Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-01
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
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| Returned after the most eventful SUNNI.
4 OF my life, | must shortly and as soon re-
cover from the sea voyage give You an ac-
count of our mission of bread to famina-
I stricken Russa, and of my preaching tour
through Germany, England Scotland aud
ireland; but my first sermon on reaching
here must be a hos8nna 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 and Ed
inburgh aud Belfast and Dublin is Jesus
Every age of the world has had its his
torians. its philosophers, its artists, its
/ thinkers and its teachers. Were there his
tories to be written there has always been a
/ Moses, or Heroiotus, or Xenophon, or
! Josephus to write them. We're there poems
/ to be constructed there has always been a
| Job or a Homer to construct them. Were
! there thrones lustrous and powerful to be
lifted there has always been David or
4 Caesar TO raise them Were there teachers
demanded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been a Socrates, and a Zeno AMI
| { Cleanthes, and Marcus Antoninus COM
ing forth on the grand aud glorious mission.
Every age of the world has had its triumphs
of reason and morality. Tnere has not been
a single age Of the world which has not hal
some decided system of religion.
The PlatoniSln. orientalism, stoicism.
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering the
ages in which they were established. were
not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now, in
] this line of beneficent institutions and OF
/ noble men, there appears parsonage mora
wonderful than any predecessor. he came
from family without any royal or aristo-
1 cratic pretension. He cana Galilean me-
chanic. He had no advantage from the
4 schools. There were people beside HIM day
/ 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 pro .ession
| or flaming rhetoric He startled the world
4 with the strangest announcements, ran in
1 collision with solemn priest and proud ruler,
and with voice that rang through temple
/ and palace and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed, g. an the light of tho
worldm
Men were taken all abacI at the IDEA that
that hand, yet hard from ths use OF the ak,
the saw and adj and hatchet, should wave
the scepter of authority, and that upon that
brow, from which they hal 50 often seen
Him wipe the sweat of toll. there won yet
come the crown Of unparalleled splendor
and of universal dominion We all know
how difficult il is to think that anybody
VINO 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 aud seen
Him i'll after years in the days of His com
plete obscurity, should have bean very slow
to acknowledge Chrisfs wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream of life
flowed out At first it was Just faint rill
hardly able to find its way down the roc5
but the tears of a weeping Christ added to
Its volume, and it flowed ON until by the
beauty and greenness of the banks YOU
might know the path the crystal stream was
taking. "a ana on, until the lepers were
brought down and washed of their leorosy
and the deld were lifted into the water that
they might have lite ana pearls of Joy AMI
promise We're gathered from the brink. and
lnnumerable churches gathered on either
bank and the ii1e flows on deeper and
stronger and wider until it rolls into the
river from under the throne OF Col, min
Cling biIlow WITH billos, and brightness with
brightness, and JOY with JOY. and hosanna
with hosanna.
I was looking at some OF the paintings OF
the artist, MIR. Kensett. | saw some pic
/ lures that were Just faint outlines; in some
4 places you would see only the branches OF IA
| tree and no trunk; and in another case the
/ trunk and no branches. He had not flushed
4 the work 1t would have taken him days
and months perhaps to have completed it.
/ Wen, my friends, in this world we get only
the fainteSt outline of what Christ IS. 1t
will take all eternity to fill up the picture
/ so loving, so kind, 50 merclfu, SO great
! Paul does not, in tnis chapter say of Christ
/ He is goo3, or He Is lovinG, or He is patient
on He is kind, bu5 in His exclamation of the
/ text he embraces everything when he says
Christ is all and in all y
! ! remark in the first place, Christ is every
thing in the Bible. ! DO not care where
open the Bible, | find Jesus In whatever
poth | start, | come after while to tine
! Bethlehem manger. ! go back to the old
nispensation and see a lamb on the altar and
| say, behold the Lamb OF God which taketh
away the sin OF the worldW Then l go and
see the mama provided for the Israelites in
the wilderness, and say, Jesus, the bread of
life Then | look at the roc6 wnicn was
smitten by the prophets rod, and, as the
water gushes out, ] say, ut is Jesus, the
fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness."
