Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-26
ON HISOWN GROUND
DR.. TALMAGES FIRST SERMON AFTER his
RETURN
Rrom His European Toar-"Jhrisi Is All and Az
In Ara Parsonage More Wonderful
Than Any II the History Of he
Worli-A Powerful
Bible Lesson.

and ELUSIVE welcome to-day by vast
CONGREGATION which assembled 70 hear
him preach his first sermon after his re-
turn from his European preaching tour.
lie announced that in Sunday or two
he would give q sermon concerning his
stewardship Ia delivering In Russia, IN
behalf OF the Christian Herald, the $780,
600 worth of hour 20 the starving. The
subject to-day wa: ''All in all" Text
Colossians 311: "ChriSt is all and IN
all"
Returned after the most eventfui sum-
mer Of my life, I must shortly. and as
soon as recover from the sea-voyage,
give you an account OK our mission OF
bread to famine-struck Russia, and OF
my preaching tour through Germany,
England, Scotland and Ireland; but my
first sermon on reaching here must be
hosanna of gratitude 20 Christ, and from
the toxt I have chosen / have found
that the greatest name in the ocean
shipping, and from Liverpool TO Mos
COW, and from Moscow to London and
Edinburg and Belfast and Dublin, is
Jesus.
uEvery age Of the world has had its
historians, its philosophers, It's artists,
its thinkers and ITS teachers. We're
there histories 20 be written, there mas
always been a Moses or a HerOdOtus or
a XenophOn or a JOSephuS 70 write
them. Were there poems to be con
structed, there has always been a job
or a Homer 20 construct them. We're
there thrones, lustrous and powerful,
20 be lifted, there was always David or
g Cesar TO raise them. We're there
teachers demanded for the intellect and
the hearts, there has been q Socrates
and o ZenO and a Cleanthes and Mar
Gus Antoninus coming forth on the
GRAND AND GLORIOUS MISSION.
Every age Of the world has had its
triumphs 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 established, were not
lacking ia ingenuity and force. Now,
in this line of benefcent institutions
and OF noble men, there appeared 8
parsonage more wonderful than any
predecessor. lie came from q family
without any royal or aristOcratic pre-
tsntiOn. lie became a Galilean me-
chsnic. de had no advantage from the
schools. There were people beside
him day after day who had no idea that
he was going % do anything remark
able. Yet, Notwithstanding all this,
and without any title. or scholarly
profession. or flaming rhetoric,
he startled the word with the
strangest announcement ran in col
lislOn with solemn priO-l and proud
ruler, ana with a voice that rang
tbrough temple and palace, and over
ships deck, and noun tain top, eX-
claimed, 81 am the light Of the world.
Men were taken all sback at the idea
thet that hand, yet hard ltom the use
OF the axe, the saw and adze aud Ratchet,
should wave the sceptre 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 SplendOI aud Of
universal dominion. We al know heW
difficult it Is to think that anybody who
was 81 school with Us In OOyhOOd has
got TO be anything great or famous; and
no wonder that those who had been
bows with Christ IN the streets OF Naza-
reth and seen him In after years in the
days Of his complete obscurity, should
have been very slow TO acknowledge
ChrisJ's wonderful mission.
FKoM THIS HUMBLE POINT
the stream OF life lowed out. At first
&c was Just a faint rill, hardly able 70
find it's way down the rock, bit the
f.. tears of q weeping Christ added TO it,
volume; aud 10 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 of their
leprosy, and the dead were lifted into
the water that they might have life,a 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 it rolls into the river
under the throne of God, mingiing bill
low with billOw, and brightness with
brightness, and JOY with JOY, and hosan-
ma with hOsanna.
was looking az some Of the paint
ings OF the artist, Mr.. henSett. saw
some pictures that were just faint
outlines; ia 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. III Would have taken him
days and months. perhaps, to have COM
pleted t. Well, my friends, in this
world we get only the taintest outline
OF what Christ is. 1t will take all eter-
ity % an up the picture-sO loving, so
kind, so merciful, 50 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 10 all
remark, in tho first place, Christ is
everything In the Bible. l do not care
who're I open the Bible, find Jesus In
whatever path I start, l come, after
while 20 the Bethlehem manger. go
hack TO the cid dispenSation, and see
lamb on the altar, and say, Behold the
Lamb OF God which taketh away the
siu OF the world" Then 1 so and see
the manns provided for the Israeiitss In
the wilderness, and say, "Jesus, the
bread o. lilc. AAcu iVOh az tAc luCh
which was smitten by the prophets rod,
snd. as the water gushes OUT, say, 1T
is Jesus, the fountain opened for sin
and for uucIeanness. so back ana
Iook AZ the writings Of Job, and hear
rim exclaim, II know that my Redeem
er Iiveth." Then 60 TO Ezekiel, and
I End Christ presented there as
''A PLANT OF RENOwN;'
snd then / turn over to Isaiah, and
C5rist h sDoken Of as ga sheep before
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