i if XOXK LIKE JESUS; ECRMON DY REV. T. Dt WITT TALMAGE AT CRETE, NEB. rtilth I tm Illiitfe on Whim Kterniry Tarnt-TlM rM?o That Can Forji Huialt Sln Con Fori;! iMrgo Onei Ontbrrak of Olatliirmi in Ilravru. Crete, Neb., July 1. Today thero is a preat outdoor meeting at this place a Chautauqua meeting anl ih.-oi.1o from nil parts aro present. A Bormon by the Itev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D.D., is the principal feature of the occasion. The reverend gentleman's subject was: - "None Like Jesus." He took for hi text: "Unto you thereroro wmcn i I ievo lie is precious. " I Peter ii, 7. Fol lowing i.i'the Bcrraon: j Wo had for many years in this coun try commercial depression. What waa ''natter with the stores? tvnn i no Lack of ties it -2Ylh the people? Kirl Isablonougn, gocxls enough, x, , .-1" " to bo beau-iougn, inuusuious nauua iio faith. rov what (Jam- ages the commercial world, damages the f piritual. Our great lack is faith. That is tho hingo on which eternity turns. Tho Bible says wo are paved by faith. "Oh," nays 6omo one in the audience, "I havo faiVt. . I believe that Christ carao down tisavo tho world." I reply that in xorfj matters when 3 0U havo faith you ah'.'Ay act ufou it. Fop instance, If I could show j 011 a business operation by which you could make If.j.OOO, you would immediately go into it. You would prove your faith In what I tell you. by your prompt and immediate action. Jow, if what you call faith in Christ has led j ou to surrender your entire nature o Jesus and to corresponding action in jourlife.it is genuino faith, and, if it has not, it is not faith at all. There, aio gome (hings which I lielieve with tho head. Then there are other tilings which I believo with tho heart. And then there aro other things which I believe Ijoth with tho head and heart. I - leive, for instance, that Cromwell lived. That Is a matter of tho head. Then there aro other things which I be lieve with iho heart and not with tho )ion I. Tluit Is, 1 have no esjeclal reason for llievmg thetu, and yet j want to be lieve them, and the wish is the father to the expectation. But thero is a very great didVrenco letween that which wo fx.-iieve about ourselves and that which o believo about others. For instance, yon remember not a great while ago there was a disaster in Pennsylvania, nmid the mines; thero was an explosion amid the damps, and many lives were lost. In the morning you picked up your newspaper, and saw that there had been a great disaster in Penn sylvania. You said: "Ah, what a sad iliiug this is; bow many lives iostt p," vjiat 60irowl'' Then you read a little further on, Thero had been an almost miraculous effort to get those men out, rnd a few had been saved. O," you said, "what a brave thing. what a grand thing that was! How well it was done 1" Then you folded the paper up, and sat down to your morning repast. Your ap petite had not leen interfered with, and hiring that day, pcrhais, you thought or: j two or thiee times -of the' dis.utcr: I'.ut suppose you arid J had In-en in tho mine, and the dying laid been all around us, an-i we had heard the pickaxes just above us as they wero trying to work 'ir way down, and after awhile we jL Jhe light, and then the life bucket let Y'',ou:?', the shaft, and suffocated l dead, wc had just strength , . -. throw ourselves over into it, ..V- hauled out into the h'glit; Then what an appreciation wo would pave had of tho agony and the darknes beneath, and the joy of deliverance. That is the diiTerenco between believing a thing about others and believing it about ourseJ ves. Yv'e take up the Pible and read 0?,t Christ came fo save the world. "That as beautiful, "you say, "a Cue 'specimen pf self denial. That was very grand in deed." But suppose it is found that wo ourselves were down in tho mine of sin stud in the darkness, and. Christ stretched ilowh his arm of mercy through the ' t'.coin and lifted us out of tho pit and -t our feet pr the Rock of Ages, and puf a new song into our mouth. Oh. then if Is a matter of hand clapping; it Is a mat ter of congratulation; it is a matter of deep emotions. Wliat kind of faith have you, my brother? It is faith that makes a C'hiiotian, rin-l it, is the proportion of faith that makes the difference between Christians. What was it that lifted Paid and Luther, and l'ayson and JWldridgo abc.ro ihp ordin ary level of Christian character? It wa3 the simplicity, the brilliancy, tho power and the splendor of their faith. Oh. that wo had more of if! God give us more faith to preach and more faith to fhcar. "Lord I wo believe, help thou our unbelief!" "To you which believe ho is iuvcioun.''