Connecticut western news., 1892-09-29
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR. TALMAGE'S FIRST SERMON AFTER
 HIS RETURN FROM EUROPE.

The Sunicfency of tho Gospel of Christ.
 There Is Ancient Learning in It, with
 Poetry and Sublime Rhetoric, but More
 Than All Else, There Is Salvation. BROOKLYN, Sept. 25.-Dr. Talmage was greeted with most generous and effusive welcome today by vast con- gregation which assembled to hear him preach his first sermon after his return from his European preaching tour. He announced that in Sunday or two he would give sermon concerning his stewardship in delivering in Russia, in behalf of The Christian Herald, the k85, ,000 worth of four for the starving. The subject today was "All in AL" Text, Colossians iii, il, "Christ is all and in all.
 Returned after the most eventful summer of my life, must shortly and as soon as recover from the sea voyage give you ali account of our mission of bread to famine stricken 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 shipping, and from Liverpool to Mos COW, and from Moscow to London and Edinburgh and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus.
 Every age of the world has had its historians, its philosophers, its artists, it's thinkers and its teachers. Were there histories to be written there has always been Moses, or Herodotus, or Ken ophon, or Josephus to write them. Were there poems to be constructed there has always been 8 Job or Homer to construct them. Were there thrones lustrous and powerful to be lifted there has always been David or a 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- rious mission. Every age of the world nas-had it's triumphs of reason and mor- ality. There iifHs not been single age of the world which has not had some de- cidsd system of religion.
 The Platonism, orientalism, stoicism, Brah,ninism and Buddhism, considering the ages in which they were established, were not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now, in this line of benefcent institu- tions and of noble men, there appears parsonage more wonderful than any predecessor. He came from family without any royal or aristocratic preten- sion. He became 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 to 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 voice that rang through temple and palace and over ships deck and noun tain top, exclaimed, :'l am the light of the worldv'
 i Men were taken all aback at the idea that that hand, yet hard from the use of the ax, the saw and adz 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 unparalleled 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 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.
 THE GREAT DEVELOPMENT
 From this humble point the stream of life flowed out. At first it was just faint Till, hardly able to find it's way down the rock, but the tears of weep ing Christ added to it's volume, and it flowed on until by the beauty and green ness of the banks you might know the path the crystal stream was taking. On and on, until the lepers were brought down and washed of their leprosy, and the dead were lifted into the water that they might have life, and pearls of joy and promise were gathered from the brink, and innumerable churches gath cred on either bank and the tide flows on deeper and stronger and wider un- til it rolls into the river from under the throne of God, mingling pillow with pillow, and brightness with brightness, and joy with joy, and hosanna with hosanna.
 4 was looking at some of the paintings 4oR .-x HE-. pictures that were just faint outlines; in some places you would see only the branches of tree and no trunk; and in another case the trunk and no branches. He had not finished the work. It would have taken him days and months per haps to have completed it. We'll, my friends, in this world we get only the faintest outline of what Christ is. It Twill take all eternity to fill up the pie ture-so loving, so kind, so merciful, so Ngreatl Paul does not, in this chapter, say of Christ he is good, or he is loving, or he is patient, or he is kind, but in his everything when he says, "Christ is all land in all."
 ' remark in the first place, Christ is everything in the Bible. do not care where open the Bible, I find Jesus. In whatever path start, come after a while to the Bethlehem manager. I go back to the old dispensation, and see a lamb on the altar, and say, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the worldr''sThen go and see the mama provided for the Israelites in the wilderness, and say, "Jesus, the bread of hfe." Then look at the rock which was smitten by the prophets rcd, and, as the water gushes out, say, "It Is Jesus, the fountain opened for sin and
 for uncleanness."