Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-30
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
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Returned after the most eventful summer
of my life, must shortly and as soon re-
cover from the sea voyage give you an &C
count 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 10 Mos
COW. and from Moscow to London and Ed
inburgh and Belfast and Dublin. is Jesus.
Every age Of the world has had its his
torians. its philosophers, its artists, its
thinkers and its teachers. Were there his
tories to be written there has always been a
Moses, or Heroiotus, or a Xenophon, or a
,losephus to write them. Were there poems
TO be constructed there has always been
job or a Homer to construct them. Were
there thrones lustrons and powerful to be
lifted there has always bsen n Davi1 or n
Caesar to raise them. Were there teachers
demanded for the intellect aud the hearts
there has been a Socrates, and a Isno, and
Cleanthes, and a Marcus Antonlnus COM
ing forth on the grand and glorious mission.
Every age of the world has had its triumphs
of reason and morality. There has not been
a single age OF the world which has not had
some decided system of religion.
The Platonism. orientalisn, stoicism.
Brahminsm and Buddhism, considering the
ages in which they were. established, were
not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now, in
this line of bensicent institutions and OF
noble men, there appears parsonage mora
wonderful than any predecessor. He came
from family without any royal or aristo-
cratic pretenson. He came Galilean mes
cnanic. 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 anything
remarkable Yet Notwithstanding 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 r voice that rang through temple
palace and over ships deck and noun
--ta top exclaimed, al am the light of the
>, rid
Men were taken all nbacx at the idea that
that hand. vet hard from the use Of the ak.
the saw and adj aud hatchet, should wave
the scepter OF authority, and that upon that
brow, from which they hal 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
wro was at school With Us in boyhood has
got to be anything great or famous. aud 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 com.
plete obscurity, should have been very slow
10 acknowledge Christs wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream Of life
flowed out. At first it was lust q faint rill.
hardly able to find its way down the rock,
hut the tears of a weeping Christ aided to
fsM q a.
beauty and greenness Of the banks you
might know the path the crystal stream was
taking. o. ana on, until the lepers wers
brought down and washed OF their le0rosy.
and the dead were lifted into the water that
they might have lie, AMI pearls OF JOY AMI
promise were gathered from the brink, ami
Innumerable churches gathered on either
tank and the tide flows on deeper aud
stronger and wider until it rolls into the
river from under the throne OF Co. min
Cling bilow with bilow, and brightness with
brightness, and Joy with JOY, aud hosanna
with hosanna.
was'looking at some OF the paintings Of
the artist, Mr.. kensett. I saw some pic
lures that were Just faint OUTLINES. IN some
places you would see only .he branches Of a
tree and no trunk AMI in another use the
trunk and no brancle- He had not finished
the work Il would have taken him days
and months perhaps to have com )lete1 it.
Well my friends, in this world we get only
the faintest outline OF what Christ Is. IL
will take all eternity 70 fit ~ the picture
so loving so kind, 50 mercifu, 50 great
Paul does not, in this chapter. say OF Christ
He Is gCol, or He Is loving. OF He is patient
OF He Is kind, but in His exclamation Of the
text he embraces everything when he says,
Christ is all aad IN all
I in tho first II ace Christ Is every
thing in the Bible. | DO not care where |
open the Bible. | find Jesus. In whatever
poth SCart, / come after a while T. the
Bethlehem manger. | 60 back to the oil
dispensation. and see a lamb on the altar AM
saw. Behold the Lamb OF God which taketh
away the sin OF the wOrldm Then / 90 and
see the mama provided for the Israelites in
the wilderness, and say, Jesus, the breadot
life Then | look at the rock winch was
smitten by the prophets rod, and, as the
water cushes out, | say, 1t IS Jesus, the
fountain opene for sin and for uncleanueSs'
20 back and look at the writings OF job
and hear him exclaim, II know that my
Reedeemer liveth." Then 1 go to Ezekiel
and | find Christ presented there as "A
nlant OF renown.h aud then | turn over to
Isaiah and Christ is spoken Of "as a sheep
before the shearers." 1t is Jesus all the way
between Genesis and Malachi. Then turn
over in the New Testament and 1t Is ChriSt
IN the parable, it is Christ in the miracle 1t
is Christ in the evangelists story it is
Christ in the apostles eplstles and 10 IS
Christ in the trumpet peal of the Apocalypse.
know there are a great many people who
90 not find Christ in the Bible.
Here is a man who studies the Bible as
historian. Well. if you come as a historian,
you will find in this book how the world was
made, how the seas fed TO their places, how
empires were established, how nation fought
with nation, javein ringing against barbe-
yson, until the earth was CHASTITY with the
dead. You will see the coronation OF princes,
the triumph Of conquerors, and the world
turned upside down and back again and
down again, cleft and Scared with great
agonies Of earthquake and tempest and bat
tie. II is a wonderful history, putting to
the blush all Others in the accuracy OF its
recital and in tle stupeadous events it re
cords. Homer and Thucydides and Gibbon
could make great stories out of little events;
but it took Moses to tell how the heavens
and the earth were made in one chapter, aud
TO give the history Of thousands OF years
upon two leaves. 49,
There are others VINO come TO the blole
merely as autiquarlans. IL you come as an
ANTIQUARIAN. you will find great many ODD
thing, in the Bible-oeculiarities OF manner
and custom. marriage and burial; peculiar
tiles of DIRE $. TUNES, sandals. crisping pins,
amulets and girdles and tinkling ornaments.
II YOU come to look at military arrange
mentS you will find coats OF mail aud jaw
Gins and engines of war and circumvaile-
lion AMI encamomcnts. II you look for pc
efl'iar musical instruments, you will find
psalteries and shiginoths and rams horns.
The antiquarian will find in the Bible Curl
,sities in agriculture, and in commerce, and
N art. and in religion that will keep him
absorbed a great while. There are those
who come to this Bible as you would to a
,abinet OF curiosities, and you pick up this
and say, "What a strange sword that isl'
and "What a peculiar hat this is! and
"What an unlocked for lamp that isP and
the Bible to such becomes British Museum.
Then there are Others who find nothing IN
the Bible but the poetry. Well, II you come
as poet. you will find in this book faultlesi
rhythm. aud bold imagery, and startling
antithesis, and rapturous lyric. AMI swses
pastoral, and instructive narrative, anu as
votional psalm; thoughts expresssi IN
style more solemn than that OF Montgomery,
more bold than that OF Milton, more terrible
than that OF Dante more natural than thas
of Wordsworth more impassloned tnan
that OF Pollock, moro ten Ter than that OF
Cowper. more weird than that OF Spenser.
This great poem brings all the gems OF the
Garth into its coronet and it weaves the
n in, tfc Garland and DOurS