The Penn's Grove record., 1892-09-30
RRV. DR.. TALNiCR.
The Brooklyn Divinc's
Sund y Sermon.


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TEXT: "christ is all and IN aH.w--oos.
sians ill.,. IL.
Returned after the most evoukful suunsss
OF my lie. l must shortly and Is soou Ire
cover IRON the sea voyage 8iv3 you m Nc.
count or our missioa Of bssaa7 to famine.
stricken Russ'a, and OF nv p~reachine sour
through Germany, England. Scotland ard
Ireland; but my first serm N on rsaoiin9
here must be q hosanna Of RrAtituds d
Christ, and from the text ( have caosan. ]
nave found that the greatest name IN ~
ocean shipping, and from Liverpool % M.
cow. and from Moscow TO London and h
inburgh and Belfast and Dubiin, 3 Jsnas-
Every q Of the world has hid II NJ
thinkers and It's teachers. Were therS ~
tories to be written there has always boln :
Moses, or Heroiotus, or . Xenopkuu, r &
Josephus to write them. Were thero boums
gop e constructed there has always bSou +
soo or . Homer to construct them. Wee
there thrones lustrous and powerful 70 b.
lifted there has always been . David ~ =
Cesar TO raise them, Were there teechers
demanded for the intellect and tke kaark6
there has been a Socrates, aud . zsno. and
. Cieanthes. and q Marcus Autoninns COM
ing forth on the grand aud glorious misaion.
Every age of the world has had it, trinmphs
OF reason q morality. There has not hen
. single age Of the world which has not hal
some decided system Of religion.
p Platonism, orieutslism, skoicfnm.
Brahminism and Buddhism, considsrfng the
ages 10. which they were established, uers
not lacking In ingenuity and force. Now, n
this line OF benefcent institutions and D.
noble men, there appears Z persouAgs more
wonderful b any prsdecessur. h calnyi
from a family without any royal o. aristo-
cratic pretension. He came . 0AHtsan M.
chanfc. He had no advantage from tue
schools. There were people bs1lds Hin Day
after day who had no idea that e was soinx
to be anything remarkable or do anything
remarkable. Yet notwithstanding ali thiG
and without any title Or schollFiy pro sanfon
o. flaming rhetoric he startisd til World
with the strangest anuouncemsutx ran n
collision with solemn priest and urcad fu1Gr.
and with . voice that rang thfcHfn tamp1e
and palace and over ships dock ~ Deun.
tain top. exclaimed, liam the 49, - ~
worldr
Men were taken all aback q fh14d6a ttn1
that hand, yet hard from ths ~ - ~ ~
the saw and ads and ..hatchst shdld wavs
the scepter of authority, M thaf uppn that
brow, from which they bad 70 oft6n rDm
Him wipe the sweat OF toll. there Wuu.d -
the crown Of unparalleled spjsador
and Of universal dominion. VI Ill know
how difficult 1t 10 to sthink that anybody
wno wa at school with Us IN boyhood 10
got IN be anything great or famous, end ~
wonder that those who had been b0ys WitA
Christ in tbs streets Of Nazareth and go
Him IN after years in the days Of His c1cnr
plete obscurity, should have bean very aloW
to acknowledge Christs wonderful mission.
From this humble point tbs stream * lfe
flowed out. At first 1t was jus< I faint rill
hardly able to find its way down ~ j cz
but the tears Of q weeping Christ added =
beauty and greennsss Of the hanh you
might know the path the crystal etreem Wa
taking. Ga and on, until tbs iepers were
brought down and washed OF their le1roSy.
and the dead were lifted into the watsr that
might have lie, and pearls Of 10y and
promise were gathered from the brill, and
innumerable churches gathered On sithsr
stronger and wider UNTIL It rolls into the
from unde the throne Of God. min
Cling billow vito billow, and brightness with
brightness, and joy with JOY. and hosanua
with osanna.
I was looking at some Of the paintings OF
the artist, Mr.. Kensett. ! saw come pic
I res that were just faint outlines; In some
places you would see only the branches Of Z
tree and no trunk; and in another casA the
~ II IA ~ AdhNhCo ~ 21o wv A4A@01k
the work. 1t would have taken him days
and months perhaps to hays completed II.