20 back and look at the writings OF Job
and hear him exclalm, II know that my
Reedeemer liveth." Then I go TO Ezekiel
! and | find Christ presented there as "a
| plant of renown,' and then ! turn over TO
| Isaiah and Christ is spoken OF "as sheep
before the shearersn 1t is Jesus all the way
between Genesis ami Malachi. Then | turn
over in the New Testament and it is Christ
III the parable, it IL Christ in the miracle. 1t
is Christ in the evangelists story, it is
Christ in the apostles epstles 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 a man who stu lies the Bible as
historian. Well. if you come as a historian,
.
made, how the seas fed to their places, how
empires were established how nation fought
with nation, iavelin rim sing against barbs-
geOn, until the earth was CHASTITY with the
dead You will see the coronation of princes
the triumph of conquarors, and the world
turned upside down an back again and
down again, cleft and SCARED with great
agonies of earthquake AMI tempest and bat
tie 1t is a wonderful history putting to
the blush all others in thu accuracy of its
recital and in tle stupe 1dous events it re
cords Homer AMI TAucydides and Gibbon
could make great stories out OF little events;
but il took Moses to tell how the heavens
and the earth were made in one chapter, and
to give the history of Thousands Of years
upon two leaves.
There ara others VINO come to tle Bible
mereiv as autiquarianz. IL you come as an
antiquarian. you will find great many Odd
thing; in the Bi1le-oscaliarities Of manner
and custom, marriage and burial; peculiar
tiles OF DIRE 6, tunics sandals. crisping pins,
amulsts and giriles and tinxliug ornaments.
If YOU come 10 look az military arrange
ments, you viii find coats OF mail and jaw
Gins and engines Of war and circumvalia-
ton ami encanpments. II you look for pc
cuiar musical instru nents, you will find
psalteries aud shiginoths and rams horns.
The antiquarian viii find in tbs Bbls curl
ositiss in agriculture, and in c0nmsrcs, AMI
in art, and in religion that will keep him
absorbed a great while. There are those
who come TO this Bible as you would to a
cabinet Of curiosities, and you PICK up this
and say, What a strange sword that isf'
AMI 'FHhat peculiar hat this isF and
''What an unlocked for lamp that isp and
the Bible to such becomes British Museum.
Then there are others who find nothing in
the Bible but the ostry. Well, II you come
as poet, you will find in this book faultless
rhythm, and bold imagery, and startling
antithesis, and rap.urous lyric, ant sweet
pastoral, and instructive narrative, AMI de-
votional psalm; taoagats expressst IA
style more solemn than that Of Montgomery,
more boil than that Of Milton, more terrible
than that OF DIate. more natural than taas
OF Wordsworth. mora imoassionet t59n
that of Pollock, mora ten 3er than that OF
Cowpsr. more weird than that Of Speuser.
This great poem brings all tue gems OF the
earth into its coronet. and it weavss the
flames OF Judgment in its garland aud pour
eternal harmoniss in its rnysh
Everything this book touches II makes
beautiful, from the plain stones OF t1s sum
rner thras5inz floor, and the daughters Of
Nahor filling the trough for the camels, and
the fish pools Of Hesabon. up TO the psalmisi
uraising g ID VITA diapas9n on storm an
whiriwin5, and Job lea ling forth Ofion.
Arcturus and the PIeiades. 1t is a 1onter-
full poem, and a great many people read i
as they do Thomas Moore's s'Laila Ro3xb.
and Walter SCOTS Lady o. tbs Llxe." aut
Tennyson's charge OF tins Light Brigade. !"
They sit down, and are 50 a0sorbe In lo1k-
iny at ths shells on the shore that they Tor
get to look OF on ths great OCEAN Of GJr;
mat 4 cll uru-