Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-10-15
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVlNE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.

Returned after the most eyenttui uDner
OF my life. l must shortly AMI as soon / re-
cover from the sea voyage give you an &C
count of our mission OF brcad to famine
stricken Russia, and OF my preaching tour
through Germany, England, Scotland and
Ireland: but my first sermon on r~eac1ing
here must be a hosanna Of gratitude TO
Christ, and from the text | have cno7en, |
have founi that the greatest name in the
ocean shipping. and from Liverpool! u Mos
cow. ard from Moscow To LONDON and Ed
inburgh and Belfast and Dr.3lin. Is Jesus.
Every age OF the world hes had It's mis-
t~orians. its philosophers, It's srtists, It's
thinkers and it's teachers. Were there his
tories to he written iharc las always been a
Moses. or a Hero totug, or q Henophon, or q
Josephus to write them. Were there poems
10 be constructed there he's always ben a
Job or a Homer TO construct them. Were
there thrones lustrous and powerful % De
lifted there has always been a Davli or a
Cesar to raise them. Were thar. teachers
demanded for the Intellect and the hearts
there has been a Socrates. AMI q Z-no, and
a CleantheE, and a Marcus Antouinus CON.
ing forth on the grand aud glorious mission.
Every age OF the world has had Il, trium ohs
of reason and morality. There has not been
a single aga OF the W Jrid which has not Ia
some decided system Of religion.
The Piatonism. orientaitsu, st1.cistn.
Brahminis.n and Buddhism, cons: leriny t..
ages in which they were established. w-re
not lacking in ingenuity AMI for",. Nov, iii
this line OF beneficeut institutions and o.
noIle men, there appears q rarsona?a more
wonderful than any predecessor. He cam
from a family without any roya! or arist0-
cratic pretension. He cana Gaiiean me-
chanic. He had no advantage from the
schools. There were people beside II m dav
after day who had no idea That lie Has going
to be anything re narsahie or DO anything
remarkable. Yet no:with>tan ling all this,
.p| y'+tT,, N u fItfa, n.E .t,Nf,r - ~ -,
Lr flaming rhetoric H startled the world
with the stran1est announcements ran in
collision with solemn priest and proud ruler,
and with q voice that rang throuy IN temple
and palace and over ships deck ald noun
tain top, exclaimed, II am the light Of thu
world
Men were taken all abacl at the lea tlao
that hand. yet hard from the use OF the ak.
the saw and afz aud Ratchet, should wave
the 5 'cpter Of authority, and that upon that
brow, from which they had 50 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 conf
plete obscurits. should have been very slow
- 6CkuONicuSc SuII5L , "OlIcIIut IllSSlOll.
From this humble point the stream of life
flowed out. At first it was just a faint rill.
hardly able to lind its way down the rock,
but the tears OF IL weeping Christ added to
its volume, and it flowed ON until by the
beauty and greenness Of the banks you
might know the path the crystal stream was
taking. On ana on, until the lepers We're
brought down and washed Of their leprosy.
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
innumerable churches gathered on either
bank and the tide flows on deeper and
stronger and wider until it rolls into the
river from under the throne OF God. min
Cling 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. l saw some pic
lures that were just faint outlines; in some
places you would see only the branches of a
tree and no trunk; and In another case the
trunk and no branches. he had not finished
the work. 1t would nave taken him days
and months perhaps to have completed it.
Well, my friends, in this world we get only
the ~faintest outline OF what Christ Is. 1t
Z will take all eternity to ill! up the picture
80 loving, SO kind, 50 merciful, so great
Paul does not, in this chapter, say of Christ
He is good, or He is loving. or Ae is patient,
or He is kind, but ia His exclamation Of the
text he embraces everything when he says,
''Christ il all and in all
remark in the first place. Christ is every
thing in the Bible. I do not care where
open the Bible, l find Jesus. In whatevel
poth l start, l come after a while to tn,
Bethlehem manager. l go back to the oil
dispensatioD. and see a lamb on the altar an
say, 'Behold the Lamb OF God which taketl
away the SIN of the world Then l go an
see the mamma provided for the Israelites il
the wilderness, and say, Jesus, the bread
life" Then look at tho rock which wa
smitten by the prophets rod, and. as tn
water gushes out, I say. ut is Jesus. tn
fountain opened for sin and for un~cleanness.
l go back and look at the writings Of 10
and hear him exclaim, II know that N
Reedeemer liveth." Then | go to Ezekis
and / find Christ presented there as q
plant of renown,' aud then | turn over
Isaiah and Christ is spoken Of "as q shee
before the shearers.' 1t is Jesus ali the wa
between Genesis aud Malachi. hen l tur
over in the New Testament and it Is Chrl
III the parable, it is Christ III the miracle.
IS christ IN the evange,ist's story. it
Christ in the apostles ~euiStles ana il
Christ In the trumpet peal OF the Arocaivps
know There are a great many people wi
do not ind Christ In the Bible.
Here is 4 man who stu lies the Bible as
historian Well. II you come as q historic
vou Will lind IN this book how the word ".
made, how the seas hei to taeir places no
empires We're established, how nation .o1c}
with nation. jaw elm rim yin- against haro
geon, until the earth was chas;iy with II
dead, foJr Will seq the coronation o. prime
the triumph OF conquerorS, AMI the wor
turned upside down AM back apain ~
down again, cleft and Scared with or.
agonies az earthquake AMI tamoeSt and ia
tie. II i a won iertu history. putting
the elusn 81 n:sers "a TIA accuracy of i
recltll an ~ tie sfnp.aiols event; it r
cords. = ser al T'ucyddeS AMI Gibh3
could matf ~ y: stores ont OF littl, event
but l. to1l' i">a> - tell how tae HEAVIER
and the 80 "'re mttei IL one chapter. an
To give ty* history Oh In ousau IS o. vsaI
upon two leave-.
There are others wAo come 10 tie Bio
merely as antiaua-ians. Ii YOU cone As a
antiquarian. you will find n great mauy Of
things III the Observation-Disclosures oe mann
and custom, marriage aui burial; peculiar
tiles OF Ore :. TUNES, san ia's. c~r!spiac nm.
apaiecs and girdies aui inslin- orn9u..,t
il You come TO look a. military a-r,n ye
mems, you viii fin coats OF mat a.f Ar
elins ana engines OF war aUi cjrcunval.-
tcn an e~ncanpfGentS. II YOU LOOK for o
cu'iar musical instruments. Won VIII tu
pSaiteriss ana shiyiuOtAs All rams horn
he antiquarian vii! .tai IN IL. Bbia car,
osIties IN agriculture. AMI an ,uuarc. an
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