The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-07
ALL IN ALL.
DR.. Talmege Again breaches In His
Tabernacle.
Christ All and In An-Those Only Get
Into the Heart of Gods Truth
Who Come Seeking
Christ.

Upon his return from Europe Rev.
Dewitt Talmage preached his first ser
mon in Brooklyn upon the subject "Al
in AL" Text, Colossians iii. IL: ''Chris
Is All in All" He said:
Returned, after the most eventfu
summer of my life, must shortly ant
as soon as / recover from the sea voy
age, give you an account of our mission
of bread to famine struck Russia and o
my preaching tour through Germany
England, Scotland and Ireland; bu
my first sermon on reaching here mus
be hosanna of gratitude to Christ, anC
from the text l have chosen | hav,
found that the greatest name in the
ocean shipping, and from Liverpool K
Moscow. and from Moscow to London
and Edinburg 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 a Moses, or a Herodotus,
or a Nenophon, or Josephus to write
them. Were there poems to be con
structed there has always been a Job or
a Homer to construct them. Were
there thrones. lustrous and powerful,
60 be lifted there has always been a
David or a Cesar to lift them. We're
there teachers demanded for the intel
lects and the hearts there has been a
Socrates and Zenc and Cleanthes
and a Marcus Antonius coming forth
on the grand and glorious mission.
Every age of the world has had its tri-
umphs of reason and morality. There
has not been a single age of the world
which has not had some decided
system of religion. The Platonism,
Orientalism, Stoicism, Brahminism
and Buddhism, considering the
ages in which they were estab-
lished, were not lacking in in
genuity and force Now. in this line
of beneficent institutions and of noble
men there appeared a parsonage more
wonderful than any predecessor. He
came from family without any royal
aristocratic pretensions. He became a
Galilean mechanic. He had no advan-
tage from the schools. There were peo-
pie beside Him day after day who had
no idea that He was going to be any,
thing remarkable or do anything re-
markable. Yet, Notwithstanding 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
a voice that rang through temple and
palace and over ships deck and
mountain top proclaimed: 81 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 and adze and Ratchet, 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 IN
paralleled 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 Won
der 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 its way
down the rock, but the tears of weep
ing 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 off 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 ii 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,
/ was looking at some of the paint
ings of the artist, Mr.. Kensett l saw
some pictures that were just faint out
lines; in some places you would see only
the branches of 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. perhaps, to have COM
pleted II. Well, my friends, in this
world we get only the faintest outline
of what Christ is. 1t will take all
eternity to fill up the pic ture-so low
ing, so kind, so merciful, SO great.
Paul does not, in this chapter, say of
Christ He is good, or He is loving, or He
is patient, or II is kind; but in his ex-
clamation of the text he embraces
everything when he says: Christ is all
and in all.
Iremark, in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible. l do not care
where / open the Bible find Jesus. In
whatever path / start l come, after
awhile, to the Bethlehem manger.
go back to the old dispensation and see
a lamb on the altar. and say: Behold
the Lamb of God which taketh away
the sin of the worldr' Then l go and
see the mamma provided for the Israel
ties in the wilderness, and say: Jesus,
the bread of life" Then | look at the
rock which was smitten by the prophets
rod, and as the water gushes out, l say:
sit is Jesus, the fountain opened for
sin and for uncleanness." / go back
and look at the writings of Job, and
hear him exclaim: Il know that nv
Redeemer liveth." Then 1 go to Eze-
kiel, and 1 find Christ presented there
as "a plant of renown;" and then turn
over to Isaiah, and Christ is spoken
of ''as a sheep before her shear