The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-10-06
DR.. TALMAGE AT HOME.
THE GREAT PREACHER RETURNS
FROM HIS FOREIGN TRIP.
He Addresses a Large Crowd In the
Tabernacle--The Eminent Dr.
Vine Shows That ChrlstIs
All In All.

DRooAlYN.--l opeclal. DIR. Tai
mage was greeted with q most pener-
GUS and ELUSIVE welcome by q vast
congregation which assembled to hear
him preach his first sermon after his
return from his European preaching
tour. The subject was: "All in All. !"
Text: Colossians, ill.,, IL: "Christ is
all and in all. s's'zss
Returned after the most eventful
summer OF my life, I must shortly,
and US soon as recover from the sea
voyage, give you an account of our
mission of bread TO fanine.struck
Russia, and of my preaching tour
through Germany, England, Scotland
and Ireland; but my first sermon on
reaching here must be a hosanna of
gratitude to Christ, and from the text
l have chosen. I have found that the
greatest name in the ocean-shipping,
and from Liverpool to Moscow, and
from Moscow to ILondon, and Edin-
burg and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus,
Every age OF the world has had it's
historians, it's philosophers, it's art
lists, it's thinkers and it's teachers.
Were there histories to be written,
there has always been Moses, or q
Herodotus, or a Xenophon, or a. Jo-
sephus to write them. We're there
poems to be constructed, there has al
ways been g. Job or a Homer to con-
struct them. We're there thrones lus-
trous and powerful, to be lifted, there
has always been a David or Caesar
to raise them. Were there teachers
demanded for the intellect and the
hearts, there has been a Socrates and
a Zeno, and a Cleanthes, and a. Mar
Gus Antoninus coming forth on the
grand and glorious mission. Every
age of the world has had it's triumphs
of reason and morality. There has
not been a single age of the world
which has not had some decided svs-
tenn of religion. The Platonism, ORR
entalism, Stoicism, Brahminism, and
Buddhism, considering the ages in
which they were established, were not
lacking in ingenuity and force. Now,
in this line of benefcent institutions
and OF noble men, there appears per-
sonage
MORE WONDERFUL THAN ANY PREDE-
CESSOR.
He came from a family without any
Royal or aristocratic preten4ion. He
became 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, notwithsta and
ing all this, and without any title, or
scholarl " profession, or flaming rhet-
ORIG, He startled the world with the
strangest announcements, ran in COL
lision with solemn priest and proud
ruler, and with a voice that rang
through temple and palace, and over
and mountain deck ex-
claimed" I am the light Of the world!'
1 remark, in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible. do not care
where I open the Bible, 1 find Jesus.
In whatever path I start, I come after
a while to the Bethlehem manger.
know there area great many people
who do not find Christ in the Bible.
Here is a man who studies the Bible
as a historian. Well, if you come as
a historian, you will find in this book
how the world was made, how the
seas fled to their places, how empires
were established, how nation fought
with nation, javelin running against
harbegeon, until the earth was
CHASTITY WITH THE DEAD.
You will see the coronation of
princes, the triumph of conquerers and
the world turned upside down and
back again and down again, cleft and
SCARED with great agonies of earth
quake, and tempest and battle. It is
a wonderful history, putting to the
blush all others in the accuracy of it's
recital, and in the stupendous events
it records. Homer, and Thucydides,
and Gibbon could make great stories
out of little events; but it took a
Moses to tell how the heavens and
the earth were made in one chapter,
and to give the history of thousands
of years upon two leaves. I'D
- There are others who come to the
Bible merely as antiquarians. If you
come as an antiquarian you will find
a great many odd things in the Bible;
peculiarities of manner and custom,
marriage and burial; peculiarties OF
dress, TUNES, sandals, crisping-pins,
amulets and girdles, and tinkling or
naments, There are those who come
to this Bible as you would to q cabi-
net of curiosities, and you pick up
this and say, "What a strange sword
that isl' and "What a peculiar hat
this isl" and "What an unlooked-for
lamp that is!' and the Bible to such
becomes British museum.
Then there are others who find
nothing in the Bible but the poetry.
Well, it you come as poet, you will
find in this book faultless rhythm,
and bold imagery, and startling an
tithesis and rapturous lyric, and
sweet pastoral, and instructive mar
rative, and devotional psalm;
thoughts expressed in q style more
solemn than that of Montgomery,
more bold than that Of Dante, more
natural than that Of Wordsworth,
more impassioned than that of Pol
lock, more tender than that ofCowper,
more weird than that of Spenser.
This great poem brings all the gems Of
the earth into it's coronet, and it
weaves the flames OF Judgment in it's
garland, and pours
ETERNAL HARMONIES