The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-09
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Words Are the Bridge Between Heaven
and Man.
Song HAS No Melody ~ Compared "a
Them Enlarge the Vocabulary to
rteiure the Great Theme. .


The most conspicuous character of
history steps out upon the platform.
The finger which, diamondcd with
light, pointed down To Him from the
bethlehem sky, was only ratification
OF the finger OF prophecy. the finger OF
gcncalogy. the finger of chronology. the
finger of cvcnts-nll five fingers point
ing In one direction. Christ Is the over
topping figure of all time. lie IA the
vox humnua In all music. the grace
fullest line in all sculpture. the most
exquisite mingling of lights and shades
in all painting. the acme of all cli-
grandeur, and the peroration OF all
splendid language
The Greek alphabc. Is made up OF
twenty-four letters, and when Christ
compared himself To the first letter and
the last letter, the Alpha and the One
GA, he appropriated TO himself all the
splcndors that you can spsll out either
with those two letters and all letters
between them. IL am the Alpha and
the Omega, the beginning and the end,
the first and the last" Or, II YOU pre-
II means. after you have piled up all
Alpine and liimnlayan attitudes, the
glory Of Christ would have Ia spread
its wings and descend a thousand
leagues 10 touch those SUBMITS.
Pclion, high mountain of Thcs-
sally, OsSa. high mountain.
and Olympus, Il high mountain; but
| mythology tells us that when the giants
warrcd against the gods they piled up
| these three mountains, and from the
top of them proposed 90 scale the
Heavens; but the height was not great
enough. aud there was complete fail
urc. And after all the giants--Isaiah
| and Paul. prophetic and apostolic
giants Raphael and Michael Angelo.
| artistic giants; chcru cim aud Scraphim
and archangcl, celestial giants-havc
failed 10 climb TO the top OF Christs
glory, they might all well unite in the
words Of the text aud say. "IIc that
comcth from above is above all"
/. Christ must bc above all else in our
preaching. There nrc also many books
on homiletics scattered through the
world that all laymen, rs well as all
= y
what sermons ought TO bc. That SER
mon is most cfTcctual which most point
eddy puts forth Christ as the pardon OF
all sin and the correction of all evil
| individdl, social, political, national.
| There Is no reason why we should ring
| the endless changes on few phrases
| There are those who think that il an
CNhortation or a discourse have fire.
qucnt mention of justification, sancti-
| iicatiun, covenant Of works and
covenant Of grace, that there
fore IL must bc profoundly evangelical,
while they are suspicious of "A discourse
which presents the same truth. but un-
der different phraScolocy. Now, say
there is nothing in all the opulcnt
realm Of Anglo-SaNouism or all the
word treasures that We inherited from
the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-
| European but we have a right TO mar
| shall il In religious Discussion Christ
sets the cXample. Ills illustrations
We're from the grass, the flowers. the
| spittlc, the salvc, the bacuyard fowl,
| the crystals Of salt, rs we'll a. from the
seas and the stars; and We do not pro-
| pose Ia our Sabbath-sChool teaching
and IN our pulpit address 10 bc out on
the limits
| know that there is great deal said
IN our day against words rs though
'hcy were nothing. They NAV bc mis-
used, but they have an imperial power.
| They are the bridge between soul and
soul, between Almighty God and the
human race. What did Cod write upon
the tables OF stones? Words What
| did Christ utter on Mount Olvct?
| Words. Out Of what did Christ strike
the spark for the illumination OF the
universe? out OF words. Let there
be light" aud light was. OF course,
thought is the cargo and words are only
the ship; hut how fast would your
cargo get on without the ship? What
You need, my friends, in all
| Your work, In your Sabbath.school
class, in your rcformatory institutions,
and what we all need il 10 change our
vocabulary when we come 20 speak
! about Co.,, and Christ, and Heaven. We
ride few old words 10 death when
there is such illinitablc recourse.
Shakespeare employed 1900 different
words for dramatic purposes, Milton
employed 5000 different words for
poetic purposes. Rufus Choatc EN-
| ployed over 1900 different words for
| legal purposes, but the most Of ms have
less than 1000 words that we can
manage, less than 500, and that makes
us M stupid
When we come 10 set forth the love
Of Christ we are going To take the ten
dercst phrnscology wherever we find Il,
and IL N has ncYrr hcrn used I'm ihni