Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-26
WORD OF THE LORD
Dr.. Talmage In His Own Pull
pin Again.
POETRY AND SUBLIME truth
Are Incorporated Into the Teachings Of
Jesus Of Nazareth But There 10
Also Salvation.

BkDDkLhsf sept. -o--Df. IAltnd-t
vas greeted with = most generous and
elusive welcome today b . vast con
gregati0n which assembled ~ hear him
preach his nrst sermon after his return
from his European preaching tour. lie
announced that IN a Sunday or two be
would giSs q sermon concerning his
Stewardship ia delivering IN Russia, IL
behalf II The Christian Herald, the
81, 90 worth OF hour for the starving
The subject today was ''All Ia All.
Text, Colessians ~, II, Christ Is al
aad IN a."
Returned after the most eventfnl
su4mer Of my life, must shortly and
as soon as 1 recover from the sea voyage
give you an account Of our mission Of
bread 10 famine stricken Russia, aud Of
my preaching tour through Germany,
England, Scotland and Ireland; but my
first sermon on reaching here must be a
hosanna of gratitude 70 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 70 London and
Edinburgh and Belfast aud Dublin, Is
Jesus.
Every age Of tho world has had its
historians. its philosophers. IT'S artists,
IT'S thinkers and rs teachers. Were there
histories % Be written there has always
been a Moses, or a HerodOtGs. or a Ken
ophon, or Josephus 10 write them.
Were there poems 70 be constructed
there has always been Job or Homer
% construct them. Were there thrones
lustrous and powerful 20 De lifted there
has always been David or Caesar TO
raise them. Were there teachers de-
manded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been Socrates, and Zeno,
and Cleanthes, and Marcus Antoni-
nus coming forth on the grand and glo-
nous mission. Every age OF the world
has had its triumphs Of reason and NOR
atty. There has not been a single age
OF the world which has not had some de-
sided system of religion.
The Platonism, orientalisnl, stoicism,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
the ages in which they were established,
were not lacking in ingenuity and force.
Now, ia this line of beneficent institu-
lions and Of noble men, there appears a
parsonage more wonderful than any
predecessor. He came from family
without any royal or aristocratic preten-
sion. lie became a 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
20 be anything remarkable or do any
thing remarkable. Yet notwithstand-
ing 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
q voice that rang through temple and
palace and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed, Il 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 adj and Ratchet,
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 unparalleled splendor and of
universal dominion. We all know how
difficult IL Is TO think that anybody who
was at school with us In boyhood has
goe 10 be anything great or famous, and
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 complete obscurity. should have
been very slow to acknowledge Christ's
wonderful mission.
TILE GREAT DEVELOPMENT.
From this humble point the stream of
life flowed ont. At first it was just a
faint nil. hardly able 20 find its way
down the rock. but the tears Of weep
ing Christ added 10 its volume. and it
flowed on until by the beauty and green
pess OK the banks you might know the
path the crystal stream was taking. On
and on. until ths lepers were brought
down and washed of their leprosy. and
the dead wers lifted into the water that
they might hsve life, and pearls Of joy
sad promise were gathered from tho
brink. and iunumsrabls churches gath
cred on either bank and the tide flows
on deeper aud stronger and wider un-
I'll Il rolls INTO the river from under the
throne Of God, miDgling billow with
billOw. aud brightness with brightness.
and joy with joy. and hosauns with
hosanna
was looking at some IL the paintings
Of the artist. Mr Ksusstt saw some
pictures that were Just faint outlines. in
some places you would see only the
branches OF a tree and no trunk. aud in
another case the trunk and no branches.
He had not finished thu work. II would
have taken him DAYS and months per-
hsps - have completed II, Well. my
friends. in this world We get only the
faintest outline q what Christ Is. It
viii take AL eternity 80 I'll up the pic
ture-so loving. So kind, 50 merciful. 50
great Paul does noe. IN this chapter,
say n Christ he y good. or he Is loving.
OF he IL patient. or ne L kind. but in ms
exclamation u toe text DO embraces
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