Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-30

gregation which assembled to hear him
preach his first sermon after his return
from his European preaching tour. lie
that in a Sunday or two
he would give sermon concerning ms
in delivering in Russia, In
behalf of The Christian Herald, the |
3d.. 900 worth of flour for the starving. |
The subject to-day was: "All in all.
Text, Colossians 3:11: Christ is all in |
ALL"
Returned after the most eventful
summer of my life, l must shortly and
rs soon as recover from the sea-
voyage, give you an account OF our
mission of bread to famine-struciS
Russia, and of my preaching tour
through Germany, England, Scotland
end Ireland; but my first sermon on
reaching here must be hosanna OF
gratitude to Christ, and from the
text have chosen, l have found that
the greatest name in the ocean-ship-
ping, and from Liverpool tc 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 artists,
its thinkers, and its teachers. We're
there histories to be written, there has
always been n Moses, or a Herodotus,
or a Xenophon, or a 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 n
David or a Caesar to raise them Were
there teachers demanded for the intel
lect and the hearts, there has been
Socrates, and Zeno, and Cleanthes,
and a Marcus 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 been a single age of the
world which has not had some de-
cided system of religion. The Platoon
ism, Orientalism, 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 appeared a
parsonage more wonderful than any
predecessor. He came from family
without any royal or aristocratic
pretension. He became Cali
lean 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 anything remark
able. Yet, Notwithstanding all this,
and without any title or scholarly pro-
fession, or flaming rhetoric, he startled
the world with the strangest announce
ments, ran in collision with solemn
priest and proud ruler, and with a
voice that rang through temple and
palace and over ship deck and mount
ain top exclaimed, 81 am the light OF
the worldr' Men were taken all abacl
at the idea that that hand,yet hard from
the use of the axe, the saw, and adzt
and Ratchet should wave the
sceptre of authority, and that upor
that brow, from which they had Sc
often seen him wipe the sweat of toll
there would yet come the crown Of I'M
paralleled splendor and of universal do
is to think that anybody who was a
school with us in boyhood has got Il
be anything great or famous; and M
wonder that those who had been boy
with Christ in the streets of Nazaretl
!. and seen him in after years in the day
of his complete obscurity, should have
been very slow to acknowledge Christ!
wonderful mission.
From this humble point the STREAM
of life flowed out. At first it was jus
a faint rill, hardly able to find its wa,
down the rock, but the tears of a weep
ing Christ added to its volume, and i
!. flowed on until, by the beauty ant
/. greenness of the banks, you nigh
u know the path the crystal stream wa
!, taking. On and on, until the leper
y were brought down and washed OF
i their leprosy, and the dead were LITE,
/. into the water that they might hav
: life, and pearls of JOY and promis
= were gathered from the brink, and in
,. nuperable churches gathered o.
X either bank, and the tide flows o.
:. deeper, and stronger, and wider, unit
it rolls into the river under the thron
= of God, mingling billow with billow
and brightness with brightness, an
A joy with joy, and hosanna with he
q sauna.
Twas looking at some of the paint
= ings of the artist, Mr.. Kensett l sa,
= some pictures that were just faint out
lines; in some places you would Sc
only the branches of a tree and n
trunk; and in another case the trun
and no branches. He had not finishe
the work 1t would have taken hin
days and months, perhaps, to hav
completed it. Well, my friends, in thi
world we get only the faintest outlin
of what Christ is. 1t will take al
eternity to fill up the pictures
loving, so kind, so merciful, so grea
Paul does not, in this chapter, say {
}. Christ he is good, or he is loving, or b
is patient, or he is kind; but in his e.
clamation of the text he embrace
everything when he says, "Christ is a
and in ALL"
remark, in the first place, Christ
evervthinO in the bible i do not car