Gospel need always be fishing in I the same stream and preaching from the same texts that other people preach j from. I cannot understand the policy , of the minister who, in Blackfriars, I London, England, every week for 30 j years preached from the Epistle to the | Hebrews. It is an exhilaration to me | when I come across a theme which I feel no one else has treated, and my text is one of that kind. There are paths in God’s Word that are well beaten by Christian feet. When men want to quote Scripture, they quote the old passages that everyone has heard. When they want a chapter read, they I read a chapter that all the other people have been reading, so that the church to-day is ignorant of threefourths of the Bible. You go into the Louvre, at Paris. You confine yourself to one corridor “of that opulent gallery of paintings. As you come out your friend says to you: “Did you see that Rembrandt?” “No.” “Did you see that Reubens?” “No.” “Did you see that Titian?’*" “No.” “Did you [ see that Raphael?” “No.” “Well,” I ; says your friend, “then you did not see the Louvre.” Now, my friends, I think we are too much apt to confine ourselves to one of the great corridors of Scripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a million who haS ever noticed the all suggestive and powerful picture in the words of my text. The text represents God as a strong swimmer, striking out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. “He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim.” The figure is bold and many sided. Most of you know how to swim. Some of you learned it in the city school, where this art is taught; some of you in boyhood, in the river near your father’s house; some of you since you came to manhood or womanhood, while summering on the beach of the sea. It is a good thing to know how to swim, not only for yourself, but because you willafter awhile perhaps have to help oth-? ers.

Ido not know anything more stirring 1 or sublime than to see some man like Norman McKenzie leaping from the ship Madras into the sea to save Charles Turner, who had dropped from the royal yard while trying to loosen the sail, bringing him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the passengers and crew. If a man has npt enthusiasm enough to cheer in such circumstances, he deserves himself to drop into the sea and have no one help him. The Royal Humane society of England was established In 1774, its object to applaud and rew ard those who should pluck up life from the deep. Anyone who has performed such a deed of daring has all the particulars of that bravery recorded in a public record, and on his breast a medal done in blue and gold and bronze, anchor and monogram and inscription, telling to future generations the bravery of the man or woman who saved some one from drowning. But if it is | such a worthy thing to saves body from j the deep 1 ask you if it is not a worth- | ier thing to save an immortal soul. And ! you shall see this hour the Son of God ‘ step forth tor this achievement. “He i shall spread forth His hands in the | midst of them, aa he that swimmeth spread eth forth his hands to swim.** In order to understand the full force of this figure, you need to realise that our race is in a sinking condition. You sometimes hear people talking of what they consider the most beautiful words in our language. One man says it is “home,** another man says it is the word “mother," another save it i* the word

•‘Jeans,’* but I tail you the bitterest word in nil onr language, the most anleful, the word saturated it trouble, the word that acthe loathsomeness and that word is|lsin.?*: Yhu three letteftp, and yet those describe th^£iguaifMrenhe and pierce the diameter,,pf everything bad in the universe. sibilant word. You cannot pronounce It without giving the siss of the flame or the hiss of the serpent. Sinl And then if you add three letters to that word it describes everyone of us by nature— sinner. WehaveoutragedthelawofGod, not occasionally, or now and then, but perpetually. The Bible declares it. Hark! It thunders two claps! “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” What the Bible says our own conscience affirms. After Judge Morgan had sentenced Lady Jane Grey to death bis conscience troubled him so much for the deed that he became insane, and all through his insanity he kept saying: “Take her away from me! Lady Jane Grey! Take her away! Lady Jane Grey!” It was the voice of conscience. And no man ■ever does anything wrong, however great or small, but his conscience brines

