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REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINEs SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Au in ALL"

6ians ill.,, II.
b Returned after the most eventful summer
sof my life, must shortly and as soon re-
cover from the sea voyage give you an ac-
count of our mission Of bread to famine.
stricken Russia, and Of my preaching tour
Through Germany, England. Scotland and
tIfoland: but my first sermon on reaching
hsre must be a hosanna Of gratitude to
Christ, and from the text have chosen, l
have found that the greatest name In the
ocean shipping, and from Liverpool to Mos
cow. and from Moscow to London and Ed
inburgh and Belfast and Dublin, is Jesus.
Every age of the world has had its his
ltorians. its philosophers, its artists, its
thinkers and its teachers. Were there his
tories to be written there has always been a
Moses, or Heroiotus, or Nenophon, or a
Josephus to write them. Were there poems
ito 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 a David or q
Cesar to raise them. Were there teachers
demanded for the intellect and the hearts
there has ben Socrates, and Zeno, and
"a Cleanthes, and Marcus Antoninus COM
ing forth on the grand and glorious mission.
Every age of the world has hadi triumphs
of reason and morality. Tlere has not been
"a single aga Of the word which has not hau
The Piatonisn, orlen talSm, stolclsm.
,Brahminism and Buddhism, considering the
ages in which they were established, were
not lacking in ingenuity and force. Now, in
this line OF beneficent institutions and OF
noble men, there appears psrsoaags more
wonderful than any predecessor. he came
from family without any royal or aristo-
cratic pretension. He came Gaiilean me-
chanic. He had no advantage from the
eoboolo Thara ryara npoy,la beside III dav
after day who had no idea that He was going
to be anything remarkable or do anything
remarkable. Yet notwithstanding 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 aud proud ruler,
and with voice that rang through temple
and palace and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed, II am the hgne OF tne
worldm
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 it is to think that anybody
who was at school with US in boyhood has
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 COM
plets obscurity, should have been very slow
to acknowledge Chrisps wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream of life
flowed out. At first it was just faint rin.
hardly able to find its way down the rock,
but the tears of weeping Christ added to
its volume, and it flowed on until by the
af %hn hn,I ,Iyn
might know the path the crystal stream was
taking. On ana on, until the lspers were
brought down and washed Of their leprosy,
and the dead were lifted into the water that
they might have lire, 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 Ct God. min
Cling 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. I saw some pic
lures that were just faint outlines; in some
places you would see only the branches Of
tree and no trunk; and in smother 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 IS. 1t
will take all eternity to fill up the picture
so loving, so kind, SO merciful, SO Rreatl
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,
''Chrss is all aud in all"
! Iremark in the first place. Christ is every
thing in thu Bible. do not care where
open the Bible. find Jesus. In whatever
poth start, I come after a while to the
Bethlehem manger. l 60 back to the Old
dispensation, and see q lamb OH the altar and
say, '.Behold the Lamb of God which taketh
away the sin of the worldo' Then 90 and
see the mamma provided for the Israeiites in
the wilderness, and say, Jesus, the bread OF
life" Then I look at the rock which was
smitten by the prophets rod, and, as the
water gushes out, I say, ut is Jesus, the
fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness."
60 back and look at the writings OF Job
,Ree6eemer liveth." Then / go to Ezskiel
and I find Christ presented there as "a
plant Of renown," and then I turn over to
Isaiah ard Christ is spoken Of las sheep
before the shearers" 1t is Jesus all the way
between Genesis and Malachi. Then l turn
over In the New Testament and it is Christ
TN the parable, it is Christ in the miracle. it
is Christ in the evaugelists story, it is
Christ in the apostles epistles and it is
Christ in the trumpet peal of the Apocalypse.
I know there are great many people who
do not find Christ in the Bible.
Here is man who studies the Bible as a
historian. Well. If you come as historian,
you will find in this book how the world was
made, how the seas fed to their places. how
empires were established. how nation fought
with nation, javelin ringing against barba-
geon, until the earth was CHASTITY with the
dead. You will see the coronation Of princes,
the triumph Of conquerors, and the world
turned upside down and back again and
down again. cleft and SCARED with great
agonies Of earthquake and tempest and bat
tie. It is O wonderful history, putting to
the blush all others in thu accuracy Of its
recital and in the stupendous events it re
cords. Homer ami Tnucydides and Giobon
could make great stories out Of little events:
but it took Moses to tell how the heavens
and the earth were made in one chapter, and
to give the history Of thousands o. years
upon two leaves.
There are others who come to the Bible
merely as antiquarians. II You come as an
antiquarian. you will find a great many odd
things in the Biole-psculiarities Of manner
and custom, marriage aud burial; peculiar
titles Of Dire g, tunics, sandals. cr!sping pins,
amulats and giri dies and tinkling ornaments.
If you come to look at military arrange
ments, you will find coats OF mail and jaw
elips and engines Of war and circumvalla-
ton AMI encampments. II you look for ps-
culiar musical instruments you will hnd
psalteries and shiginoths and rams horns.
The antiquarian will find in the Bible Curl
osities in agriculture and in commerce, and
in art, and in religion that will keep him
absorbed a great while. There are those
VINO come to this Bible as you would to a
cabinet OF curiosities, and you pick up this
and say, "What strange sword that Isl!
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