Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-26
DIR. TALMAGEATHOME
HIS FIRST SERMON SINCE RETURN
/ ING FROM EUROPE.

OF God Unto Salvation.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 2s.--Dr. Talmage WA
greeted with most generous and effusiv,
welcome today by a vast congregation
which assembled to hear him preach hi
first sermon after his return from his Euro
pean preaching tour. He announced tina
in Sunday or two he would give a sermon
concerning his stewardship I'm delivering
In Russia, in behalf of The Christian
Herald the $85. 900 worth of flour for til,
starving The subject today was "All IL
AL" Text, Colossans iii, IL. "Christ A
all and In ALL
Returned after the most eventful sum
ner Of my life, must shortly and as soor
~ recover from the sea VOYAGE, give you
an account of our mission of bread to fam
Inc struck Russia and Of my preaching
tour through Germany, England, Scotland
and Ireland. But my first sermon on reach
ing here must be hosanna of gratitude tc
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 Ed.
inbuI gh and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus.
ALWAYS MAN FOR AN EMERGENCY.
Every age of the world has had it's his
torians, its philosophers, its thinkers and
its teachers. Were there histories to be
written there has always been Moses, OF
q Herodotus, or Xenophon, or Josephus
to write them. Were there poems to be
constructed there has always been job
or Homer to construct them. Were there
thrones iustrous and powerful to be lifted
there has always been David or Caesar
TO raise them. Were there teachers de-
mandcd for the intellect and the hearts
there has bcen a Socrates, and Zeno, and
Cieanthee, and a Marcus 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 single age Of the
world which has not had some decided sys-
tom OF religion.
The Platonism, orientalism, stoicism,
Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
the ages in which they were established,
were not lacking in ingenuity and force.
Now, In this line OF benellcent institutions
and OF noble men there appeared person
age more wonderful than any predecessor.
He came from family without any royal
or aristocratic pretcnsion. He became a
Gali4ean mechanic. He had no advantage
from the schools There were people be-
side him day after day who had no idea
that he was going to be anything remark
able or do anything remarkable. Yet not
withstanding 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 ran through temple and
palace, and over ships deck and mountain
top exclaimed, II am the light of the
worldf"
Men were taken all aback at the idea
that that Hand, yet hard from the use of
the AK, the saw, the adj and Ratchet,
should wave the scepter of authority, and
that upon that brow, from which they had
80 often seen him wipe the sweat Of toll,
there would yet come the crown Of unpar-
alleled 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 wonder 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 1t was just faint
rill, hardly able to find its way down the
rock, but the tears Of n weeping 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 of their
l@s1osy, 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 it rolls into
the river from under the throne of God,
mhgling billow with billow, and bright
ness with brightness, and Joy with joyrand
hosanna with hosanna.
HE Is ALL IN ALL.
was looking MT some of the paintings Of
the artist, Mr.. Kensett | saw some pic
lures that were just faint outlines; in some
places you would see only the branches of
a 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
completed it. Well, my friends, in this
world we get only the faintest outline Of
what Christ u.s. IL will take all eternity to
fill up the picture-so loving, so kind, so
merciful, so great Paul does not in this
chapter say of Christ he Is good, or he Is
loving, OF 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--I find Jesus. In
whatever path start come after awhile
to the Bethlehem Manager. go 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 worldp'
Then go and see the mama provided for
the Israelites in the wilderness, and say,
Jesus, the bread of life" Then look at
tho rock which was smitten by the
prophets rod, and as the water gushes out
say, ut is Jesus, the fountain opened for
sin and for uncleanness."
l go back and look at the writings OF
Job, and hear him exclaim, II know that
my Redeemer liveth." Then go to Eze-
kiel, and find Christ presented there as
"a plant of renown," and then turn over
10 Isaiah, and Christ is spoken of "as a
sheep before her shearers" 1t is Jesus al
the way between Genesis and Malachi
Then turn over to the New Testament
and 1t is Christ in the parable; 1t is Christ
In the miracle; it is Christ in the evangel
lists story; it is Christ in the apostles epis
Ties, and it is Christ in the trumpet peal o
the Apocalypse, know there are grea
many people who do not find Christ in thu
Bible.
Here is n man who studies the Bible rs I
historian. Well, If you come as historian