-' j First: I remark Christ is precloo? to the believer, as a saviour from sin. A man says: "To whom aro you talking? I am one of the most respectable men in this neighborhood; do you call me a sin ner?' Yes! '-The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." You rtj: "How do you know anything aboafc iiiy heait?" J know that about ft, for 1 God, announces it in his Word ; and what j UouV s is always right. When a man j becors a Christian people say: "That man .-7ts himself above us." Oh, no! in stead of setting liimself up, he throws himself down. He cries out: "1 was J.fc-t once, but now I am found. I was Mind once, but now I see. I prostrat) rzeW at tho foot of iho cross of the Saviour's ineTcy." What a grand thing it is to feel that j all the bad words I hare ever uttered and I all the bad deeds I have ever done, and ill tho bad thoughts that have gcr? : thrqugh my mind, are as though they j hf' Jj never been, for the sake of what ! w-ist uys uone. iuu jkiiuw mere is a uiiTerence in stains. Some can I wa. bed out by water, but others require a chem ical preparation. The sin of the biart is to black and indelible a maik that no human application can cleanse it, whilo the Llood of Jesus Christ can wasii it out foreier. O, the infinite, the' omniiiotent iriicimMry of the Gospel! Some man says: "1 lielieve all that. I believe Cod has forgiven tho ci,t of my sins, but inyre is one sin I cannot forget. AYhat Is itf I do not wont to know what it is? but I take the responsibility of saying that God will forgive it as willingly as any other sin. OVr sin like mountain for their alze. The iwat of aovereiga trace expand, The wa of sovereign ruce artMS. Thero was a very good man, about seventy-Cvo years oT age, that once said: 'I believo God has forgiven me, butlrero was one sin which I committed when I was about twenty years of ago that I never forgave myself for, and I can't feel happy when I think of it." He said that ono sin sometimcri camo over his heart and blotted out all his hope of heaven. W'iiy, he lacked in faith. Tho grace that can forgive a small sin can forgive a large sin. Mighty to save. Mighty to save. "Who js tho God like unto our God, that pardonelh iniquity? Oh, wliat Jesus is to th soul that believes in him 1 Tho soul looks up into Chribt's face and says: "To what extent wilt thou forgivo me?'' And Jesus looks back Into his face and says: "To the uttermost." The soul says: "Will it never bo brought up again?"' "Jiever," says Christ. "Won't it lo brought up again at tho Judgment Day?" "No," says Christ, "never In tho Judgment Day." What bread is to tho hungry, what harbor is to the bestormed, what light is to tho blind, what Jiberty a the captive, thatt and mC?o ii,aij that, is Christ to the man who trusts him. Just try to get Christ away from that Christian. Put on that ma:i tho thumb screw, Twist it until tho bones crack, Put that foot into tho iron boot of perse cution until it is mashed to a puln, Stretch that man on tho rack of iho In quisition, and louder than all tho uproar of tho iersecutors you will hear his voice, like tho voice of Alexander Lo Croi.v, above tho crackling fagos, as bo cried out: "Oli, JesuslCh, my blessed Jesus! Oh, divico Jesus! who would not die for thee?" Again: I remark that Christ is pre cious to tho Ijelicver, as a friend. You havo commercial friends, and you havo family friends. To tho commercial friend you go when jou havo business troubles. You can look back to some day it may havo been ten or twenty years ago when, if you had not had that friend, you would have been en tirely overthrown in business. But I w&nt to tell you this morning of Jesus, tho bet.t business friend a man ever had. Ho cau pull you out of tho worst perplexities. There aro oop1o in this audience vho have got in tlio habit of putting down all their worldly troubles at tho feet of Jesus. Why, Christ meets tho business