that matter before him, and at every step of his misbehavior it says: “Wrong, wrong!" Sin is a leprosy; sin is a paralysis; sin is a consumption; sin is pollution; sin is death. Give it a fair chance, and it will.swamp you and me, body, mind and soul, forever. In thi6 world it only gives a faint intimation of its virulence. You see a patient in the first stages of typhoid fever. The cheek is somewhat flushed, the hands somewhat hot, pereceded by a slight chill. “Why," you say, “typhoid fever does not seem to be much of a disease.” liut wait until the patient has been six ■ weeks under it, and all his energies have been wrung out, and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intellect gone, then you see the full havoc pt the disease. Now, sin in this world is an ailment which is only in its first stages, but let it get under full way and it is an all-consuming typhoid. Oh, if we could see our unpardoned sins as God sees them, our teeth would chatter and our knees would knock together, and our respiration would be choked, and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgiven, they are bearing down on you and you are sinkingsinking away from happiness, sinking away from God, sinking away from everything that is good and blessed. Then what do we want? A swimmer —a strong swimmer, a swift swimmer! And blessed be God, in my texvvve have him announced. “He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as He that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim.” You have noticed that when a swimmer goes to rescue anyone he puts off his heavy apparel. He must not have any such impediment about him if he is going to do this great deed. And when Christ stepped forth to save us He shook off the sandals of Heaven, and His feet were free, and then He stepped down into the wave of our transgressions, and it came .over His wounded feet, and it came above the spear stab in Iiis side—aye, it dashed to the laeerated temple, the high-water mark of His anguish. Then, rising above the flood, “He stretchedforth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spjeadeth forth his hands to swim.” If you have ever watched a swimmer, you notice that his .whole body is brought into play. The arms are flexed, the hands drive the water back, the knees are active, the head is thrown back to escape strangulation, the whole body is in propulsion. AntT when Christ sprang into the deep to save us He threw His entire nature into it—all His Godhead, His omniscience, His goodness, His love. His omnipotence, head, heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were far out on the sea and so deep down in the waves and so far out from the shore that nothing short of an entire God could save us. Christ leaped out for our rescue. saying: “Lo, I come to do thy will!” and all the surges of human and satanic hate beat against Him, and those who watched Him from the gates of Heaven feared He would go down under the wave, and instead of saving others would Himself perish, but, putting His breast to the foam and shaking the surf from His locks, He came on and on until He is now within the reach of everyone here, eye omniscient, heart infinite, arm omnipotent, mighty to

save, even unto the uttermost. Oh, it was not half a God that trampled down bellowing Gennesaret; it was not a quarter of a God that mastered the demons of Gadara; it was not twothirds of a God that lifted up Lazarus into the arms of his overjoyed sisters; it was not a fragment of God who offered pardon and peace to all the race. No. This mighty siwimmer threw His grandeur, His glory, His might. His wisdom, His omnipotence and His eternity into this one ac|. It took both hands of I God to save us—both feet. How do 1 prove it? On the cross were not both hands nailed? On the cross were not both feet spiked ? His entire nature involved In our redemption! If you have lived much by the water, you notice also that if anyone is going out to the rescue of the drowning he must be independent, self-reliant, able to go alone. There may be a time when he must spring out to save one. and he cannot get a lifeboat, andMf he goes out and has not strength enough to bear himself up and .bear another up he will sink, and instead of dragging one corpse out of the billows you will have two to drag out. When Christ sprang out into the sea to deliver us, he had no life buoy. His Father did not Help Him. Alone in the wine press, alone in the pang, alone in the darkness, alone on the mountain, alone in tha seal Oh, if He saves us, He shall have all the credit, for “there was none to help.** No oar. no wing, no ladder! When Nathaniel Lyon fell in the buttle

pla S3. charge in front of h!s troop*, be bad a whole army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney sprang Into the contest and plunged In the spurt till the horse’s flanks spurted blood, all France ap* Jesui alone! “Of was none to help.** d fled.’vOh, it waa not, a flotilla that saileddown and saved us. It was not a cluster of gondolas that came over the wave. It was one person, independent and aloue, “spreading out His bands among us as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim!" 1 afent to persuade you to lay hold of this strong swimmer. “No," you say; “it is ahvays disastrous for a drowning man to lay hold of a swimmer." There is not a river or lake but has a calamity resultant from the fact that when a strong swimmer went out to save a sinking man the drowning man clutched him, threw his arms around him, pinion'd his arms, and they both went down together; When you axe saving a man in the water you do not want to come up by his face. You want to come up by his back. You do not want him to hold you while you take hold of him. But, blessed be God, Jesus Christ is so strong a swimmer He comes not to our back, but to our face, and He asks us to throw around Him the arms of our love and then promises to take us to the

