Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-01
ALL IN ALL.
DR.. Talmage Again breaches in His
Tabernacle.
Christ All and In An-Those Only Got
Into tho Heart of Gods Truth
Who Come Seeking
Christ.

Returned, after the most eventful
summer of my life, must shortly and
rs soon rs ] recover from the sea voy-
age, 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 hosanna of gratitude to Christ, and
from the text l have chosen / have
found that the greatest name in the
ocean shipping, and from Liverpool to
and Edinburg and Belfast and Dublin,
is Jesus.
Every age of the world has had its
historians, its philosophers, its artists,
its thinkers and its teachers. We're
there histories to be written, there has
always been n Moses, or Hcrodotus,
or Xenophon, or Josephus to write
them. Were there poems to be con-
structed there has always been Job or
a Homer to construct them. Were
there thrones, lustrous and powerful,
to be lifted there has always been
David or Cesar to lift them. Were
there teachers demanded for the intel
lects and the hearts there has been u
Socrates and Zeno and Cleanthes
and Marcus Antonius coming forth
on the grand and glorious mission.
Every age of the world has had its tri-
umphs 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, Brahminism
and Buddhism, considering the
ages in which they were estab-
lished, were not lacking in in
genuity and force. Now, in this line
of benefcent institutions and of noble
men there appeared parsonage more
wonderful than any predecessor. He
came from family without any royal
aristocratic pretensions. He became n
Galilean mechanic. He had no advan-
tage from the schools. There were peo-
pie beside Him day after day who had
no idea that He was going to be any
thing remarkable or do anything re-
markable. 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
a voice that rang through temple and
palace and over ships deck and
mountain top proclaimed: 81 am the |
light Of the world" Men were taken |
all aback at the idea that that hand, |
yet hard from the use of the AK, the |
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 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 obscurity should have
been very slow to acknowledge Christ's
wonderful mission.
Iremarlx, in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible. l do not care
where open the Bible find Jesus. In
whatever path ! start ! come, after
awhile, to the Bethlehem manger. /
go 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 world" Then 60 and
see the mamma provided for the Israel
ties 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, l say:
1T is Jesus, the fountain opened for
sin and for uncleanness." go back
and look at the writings of Job, and
hear him exclaim: 81 know that my
Redeemer liveth." Then go to Eze-
kiel. and find Christ presented there
as "a plant of renown;" and then 1 turn
over to Isaiah, and Christ is spoken
of las sheep before her shear
ers" It is Jesus all the way be-
tween Genesis and Malachi Then
I turn over to the New Testament,
and it is Christ in the parable, it
is Christ ia the miracle, it is Christ in
the evangelist's story, it is Christ in the
apostles epistles, and it is Christ in the
trumpet peal of the Apocalypse. know
there are great many people who do
not find Christ in the Bible. Here Is
man who studies the Bible as q his
torian. Well, If you come as 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 downand back again and
down again, cleft and SCARED with
great agonies of earthquake, and tom