The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-09-28
HOME AGAIN.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Returns from His
European Tour
AND breaches to vast Congregation at
the Brooklyn Tabernacle-A Sermon
Which slteptics Should Read and
Think About-Chrlst In
Everything.

generous welcome by vast congrega-
tion which assembled to hear him
preach his first sermon after his return
from his European tour. The subject
was "All in All. Text, Colossians, v, IL:
"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 famine-stricl1en Russia, and
of my preaching tour through Ger
many, England, Scotland and Ireland;
but my first sermon on reaching here
must be hosanna OF gratitude to
Christ, and from the text have chosen
have found that the greatest name in
the ocean-shipping, and from Liverpool
to Moscow, and from Moscow to Lon
don, and Edinburg and Belfast and
Dublia, is Jesus.
Every age of the world has had its
historians, its philosophers, its artists,
its thinkers and its teachers. Were
there histories to be written, there has
ulNuy DCCil " hlOOCS, WI u llOl OuObuot VI
a Xenophon, or a Josephus TO write
them. We're there poems to be con-
structed, there has always been job
or Homer to construct them. Were
there thrones, lustrous and powerful,
to be lifted, there has always been n
David or Caesar to raise them. We're
there teachers demanded for the intel
lect and the hearts, there has been a
Socrates, and Zeno, and Cleanthes,
and Marcus Antonius 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 a single age OF the world which
has not had some decided system Of re-
ligion. The Platonism, 0rien talism,
Stoicism, Brahminism and Buddhism,
considering the ages in which they were
established, were not lacking in ingeS
nuity and force. Now, in this line of
benefcent institutions and Of noble
men, there appeared a parsonage more
wonderful than any predecessor. He
came from family without any royal
or aristocratic prete nsion. He had no
advantage from the schools There
were people beside Him day 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 tn" strangest
announcements, ran in collision with
solemn priest and proud ruler, and with
a voice that rang through temple and
palace, and over ships deck and noun
tain top, exclaimed 81 am the light
of the worldT' Men were taken
all aback at the idea that that
hand, yet hard from the use Of the ak,
the saw, the adze 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 1t
is to think that anybody who was at
school with us in boyhood has got TO be
anything great or famous; and no Won
der 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 Christt
wonderful mission.
From this humble point the stream OF
life flowed out At first II was just q
faint rill, hardly able to find It's way
down the rock, but the tears Of weep
ing Christ added TO its volume; and Il
flowed on until, by the beauty and
greenness OF the banks, you might
know the path the crys tai stream was
taking. On and on, until the lepers
were brought down and washed of
their leprosy, and the dead were lifted
into the water that they might have
life, and pearls Of joy and promise were
gathered from tn brink, and innumer
able churches on either bank, and the
tide flows on deeper, and stronger, ant
wider, until it rolls into the river from
under the throne Of God, mingling bill
low with billow, and brightness with
brightness, and Joy with Joy, and no
sanna with hosannal
was looking at some Of the paint
ings Of the artist Mr.. Kensett. saw
some pictures that we're just faint out
lines; in some places you would see only
the branches of tree and no trunk
and in another case the trunk and NJ
branches. He had not finished thu
work II would have taken him day
and months, perhaps, TO have completed
it. Well, my friend, in this world W,
get only the faintest outline Of wha
Christ is. IL will take all eternity h
fll up the picture-so loving, 80 kind
SO merciful, so great Paul does not, II
this chapter, say Of Christ He is good
or He is loving, or He Is patient, or HI
Is kind; but in his exclamation of the
text he embraces everything when h
says, ''Christ Is all and in ALL"
/ Iremark, in the first place, Christ 4
everything In the Bible. do not car
where open the Bible, find Jesus II
whatever path start, come, after !,
while, to the Bethlehem manger. g
back to the old dispensation, and see
lamb on the altar, and say: "Beholt
the Lamb OF God which taketh ava.
the sin Of the worldlp Then go an,
see the mama provided for the Israel
ties in the wilderness, and say: Jesus
the bread OF life" Then l look at tn
rock which was smitten by the prophet
rod, and, as the water gushes out
say: "It is Jesus, the fountain
opened for sin and uncleanness" 1 g
back and look at the writings Of job
and hear him exclaim. ~ know that m,