Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-11-26
IN TALMAGE'S PLACE.
SUNDAY SERMON BY DR.. HoGE IN The
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Influence Of Christ ON the Moral and In
tellcctnal Progress of
Mankind.

The Rcy. Moses d. HOge, OF Richmond
Va, preached before large assemblase OF
the Tabernacle congregation at the Brook
lyn Academy Of Music Sunday morning
in the place OF the Rev. DR.. Ialmage, who
il absent upon a visit 20 the Holy Land.
DR.. Hoge's sermon was upon the pei
souality of CHRIST, aud his text was, And
voice came ont Of the cloud saying, this
is my beloved son; hear ye him" Christ,
he said, was the supreme teacher ot the
world. This Is my beloved Son that
wa, the Fathers c0fnmendatlon. Hear
We HIM that was the divine declaration
Of the importance of ChTist's teachings 20
humanity. when we hear Him then we
hc.r the Eternal Word made audible.
When We hear Him We hear not only tho
messenger of Truth, but the Truth itself,
the incarna.e Truth that makes Us wise for
evermore.
EoNE LIKE CHRIST.
at may be all very wcll' he said, 10
write q book entitled. Christ and Other
Masters There have been great masters
in the realms Of Thought, and great leaders
in all fields of enterprise; but there has
been but one Christ. No teacher ever an
n0unced truths so wide iu their grasp, so
far-rcachmg IN their meaning; and a. time
wears on the evidence is accumulatng of
the truth of what one Of the great masters
uttered, that the difference between Christ t
and an OthrrreligiOus teachers was the dlt-
ference OF iufnity.
Though the immediate influence which
Christ oxcrtcd WAS confined 10 small ter
Titorv and limited 10 small number Of
people set among the things that CHRIST
created is that complex and and magnlb-
cent thing we call Christendom, and the
Christoudom that Christ created now con-
taius aN the pIOgTc 3Iye nations OF the
carth.'
II was of this personal Christ the preach
or SAID that he desired 10 speak. There
mover WAS % time when the attention OF
thoughtful men was SD much centred as
u1w on the person, the character. and the
work of Christ. the relation that ChT-t
bore 10 His own time and TO all time, and
the influence which Christ has cXerted on
tine moral and intellectual progre. OF man.
kind. There is no philosophical historian,
no ethical writer VINO can leave out that
force iu the enumeration Of those forces
which have iuhueucodt thcWOrld's progress.
THE mrrE THE LIGHT OF TIfE WORLD.
I'VE hear q great deal about humaniia-
rianism from men who lguor" the Bible /;
about the wonderful things which are GO
inc 30 bc accomplished 10y tho humanlta-
rianism of the age apart from the Bible.
cred or invented the principle andlustltu-
ti1ns Tor the lifting up of humanity. But
every one of thor locae they have borrow
al from the Bible. They have borrowed
the Light Of that sacred Book and then
trr 10 shlttcr the lantern. These humani-
tariau- are the sou- of men VINO were once
the bIiarl sus of whom Paul speaks, and
these deeeu rate sons would be IA the same
condition "a. their f0TcIathers IT NJ Wcre
not for the Bible. and il is the cnlighten-
meut and development which the spirat
of Christianity ha, carried with It winch
has uUt these men ln 70 position whence
they may assa.l tho Bible
Dr. H0gc ls expected 10 return 20 Rich
moud to-day.
In the Richmond Churches.
At tho First Pre-bvtcrian church the
pastor. Rev. B. Z. Kerr, ID. D., preached IN
the morning to very large congregation
upon ,he "King,hlp OF christ Three
new members were received on profession
of their iaith in Christ
Before Che belediclOn most cnthu-
fia-tic congrecot onal meeting was heidi,
with view 90 eularglng the lecture amt
Sunlay-sChOol rooms. Bret addrc~-c5 8
were made by Me j. y. CulllngWorth,
w. g. Preston. Judge T.. IA. EtznUgh. and
j. ID. *. SIeicht, L-q., and 10 was resolved
10 push forward the work at once. over
~ NNU WIS fAiN'f upon iltr Nif''s N.i'A ii
subscriptions from abscntecs VIII 30 doubt
swell the sum to the amount needed. In
view OF the recent decision of the pastor
NOT 90 leave this charge, this seemed really
Thanksgiving meeting.
I.cv. John NJ Pitcher, Of Petersburg,
secretary and treasurer of the Sunday
school and Bible Board preached at Grace
Street Baptist church Sunday morning
Bishop Wingheld. of California. filled the
pulpit of All SAINTS Episcopal church sun
day. and preached 10 large congregations.
The Rosebud meeting at Centenary
church SUNDAY afternoon was largely at-
tended. and the interesting programme
which had been arranged for the occasion
was admirably well executed. The ser-
vices were of missionary character, and
wc-e conducted exclusively by the chill
dren.
Roy. L. J.. Turnbull preached for Dr..
Hoee at the Second Presbyterian church
Sunday morning.