The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-07
ALL IN ALL
DR.. Talmage Again Preachee in His
Tabernacie.
Christ All and In Au-Tho@e sr,iy Got
Lotto til" Heart 49, G"d's Truth
Who Como Seeking
Ghrist.

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Dewitt Talmagc preached his first SER
mon in Brooklyn upon the subject "All
In ALL" Text. Colossians Ill. II: Christ
Is All in All" lie said:
Returned. after the most ~cvcntful
summer of my life, I must shortly and
ms soon as ] recover from the sea voy-
age, 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 u hosanna Of gratitude to Christ, aud
from tho text | have chosen 1 have
found that the greatest name in the
ocean shipping, and from Liverpool To
Moscow, and from Moscow to London
and Edinburg and belfast and Dublin,
Is Jesus.
Every ugc of the world has had It's
historians, its philosophers, il artists,
It's thinkers and its teachers. Were
there histories to he written, there has
always been u Moses, or u Hcrodotus,
or u Ncnophon, or u Josephus to write
them. We're there poems To be con-
structed there has always beer IA Job or
u Homer to construct them. Were
there thrones, lustrous and powerful,
TO be lifted there has always been u
David or II Caesar to lift them. Were
there teachers demanded for the intel
lccts and the hearts there has been n
Socrates and u Icno and n Clcanthcs
and u Marcus Antonius coming forth
on the grand and glorious mission.
Every & of the world has had its tri-
.umphs of reason and morality. There
has not been a single ago of the world
which has not had some decided
system Of religion. The Platonism,
Orientalism, Stoicism, Brahminism
and buddhism, considering the
ages in which they were cstab-
lished, were not lacking in in
genuity and force. Now, in this line
OF bcneHccnt institutions and of noble
men there appeared a parsonage moro
wonderful than any predecessor. lie
came from q family without any royal
aristocratic p~retensions. He became n
Galilcan mechanic. He had no advan-
tage from the schools. There were PEG.
pie beside Him day after day who had
no idea that He was going to be any.
thing remarkable or do anything re-
markable. Yet, notwithstanding all
this, and without any title or scholarly
profession or flaming rhetoric, He
startled the world with the strangest
announcements, raj in collision with
solemn priest and proud ruler, and with
. voice that rang through temple and
. palace and ovcr ships deck and
mountain top proclaimed: II am the
light Of the world!" Men were taken
all aback at the idea hat that hand,
yet hard from the use of the ak, the
saw and adze 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 un.
paralleled splendor and Of universal
dominion. We all know how difficult
1t Is to think that anybody who was at
school with us in boyhood has got TO be
anything great or famous; and no won.
der 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 o~bscurity should have
been very slow to acknowledge Christ's
wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream Of
life flowed out. At first It was Just a
faint rill, hardly able to find its way
down the rock, but She tears of q weep
ing Christ added 10 its volume, and IL
flowed on until, by tho beauty and
grecnness Of the banks. you might know
the path the crystal stream was taking.
On and on, until the lcpers were brought
down and washed of their lcprosy, and
tho 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
gathered on either bank, and the tide
flows on deeper, and stronger, and wider,
until 1t rolls into the river from under
the throne of God, mingling billow with
billow, and brightness with brightness,
and joy with Joy, and hosanna with
hosauna!
was looking at some OF the paint
ings OF the artist, Mr.. Kensett I saw
some pictures that were just faint out
lines; In some places You would see only
the branches OF a tree and no trunk;
and in another case the trunk and no
branches. He had not finished the
work. II would have taken him days
and months, perhaps, to have com
plcted IL Well, my friends, in this
world we get only the ~faintest outline |
OF what Christ Is. 1t will take all
eternity to fill up tho pic turc-so low
ing, so kind, so merciful, SO great
Paul does not, In this chapter, say of |
Christ He Is good, DR. He is loving, or He |
Is patient, or He is kind; but In his ex-
clamation of the text he embraces
everything when he says: Christ is all
and in ALL"
Iremark, In the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible. ! do not care
where ] open the Bible ! find Jesus. In
Whatever path I start l come, after
awhile, to the Bethlehem manger. /
go back to the old dispensation and see
q lamb on the altar. and say: 'Behold
the Lamb of God which taketh away
the sin of the worlds" Then I go and
see the mama provided for the Israeli
ties In the wilderness, and say: "Jesus,
the bread Of life." Then l look at the
rock which vas smitten by the prophets
rod, and aS the water Oushes mt I sav. /