man on tho street and says: "O, business man, I know all thy troubles. I will bo with thee. I will see thee through." Look out how 3 011 try to corner or trample 011 a man who is backed up by the Lord God Almighty. T.oo.k out bow you trample on him. U., there is a financier that many ' of our business men havo not found out. Christ owns all tho boards of fade, all Iho insurance com panies, and all the banking houses. They say that the Vanderbilts own the railroads; but Christ owns the Vander bilts and the railroads, and all the plot tings of stock gamblers shall be put to confusion, and God with his little finger shall wipe out their infamous projects. How often it jjas beea that we have seen me'ii gather up the riches by fraud, in a pyramid of strength and beauty, and the Lord camo pud blew on it and it waa g-nno; while there are those here today who, if they could speak out in this as semblage, or dared to sjieak out, would say: "The best friend I had in 1S37; the lest friend I had in 18-"7; the best friend I had at tho opening of the war; the best friend I ever had has beeii ' the Lord Jesus Chmf. ' I would rather give up all other friends, than tlu'3 one." But wo havo aldo family friends. They como In when we have sickness in tlio house-hold. Perhaps they say nothing; but they sit down and they weep as tho light goes out from bQ LiiHl.c eyes, and tho "".v into jH.tals of the lily are scattered in the ' blast 6f death. They watch through tho long night by tho dyin couch, and then, wheu tio spirit has gone, toui lie you vvftli great comfort. They say: '.-Don't cry. Jesus pities you. All is well. You will meet bo. lost one again." Then, w heu your son went off, bi taking your- heart, did thej not some and put tho story in tho very lst fchapo, and prophesy the return of the prodigal? Wrere they not in your house when the birth angel flapped its wings over your dwelling? And they havo been there at the baptisms ftnd a the wed lingi. Family friends' 1 '"But have to tell you' that Christ is the best family friend. Oh, blessed is that cradle over which Je.-iu liels. Bk-oed is that iU'iry where .testis walks. Blessed is that sick brow from, which Jesus wipes tho dampness. Blessed is that table where Jesus breaks tho bread. Blessed is that grave where Jesus stands with his -scarred Ifeet on tho upturned sod, saying: "I am the re?uriectioii' aii'3 the ife; lie that lielioveth iii me, though he were deadyet shall he live." Havo you a bain hi the house? Put it into tho arms of the great Child Lover. Is thero a sick one in the house? Think of him who said: "Damsel, arise." Aro you afraid you will come to want? Think of him who fe the fivG thousand. Is there a little ono in your hoiiso that you are afraid will ' be "blind or deaf or lame? Think of him who touched the bljuded cyp and. spatdied back the boy frora epi leptic convulsion. Oh, ho is tho best friend. Look over your family friends today and find another that can be com pared to him. When we want our friends, they are sometimes out of town. Christ is always in town. W find that some wili stick to us" hi prosperity who will not in adversity. But Christ comes through darkest night, and amid ghast liest sorrow, and across roughest sea. to comfort you. There are men and wo men here who would haye been dead twenty years ago but for Jesus. They have gone through trial enough to ex haust ten times their physical strength. Tiieir property went, their health went, their families were scattered. God only knows what they suffered. They are an amazement to themselves that they have been able to stand it. They look at their once happy home, surrounded by ail comfort. Gone! They think of tho time when they used to riso strong in the morning, and walk vigorously down the 6treet, and had experienced a health they thought inexhaustible. Gone I Everything gone but Jesus. He has ,fitied them. His eye has watched them. Ilia rmntnrttAnrn Ii.im lfronrtiul Ointii V'es. He lias been with them. They 41 1 1 1 iKve gone mrougii uisasier, ana 110 w&3 n jillar of fire by night. They havo gone across stormy Galilee, but Chrisfc had his fool on tho neck of tho stoim. They elt tho waves of trouble coming up around them gradually, and they began lo climb into tho strong rock of God's defense, and