Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-06
DR.TALMAGE EATHOAIE
HIS FIRST SERMON SINCE RETURN
ING FROM EUROPE.


-As Many sidedness OF the Bible-won-
derful Ancient Learning and Sublime
Poetry, but More Than An the Power
of God Unto Salvation.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 25.-Dr. Talmage was
greeted with most generous and effusive
welcome today by vast congregation,
which assembled to hear him preach his
first sermon after his return from bis Euro
pean 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 Christian
Herald, the So, 1000 worth of flour for the
starving. The subject today was "All in
ALL" Text, Colossians iii, IL: Christ is
all and in ALL"
Returned after the most eventful sum.
mer OF my life, must shortly and as soon
as recover from the sea voyage, give you
an account of our mission of bread to fam
inc struck Russia and of my preaching
tour through Germany, England, Scotland
and Ireland. But my first sermon on reach
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Christ, and from the text have chosen l
have found that the greatest name in the
ocean shipping and from Liverpool to Mos.
COW, and from Moscow to London and Ed
inburgh and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus.
ALWAYS MAN FOR AN EMERGENCY.
Every age of the world has had its his
torians, its philosophers, its thinkers and
its teachers. Were there histories to be
written there has always been Moses, or
Herodotus, or Xenophon, or Josephus
to write them. Were there poems to be
constructed there has always been a Job
or Homer to construct them. Were there
thrones lustrous and powerful to be lifted
there has always been David or a Cesar
to raise them. Were there teachers de-
manded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been Socrates, and Zeno, and
a Cleanthes, and a Marcus Antoninus
coming forth on the grand and glorious
mission. Every age of the world has had
its triumphs of reason and morality.
There has not been single age of the
world which has not had some decided sys.
TEN of religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoicism,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
were not lacking in ingenuity and force.
Now, In this line of beneficent institutions
and OF noble men there appeared person
age more wonderful than any predecessor.
He came from family without any royal
or aristocratic pretension. He became
Galilean mechanic. He had no advantage
from the schools. There were people be-
side him day after day who had no idea
that he was going to be anything remark
able or do anything remarkable. Yet not
withstanding all this, and without any
title or 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 ran through temple and
palace, and over ships deck and mountain
top exclaimed, Il am the light of the
world"
Men were taken all aback at the idea
that that hand, yet hard from the use of
the ak, the saw, the adj and hatchet,
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 unpar-
alleled 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 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 to find it's way down the
rock, but the tears of 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 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
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.
mingling billow with billow, and bright
ness with brightness, and joy with joy, and
hosanna with hosanna.
HE is ALL IN ALL.
Twas looking at some of the paintings of
the artist, Mr.. Kensett. I saw some pic
lures that were just faint outlines: in some
places You would see onlv the branches ~