The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-30
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DIR. TALMAeE's FIRST SERMON AFTER
HIS RETURN FROM EUROPE.

| 'ho W othN TNSW CONOrC.
The suniciency OF the Gospel Of Christ.
There IL Ancient Learning In 1t. with
Poetry and Sublime Rhetoric. but More
Than All Else. There IL Salvation.
BROOKLYN, Sept. s5.-Dr. Talmage
was greeted with most generous and
effusive welcome today by a vast con-
gregation which assembled to hear him
preach his first sermon after his return
from his European preaching tour. He
announced that in Sunday or two he
would give sermon concerning his
stewardship in delivering in Russia, in
behalf of The Christian Herald, the
f35, 900 worth of flour for the starving.
The subject today was "All in ALL"
Text, Colossians iii, II, "Christ is all
and in ALL"
Returned after the most eventful
summer Of my life, / must shortly and
as soon as recover from the sea voyage
give you an account Of our mission of
bread to famine stricken Russia, and of
my preaching tour through Germany,
England, Scotland and Ireland; but my
first sermon on reaching here must be
hosanna of gratitude to Christ, and from
the text have chosen, have found
that the greatest name in the ocean
shipping, and from Liverpool to Mos
cow, and from Moscow to London and
Edinburgh and Belfast and Dublin, is
Jesus. efbE
Every age of the world has had its
historians, its philosophers, its artists,
its thinkers and its teachers. Were there
histories to be written there has always
been Moses, or Herodotus, or Ken
ophon, or Josephus to write them.
Were there poems to be constructed
there has always been Job or Homer
to construct them. Were there thrones
lustrous and powerful to be lifted there
has always been David or Caesar to
raise them. Were there teachers de-
manded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been Socrates, and Zeno,
and Cleanthes, and Marcus Antoni-
nus coming forth on the grand and glo-
rious mission. Every age of the world |
has had its triumphs of reason and NOR
atty. There has not been a single age
of the world which has not had some de- |
cided system of religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoicism,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
the ages in which they were established, |
were not lacking in ingenuity and force.
Now, in this line of benefcent institu-
tons and of noble men, there appears a
parsonage more wonderful than any |
predecessor. He came from a family |
without any royal or aristocratic preten-
sion. He became Galilean mechanic. |
He had no advantage from the schools. |
There were people beside him day after
day who had no idea that he was going
to be anything remarkable or do any
thing remarkable. Yet notwithstand- |
ing all this, and without any title or
scholarly profession or flaming rhetoric |
he startled the world with the strangest
announcements, ran in collision with |
solemn priest and proud ruler, and with
a voice that rang through temple and |
palace and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed, 81 am the light of |
the worldp'
Men were taken all aback at the idea
that that hand, yet hard from the use of |
the ak, the saw and ADJ and Ratchet, |
should wave the scepter of authority,
and that upon that brow, from which
they had SO often seen him wipe the |
sweat of toll, there would yet come the
crown of unparalleled splendor and of
universal dominion. We all know how
difficult it is to think that anybody who
was at school with us in boyhood has
got to be anything great or famous, and
no wonder that those who had been boys
with Christ in the streets of Nazareth
and seen him in after years in the days
OF his complete obscurity, should have
been very slow to acknowledge Christ's
wonderful mission.
THE GREAT DEVELOPMENT.
From this humble point the stream of
life flowed out. At first it was just
faint rill, hardly able to find its way
down the rock, but the tears of a weep
ing Christ added to its volume, and it
flowed on until by the beauty and green
ness of the banks you might know the
path the crystal stream was taking. On
and on, until the lepers were brought
down and washed of their leprosy, and
the dead were lifted into the water that
they might have life, and pearls of JOY
and promise were gathered from the
brink, and innumerable churches gath
cred on either bank and the tide flows
on deeper and stronger and wider I'M
til it rolls into the river from under the
throne of God, mingling billow with
billow, and brightness with brightness,
and joy with joy, and hosanna with
hosanna.
l was looking at some of the paintings
OF the artist, Mr.. Kensett. l saw some
pictures that were just faint outlines; in
some places you would see only the
branches of tree and no trunk; and in
another case the trunk and no branches.
He had not finished the work. 1t would
have taken him days and months per-
haps to have completed it. Well, my
friends, in this world we get only the
faintest outline of what Christ is. 1t |
will take all eternity to fill up the pic
ture-so loving, SO kind, so merciful, so
great! Paul does not, in this chapter,
say of Christ he is good, or he is loving,
or he is patient, or he is kind, but in his
exclamation of the text he embraces
everything when he says, Christ is all
and in all"
remark in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible. l do not care
where l open the Bible, find Jesus. In
whatever path | start, come after
while to the Bethlehem manger. l go /
back to the old dispensation, and see a
lamb ON the altar, and say, Behold the
Lamb of God which taketh away the
sin of the worldv' Then / go and see
the mamma provided for the Israelites in
the wilderness, and say, Jesus, the
bread of life" Then / look at the rock
which was smitten by the prophets rod,
and, as the water gushes out, say, SIT
is Jesus, the fountain opened for sin and
for uncleaDncss."
so back and look at the writings of
job ard hear him exclaim, 81 know that
my Redeemer liveth." Then | go to {