Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-08-05

Russia DR.. Talmage has been htefaliy
Hooded with invitations to address cOngre-
cations and lyceums ON the subject OF his
tourney to the land of the car, whittier he
went with Mr.. Louis Klopsch to direct the
distribution Of The Christian Herald re-
lief cargo. While expressing his high APP
preciatiOn OF the cordial welcome and
Splendid hospitality extended by the Of
fcials Of St. Petersburg and Moscow, OF
the civic honOrs heaped upon the Amerl-
can visitors and of Russia's national graft.
tude to America, as personally expressed
nv the czarowitz at Peterhof, where he
Entertained them rs guests, DR.. Talmage
has been compelled to adhere to his origi-
nal programme. During the week he has
been preaching in the leading Scottish
cities. His arrangements for next week
Include services at Newcastle and Sunder-
land, and thereafter he goes to the Isle Of
Man for a few days. The sermon selected
for this week is entitled 'Pre-eminent, !"
the text being John iii. 81, He that
cometh from above is above all.
The most conspicuous character OF his
tory steps out upon the platform. The nm
ger which, diamonded with light, pointed
| down to him from the Bethlehem sky, was
only a ratification OF the finger Of prophecy,
the finger of genealogy, the finger Of chro-
| noloev. the finger of events-all five fin
! gers pointing in one direction. Christ IS
the overlapping figure Of all time. He is
/ the vox humana in all music, the graceful
est line in all sculpture. the most exquisite
1 minglinR Of lights and shades in all paint
ing. the acme of all climRxes, the dome OF
ali cathedraled grandeur and the perora-
ton of all splendid language.
The Greek alphabet is made up OF
/ twenty -four letters, and when Christ com
/ pared himself to the first letter and the
| last letter, the alpha and the omega, he
appropriated to- himself all the splendors
/ that you can spell out either with those
| two letters and all letters between them,
/ II am the Alpha and the Omega, the be-
| ginning and the end, the first and the
/ last" Or, if you prefer the words OF the
| text, "abOve all.
| It means, after you have piled up all al
/ pine and Hinalayan attitudes, the glory OF
/ Christ would have to spread its wings and
descend a thousand leagues to touch those
SUBMITS Pelion, high mountain OF
1 Thessaly; Ossa, a high mountain, and
! Olympus, a high mountain but mythology
tells us when the giants warred against
! the gods they piled up these three noun
tains and from the top Of them proposed
to scale the heavens; but the height was
not great enough and there was a complete
| failure. And after all the giants-lsaiah
and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants
| Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic
giants: cherubim and seraphim and arch
angel, celestial giants-have failed to climb
10 the top of Christs glory, they might all
well unite in the words of the text and say
ttHe chat cOmeth from above Is above all, u
| THE CENTRAL THEME N PREACHING,
First, Christ must be above all else In
our preaching. There are so many books
on homiletics scattered through the world
that all laymen, az well a. all clergymen
have made up their minds what sermons
bught to be. That sermon is most effectual
which most pointedly puts forth Christ as
the pardon of all sin and the correction Of
all evil. individual, social, political, ma
tional. There is no reason why we should
ring the endless changes on few phrases
There are those who think that if an ey
hortation or discourse have frequent
mention of justification, sanctihcation
covenant of works and covenant OF grace
that, therefore it must be profoundly
evangelical, while they are suspicious pi
a discourse which presents the same truth
but under different phraseology
Now, ! say there is nothing in all th'
opulent realm of AnglO-SaXonism Of al
the word treasures that we inherited IRON
the Latin and the Greek and the Indo
European but we have right to marsha
it in religious discussion. Christ sets th'
EXAMPLE. His illustrations were from thu
grass the flowers, the spittle, the save
the barnyard fowl, the crystals Of salt, al
well rs from the seas and the stars, and W.
do not propose in our Sabbath school teach
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the limits.
| know that there is great deal said II
our day against words, as though the
were nothing. They may be misused, bu
they have an imperial power. They ar
the bridge between soul and soul, between
Almighty God and the human race. VIVA
did God write upon the tables Of stones
Words What did Christ utter on Noun
Oliyet? Words. Out of what did Chris
strike the spark for the illumination Of tn
universe? Ont of words let there b
light" and light was. OF course though
is the cargo and words are only the shlp
I but how fast would your cargo get on with
out the ship5
What you need, my friends, in all you
work. in YOUR Sabbath school class, j
YOUR reformatory institutions, and VIVA
we all need is to enlarge our voeabular
when we come to speak about God an
Cbrist and heaven. We ride a few oil
words to death when there is such illimii
able resource. Shakespeare employed III
teen thousand different words for dramati
purposes; Milton employed eight thousan
Y, different words for poetic purposes; kutu
Choate employed over eleven thousand di
!. ferent words for legal purposes, but tn
d most of MS have less than thOusaR
words that we can manage less than nv
]. hundred, and that makes us so stupid
- ALL SWEET WORDS NEEDED.
When we come to set forth the love
Christ we are going TO take the tenderei
Dbraseoloev wherever we find it, and If
has never been used IN that direction D
fore all the more shall we use it. Whe
we come to speak Of the glory Of Chris
The eonaueror, we are going to draw on
similes from triumphal arch and orator.
and everything grand and stupendou
The French navy have eighteen flags
y which they give signal, but those sightee
: flags they can put into sixty-six thousan
I different combinations. And have to &c
Won that these standards of the cross ma
me- lifted into combinations infinite an
Varieties everlasting. And let me say
Noung men who are after awhile going
: breach Jesus Christ, you will have Il
3 Largest liberty and unlimited resourc
? You only hage to present Christ in 20,
z own way.
y Jonathan Edwards preached Christ
D the severest argument eyer penned' az
i john Bunyan preached Christ in the 50
3 himest allegory ever composed. Edwal
: lPayson, sick and exhausted, leaned
haaipst the side OF the pulpit and wept Of
Z his discourse, while George Whitehel
with the manner and the voice and Il
start of an actor, overwhelmed his nu'
Z tory. It would have been adifferent thi
= If Jonathan Edwards had tried to W.T.
and dream about the pilgrims progress
z the celestial city or John Bunyan had
4 tempted an essay on the human will.
Brighter then the light, fresher than
fountains, deeper than the seas afe
these Gospel themes Song has ne melai
flowers have no sweetness, sunset sky ]