then they sang, as they looked over the waters: "God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in time of trouble; therefore wo will not fear though the earth bo removed, though tho mountains bo carried into tho midst of tho sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though tho mountains shako with tho swelling there of. Sclah." Tho other day there wa3 a sailor came into the Bethel in New York and said; "My lads (ho was standing among sailors), I don't know what's tho matter with me. I used to hear a good deal about religion and aU'.ut Jesus Chris, I don't know that I havo any religion, or that I know anything much alxmt Christ; but when J waa in mid-At-. lantio J looked up one day through tho rigging, and there rcemid to con"- ' , . through my soul. I havo f.- ,r - "S11C since, and I lovo --., -Terentcvor and T f. - ' oric ,1,at 1 oncc liatl, anu 1 u Joy j can.t tt. yon j rcaJ1 v uon't know what's tho matter of me." A rough sailor got up and said: "My lad, I know what's tno matter of you. You have found Jesus. It is enough to make any man happy." " Ills worth if all tho nations kue. Sure tho whuto earth would love linn too. 1 remark again: Christ is precious to tho believer as a final deliverer. You and I mutt after a while get out of this world. Jleroand thero one perhaps may come on to eighty, to ninety years of age, but your common senso tells you that the p.ext twenty-live years will land tlio majority of this audience in eternity. The next ten years will thin out a great many of these family circles. This day may do tho work for some of us. Now, why do I say this? To scare you? No; but just as I would stand in your ofiice, if I were a business man and you wero a business man. and talk over risk. You do not consider it coxynrdly to. talk in your lIojc- over temporal risks. Is it base hi us this morning to talk a little while over the risks of the soul, that aro for eternity? la every congregation death has tho last year been doing a great deal of work. Where is your father? Vhcre is your mother? Your child? Your brother Your sister? O. how cruel does death seem to be! Will ho pluck every flower? Will ho poison every fountain? Will he put black on every door knob? Will ho snap every heartstring? Can I keep nothing? Aro thero no charmed woajions with which to go out and contend guhist him? Oho mc ooino keen &wo.;d, si.aipened hi Ood's armory, with' which 1 may stab him tlu-ougii. Give me some battle ,i.c that I may clutch it snd hew him from helmet to sandal. Thank God, thank God, that ho that ridelh on the pale horse hath more than a match in him who ridelh on tho white horse. St. John heard the con test, tho pawing of the steeds, the rush, the battle cry, the onset, until the pale horse came down 00. his haiuivhos iind his rider bit ihe, aust, while "Christ, 'the conqueror,' with uplifted voice declared it: "O death, I will bo thy plague; O grave, I will bo tlyy dcs(iUL Min." Th eepuklier Is a lighted castlo on tho there of heavenly seas, and sentinel angels walk up and down at tho door to guard it. The dust and the dampness of the grave aro only the spray of tlo whire surf of celestial seas, and iho ipijg breath ing of the jymy Christian", ih'a't you call his gaspingVis 'only the long inhalaUvw o? the air. cf heaven. 0, ble3 God for what Christ H la the Christian soul, lioi U( hereafter J I tla a man 6av some time asro that they never laugh in heaven- 4 do not know where h got his authority for that. I thiiik they do laugh in heaven. When victors come home do wo not laugh? When fortunes are won in a day, do wo not laugh? After we havo been ten or fifteen years away from our friends, and we greet th.em. again, do wo not laugh? Ye we will laugh in heayer,. Not hollow laughter, not meaningless laughter, but a full, round, clear, deep, resonant outbreak of eternal gladness. Oh, the glee of that moment when we first see Jesus! I think we will take tho first two or three yeais in heaven to look at Jesus; and if, m ten thousand years, ti?re- fdio.uld ut a mo-' ment when thp doxoiogy paused, ten lhousand"s6uls would cry out; "Sing! sing!" and when the crv was: "What shall wo sing?" the answer would be: Je$usl Jesus!" Oh, you ma' havo all tho crowns in heaven; I do not care so much about