Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-01
AT THE TABERNACLE.
sDR. TALMAeE's FIRST sERMoNAFTE
3 So HIS RETURN FROM EUROPE.

IS 81 HIS RETURN FROM EUROPE.
The shmcicnoy of tho Gospel of Christ.
There Is Ancient Lenrnipg In 1t, with
l5pspootry and Sublime Rhetoric, but More
l5t-..Thnn All Else. ghere La Salvation.
Sept 25.-Dr. Tallnagc
was greeted with Il most generous and
lsefusive welcome today by vast con-
agregation which assembled 10 hear him
lspreach his first sermon after his return
fsfrom his European preaching tour. lie
Eannounced that i'll IL Sunday or two be
I5would give a sermon concerning his
Estewarlship in delivering in Russia, in
Ebehalf of The Christian Herald, the
EEsSs35, 900 worth Of flour fer tile starving.
1.-The subject today was "All in ALL"
Text, Colossians :iii, IL, "Christ is al
ISand in al -, SO 80 :.
Returned after the most eventfnl;
Summer, OF my life, must shortly and
ssssSS,sS mas 4 recover from the avogages
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 sermon on reaching here must be .
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 its
historians, its philosophers, its artists,
its thinkers and its teachers. Were there
histories to be written there has always
been u Moses, or Il Herodotus, or Xell-
ophun, or Josephus to write them.
Were there poems to DO constructed
there has always been q Job or a Homer
to construct them. We're there thrones
lustrous and powerful to be lifted there
has always been a David or Cesar to
raise them. Were there teachers de-
mandcd for the intellect and tho hearts
there has been Socrates, and Zeno,
and IL Cleaathes, and Marcus Antoni-
nus coming forth on the grand and glo-
rious mission. Every age of the world
has had its triumphs Of reason and NOR
atty. There has not been single age
of the world which has not had some de-
cidetl system of religion.
The Platonisln, orientalism, stoieism,
Brahminisln and Buddhism, considering
the ages in which they were established,
we're not lacking in ingenuity and force.
Now. i'll this line Of beneficent institu-
lions and of noble men, there appears Il
parsonage more wonderful than any
predecessor. He came from IL family
without any royal or aristocratic pretcn-
sion. He became Il 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
announcements, ran in collision with
solemn priest and proud ruler, and with
voice that rang through temple and
palace and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed, ~ am the light of
the world!
Men were taken al aback at the idea
that that hand, yet hard from the use of
the ak. the saw and ADJ and Ratchet,
should wave the scepter Of authority,
AMI that upon that brow, from which
they had so often seen him wipe the
sweat OF toll, there would yet come the
crown of unparalleled splcndor and of
universal dominion. We all know how
difficult it is to thinl, that anybody who
was at school with us in boyhood has
got to be anything great or famous, and
no wonder that those who lad been boys
with Christ in the streets of Nazareth
and seen him i'll after years in the days
of bis complete obscurity, should have
been very slow to acknowledge Christs
wonderful mission.
THE GREAT DEVELOPMENT.
From this humble point the stream of
life flowed out. At first it was just Il
faint rill, hardly able to find its way
down the rock, but the tears of a weep
ing Christ added to its volume, and it
flowed on until by the beauty and green
ness of the banks you might know the
path the crystal stream WIS 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 innumcrable churches gath
cred on either bank and the tide flows
on deeper and stronger and wider un-
!; til it rolls into the river from under the
throne of God, mingling billow with
billow, and brightness with brightness,
and JOY with JOY, and hosanna with
hosanna.
l was looking ut some of the paintings
of the artist, Mr.. Kensett. saw some
pictures that were just faint outlines; in
some places you would see only the
branches of q tree and no trunk; and in
another case the trunk and no branches.
He had not finished the work. 1t would
have taken him days and months per-
haps. to have completed it. Well, my
friends, in this world we get only the
faintest outline of what Christ IS Ii
will take all eternity to fill up the pic
ture-so loving, so kind, SO merciful, so
greatI Paul does not, in this chapter.
say of Christ he is good, or he is loving,
or he is patient, or he is kind, but in his
exclamation of the text he embraces
everything when he says. Christ is all
and in all.
| remark in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Eible. do not care
where open the Bible, l find Jesus In
whatever path l start, | come after u
wllile to the Bethlehem manager. ! so
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