The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-26
TALMAGESSTEW WARDSHIP
HIS FIRST SERMON AFTER HIS
EUROPEAN "TRIP.

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OF Trouble.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 25.-Dr. Talmags was
greeted with a most generous aud ELUSIVE
welcome to-day by vast congregation,
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 a
sermon concerning his stewardship in de-
livering in Russia in behalf Of the Christian
Herald the 235, zoo worth Of flour for the
starving. The subject to-day was: tAll In
All Text, Colossans ill, II: Christ is all
and in all ~
Returned after the most eyentful summer
or my life, l must shortly, aud as soon as
recover from the sea voyage, give You an
account of our mission Of bread TO famine-
struck Russia, and Of my preaching tour
through Germany, England scotland and
Ireland; but my drs5 sermon on reaching
here must be a hozanna 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 aud E1in-
burg and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus.
Every age Of the world has had Its histo-
rtRDs, its philosophers, its artists its
thinkers and its teachers. We're there his
tories TO be written, there has always been
a Moses, Or a Herodotus, or a Xenophon, or
Josephus - write them. Were .here
poems TO be constructed, there has always
been Job or a Homer TO construct them.
We're there thrones, lustrous aud powerful,
TO be lifted, there has always been a David
or Cesar TO raise them. Were there
teachers demanded for the intellect and the
hearts, there has been Socrates and a
Xsno, and Cleanthes, and Marcus Auto
minus coming forth on the grand and zlo-
mission EUnFW nvn Of Fhn
has had its triumphs of reason and
morality. There has not been
single age OF the world which
has not had some decided system Of religion.
The Platonism, Orientalism. Stoicism, Brah-
minism, and Buddhism, considering the
ages in which they were esta olished, were
not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now,
in this line OF benehcent institutions and
noble men, there appeared a parsonage
more wonderful than any predecessor. He
came from family without any royal or
artstocratic pretension. BE became a Cali
lean mechanic. He had no advantage from
the schoolA There were people beside him
day after day who had no idea that he was
going 20 be anything remarkable or do any
thing remarkable. Yet notwithstanding
all this, and without any title, or scholarly
profession. or flaming rhetoric he startled
the world with the strangost announce
ments, ranin collision with solemn priest
through temple and palace, and over ships
deck, and mountain TOP, exclaimed: ~ 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 adzs.
and hatohet, should wave the scepter Of
authority, and that upon that brow from
which they bad so often seen him wipe the
sweat OF toll. there would yet come the
crown of unparalleled splendor and OF uni
vsrsal dominion. We all know how diff
cult 1t 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 MIN in
after years In the days of his complete OBJ
sourity, should have been very slow TO
acknowledge Christ's wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream Of
life flowed cut. At first 1t was Just a faint
rill, hardly able TO find its way down the
rock, but the tears Of a weeping Christ
added TO its volume; and it flowed on until,
by the beauty and grsenness of the banks,
you might know the path the crystal stream
was taking. On and on until the Iepers
were brought down aud washed off 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 lnnumerable churches gathered
on either bank, and the tide flows on deeper,
and stronger, and wider, until it rolls into
ube river from under the throne of God.
mingling billow with billow, and brightness
with brightness. and JOY with joy, and
hosanua with hosannai
/ was looking at some Of the paintings of
the artist Mr.. Kenzett. | saw some pict-
ures that were just faint outlines; in some
places you would sse only the branches oe a
tree and no trunk; and in another case the
trunk and no branches. lie had not finished
the work. 1t would have taken him days
and months, perhaps, to have completed is.
Well, my friends, IN this world we get only
the faintest outline of what Christ is il
will take all eternity TO fill up the picture
so loving, 30 kind. so mercful, so greatl
Paul does not, in this chapter, say OF Christ
he is good, or he Is loving, or no is patient.
or he Is kind; but in his exclamation of the
text he embraces everything when he Gays,
"Christ is all and In ail.n
remark, in the first place, Christ is
in the Bible. / do not care
where open the Bible find Jesus In
whntever path start, l come, after awhile
to the bethlehem mRnger. / 90 back TO the
old dispensation and see q lamb on the
altar and say, behold the lamb of God
which taketh away the sin of the worldgn
Then go and see the mama 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,
ut is Jesus, the fountain opened for sin and
FOR uncleanness" / go back and look
at the writings Of Job, and hear him ex-
claim, Il know that my redeemer iveth.n
Then 1 20 to Ezekiel and find Christ pre-
5ented there as "a plant Of renown :" and
then l turn over TO Issiah, and Christ 10
spoken OF ''as a sheep before her shearsrs"
IL is Jesus all the way between Genesis aud
Then | turn over to the New
and 1t is Christ in the parable,
It is Christ In the miracle. 1t is Christ in the
eVangelist's story, it is Christ In the apos-
les epistles and it is Christ In the trumpet
peal Of the Apocalypse. know there are O
great many people who do not find Chrisr
In the Bible. Here is man who studies the
Bible as a historian. Well, IL 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. javelin ringing against
harbegeon. until the earth was ghastly
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, aud
tempest, and battle. 10 IS wonderful
history, putting to the BLUSH all others in
the accuracy Of it's recit6, and in tho
arnpand0us aventa IL reoordS Homer and