them. You may have all the robes in heaven ; I do not care so much abcut them. You may havo all the scepters in heaven; I Ylo iot care eq much about tlem,. You may havo all ho ihrones'in heaven; I do not care so much about them. But give me Jesus that is enough heaven for me. Oh, Jesus! I long to see thee. Thou "chief among ten thousand, the one altogether lovely." There may be $caie here who have como hardly knowing why they come. Per haps it was as in Paul's time you have come to hear what this babbler &ayeth; but I am glad to meet you face to 'face, and to. strike hands with you in one earn est talk about your deathless spirit. Do you know, my friend, that this world is not good enough for you? It cheats. It fades. It dies. You are immortal. I see it in the deathless spirit looking ot.t from your eye. It v? a mghty spirit. It ;s ,",r immortal spirit. ' It "beats against the window of the cage. I come out to feed it. During the past week the world has been trying to feed it with husks. X como out this morning to (ced, it with that bread of which if a man eat ha wiii never hunger. What has tho world done for you? Has it not bruised you? Has it not betrayed you? Has it not maltreated you? Look me in the eye, immortal man, and tell me if that ia not so. And yet, will you trust it? O, I wish that you could forget me, the weak .and sinful man that I might vanish from your sight this morn ing, and that Jesus might como in. Aye, lie cornea here this morning to plead for your soul come3 in all covered with the wounds of Calvary. He says: "O , im mortal manl I died for thee. I pity thee. I come to save thee. With these hands, torn and crushed, I will lift thee up into pleasures that never die." Who will reject who will drive him back? When Christ had a cross, and (hey had nails, and they had hammers. You crucify by your sin, O impenitent soul! the Lord Jesus Christ. Hero is a cross; but where aro tho nails? Where are the hammers? "Ah," says some one rejecting Christ some ono standing a long Way cir, "I will fur nish tho nails. I don't believo in that Jesus. I will furnish the nails." Now wo have tho nails; who will furnish the ham mers? "Alt," says some haul heart, "I will furiii-.li the hammers." Now we have, tho nails and the hammers. We havo no spears; who will furnish tho sc at's? "Ah," says some one long in tho habit of sin and rejection of Christ's mercy: "I will furnish them." Now we havo all tho instruments: the cross, tho nails, tho hammers, tho sjears; and tho cruci fixion goes on. O, tho darkness! O, tho pang! O, tho tears! O, the death' "Behold the Iimb of God, th ' , " away the sin of tho world." " 8 Ird Jesus, hul" " . .. far back -,nat1 man' f n, Kf roi" -ay. He does not like to ligious assemblage. Ho thinks, perhaps, we do not want him. Oh, Jesus, take that trembling hand. Put thino ear to that agitated heart and hear how it beats. Oh, lift tho iron gate of that prison house and let that man go free. Lord Jesus, help that woman. She is a wanderer. No tears can she weep. See, Lord Jesus, that polluted soul, sco that blistened foot. No church for her. No good cheer for her. No hopo for her. Lord Jesus, go to that soul. Thou wilt not stone her. Let the red hot chain, thrt burns to the !;::. tl;l ti.o lt.HjUy iclior hisses in tho heat, snap at thy touch. Oh, have mercy on Mary Magdalene. Lord Jesus, help that young man. IIo took money out of his employer's till. Didst thou see it? The clerks wero all gone. Tlio lights were down. The shut ters wero up. Didst thou see it? O, let him not fall into the pit. iZcmemlxTCht thou not bis mother's prayers? She can pray for him no more. lyird Jesus, touch him on the shoulder. Touch him on the heart. Ijord, save that young man. Thero are many young men here. I got a letter from ono of them who is probably here today, and I shall have no other opportunity of answering that let ter. Y011 say you lielieve in me. O, do you believo in Jesus? I cannot save you, my dear brol her. Christ can. He wants and waits to save you. ami ho comes to day to save you. Will you havo him? I d not know what our young men do without Christ how they get on amid all the temptations and trials to which. they are subjected. O, voiin'-' men, ( como to Christ today, : out your soul and your i:dei