The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-04

S.,rdav by q vast congregation which
.ssembled in the Brooklyn tabernacle
- hear him preach his first sermon
.uer his return from his European
.nrr He announced that in q Sunday
,,ro he would give n sermon concern
80 his stewardship in delivering in
prssia. in behalf OF The Christian
yIorold the s35, 600 worth of -four for
+bc starving. The subject Sunday was:
"All in AL" text, Colossians iii IL:
scbrist is all and in all"
Returned, after the most evcntful
.nmmer of my life, must shortly, and
~ coon rs / recover from the sea voy.
orc. give you an account OF our mission
thread TO famine-struck Russia and OF
nv prcaching tour through Germany,
rnoland, Scotland and Ireland: but my
erst sermon on reaching here must be
bosanna of gratitude to Christ, and
from the text | have chosen, have
tound that the greatest name in the
ocean.shipping, and from Liverpool to
MOSCOW, 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,
i,s ,hinliers and its teachers. We're
there histories TO be written. there has
always been Moses, or u llcrodotus,
mr. Xenophone, or a Joscphus 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,
IN be lifted. there has always been
David or Cesar to raise them. Were
there teachers demanded for the intellect
and the hearts. there has been Socrates
and Zeno, and Clcanthcs. and
Marcus Antoninus coming forth on the
grand and glorious mission. Every age
of the world has bad its triumphs of
reason and morality. There has not
been single age of the world which
has not had some decided system of re-
Irion. The Platonism. Orientalism,
Stoicism. Brahminism and buddhism,
considering the ages in which they
were established, were not lacking in
ingenuity and force. Now, in this line
OF beneiiccnt institutions and of noble
men, there appeared a parsonage more
wonderful than any predecessor. He
came from n family without any royal
or aristocratic prytCnSion. lie be-
came n 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 o. do anything
remarkable. Yet, Notwithstanding all
this. and without any title or scholarly
profession, or flaming rhetoric, ne
startled the world with the stranGcst
announcements, ran in collision with
solemn priest and sad ruler. and with Il
voice that rang through temple and
palace, and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed: Il an the light OF
the world" Men were taken all aback
attic idea that that hand, yet hard from
the use of the aN, the saw, the adze'
and Ratchet, should wave the scepter OF
authority, and that upon that brow
from which they had 50 often seen hlm
wipe the sweat Of toll, there would yet
come the crown OF unparalleled sPlcndor
and of universal dominion. We ali
know how difficult It is to think that
anybody who was AT school with Us IN
boyhood has got 10 be any thing great
or famous; and no wonder that those
who had been lows 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.
From this humble point the stream OF
life flowed out. At first it was just FAINT
rill, hardly able Ia lind its way down
the rock, but the tears of weeping
Christ added to its volume; and 1T flow
ed on until, by the beauty and green
ness of the banks, You might know the
path the crystal stream was taxing VA
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 oil
JOY and promise were gathered from the
brink, and innulucrable churches "ath-
cred on either bank, and the tide hoWs
on deeper, and stronger, and wider I'M
I'll 1t rolls into the river from under the
throne of God, mingling billow wlth
oillow, and brightness, and JOY with
Joy, and hosanna with hosanna!
was looking ut some OF the paint
ings of the artist, Mr.. KeEsett 81"
scme pictures that were just faint out
lines; in some places you world sec
only the branches of n tree INA 10
trunk; and i'm another case the TRUNK
and no branches. lie had not lnisAeo
the work 1t would have taken MN
days and months, perhaps, 10 have com
pleted it. Well, my friends, in TINS
world we get only the faintest Outline