Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-09-26
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE'S FIRST SERMON AFTER
HIS RETURN FROM EUROPE.

The Suficiency of the Gospel of Christ.
There Is Ancient Learning in 1t, with
Poetry and Sublime Rhetoric, but More
Than All Else, There Is Salvation.
BROOKLYN, Sept 25.-Dr. Talmage
was greeted with most generous and
ELUSIVE welcome today by a vast con-
gregation which assembled to hear him
preach his first sermon after his return
from his European preaching tour. He
announced that in q Sunday or two he
would give sermon concerning his
stewardship in delivering in Russia, in
behalf of The Christian Herald, the
$50, 900 worth of flour for the starving.
The subject today was ''All in Ali"
Text, Colossians iii, II, "Christ is all
and in ALL
Returned after the most eventful
summer of my life, / must shortly and
as soon as L recover from the sea voyage
give you an 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, I 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,
its thinkers and its teachers. Were there
histories to be written there has always
been Moses, or a Herodotus, or Ken
ophon, or Il Josephus to write them.
Were there poems to be constructed
there has always been Job or a Homer
to construct them. Were there thrones
Iustrous and powerful to be lifted there
has always been a David or Caesar to
raise them. Were there teachers de-
manded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been a Socrates, and Zeno,
and Cleanthes, and a Marcus Antoni-
nus coming forth on the grand and glo-
rious mission. Every age of the world
has had its triumphs of reason and NOR
atty There has not been single age
of the world which has not had some de-
cided system OF religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoicis1n,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
the ages III which they were established,
were not lacking in ingenuity and force
Now, in this line of beneficent institu-
tons 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 OF
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, Il am the light of
the worldr'
Men were taken all aback at the idea
that that hand, yet hard from the use of
the AK, the saw and ADJ 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 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 III 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 rill, 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 We're lifted into the water that
they might have life, and pearls of joy
and promise were gathered from the
brink, and iI1numerable churches gath
cred on either bank and the tide flows
on deeper and stronger and wider I'M
I'll it 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
hosanna
was looking at some of the. paintings
of the artist, Mr.. Kensett. I saw some
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 hi1n DAYS and months ner-
haps to have completed it. Well, my
friends, in this world we get only the
faintest outline of what Christ is. It
will take all eternity to fill up the pic
ture-so loving, SO kind, SO merciful. so