Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-01
OVER ALL FOREVER
REV. DR.. TAIMASES POWERFUL DISCOURSE
YESTERDAY,
Christ Is Over All-For 1000 Years the World
Waited for a Deliyerer Willis Empires Rose
and Fell, and Il Found Him ina
Siabls-HiS Divinity.

BROOKLYN, April 30.-In the Taoer-
nacls this forenoon, the large audience
listened with rapt attention to power
full discourse by Rev. DR.. Talmage, who
chose for his subject. "Oyer all For
ever, the text selected being Romans
ix:5, Christ came, who is over all
For four thousand years the world
had been waiting for deliverer-walt-
ing while empires rose and fell. Con-
ouerors came aud made the world worse
Instead OF better, sill the centuries
watched and waited. They looked for
Him on thrones, looked for Him in pal
aces, looked Tor Him in imperial robe,
looked for Him at the head or armies.
At last they found Him In barn. The
cattle stood nearer TO HIN than the an
gels. for the former were in the ad1oin-
ing stall, while the latter were Ia the
clouds. A parentage OF peasantry. No
room for HMM the inn, because there
was no one 10 pay the hotel expense.
Yet the pointing star and the angelic
cantata showed that heaven made up IN
appreciation OF His worth what the
world lacked. "Christ came, who is
over all, God blessed forever. Amen"
WHO Is THIS CHRIST
who came? AS TO the difference be-
tween different denominations OF evan
gelical Christians have no concern. IL l
could. byturning over OF my hand, decide
whether the all the world shall at last
be BaptistS, or MethodiSts, or Congre-
gational, or Episeopalian, or Presoy-
terrain, l would not turn my hand. Bus
there are doctrines which are vital 10
the soul. II Christ be not God, we
are idolaters. TO this ChriStolOgical
question devote myself this morning,
and pray God that we may think Alright
and do Alright in regard 70 question In
which mistake is infinite.
/ suppose that majority OF those
here to-day assembled believe the Bible.
1t requires as much faith to be an inf
del as TO be a Christian. Iii faith In
a dlfferent direction. The Christian has
faith in the teachings Of Matthew.
Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah, Moses. The
The infidel has faith In the freethink-
ers. We have faith In one class OF men.
They have faith in another class OF
men. But as the majority OF those,
perhaps all OF those here assembled,
are willing to take the Bible for
standard in morals and in faith, make
this book my starting-poin
suppose you are aware that the two
generals who have marshalled the great
armies against the deity OF Jesus Christ
Sre Strauss and Renan. The number OF
their slain will not be counted until the
trumpet of the aIchangel sounds the
roll call Of the resurrection. Those men
and their sympathizers saw that II they
could destroy the fortress OF the miracles
they could destroy Christianity, and
were right.
SURRENDER THE MIRACLES
and you Surrender Christianity. The
great German exegete says that all the
miracles were myths. The great French
exegete says that all the miracles were
legends. They propose to take every
thing supernatural from the life OF
Christ, and everything supernatural
cmy19 Bible. They prefer the mira
cles OF human nonsense TO the glorous
miracles Of Jesus Christ.
They say there was no miraculous
birth In Bethlehem, but that it is all
fanciful story, just like the story OF
Romulus said TO have been born Of Rea
Silvia and the god Mars. They say no
star pointed TO the manger; IL was only
the flash OF passing lantern. They
say there was nc miraculous making of
bread, but that IL Is corruption OF the
story that Elisha gave twenty loaves OF
bread 10 a hundred men. They say the
water was never turned into wine, but
that it is a corruption OF the story that
the Egyptian plague turned the water
into blood. They say it Is nc wonder
that Christ sweat great drops Of blood;
he had been out in the night air and
was taken suddenly III. They say that
there were no tongues Of fire on the
heads Of the disciples at the Pentecost;
that there was only great thunder
storm, and the air was full OF electrici-
ty which snapped aud few all around
about the heads Of the disciples. They
say that
MARY AND MARTHA AND CHRIST
hlt it i'm portant to get up an excite
ment for the forwarding of their relig-
ion, and so they dramatized funeral
aid Lazarus played the corpse, and
Mary and Martha played the weepers,
and Christ was the tragedian. l put in
in my own words, but this is the exact
meaning of their statements. They
say the Bible is q spurious book written
by superStitlous or lying men, backed
up by MEN who died for that which
they did not believe.
Now, take back the limited state
ment which I made few moments ago,
when / said II requires as much faith to
be an infdel as to be q Christian. 1t
REQUIRES thOusand-f0ld more faith to
be an lnidel than TO be Christian, for
II Christianity demand that the whale
swallowed Jonah, then Scepticism de-
mands that Jonah swallowed the whale,
] can prove to you that Christ was God,
not only by the supernatural appear
ances on that Christmas might, but by
what inspired men said Of him, by what
he SAYS of himself, and by his wonder
ful achievements. Christ came, who
Is over ALL" All does not that prove
too much? Not over the Caesars, not
over Frederick, not over Alexander the
Great, not over the Henrys, not over
the Loulses. Yes. Pile all the thrones
of all the ages together. and my text
overspans them as easily as a rainbow
oversDans a mountain-top. "ChrlSt
came, who Is over all" Then he must
be q God.
The Bible says that all things were
made by him. Does not that prove too
much? Could il be that he made the
Mediterranean, that he made the Black
Sea, that he made the Atlantic, the Pa
ciic. that be made Mount Lebanon, that