Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-29
TALMAGE AT HOME
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE AGAIN
AT THE TABERNACLE.
He Tells Of His Tour In Europe aud 81
Mia Reception In European cities
''Chrlst Is All In All" az % Text for
the sermon.

from his European preaching tour, He
ANNOUNCED that in u Sunday or two
he would give II sermon concerning his
stewardship in delivering in Russia, in
behalf of The Christian Herald, the
$4,000 worth of -four for the starving
The subject to-day was: "All in all :"
Text, Colossians 3;ll; Christ Is all In
ALL"
Returned after the most cventful
summer of my life, must shortly, and
as soon as recover from the sen
voyage, give you an account of our
mission of bread to fuminc-struck
Russia, and of my preaching tour
through Germany, England, Scotland
and lrcland; but my first sermon ON
reaching here must be n hosanna of
gratitude 10 Christ, and from the
text have chosen, have found that
the greatest name in the ocean'ship'
ping, and from Liverpool To Moscow,
and from Moscow To London and EdiE-
burg and Belfast and Dublin, Is Jesus,
Every age OF the world has had its
historians Its philosophers, its artists,
It's thinkers, aud its teachers, Were
there histories tn be written, there has
always been Moses, ORA llcrodotus,
on n Ncnophon, or II Josephus TO write
them, We're there poems To be con
structcd, there has always been n job
or u Homer to construct them, Were
there thrones, lustrous aud powerful,
to he lifted, there has always been u
David or u Crsnr To raise them, Were
there teachers demanded for the intel
lcct and the hearts, there has been u
Socrates, and Xeno, and ClcanthcS,
and Marcus Antoninus coming forth
on the grand aud glorious mission.
Every age of the world has had its
triumphs of reason and morality,
There has not been single age of the
world which has not had some de-
cidcd system OF religion, The Platoon
ism, Oricntalism, l,rahminism and
Buddhism, considering the ages In
which they were established, were not
lacking in ingenuity and force, Now,
In this line OF beneiicent institutions
and of noble men, there appeared n
parsonage more wonderful than any
predecessor. He came from n family
without any royal or nristocratic
prctension. He became Cali
lean mechanic. lie 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 anything rcmarls-
able. Yet, Notwithstanding all this,
and without any title or scholarly pro
fession, or flaming rhetoric, he startled
the world with the strongest announce
ments, ran in collision with solemn
priest and proud ruler, and with u
voice that rang through temple and
palace and over ship deck and mount
ain top exclaimed, II am the light of
the world" Men were taken I'LL abaclS
nt the idea that that hand yet hard from
the use of the axe, the saw, and adze
md Ratchet should wave the
S'eptrc 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 do
is TO think that anybody who was at
school with MS in boyhood has got 10
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 obscurty, should have
been very slow TO acknowledge Christs
wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream
Of life flowed out. At first it was just
faint rill, hardly able 10 find its way
down the rock, but the tears of n weep
ing Christ added TO its volume, and IL
flowed on until, by the beauty and
grccnncss 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 lcprosy, 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 in.
Vulnerable churches gathered on
either bank, and the tide flows on
deeper, and stronger, and wider, until
IL rolls into the river under the throne
OF God, mingling billow with billow,
and brightness with brightness, and
joy with joy, and hosanna with ho-
sauna.
was looking at some of the paint
ings Of the artist, Mr. Kensett saw
some pictures that were just faint out
lines; ia some places you would see
only the branches Of tree and no
trunk; and in another case the trunk
and no branches. lie had not finished
the work. II would have taken him
days and months, perhaps, TO have
completed 1t. Well, my friends, in this
world we get only the faintest outline
Of what Christ is. IL will take all
eternity TO fill up the pictures--so
loving SO kind, no mcrciful, so great!
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 ex-
clamation of the text he embraces
everything when he says, Christ Is all
and in ALL"
remark, in the first plac 4! Christi is
everything in the bible. do not care
where / open the bible, find Jesus
In whatever path start, come, after
while to the Bethlehem manger i
go back to the old dispensation, and
see lamb on the altar, and say, "Be-
hold the Lamb of God which taketh
away the sin of the world"' Then |
go and see the mamma provided for the
Israelites in the wilderness, and say
'Jesus, the bread of life" Then look
at the rock which was smitten by the
prophets rod, and, as the water gushes
out, | say, 1T is Jesus, the fountain
opened for sin and for uncleanness. |
go back and look at the writings of
job, and hear him exclaim, Il
know that my Redeemer liveth. I" Then
go to Ezekiel, and / find Christ present
ed there as "a plant of renown;" and
then | turn over to Isaiah, and Christ is
spoken of ''as a sheep before hershear-
srs" 1t is Jesus all the way between
Genesis and Malachi Then turn over
to the New Testament, and it is Christ
In the parable, it is Christ in the mira