Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-08-01
THE ONE FROM ABOVE
A SERMON DELIVERED IN THE CHIEF
CITIES OF SCOTLAND.

DIR. Taimage Much Sought for Since His
Return from Russia-His Views on the
Method of Preaching, Right Use OF
Words, the joys of Faith and Life.
LONDON, July 31.-Since his return
from Russia Dr. Talmage has been lit
orally flooded with invitations to address
congregations and lyceums on the sub
ject of his journey to the land OF the
car, whittier he went with Mr.. Louis
Klopsch to direct the distribution OF
The Christian Herald relief cargo. While
expressing his high appreciation of the
cordial welcome and splendid hospitality
extended by the officials of st. Peters
burg and Moscow, of the civic honOrs
heaped upon the American visitors and
of Russias national gratitude to Amer
lea, as personally expressed by the
czarowitz at PeterhOf, where he enter
tanned them as guests, DR.. Talmage has
been compelled to adhere to his original
programme During the week he has
been preaching in the leading Scottish
cities. His arrangements for next week
include services at Newcastle and Sun
derland. and thereafter he goes to the
selected for this week is entitled ''Pre-
eminent, the text being John III, 81,
He that cometh from above is above
all
The most conspicuous character of
history steps out upon the platform.
The finger which. diamonded with light,
pointed down to him from the Bethle-
hem sky was only ratification OF the
finger of prophecy, the finger OF geneal-
ogy. the finger of chronology, the finger
of events-alf five fingers pointing IN
one direction. Christ is the overtop-
ping figure of all time. He is the vox
humana in all music, the gracefulest
line in all sculpture, the most exquisite
mingling Of lights and shades in all
painting, the acme of all elimaxes,
the dome of all cathedraled grandeur
and the peroration of all splendid Ian
guage.
The Greek alphabet is made up of
twenty-four letters, and when Christ
compared himself to the first letter and
the last letter. the alpha and the omega,
he appropriated to himself all the splen-
doris that you can spell out either with
those two letters and all letters between
them. Il am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first and
the last Or, if you prefer the words
of the text, ''above all"
ALL HUMAN MEANS FALL INFINITELY
SHORT.
1t means after you have piled up all
Alpine and Himalayan attitudes, the
glory of Christ would have to spread its
wings and descend thousand leagues
to touch those SUBMITS. Pelion, d high
mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, high
mountain, and Olympus, a high noun
tain; but mythology tells us when
the giants warred against the gods they
piled up these three mountains, and
from the top of them proposed to scale
the heavens: but the height was not
great enough and there was complete
failure. And after all the giants Isaiah
and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants
Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic
giants: cherubim and seraphlm anC
archangel, celestial giants-have fallet
TO climb to the top of Christs glory, the.
might all well unite in the words of TIL
text and say, He that cOmeth from
above is above all.
First. Christ must be above all else Il
our preachira There are so man.
books ON hol-.lIetics scattered through
the world THAT all laymen, as we'll as al
clergyinen. have made up their mind
what sermons ought to be. That sci
mon is most etfectual which most point
edlv puts forth Christ as the pardon O
all sin and the correction Of all evil
individual, social, political, national
There is no reason why we should r1n
the endless changes on few phrases
There are those who think that II a
sexhortation or discourse have frequen
mention of justification, sanctlhcatlo1
covenant of works and covenant c
grace. that therefore it must be pre-
.foundly evangelical, while they are SUI
picfous of Il discourse which present
the same truth, but under dlfere1
phraseology.
Now. say there is nothing in all tt
opulent realm of AnglO-Sa1onlsm or a
the word treasures that we lnherlte
from the Latin and the Greek and tt
Indo-European but we have right
marshal it in religious discussion. Chrl
sets the example. His illustrations we
from the grass. the flowers, the splttl
the salve, the barnyard fowl, the cry
tails of salt, as we'll as from the Sc
and the stars, and we do not propose
our Sabbath school teaching and in Of
pulpit address to be put on the limits
THE POWER OF RIGHT WORDS.
| know that there is a great deal sa
in our day against words, as though tn
were nothing. They may be misuse
but they have an imperial power. Tn
are the bridge between soul and sol
between Almighty God and the humi
race. What did Ged write upon t
tables of stones? Words. What d
Christ utter on Mount Olivet? WORD
Out of what did Christ strike the spa
for the illumination of the univer:
Out of words LET there be light" a.