The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIyINE's Sun
DAY SERMON.


cover from the sea voyage give you an ac-
count of our mission OK bread TO famine
stricken Russia, and Of my preaching tour
through Germany, England, Scotland anu
Ireland but my first sermon on reaching
hvee must be hosanna OF gratitude 70
Christ, and from the text / have chosen, /
have found that the greatest name in the
ocean shipping, and from Liverpool 70 MOS
cow. and from Moscow to LonIOn and Id
inburgh and Belfast and Dublin. is Jesus.
Every age of the world hes had It's his
torians, its philosophers, It's artists, us
thinkers and its teachers. Were there MS
tories to be written there has always been a
Moses. or a Herodotus, or Aenopnon, or
Josepbus 10 write them. Were there poems
to be constructed there has always been
Job or Homer 90 construct them. We're
there thrones IusJrous ana powerful 70 %
lifted there has always been a David or a
Cesar TO raise them Were there teachers
demanded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been a Socrates, and Asno, AM
a Cleanthes, and a Marcus Autonnus com
ing forth on the grand and glorious mission.
Every age of the world has mad its triumPns
of reason and morality. There has not been
q single age Of the word which has not mad
some decided system OF religion.
The Piatonism. orient9lsn, stoicisn.
Brahminisrn and Buddhism. considering the
ages in which they were established, were
not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now, IN
this line OF benefcent Institutions and OF
noble men, there appears a parsonage more
wonderful than any predecessor. He came
from family without any royal or aristo-
cratic pretension. He came 2 Galilean me-
chanic. He had no advantage from the
schools. There were people beside Him cay
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 stranZest announcements, ran IN
collision with solemn priest and proud ruler,
and with voice that rang through temple
and palace and over ships deck and noun
tain TOD. exclaimed, 81 am the hght OF the
world ~
Men were taken all aoack at the idea that
that hand, yet hard from the use Of the ak,
the saw and adj and .hatchet, 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 unpaFai !eled splendor
and of universal dominion. We all know
how difficult it is to think that anybody
who was at school with Us in boyho0d 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
to acknowledge ChrisHs wonderful mission.
From this humble point tue stream of life
flowed out. At first II was just faint rill.
hardly able TO find its way Gown the rocS,
but the tears OF a weeping Christ added to
its volume, and it flowed on until by the
beauty ana greeuness OF the banks you
might know the path the crystal stream was
taking. Ga anu on, until the iepers were
brought down and washed of their leprosy.
ana the dead were lifted into the water teat
they might have lire, ami pearls OF joY and
promise were gathered from the Drink, and
innumerable churches gathered on either
bank ana the tide flows on deeper aud
stronger and wider until it rolls into the
river from under the throne OF Col. mir
clrs hiiinye tfit9 > - ~s---gOyf anu uUsauud
with hOsanna.
was looking at some OF the paintings Of
the artist, Mr.. Kensett. l saw some pic.
lures that We're just faint outlines; in soMe
places you would see only the branches Of q
tree anu no trunk; ana IN another case the
trunk ana no branches. re had not finished
the WORK. 1t would have taken hin days
ana months perhaps 10 have completed IL.
Veil, my friends, IN this world we get only
the falntest outline OF what Christ IS 1t
will take all eternity to fill 10 tue picture
so loving, so kind, 50 mercIiul, so great
Paul does not, in tnis chapter. say of Christ
DE Is good, or He Is loving, or He is patient,
text he embraces everything when ne says,
Christ IS all and IN alp
remark in the first place, Christ is every
thing IN the Bible. | DO not care where
open the Bible, l find Jesus. Ia whatever
potn l start, l come after a wnile TO tue
Bethlehem manger l go back to tue oil
dispensation, ana sect lamb on the altar ami
say, ''Behold the Lamb OF God whIcn rakeuh
away the sin OF tine wUrldW Then | 20 and
the Gd fort IA oti4t- j.,
the wilderness, ana say, Jesus, the bread OF
life" Then l look at the rock which was
smitten by the prophets rod and, as the
water gushes out, | say, at is Jesus, the
fountain opened Tor sin and Tor uncleanness.
go back and look at the writings OF Job
and hear him exciaim, II know that my
Reedeemer iveth !" Then | 90 TO Ezekiel
and l lind Christ presented there as "a
plant OF renown,' and then / turn over to
Isaiah and Christ is spoken Of ''ss sheep
before the shearers." II is Jesus all the way
between Genesis ami Malachi. Then / turn
over in the New Testament and it Is Christ
IN the parable, 1t is Christ IN the miracle 1t
is Christ in the evangelisHs story, it is
Christ IN the apostles euiStles aud it is
Christ in the trumpet peal of the Apocalypse
i know there are great many people VINO
do not find Christ in the Bible.
Here is man who studies the Bible as a
historian. Well. if you come as historian
you will find 10 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 haroe-
geon, until the ca h 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. 1t is a wonderful history, putting to
the blush all others in the accuracy Of its
recital and in tne stupendous events it re-
cords. Homer and Thucydides and Gib5on
could make great stories out Of little events:
but it tooka Moses to tell how the heavens
and the earth We're made in one chapter and
to give the history Of thousands oil years
upon two leaves.
There are others VINO come to the Bible
merely as antiquarians. If you come as an
antiquarian, you will find a great many odd
things in the Undergraduates of manner
and custom, marriage and burial; peculiar
tiles OF dress, TUNES, sandals, crisping pins,
smulets and girdles and tinkling ornaments.
il you come TO look at military arrange
ments, you will find coats OF mail and iav-
elins and engines of war and crcumvalla-
ton and encampments. If YOU look for pa-
culiar musical instruments, YOU will find
psalteries and shiginoths and rams horns.
The antiquarian will find in the Bible Curl
osities in agriculture, and in Commerce. and
In art, and in religion that win keep him
absorbed a great while. There are tbosa
who come to this Bible US yol would To a
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