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DIR. TALMAGE Al HOME,
THE GREAT PREACHER RETURNS
FROM HIS FOREIGN TRIP.
He Addresses a Large Crowd In the
Tabernacle--The Eminent d.
vine Shows That Christ Is
All In All.

Gus and ELUSIVE welcome by vast
congregation which assembled to hear
him preach his first sermon after his
return from his European preaching
| tour. The subject was: "All in All. y
Text: Colossians. Ill, IL: Christ is
all and in ALL"
Returned after the most eventual
summer 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. | have found that the
greatest name in the ocean-shlp ping.
and from Liverpool to Moscow, and
| from Moscow to London, and Edln-
burg and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus.
Every age OF the world has had its
historians, its philosophers, its art
lists. its thinkers and its teachers.
We're there histories to be written,
there has always been Moses, or a
Herodotus, or a Nenophon, or a Jo-
sephus to write them. Were there
poems to be constructed. there has al
ways been a Job or Homer to con-
struct them. Were there thrones lus-
trous and powerful, to be lifted, there
has always been David or Caesar
to raise them. Were there teachers
demanded for the intellect and the
hearts, there has beena Socrates and
Zeno, and a Cleanthes, and Mar
Gus Antoninus coming forth on the
grand and glorious mission. Every
age of the world has had its triumphs
OF reason and morality. There has
not cen single age OF the world
which has not had some decided sys-
tenn OF religion. The Platonism, ORR
entalism, Stoicism, Brahminisn, and
Bu,!d is n, 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 per-
sonage
MORE WONDERFUL THAN ANY PREDE-
CESSOR.
He came from family without any
royal or aristocratc pretention. He
became Galilean mechanic. He had
no advantage from the schools. There
We're people beside him day after day
who had no idea that he was going to
be anything remarkable or do any
thing remarkable. Yet, notwithstand-
ing all this, and without any title, or
scholarly profession. or flaming rhet-
ORIG, He startled the world with the
strangest announcements, ran in col
lison with solemn priest and proud
ruler, and with voice that rang
through temple and palace, and over
ships deck, and mountain deck ex-
claimed, II am the light ofthe world"
remark, in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible. l do not care
where l open the Bible, find Jesus
In whatever path | start, come after
a while to the Bethlehem manger.
know there are great many people
who donot find Christ in the Bible.
Here is a man who studies the Bible
as istorian. Well, if you come as
a historian, you will find in this book
how the world was made, how the
seas fled to their places, how empires
were established, how nation fought
with nation, iavelin running against
harbegeon, until the earth was
CHASTITY WITH THE DEAD.
You will see the coronation Of
princes, the triumph of conquerers and
the world turned upside down and
| back again and down again, cleft and
Scared with great agonies OF earth
quake, and tempest and battle. 1t is
wonderful history, putting to the
blus all others in the accuracy of its
recital, and in the stupendous events
1t records. Homer, and Thucyddes,
and Gibbon could make great stories
out OF little events; but it took a
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 are others who come to the
Bible merely as antiquarians. If you
come as an antiquarian you will find
great many odd things in the Bible;
peculia1ities Of manner and custom.
marriage and burial; peculiarties of
dress, tunics, sandals, crisping-pins,
oIAuiSSo anu anu LlilkllQg Or
naments, There are those who come
to this Bible as you would to a cabi-
net OF curiosities, and you pick up
this and say, "What a strange sword
that is!" and "What a peculiar hat
this is!' and "What an unlooked-for
lamp that is!' and the Bible to such
becomes British museum.
Then there are others who find
nothing in the Bible but the poetry.
Well, ii you come as a poet, you will
find in this book faultIess rhythm.
aud bold imagery, and startling an
tithesis and rapturous lyric, and
sweet pastoral, and instructive mar.
rative, and devotional psalm:
thoughts expressed in a style more
solemn than that OF MONTGOMERY.
more bold than that OF Dante, more
natural than that OF Wordsworth.
more imprisoned than that OF Pol.
lock, more tender than that ofCowper.
more weird than that of Spenser
This great poem brings all the gems of
the earth into its coronet, and Il
weaves the flames of judgment in it's
garland, and pours
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