Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1892-10-01

was greeted with most generous and
fffusive welcome today by vast con-
Eregalion which assembled To hear him
preach his first sermon after his return
from his European preaching tour. He
announced that i'll a Sunday or two he
would give Il sermon concerning his
stewardship in delivering i'll Russia, in
behalf of The Christian Herald, the
So. 900 worth Of flour for the starving.
The subject today was "All i'll AL. :"
Text. ColosSians iii. IL, Christ is all
and in all.
Returned after the most eventful
summer of my life, must shortly and
as soon as recover from the sea VOYAGE
give yoI 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 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 its
historians. its philosophers. its artists,
its thinkers and its teachers. Were there
histories 10 be written there has always
been Moses. or lIerolotus. or a Xen-
ophon. or II .losephus to write them.
Were there poems tu be- constructed
there has always been job or a Homer
to construct them. Were there thrones
lustrous and powerful to be lifted there
has always been David or Il Caesar to
raise them Were there teachers de-
mand,d for the intellect and the hearts
there has been Socrates. and Zeno,
and n C!canthes. and a Marcus Antoni-
nus coming forth on the grand and glo-
rious mission. Every age of the world
has had its irinmphs of reason and NOR
aliiy. There has not been single age
of the world which has not had s.me de-
cided system of religion.
The Platonisin. orientalism, stoicism,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
the ages i'll which they were established,
We're not lacking in ingenuity and force
Now. in this line Of beneiiccnt institu-
/ tihtlS anu VI tftit dJIFdTS Il
parsonage more wonderful than any
predecessor He came from a family
without any royal or aristocratic preten-
sion. He became Il Galilean mechanic
He had no advantage from the schools
There We're people beside him day after
day who had no idea that he was going
to be anything remarkable or do any
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ing all this. and without any title or
scholarly profession ar 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 noun
tain top. exclaimed. Il 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 adz and hatchet,
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 unparalleled splendor and of
universal dominion. We all know how
difficult ii is 10 think that ANYBODY who
was AT school with us i'll boyhood has
got 10 be anything great or famous. and
no wonder that those who had been bows
with Christ III the streets of Nazareth
and seen him III after years in the DAYS
of 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 ont. AT first it was just a
faint rill. hardly able To find its way
down the rock. hut the tears of a Weep
ing Christ added to iiS volume, and it
flowed on until by the beauty and green
ness of the banks you might know the
path the crystal stream was taking On
and on, until the lcpers were brought
down and washed Of their leprosy, and
the dead were lifted into the water that
they might iiave life. and pearls of joy
and promise were gathered from the
brink. and innumerablc churches gath
cred on either bank and the tide flows
ON deeper and stronger and wider un-
| til il 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 paintings
of the artist. Mr. Kensett. saw some
pictures that were just faint outlines: in
some places you would see only the
| branches Of Il 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 il. 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 loving, 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 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 Bible. | do not care
where ] open the Bible, find Jesus In
whatever path | start, | come after
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back to the old dispensation. and see
| lamb on the altar. and say, Behold the
Lamb Of God which taketh away the
sin of the world. Then | go and see
the mamma provided for the Israelites in
the wilderness, and say, Jesus. the
bread of life" Then look at the rock
which was smitten by the prophets rcd,
and, as the water gushes out. say, 1T
is Jesus. the fountain opened for sir and
for uncleanness
go back and look at the writings of
job and hear him exclaim, Il know that
my Redeemer liveth." Then | go to
Ezekiel and find Christ presented there
rs "a plant of renown." and then turn
over 10 Isaiah and Christ is spoken of las
a sheep before her shearers." II is Jesus
all the way between Genesis and Malachi.
Then turn over in the New Testament
and it is Christ in the parable, it is
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