e-t for tlili Ut'c ami for the ne:t hup. s keeping, in olden times, you know, a cub liearer would bring wino or water to the king, who would drink it, iiifc tasting it himself, showing there was no pouon iu it, then passing it to the king, who would drink it. Tho highest honor I ask is that I may bo cUl bearer today to your soul. I hrin yon this water of ovrlating hie, 1 have been drinking of it. There is no poison mil", It has never done 1110 any harm, ifcvviil do you no harm. O, drink it, and live forever. And let that aged man put his head down on the staff, and iej that poor widowed soul bury her worried face in her handkerchief, and these littlo children fold their hands in prayer, while we commend you. U liim. who was wounded for our i r .vusgressions F and bruised for ov iniquities; for ta you A Tiupe of Heari-sucss. Ijesident of vity liaturally acquire thohabi; ui minding their own business ;;ni knowing almost nothing of that of their neighliors. They affect great pridf in this matter, and are often heard to re mind visitors from the country that they do not know the names of tiio families living on either side of them. . This is all very well for certain well to do localities, perhaps. Even then, however, it has more than a tinge of hearllessnes3 in it. This fact comes home to every true hearted man and woman when they per ceive a bit of black crape on an adjacent door, and feel that only a narrow parti tion lui3 separated their happiness and unconsciousness from intense suffering and grief. Nobody is too rich not to feel the need of sympathy at times, and no body too poor not to bo able to give it. Tho time when so many are leaving tho cify is appropriate to suggest that a little more neighborlincss might be en couraged. Many kind women havo spent their time during the winter among the poor and sick, but they aro going now into the country. Tho oppor tunity is afforded, therefore, to others who, perhaps, have as yet done nothing outsido their im.mc-diate family circle, to take, an interest in a very urgent work, and perhaps fill a place which without thorn would remain vacant. A ease camo to our knowledge recently of the illness of an old lady whose- daughter was obliged to leave hey ttlono for the en- lire day, ami day after day. It would seem as if a littlo neighborly attention iu such an emergency would not be con strued into intrusiveness. It would, no doubt, be received in tho friendly spirit dictating it. All the world is not going to the seashore or tho mountains, let it bo remeuibercd. Boston Herald. A rrntid Littlo Gotham Guests invited to o.o of tho prettiest weddings of tha week wero surprised to, read in one corner of the dainty wedding cards: "No gifts," engraved ui a quaint arabesque scroll, which perforce- attracted attention. It requires some independence of character and tome self denial to gc counter o established custom in such a matter, but the dimpled liitlo bride, who looks more like a sweet, plump, pink and white, grown up baby than a person of strong minded proclivities, announced to her friends when they questioned her do-, cislon: "I won't make my marriage to. Archie a donation party where all tho parish bring in this, that and the other to patch up the salary, "Ye have a circle of three or four hundred friends, and everybody knows that a great many of them would buy presents for us not at all because they love us, but because ic is the proper thing, and even if they can't afford the outlay they musn't be outdone by rich Mrs. A. or Mrs. 13." New York Mail and Express. - In 1770 Sarah Goddard printed a news paper at Kewport, . The Plattsmouth Herald iyijag' a EDITIONS, Will be one lurin which tho subjects of national interest ami importance will be stronirl v agitated and the election of si President will take place. Ihe people of Cass Countv who would like to learn of Political, and Social of this year find would keep apace with the times should -Foil Daily or Weekly Herald. Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to speak of our 1 if E Www t a S " ft i ntl ia ll "Which is first-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, JBooxn in "both, its 1888 Commercial Transactions KITH Eli THE NEBRASKA. 5 V 'i X f 'I w 1 t ; c v i .t ) ' r V "1 - --'-' :7- ; 1