The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-14
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
FIRST DISCOURSE SINCE RE-
TURNING FROM EUROPE.
The Many Sidedness of the Bible-Wonder-
full Ancient Learning and Sublime
Poetry, but More Than All the Power OF
God Unto Salvation.
Talmage in the Tabernacle.

congregation. which assembled in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle to hear him preach
his first sermon after his return from his
European preaching tour. Heannounced
that in a Sunday or two he would give a
sermon concerning his stewardship in
delivering in Russia, in behalf of the
Christian Herald, the S35, 900 worth Of
flour for the starving. The subject to-day
was "Ali ia ALL" Text, Colossians iii,
IL: Christ is all and in all"
Returned after the most eventfufsum-
mer of my life. l must shortly and 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 first sermon on reaching here must
be a hOsanna OF gratitude to Christ and
from the text have chosen l have found
that the greatest name in the ocean ship
ping and from Liverpool to Moscow, and
from Moscow 10 London and Edinburgh
and Belfast and Dublin, is jesus.
Every age of the world has had its his
tOriaus, its philosophers, its thinkers,
and its teachers. We're these histories
to be written there has always been
Moses, or a Herodotus, or Nenophon,
or Josephus to write them. We're
there poems to be constructed there has
always been Job or a Homer to con-
struct them. Were there thrones lus-
frous and powerful to be liftedothere has
always been David or Cesar to raise
them. Were there teachers demanded
for the intellect and the hearts there has
been a Socrates. and ZenO, and
Cleanthes. and Marcus Antonius 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 mas not had some decided
system CT religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoiciSm,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
the ages in which they were eSta blished.
were not lacking in ingenuity and force
Now, in this line of tenefcent institu-
tions and of noble men there appeared q
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
TtUldThdUit. let NOTWITHSTANDING
all this, and without any title of schol-
arly profession or flaming rhetoric, he
startled the world with the strangest an
nouncements, ran IN collision with SOL
emn priest, and proud ruler. and with a
voice that ran through temple and pal
ace, and over ships deck and mountain
top exclaimed, II am the light Of the
wOrld,''
Men were taken all aback at the ;dea
that that hand, yet hard from the use of
the AK, the saw, the adj and Ratchet.
should have the scepter of authority. and
that upon that brow. from which they had
SO often seen him wipe the sweat of toll.
there should yet come the crown of I'M
paralleled 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 won
der 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 obScurlty should have been
very slow to acknowledge Chrisf's won
derful mission.
From this humble point the stream of
life flowed out. At first it was just
down the rock, but the tears OF 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. aud the tide flows |
on deeper and stronger and wider. until
it rolls into the river from under the I
throne of God. mingling billow with |
billow, and brightness with brightness, /
and joy with joy. and hosanna with ho- /
sauna.
/ 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 il. Well, my
friends, in this world we get only the
fainteSt outline of what Christ is. 1t
will take ali 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
of the text he embraces
when he says, Christ is all
Ind in all.
l remark In tn Sst place, Christ is
in the Bible. do not care
where / open the Bible-I find Jesus.
In whatever path start l come after
awhile to the Bethlehem manger. go
back to the old disuenSation and see
amb on the altar and say, Behold the
Lamb of God which taketh away the sin
If the world!" Then I so and see the
mamma provided for the Israelites in the
wilderness. and say. Jesus, the bread
If life" Then look at the rock which
was smitten by the prophets rod, and as
he water gushes out l say, ut is Jesus.
he fountain opened for sin and for un-
.leanneSS"
go back and look at the writings OF
lob, and hear him exclaim, 81 know that
ny Redeemer liveth." Then /. 60 to
Ezekiel. and l find Christ presented there
IS "a plant of renown," and then l turn s
vor m Isaiah opd Christ - sool-an Of