The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-10-06
DIR. TALMAGE AT HOME.
HIS FIRST SERMON SINCE RETURNING
.,-...~-.. FROM EUROPE.

IuI AnCiont Learning and Sublime
Poetry. but Moro Than .All tho Power
of God Unto Salvation.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 25.-Dr. Talmage
was greeted with most generous and
ELUSIVE welcome today by vast con-
gregatlon, Which assembled to hear him
preach his first sermon after his return
from his European preaching tour. He
announced that in Sunday or two he
would give a sermon concerning his
stewardship in delivering IN Russia, in
behalf of the Chrie tian Herald, the $685.
900 worth Of flour for the starving. The
subject today was "All in ALL" Text,
Colossians iii, II: Christ is all and in
ALL"
Returned after the most eveptlul SUM-
mer of my life. l must shortly and as
soon as I recover from the sea voyage,
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 OH reaching here must
be q hosanna of gratitude to Christ, and
from the text | have chosen | have
found that the greatest name in the
ocean shipping ard from Liverpool to
Moscow, and from Mo cow to London
and Edinburgh and Belfast and Dublin,
is Jesus.
Every age OF the world has | ad its
historians, it's philosophers, Its thinkers
and it's teachers. Were there histories
TO be written there has always been Il
Moses, or a Herodotus, or Aenophon,
or q Josephus TO write them. Were
there poems to be constructed there has
always been q JOB or Homer to con-
stluct them. Were there thrones ]us-
trous and powerful to be lifted there
has always been Il David or Cesar to
raise them. We're there teachers de-
manded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been Socrates, and Il Leno,
and a Cleanthes, and Marcus Antoni-
nus coming forth On the grand and slo-
rious mission. Every age Of the world
has had its triumphs of reason and NOR
ality. There has not been q single age
of the world which has not had some de-
cided system of religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoiclsm,
Brahmipism and Buddhism, considering
the ages In which they were established,
were not lacking in ingenuity and force.
Now, in this line of beneficient institu.
tons and of noble men there appeared q
parsonage more wonderful than any
predecessor. He came from family
without any royal or aristOcratic pretcn-
sion. He became q Galilean mechanic.
He had no advantage from the schools.
There were people beside him day alter
ilay who had no idea that he was going
to be anything remarkable or do anything
remarkable. Yet Notwithstanding all
this, and without any title or scholarly
profession or flaming rhetoric, he start
led the world with the strangcst an.
nouncement, ran in collision with SOL
emn priest and proud ruler, and with a
voice that ran through temple and pal
ace, aud over ships deck and mountain
top exclaimed. 81 am the light OF the
world!'
Men were taken aback at the idea
that that hand, yet hard from the use OF
the ak, the saw, the adj and hatchet,
should have the scepter OF authority,
and that upon that brow, from which
they had 80 often seen him wipe tho
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
ne wonder that those who had been
boys with Christ in the streets OF Naza-
reth 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. Al first 1T was just a
GD; all nIl in f,,l y,
down the rock, but the tears OF Il weep
ing Christ added TO its volume, and it,
Aowcd Oh until by the beauty and green
ness of the banks you might know the
path the crystal stream was taking. . |
and on, until the lepers were brought
down and washsd of their lcprOey, and
the dead were lifted into the water that
they might have lie, and pcails OF Joy
and promise were gathered from the
brink, and innumerable churches gath
cred on either banl., and the tide flows
on deeper and stronger and wider, un-
til it rolls INTO the river from under the
throne of God, mingling billow with bill.
low, and brightness with brigh ness, and
JOY with Joy, and hosanna with hosan-
na.
l was looking at some of the paint
ings OF the artist, Mr.. Kensett. 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. lie had not finished
the work. IT would have taken him
days and months perhaps to have com.
pleted it. Well, my friends, in this
world we get only the faintest outline
of what Christ is. 1t will take all eter.
NIFTY to fill up the plcture-so LOVING, so
kind, 80 merclful, 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 ;lamation of
the text he embraces everything, when
he says, "Christ Is all and In ALL"
l remark in the first place, Christ ls
everything in the Bible. do not care
where open the Bible-I find Jesus.
In whatever path l start | come after
awhile to the Bethlehem manger. 90
back to the old dispensation and see q
lamb on the altar and say, "Behold the
Lamb Of God which taketh away the
ain of the worldtJ Then 7 oo onG eoo