beach, and He will do it. Do not trust that plank of good works. Do not truslt that shivered spar of your own right* eousness. Christ only can give you saft transportation. Turn your face upon Him. ns the dying martyr did in olden times when he cried Out: “None but Christ! None but Christ!” Jesus has taken millions to the land* and He is willing to take you there. Oh, what hardness to thrust Him back when He has been swimming all the way from the throne of God, where you are now. and is ready to swim all the way back again, taking your redeemed spirit! I have sometimes thought what a spectacle the ocean bed will present when in the last day the water is all drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks from beach to beach. There is where the harpooners went down. There it where the line of battleships went down. There is. where the merchantmen went down. There is where the steamers went down, a long line of wrecks from beach to beach. What a spectacle in the last day, when the water is drawn off! But, oh, how much more solemn if we had an eye to see the spiritual wrecks and the places where they foundered! You would find thousands along our roads and streets. Christ came down in their awful catastrophe, putting out for their souls, “spreading out His hands as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim,” but they thrust Him in the sore heart, and they smote His fair cheek, and the storm and darkness swallowed them up. 1 ask you to lay hold of this Christ and lay hold of Him now. You will sink without Him. From horizon to horizon not one sail in sight, only one strong swimmer, with head flung back and arms outspread. ; ~~ I hear many saying: “Well, I would like to be a Christian. I am going to work to become a Christian.” My brother, you begin wrong. Wheu a man is drowning, and a strong swimmer comes out to help him, he says to him: “Now be quiet. Put your arm on my arm or on my shoulder, but don’t struggle, don’t try to help yourself, and I’ll take you ashore. The more you struggle and the more you try toJbelp yourself the more you impede me. Now, be quiet, and I’ll take you ashore.” When Christ, the strong swimmer, comes out to save a soul, the sinner says: “That’s right, i am glad to see Christ, and I am going to help Him in the work of my redemption. I am goingtopray more, and that will help Him, and I am going to weep extravagantly over my sins, and that will help Him.” No, it will not. Stop your doing. Christ will do all or none. You cannot lift an ounce, you cannot move an inch, in this matter of your redemption. This is the difficulty which keeps thousands of souls out of the Kingdom of Heaven. It is because they cannot consent to let Jesus Christ begin and complete the work of their redemption. “Why,” you say, “then is there nothing for me to do?” Only one thing have you to do, and that is to lay hold of Christ and let Him achieve your salvation and achieve it all. I do not know whether I make the matter plain or not. I simply want to show you that a man cannot save himself, hut that the Almighty Son of Gud can do it and will do it if you ask Him. Oh, fling vour tv o arms, the arm of your trust and the arai of your love, around this omnipotent swimmer of the cross!

Have you ever stood by and seen some one under process of resuscitation after long submergence? The strong swim* raer has put him on the beach after a struggle in the waters. To excite breathing in the almost lifeless body what manipulation, what friction of the cold limbs, what artificial movement of the lungs, what breath of the rescuer blown into the mouth Of the rescued I And when breathing begins, and after awhile the slight respiration becomes the deep sigh, and the eyes open, and the blue lips take on a smile, whatrejoicing, what clapping of hands all up and down the beach, what congratulation for the strong swimmer and for all who helped in the restoration, what shouting of “He lives, he lives!" Like this is the gladness when a soul that has been submerged in sin and sorrow is “coming to.” What desire on the part of all to help, and, when under the breath of God and under the manipulation by the wounded bands of Christ, the life eternal of the soul begins to show itself, all through the ranks ol spectators, terrestrial and celestial, goes the cry: “He lives. Rejoice, for the dead is alive again!” May the living Christ this moment put out for your rescue, “spreading His hands is the midst of you, as a swimmer spreadeth ilia hands to swiml*

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