The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-05-06
HE Is OVER ALL.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the Di-
vinity Of Christ.
Testimony of Inspired Men-what Christ
Said of IIimseIf-His Wonderful
Supernatural Achievements
and Parental Love.

I'm n late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. #.
Dewitt Talmage took for his subject
Over all forever the text selected be-
Romans, iX. 3: ''Christ came, who is
over all" DIR. Talmage said:
For 1000 years the world had been
waiting for u dcliverer-waiting while
empires rose and fell. Conquerors came
and made the world worse instead of
making it better: still the centuries
watched and waited. They looked for
him on thrones; looked for him in
palaces; looked for him in imperial robe;
looked for him ut the head of armies.
AT last they found him in n barn. The
cattle stood nearer TO him than the an
gels, for the former were in the adioin-
ing stall, while the latter were in the
clouds. A parcntage of ~pcasantry. No
room for him in the inn, because there
was no one to 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"
But who is this Christ who came? As
to the difference between different de-
nominations of evangelical Christians |
have no concern. If / could, by the
turning over of my hand, decide
whether all the world shall at last be
Baptist, or Methodist, or Congregation
al, or Episcopalian, or Presbyterian, l
would not turn my hand. But there
are doctrines which are vital to the
soul. If Christ be not n God, we are
idolaters. To this physiological ques-
ton l devote myself this morning, and
pray God hat we may think Alright and
do Alright in regard to a question in
which mistake is infinite.
suppose that the majority of those
here to-day assembled believe the
Bible. 1t requires as much faith to be
an infidel as to be a Christian. 1t is
faith in a different direction. The
Christian has faith in the teachings of
Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah,
Moses. The infidel has faith in the
free-thinkers. We have faith in one
class of men. They have faith in an
other class of men. But as the majority
of those, perhaps all of those here as
sembled, arc willing to take the Bible
for a standard in morals and in faith, i
make this book my starting point.
l suppose You are aware that the two
generals who have marshaled the great
armies against the deity of Jesus Christ
are Strauss and Renan. The number
of their slain will not be counted until
the trumpet of the archangel sounds
the roll call of the resurrection. Those
men and their sym~pathizers saw that If
they could destroy the fortress of the
miracles they could destroy Christian
ity, and they were right. Surrender
the miracles and you surrender Chris
tianity. The great German exegete
says hat all the miracles were myths.
The great French exegete says hat all
the miracles were legends. They pro-
pose to take everything supernatural
from the Bible. They prefer the mira
cles of human nonsense to the glorious
miracles of Jesus Christ.
They say there was no miraculous
birth in Bethlehem, but that It is all a
fanciful story, just like the story OF
Romulus said to have been born of Rea
Silvia and the god Mars. They say nc
star pointed to the manger; it was only
the fash of a passing lantern. They
say there was no miraculous making
of bread, but that it is a corruption OF
the story that Elisha gave twenty
loaves of bread to 100 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 ne
wonder that Christ sweat grea'
drops of blood; he had been ou'
in the night air and was taken sud
denly Ill. They say that there were NJ
disciples at the Pentecost; that ther,
was only n great thunder storm, ant
the air was full of electricity which
snapped and flew all around about tn
heads of the disciples. They say tina
Mary and Martha and Christ felt it i'm
portant to get up an excitement for tn
forwarding of their religion, and s.
they dramatized a funeral and LaZaru
played the corpse, and Mary an,
was the tragedian. / put it in my owl
words, but this is the exact meaning o
their statements. They say that tn
Bible is a spurious book written by su
perstitious or lying men, backed up b.
men who died for that which they di,
not believe.
Now, / take back the limited state
ment which i made a few moment
ago, when | said it requires as muc'
faith to be an infidel as to be a Chris
tan. 1t requires a thousand-fold NOR
faith to be an infidel than to be a Chris
tan, for If Christianity demand tina
the whale swallowed Jonah, the
| slkepticism demands that Jonah swal
lowed the whale! l can prove to 20
that Christ was God, not only by tn
supernatural appearances on tina
Christmas night, but by what inspire
men said of him, by what he says c
himself, and by his wonderful achieve
ments. 'Christ came, who is over all.
All! Ices not that prove too much? Nc
over the Caesars, not over Frederick
not over Alexander the Great, not owe
the Henrys, not over the Louises? Ye'
Pile all the thrones of all the ages t;
gether, and my text overspans them
easily as Il rainbow overspans
mountain top. ''Christ came, who
over ALL" Then he must be a God.
The Bible says that all things wer
made by him. Does that not prove to
much? Could it be that he made tn
Mediterranean, that he made the Blac
sea, that he made the Atlantic, the z;
cifc, that he made Mount Lebanon
that he made the Alps, the Sierra N
vadas, that he made the hemisphere
that he made the universe? Yes. TT
Bible says so, and lest we be too stupi
to understand, John winds up with
magnificent reiteration and say
"Without him was not anything mad
that was made" Then he was a Goo
The Bible says at the name Of Jesu
every knee shall bow. All heaven mus
come down on it's knees. Martyrs o
their knees, apostles on their knees, tn
archangel on his knees. Before whom
a MANI. No, he is n God. The Bibl
says every tongue shall confess-Bornt
sian, Malayan, Italian, Spanish Persian
English. Every tongue shall confess
TO whom? God. The Bible says Chris
the anne yesterday, to-day and fol-
ever. Is that characteristic of human
ity? Do we not change? Does not tn
body entirely change in seven years
Does not the mind change? Does nc