Well, my friends in this world we get only
the faintest outline OF what Christ ~. Il
viii take all eternity to fill up the picture-.
20 loving, so kind, 50 merciful, 70 ersati
Paul does not, in this chapter. say Of Christ
be isgood, or He is loving, or He II patient,
or BE Is kind. but In His exclamation OF the
text be embraces everything when he sayh
tg.hr,s or ia ali n nd in all HNa4a4 M t
Iremark in the first p.aca Christ 10 every.
thing in the Bible. l do not care where !
the Bible, l find Jesus. In whAtevsr
poth I start, I come after . whiis 70 THE
Bethlehem lnanger. ! go back TO the oil
and sees lamb on the altar amt
say, "Behoid the Lamb OF God WHICH takesh
away the sin OF the wJrldp' Then ! 70 aud
the wilderness and say, Jesus b breadot
life.p Then / look at the rocx watch was
smitten by the prophets rod, and IS The
water gushss out / say, ut II Jesus the
fountain openei for sin and tor u-ncleanne@.n
/ 90 back and look ar the writings OF job
and hear him exclaim, II know that my
Rec leemer iiveth." Then ! 60 to Exskis.
and find Christ presented there - -
plant OF renown,' and then ! turn ovsr to
Isaiah aud Chr st Is spoken Of .As : aheep
lie ore the shearers." 1t is Jesus all tke way
Detwsen Genesis ami Malachi. Then ! turn
over In the New 7 .stament aud it IL Chr.st
IN the parable, it Is Christ In the miracle u
Is Christ in the ~evaugelist's story, IL Il
Christ In the apostles epistles and IL u
Christ in the trumpet peal Of the Apocalypse
l know there are a great many people Who
not find Christ in the Bible
Here 10 a man who studies the Bible asa
historian. Well. IL you come as . historian,
yoa will md IN this book how the world WAS
how the seas Fed to their placsS how
were established, how nation fought
nation, iavelin rim yiug against hArhf-
geon, until the earth was CHASTITY With the
dead. You will see the coronation OF princes,
the triumph Of conquerors, and b world
upside down AMI back again and
again, cleft and SCARED with great
sgonies Of earthquake and tempest and bat-
kle. It Is q wonderful, history, putting to
the blush all others in thu accuracy Of its
recital and In TIE stupendous events 10 RI
Homer aui Tnucydides and Gtbbon
,oult make great stories out OF little events;
but it took Moses to tell how the heavens
and the earth were made in one chapter, and
ui.on two leaves.
There are others who come to the Bible
merely an antiquarians. II you come as an
you will find q great many odd
hing in the Bible-oeculiarities OF mann3r
ind custom, marriage aud burial; psculiar-
ties OF Dire s, tunica sandals. cflspinE piuf,
lmulets md giriles and tinkling ornaments
Il you come TO look at military ARRANGE
nents you viii find coats OF msil aad Jaw
Aims aud engiues OF war and circun1vaila-
ion and encampments. II you Look for pr
musical instruments you will hud
and shfginoths ami <ams norma
The antiquarian will find in tho Bibfe Curl.
in agriculture, ami in co umsrce. n
n art. and In religion that will keep him
.bsorped q great while. Taers ara those
Who come TO this Bible as you would to .
OF curiosities, and you pick up this
md SAY. "Whst q stran1e sword that tsg'
md sNvhat . peculiar hat this fslr and
what an unlocked for lamp that isp q
he Bible to such becomes a British Aus<u n
Then there are others VIII hnd nothing ID
he Bible bat the poetry. Well, il You coma
IS q poet, you will find in tais book fsult.esi
and bold imagery, and startling
and rapturous lyric, anil swest
and instr U narrative. dnt de-
psalm; thoughts cxpresEst In Q
lyle more solsmn than that OF Montgomery.
more bold than that OF Milton, moroltsrriSi s
han that Of Dante. more natural fhan that
Il Wordsworth. more im~Dasnoasf than
hat Of Pollocx, moro ten ter taau that OF
Cowper. more weird than that % &Ysnssr.
This great poem brings all tae genAB OF thu
into It's coronst. aut 4 ueayes the
damss Of Judgment 10 its garland fnd pourz
vternal harmoniss Ia its rhytkn.
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