Milford chronicle., 1892-09-30


which assembled to hear him preach his
first sermon after his return from his Euro
pean preaching tour. He announced that
in a Sunday or two he would give a sermon
concerning his stewardship in delivering
in Russia, in S.half of The Christian
Herald, the SIS. 900 worth of -four for the
starving. The subject today was Gan in
All.n Text, COlossians iii. II; Christ is
all and in all"
Returned after the most eventful sum-
mer OF my life, must shortly and as soon
As / 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 to
Christ, and from the text have chosen
have foun nd 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.
ALWAYS A MAN FOR AN EMERGENCY.
Every age Of the world has had its his
torians, its philosophers, its thinkers and
its teachers. Were there histories to be
written there has always been Moses, or
q HsrOdotus, or a XeRophOn, or a JOsephus
TO write them. Were there poems TO be
constructed there has always been Job
or a Homer to construct them. We're there
thrones lustrous and powerful to be lifted
there has always been David or Caesar
70 raise them. Were there teachers de-
manded for the intellect and the hearts
there has been Socrates, and a Zeno, and
q Cleanthes, and a Marcus Antoninus
coming forth on the grand and glorious
of ettfna rrnrNA kua had
its triumphs Of reason and morality.
There has not been single age of the
world which has not had some decided sys-
tenn Of religion.
The Platonism, Orientalism, stOicism,
/ Brahminism and Buddhism, considering
the ages in which they were established,
were not lacking in ingenuity and force.
4 Now. in this line of benefcent institutions
\ and of noble men there appeared person
age more wonderful than any predecessor.
/ He came from family without any royal
or aristocratic pretensiOn He became
Galilean 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, 81 am the light Of the
wOrld"
Men were taken all aback at the idea
that that hand, yet hard from the use of
the ak, the saw, the adj and hatehet,
should wave the scepter of authority, and
that upon that brow, from which they had
so often seen him wipe the sWeaF Of toll,
there would vet come the crown OF uppaP-
alleled splel1Or 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 aud seen him in after years in
the days of his complete Obscurity should
have been very slow 90 acknowledge
Christ's wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream OF
life flowed out. At first it 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 greepness 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
leprosv. and the dead were lifted into the
water that they might have life, and pearls
of iov 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 il rolls into
the river from under the throne Of God,
min4ling hillow with billOw and bright
ness with brightness, and joy with JOY, and
hosanna with hosanna.
lie Is ALL IN ALL
was looking at some Of the paintings OF
the artist, Mir. 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. It 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. It viii take all eternity to
fiji up the picture-so loving, so kind, SO
merciful. so great! Paul does not in this
CHAPTER saw 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, Christ is all
and in all"
remark in the first place, Christ is
everything in the Bible do not care
where open the Bible-l find Jesus. In
whatevep path start come after awhile
to the Bethlehem mAnger. 90 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 | 20 and see the mamma provided fol
the Israelites in the wilderness, and say
s.Jesus, the bread of life" Then l look at
the rock which was smitten by the
prophets rod, and as the water gushes out
/ say, 1T is jesus, the fountain opened fol
rim and for uncleanness
60 back and look at the writings OF
Job. and hear him exclaim, Il know that
my Redeemer liveth." Then go to Eze
kiel. and find Christ presented there as
"a plant OF renown," and then turn ovei
tn Isainh. and Christ is spoken of las q
sheep before her shearers." IL IS Jesus al
the way between Genesis and Malachi
Then turn over to the New Testament
and il is Christ in the parable; it is ChriSi
In the miracle: it is Christ in the evangc!
ist's story; it is Christ in the apostles epi
ties. and it is Christ in the trumpet peal
the Apocalypse know there are grea
many people who do not find Christ in thi
Bible,
Here Is o man who studies the Bible as
historian Well. if you come as "a historian
YOU will find in this book how the worlt
was made: how the seas fled totheir places
how empires were established; how nation
fought with nation, javelin ringing agsins
barbegeon, until o-e earth was ghastll
with the dead You will see the corona
tion Of princes. the triumph OF conquerors
and the world turned upside down an'
back again and down again, cleft an'
SCARED with great agonies of earthquake
and tempest and battle. It is wonderful
history. putting to the blush all others NTH
accuracy Of its recital and in the stupen
dons events it records. Homerand Thucyd
ides and Gibbon could make great storic
out Of little events, but it took Moses q
tell how the heavens aAd the earth wer
made in one chapter, and to give the his