The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-11-19
CHRIST EVERYTHING.
'V' 1. Dewitt Talmage Again IN
His Own Pulpit
homecoming Discourse = pr...r,..
OF Christ ~ the Alpha and
omega OF the Great Plan
OF Redemption.

a
large congregation assembled to VOC
come him back to his own nuln;t H
text was: rp's' H.
Ialst Is all and IN all -Colosisn, III 7,
urneo after the most eventfu
summer OF my life. must shortly. an,
- soon as recover from the sea WOW
give You an account of our miss,o,
bread to famine-struck Russia. an,
my preaching tour through Ger
many England, Scotland and ireland
' my nrst sermon on reaching herr
De hosanna of gratitude &c
and from the text have chosen
nave round that the greatest name in
ocean-shipping, and from LIVERPOOL
20 Moscow, and from Moscow to Lon.
non and Edinburgh and Belfast and
Dublin, is Jesus. """
Every age of the world has had -.
historians, its philosophers. ;ts .r,;s..
,s thinkers. aud its teachers. Were
mere histories to be written, there has
Mways been Moses, or a Herodotus.
Aenophon, or Josephus TO write
1nem. Were there poems to be con-
otructed, there has always been a Job
OF Homer to construct them. were
mere thrones, lustrous and powerfr,
70 De lifted, there has always been ,
David or Cesar to raise them yver.
Ihere teachers demanded for intel
.ec1 ana the hearts, there has been a
socrates and Zeno and a Cleanthes
ana a Marcus Antonius coming forth
on the grand and glorious mission
Every age of. the world has had H. |
triumphs of reason and n,o-.,;tu
mere mas not been single age of the
world which has not had some decided
system OF religion. The Platonism
Urlentalism, Stoicism, Brahminism and
Duodhism, considering the ages in
when they were established, were not
lacking In ingenuity and force. Now
IN this line of beneficent institut;o,s
anu OF noble men, there appeared
parsonage more wonderful than anv
predecessor. He came from a fam;lv I
'ienout any royal or aristocratic pre-
tension. He became Galilean me- {
chanic. He had no advantage from
The schools. There were neo- 1
pie beside Him day after dav who baa =
~ loea that lie was going to be any, ]
hing remarkable or do anything re- t
narkab bic. Yet, notwithstanding all s.
MS ana without any title, or scholar d
y profession, or flaming rhetoric, He W
oartied the world with the stranpest e.
ran in collision with a
GLENN priest and proud ruler. and cl
'itn voice that rang through temple in
no palace and over ships deck. and al
FOUNTAIN top, exclaimed: II am the b.
ght OF the world" Men were taken th
u aoack at the idea that that hand te
et hard from the use of the ave fbe sv
wv the adzc, and Ratchet. shonld err
ave the scepter of authority. and that -
pom that brow, from which they had tn
o1ten seen Him wipe the sweat of as
H. there would yet come the crown pr
unparalleled splendor and of mi ut
rsal dominion. We all know how DO
mcuit 1T is to think that ANYBODY me
no was at school with us in boyhood asl
8 got to be anything great or famous: He
a no wonder that those who had sou
en- boys with Christ in the streets ~ me
'zareth and seen Him in after wears res
the days of His complete obscuritv. of
ould have been very slow to acknowl. eth
ge Christ's wonderful mission. tiol
remark, in the first place, Christ il pre-
erything in the Bible / do not care and
ere l open the Bible find Jesus. ing
Whatever path start / come. after tim
nile, to the bethlehem mangcr. T
back to the old dispensation and see VIII,
'mb on the altar. and say: behold lists
Lamb OF God, which taketh away or
SINS OF the worldw Then go and The
the mamma provided for the Israeli inst
IN the wilderness and say: Jesus. the
bread OF life" Then look at the they
which was slnitten by the proph- for
rod, and as the water gushes ont. I the
1t is Jesus, the fountain. opened the
SIN and uncleanness." / go back The,
look at the writings of Job. and time
MIN exclaim: II know that nv nails
eemer liveth." Then go to Ezekiel have
md christ presented there as "a all o
u OF renown;' and then turn over broa
a'ah, and Christ is spoken of las a man,
p before her shearers.r II is SO m
all the way between Genesis and field
'chi. Then turn over to the New of di
ament, and it is Christ in the victor
bic, !. is Christ in the miracle. IL il eneti
st in the evangelist's story. IL is rent
It In the apostles epistles, and it is care
It in the trumpet peal of the Jesus
alypse. l know there are q great men
: people who do not find Christ L. .sasss
'ible. Here is man who studies ment.
'ibie as a historian. Well, If YOU of til
as a historian, you will find in I hav
book how the world was made, who 2
the seas fled to their cham]
5, how empires were estab- logica
! how nation fought with logica
q, javelin ringing against cry.
gcon. until the earth was CHASTITY the on
the dead. You will see the coro- stick
] OF princes. the triumph of con- of the
rs and the world turned upside than
and back again and down again, BLESS
ind SCARED with great agonies OF my ha
quake and tempest, and battle. fight
wonderful history, putting to word 4
ush all others in the accuracy of or as
cital, and in the stupendous or mer
it records. Homer, and Thucy- Thos
and Gibbon could make great Gods I
out of little events; but it took Welcor
. to tell how the heavens and coming
nth were made in one. chapter. prophe
give the history of thousands Of light {
Upon two leaves. Jesus q
9 are others who come to the world.
merely as antiqus.Sans- II you ical tab
3 an antiquarian you viii And . ton, in