Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-08-06
AoCoMAc G. Fl, Va SATURDAY. AUGUST
THE ONE FROM ABOVE
"a SERMON DELIVERED IN THE. CHEF
CITIES OF SCOTLAND.

,A SERMON DELIVERED IN. THE CHEF
CITIES OF SCOTLAND.
Dr}. Talmnge Much Sought for Since His
kSturn from Russla-Iis Views an tho
Jss31fethod of Preaching. Right Uso of
words, tho Joys of Faith and Life.
r. LONDON, July sl.-Since his return
ffacm RussiaaDr. Tallnage has been lit
orally flooded with invitations toaddress
congregations.and lyceums on the sub
Eject Of his journey to the land Of the
car, WHITTIER he went with Mr.. Louis
Klopsch to direct the distribution of
The Christian Herald relief cargo. While
expressing his hi appf eciationgof the
cordial Welcome and spleh dislsliosp itality;
EXTENDED By the off cialsg OF st. Peters:
burg Sand Ioscows Of the civic: honors;3
Ishsapeds upon the Amer can visitors: and.
tof sRassiia s nGti onal gratit nde st0sA lners.
ss.:ica , as person al pressed hystlle.
:SSSWitz 81. where hesenter
tanned them as guests, DR.. Il almage has
been compelled to adhere to his original
programme. During the week lie has
been preaching in the leading Scottish
cities. Els arrangements for next week
include services at Newcastle and Sun
derland, and thereafter he goes to the
Isle of Man for few days. The sermon
selected for this week is entitled Pre-
eminent" the text being John iii, 81,
He that cometh from above is above
ALL"
The most conspicuous character of
history steps out npon the platform.
The finger which, diamonded with light.
pointed down to him from the Bethle-
hen, sky was only ratification of the
finger of prophecy, the finger of geneal-
ogy, the finger of chronology, the finger
of events-all five fingers pointing in
one direction. Christ is the overtop-
ping figure of all time. He is the vox
humana in all music, the gracefulest
line in all sculpture. the most exquisite
mingling of lights and shades in all
painting, the acme of all climaIes,
the dome of all cathedralcd grandeur
and the peroration of all splendid Ian
guage.
The Greek alphabet is made up of
twenty-four letters. and when Christ
compared himself to the first letter and
the last letter, the alpha and the omega.
he appropriated to himself all the splen-
doris that you can spell 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, if ySu prefer the words
of the text. .above all"
ALI. HUMAN MEANS FALL INFINITELY
SHORT.
It means, after you have piled up all
Alpine and -Himalayan altitudes, the
glorysof Christ would have to spread its
wings and descend u thousand leagues
to touch those SUBMITS. Pelion, a high
mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, a high
mountain. and Olympus, a high noun
tain; bnt mythology tells us when
the giants warre,l against the gods they
piled up these three mountains. and
from the topof them proposed to scale
the heavens; but the height was not
great enough and there was a complete
failure. And after all the giants-Isaiah
and Paul. prophetic and apostolic giants:
Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic
giants: cherubiln and seraphim and
archnngel, celestial giants-have failed
to climb to the top of Christ's glory, they
might all well unite i'll the words of the
text aud say. HE that cometh from
above is above all.
First, Christ must be above all else in
our preaching There are so many
books OH homiletics scattered through
the world that all laymen, as well as all
clergylnen, have made up their minds
what sermons ought to be. That SER
mon is most effectual which most point
edlv puts forth Christ as the pardon of
all sin and the correction of all evil,
individual, social, political, national.
There is no reason why we should ring
the endless changes on Il few phrases.
There are those who think that if an
exhortation OF discourse have frequent
mention of justification, sanctification,
covenant of works and covenant OF
grace, that therefore it must be pro-
foundly evangelical. while they are sus-
picious of discourse which presents
: the same truth. but under different
phraseology.
Now, | say there is nothing in all the
opulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism or all
the word treasures that we inherited
from the Latin and the Greek and the
ndo-European but we have right to
marshal it in religious discussion. Christ
sets the example. His illustrations were
from the grass. the flowers, the spittlc'
the salve, the barnyard fowl, the crys-
tails of salt, as well as from the seas
and the stars, and we do not propose in
our Sabbath school teaching and in our
pulpit address to be put on the limits.
THE. POWER OF RIGHT WORDS.
| know that there is q great deal said
in our day against words, as though they
We're nothing. They may be lnisused,
bit they have an imperial power. They
are the bridge between soul and soul,
between Almighty God and the human
race What did God write upon the
tables of stones9 Words. What did
Christ utter on Mount Olivet2 Words.
Out of what did Christ strike the spark
for the illumination of the universe?
out of words. "Let there be light" and
light was. Of course thought is the
cargo and words are only the ship; but
how fast would your cargo get on with
out the ship?
What you need, my friends, in all
your work, in your Sabbath school class,
in your refor1natory institutions, and
what we all need is 5 to enlarge our
vocabulary when we come to- speak
about God and Christ and heaven. We,