Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-26
JESUS ALL In ALL.
Different Motives for Searching the
Scriptures, but the
BEST is TO KNOW OUR SAVIOR.
Christ Is Everything in the Glorious Plan
Of Redemption.
TALMAGES LATEST SUNDAY SERMON
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BROOKLYN, Sept. 25.-Dr. Talmage to-
day announced that in Sunday or two he
would give a sermon concerning. his stew
ardship in delivering in Russia, in behalf
OF the Christian Herald, the $50. 600 worth OF
-four for the starving. The subject to-day
was: "All in AL" Text, Colossians 3:II:
''Christ is all in all" The following are
the most striking parts of his discourse:
Returned after the most eventful summer
of my life, 1 must shortly, and as
soon as recover from the sea
voyage, 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
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 Moscow, and from Moscow to
London. and Edinburgh and Belfast, and
Dublin, is Jesus.
Christ is everything in the Bible. l do
not care where 1 open the Bible, 1 find
Jesus. In whatever path l start l come,
alter while, to the Bethlehem manger. I
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 world!''
Searching the Scriptures for Curiosity.
There are others who come to the Bible
merely as antiquarians. Ifyou come as an
antiquarian you will find great many odd
things in the Bible; peculiarities of manner
and custom marriage and burial; peculiari-
ties OF dress, tunics, sandals, crisping pins,
amulets and girdles and tinkling orna-
ments.
Then there are others who find nothing in
the Bible but the poetry. Well, ii you come
as a poet you will find in this Book faultless
rhythm, and bold imagery, and startling
antithesis, and rapturous lyric and sweet
pastoral, and instructive narrative, and de-
vutional psalm; thoughts expressed in q
style more solemn than that of Mon tgomery,
more bold than that of Milton, more terrible
OF W ordsworth, more impassioned than that
OF Pollock, more tender than that of Cow
per, more weird than that of Spenser.
Then there are Others who come to this
Book as skeptics. They marshal passage
against passage, and try to get Marx and
Luke in a quarrel, and would have a dis
crepancy between what Paul and James say
about faith and works; and they try the ac-
count of Moses concerning the Creation by
modern decisions in science, and resolve
that N all questions between the scientific
explorer and the inspired writer they will
give the pre- erence to the geologist' These
men-these spiders, will say-suck poison
out of the sweetest flowers. They fatten
their infidelfty upon the truths which have
led thousands to heaven, and in tEeir dis
torted vision prophet seems to wage war
with prophet, and evangelist with evanpe-
list and apostle with apostle: and If they
can find some bad trait of character in
man of God mentioned in that Bible these
CarTion crows cew and flap their wings over
the carcass.
Using the Bible as a Weapon.
Then there is another class o. persons who
come to the Bible as controversialists. They
are enormous Presby yterians or fierce Bap-
fists or violent Mithodists. They cut the
Bible to suit their creed, instead OF cutting
their creed to suit the Bible. If the Script
ures think as they do, well: if not, m uch
merely the milestone on which they
sharpen the dissecting knife of controversy.
What do they care about the religion OF the
Lord Jesus Christ?
Those only get into the heart of Gods
truth who come seeking Christ. Welcome
all suchi They viii find Him coming out
from behind tine curtain of prophecy, until
He stands in the full light of New Testa-
ment disclosure Jesus the Son of God, the
Savior of the world. They will find Him in
genealogical table and in chronological CAL
culatlon, IN poetic stanza and in historical
narI ative, in profound parable and in
startling miracle.
There are some men who come and walk
around the Temple of TRUTH and merely see
the porch, and then go away. There are
Others who come in and look at the pictures
but they know nothing about the CHIEF at
trac tions OF the Bible. 1t is only the man
who comes and knocks at the gate, saying,
81 ould see Jesus" For him the glories OF
that Book open, and he goes in and finds
Christ, and with Him peace, pardon, lile
comfort and heaven. "All in all is jesus
in the Bible.
remark again that Christ is everything
in the great plan of redemption. We are
N1,..
tive. We are thirsty; Christ is the river of
salvation to slake our thirst. We are hungry;
Jesus says, Il am the bread of life" We are
condemned to die; Christ says, "Save that
man from going down to the pit; am the
ransom"
Gathering Trophies From Jesus Feet.
Let us go forth and gather the trophies for
Jesus. From Golconda mines we gather the
diamonds, from Ceylon banks we gather the
pearls from all lands and kingdoms we
gather precious stones, and we bring the
glittering burdens and put them down at
the feet of Jesus, and say, "All these are
Thine. Thou art worthy" We go forth
again for more trophies and into one sheaf
we gather all the scepters of the earth, of all
royalties ecd 6ominions, and then we bring
Ihe sheaf OF sceptets and put 1t down at the
feet OF Jesus, and say, Thou art King of
kings and these Thou hast conquered"
And then we go forth again to gather more
ages, the sons and daughters of the Lord
Almighty. to come.
remark again, Christis everything to the
Christian il time OF trouble. Who has
escaped trouble? We must all stoop down
and drink out of the bitter lake. The moss
has no time to grow on the buckets that
come out OF the hearts we'll, dripping with
tears. Greag trials are upon our track rs
certain as greyhound pack on the scent of
deer. From our hearts in every direction
there are thousand chords reaching out
binding us to loved ones, and ever and anon
some OF these tendrils snap.
Ohlwhen those into whose bosom we used to
breathe our sorrows are snatched from us,
blessed be God the heart of Jesus still beats;
and when all other lights go out and the
world gets dark, then we see coming out
from behind a cloud something SO bright
and cheering, we know it to be the morning
star of the soul's deliverance. The hand of
care may make you stagger, or the hand OF
persecution may beat you down, or the hand
OF disappointment may beat you back: but
there Is a Hand, and it is so KIND, and il is so
gentle that it wipeth all tears from all faces.