Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-09-26

ok fALkAhcs's FIRST SERMON AFTER
HIS RsTURn FROM EUROPE.

rvs RETURN FROM EUROPE.
The snfbeisncy of tie Gospel Of Christ
There q Ancient learning IN II. wiil,
Poetry ana snbi.r,e Iihctoric. but More
Thnn All Else. r'.ere .. salvation.
BROOKLYN Sept. e5.--Dr. Talinsne
was greeted with a most generous and
eifusive welcome today by vast con-
8Tegation which assembled to hear him
preach bis first sernaon after his return
from his European preaching tour. He
announced that la Sunday or two he
Would give a sermon concerning his
stewardship in delivering in Russia, in
behalf Of The Christian Herald. the
o35,O00 worth Of flonr for the starving.
The subject today was ,"All in AL,
Text, Colossians iii. IL, "Christ is all
and in ali.
Returned after the most eventful
summer Of my life. must shortly and
as soon as 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 serrIon on reaching here must be a
hosanna of gratitude to Christ, and from
the text have chosen, 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 It's
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 Josephus to write thoIn.
Were there poems to be constructed
there has always been Job or a Homer
10 construct them. Were there thrones
lustrous and powerful to be lifted there
has always been a David or Caesar to
raise them. Were there teachers de-
rnanded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been Socrates, and Zeuo.
and q Cleanthes, and Marcus Antoni-
mus coming forth on the grand and glo-
rtous mission. Every age Of the world
has had it's trinmphs Of reason and NOR
atty There has not been. single age
~ the world which has not had some de-
cided system Of religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoicisin,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering |
the ages In which they were established.
were not lacking in ingenuity and force.
Now. in this line of benefcent institu-
tions and of noble men, there appears a |
parsonage more wonderful than any |
predecessor. He came from family |
without any royal or aristocratic preten-
sion. He became u 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 or
scholarly profession or flaming rhetoric
he startled the world with the strangest
ran in collision with
solemn priest and proud ruler, and with
a voice that rang through temple and
palace and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed, 81 am the light of
tho worldi''
Men were taken all aback at the idea
that that hand, yet hard from the use Of
the nx. the saw and adj and hatchet,
should wave the scepter Of authority,
and that upon that brow, from which
they had 80 often seen him wipe the
sweat OF toll, there would yet come the
crown Of unparalleled splendor and of
dominion. We all know how
1tfficult 1t Is to think that anybody who
was Ut school with us in boyhood has
got to be anything great or famous. and |
no wonder that those who had been bows
with Christ in the streets OF Nazareth
Ind seen him in after years in the days
II 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 o
Iaint rill. hardly able to find its way
lown the rock, but the tears of a Weep
ng Christ added to its volume, and it
lowed on until by the beauty and green
less Of the banks You might know the
path the crystal stream was taking. On
md on. until the lepers were brought
lown and washed of their leprosy, and
he dead were lifted into the water that
hey might have life, and pearls of ioy
md promise were gathered from the /
rink, and innumerable churches aath-
'red on either bank and the tide flows
IN deeper and stronger and wider nm
II IT rolls into the river from under the
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