The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-01
CHRIST OVER ALL FOREVER.
The Worlds Wait Of 1000 Years for
a DeliVeTeT.

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this forenoon, the large audience listened
with rapt attention to a powerful dis
course by Rev. DR. Talmage who chose
for his subject; Over all Forever" the
text selected being Romans ix., 5, Christ
came, who is over all"
For four thousand years the world had
been waiting for dcliverer-waitiny
while empires rose and fell. Conquerors
came and made the world worse instead
OF making IL 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
hlm at the head of armies. At last they
found him in barn. The cattle stood
nearer to him than the angels for the
former were in the adjoining stall while
the latter were in the cloads A parent
age of poaSantry. 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 came2 AS
to the difference between different de-
nominations of evangelical Christians I
have no concern If could, by the turn
ing over of my hand, decide whether all
the world shall at last be Baptist. or
Methodist, or Congregational, or Episco-
palian, or Presbyterian, would not turn
my hand. But there arc doctrines which
are vital TO the soul. If Christ be not q
God, we arc idOlaters. To this Christ
illogical question ] devote myself this
morning, and pray God that we may think
Alright and do Alright in regard 10 ques-
tion in which mistake is infinite
| le fg,sift Of
here to-day assembled believe the Bible.
1t requires as much faith to be an iufidel
as to be a Christian. II is faith in diff
ferent direction. The Christian has faith
in the teachings of Matthew. Luke John,
Paul, Isaiah, Moses. The inhdel has faith
in the frecthinIers We have faith in
one class of mon. They have faith in an
other class Of men But as the majority
of those, perhaps all of those here as
sembled, are willing to take the Bible for
q standard in morals and in faith, make
this book my starting point.
i suppose you are aware that the two
generals who have marshaled the great
armies against the deity of Jesus Christ
arc Strauss and Renan. The number Of
their slain will not be counted until the
trumpet Of the archangcl sounds the roll
call of the resurrection. Those men and
their sympathHers saw that if they could
destroy the fortress of the miracles they
could destroy Christianity, and they were
right. Surrender the miracles aud YOU
surrender Christianity. The great Ger
man eXegete says that all the miracles
were myths. The great French exegete
says that all the miracles were legends
They propose TO take everything SUPER
natural from the lifeof Christ, and every
thing supernatural from the Bible. They
prefer the miracles Of human nonsense to
the glorious 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; it was only the fash of q
passing lantern. They say there was no
miraculous making Of bread, but that it is
corruption of the story that Elisha gave
twenty loaves of bread to q hundred
men. They say the water was never
turned into wine, but that it is corrlfp-
tion Of the story that the Egyptian plague
turned the water into blood They say It
is no wonder that Christ sweat great drops
Of blood; he had been out in the night air
and was taken suddenly i'll. They say that
there were no tongues OF fire on the heads
of the disciples at the Pentecost; thatthere
was only great thunder storm and the
air was full of electricity, which snapped
and flew all around about the heads OF
Martha and Christ felt IL important TO
get up an excitement for the forwarding
Of their religion, and so they dramatized
funeral and Lazarus played the corpse,
and Mary and Martha played the weep
crs, and Christ was the tragedian | put
it in my own words. bat this is the exact
meaning of their statements They say
the Bible is Il spurious book written by
superstitiCus or lying mon, backed up by
mon KvbO al iad fcT, n which tbav 1fd ,ank
believe
Now, ] take back the limited statement
which made few moments ago, when I
said IL requires as much faith to be an in
fidel as TO be a Christian. 1t requires a
thousandfold more faith to be an infidel
than to be Christian, for if Christianity
demand that the whale swallowed Jonah,
then skepticism demands that Jonah
swallowed the whalel / can prove TO
you that Christ was God, not only by the
supernatural appearances on that Christ
mas night, but by what inspired men
said of him, by what he says of himself,
and by his wonderful achievements.
Christ came, who is over all" Ah 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 LOuisesl Yes. Pile all the
thrones of the ages together, and my text
overspans them as easily as rainbow
overspans a mountain top. Christ came.
who is over all" Then he must be a God.
The Bible says that all things were
made by him Does not that prove too
much2 Could il be that he made the
Mediterranean, that he made the Black
sea, that he made the Atlantic, the Pacific,
that lie made Mount Lebanon, that he
made the Alps, the Sierra Nevadas. that
he made the hemispheres, that he made
the uniyerse3 Yes. The Bible saws so,
and lest we be too stupid to understand
John winds up with a magnificent reiuera-
tion and says: without him was not
anything made that was made.n Then he
was a God
The Bible says at the name of Jesus
every knee shall bow. All heaven must
come down on its knees. Martyrs on
their knees, apostles on their knees, con-
fessOrs on their knees, the archangel on
his knees. Before whom a manl No,
he is God The Bible says every tongue
shall confess--B BOrnesian Malayan, Mexi-
can, Italian, Spanish, Persian, English
Every tongue shall confess To whoms
God. The Bible says Christ the same
yesterday, to-day, and forever Is that
Of humanity DO we not
change3 Does not the body entirely
change IN seven years. Does not the
mind changel Does not the heart changed
Christ the same yesterday, to-day and