Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-01
HE Is LORD OVER ALL
DIR. TALMAGE ON THE DIVINITY AND
POWER OF CHRIST.

j fideI Than q Christian?-VeriIy 1t Seems
So when One Considers the Wild Theories
of UnbeIief.
BROOKLYN. April 3O.-In the Taber-
nacle this forenoon the large audience
listened with rapt attention to a power
full discourse by Rev. DR.. Talmage, who
chose for his subject, cover All For
ever" the text selected being Romans tx,
;, Christ came, who is over all
For 1000 years the world had been
waiting for 81 eliverer-waiting while
empires rose and fell. Co1querors 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 pal
aces, looked for him in imperial robes,
looked for him at the head Of armies.
At last they found him III a barn. The
cattle stood nearer to him than the an
gels, for the former We're in the adjoin
ing stall, while the latter were in the
clouds. A parentage of peasantry! 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
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 l
have no concern. fl 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 Presby terian, I would not turn
my hand. But there are doctrines which
are vital to the soul. If Christ be not a
God, we are idolators. To this Christie
logical question | devote myself this
morning and pray God that we may
think right and do Alright in regard to a
question in which mistake is infinite.
THE FAITH OF TIE INFIDEL.
L suppose that the majority Of those
here today assembled believe the Bible.
1t requires as much faith to be an infidel
as to be Christian. Il is faith in diff
ferent direction The Christian has faith
in the teachings Of Matthew, Luke, John,
Paul, Isaiah. Moses. The inidel has
faith in the free thinkers. We have faith
in one class of men. They have faith in
another class of men. But as the major
sembled, are willing to take the Bible
for 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
are Strauss and Renan. The number Of
their slain viii not be counted until the
trumpet Of the archangel sounds the roll
call of the resurrection. Those men and
their symDathizers saw that If they could
destroy the fortress of the miracles they
could destroy Christianity, and they
were right. Surrender the miracles and
YOU surrender Christianity. The great
German exegete says that all the mira
cles We're myths. The great French ex-
egete says that all the miracles were le-
gends They propose to take everything
supernatural from the life Of Christ and
everything supernatural from the Bible.
They prefer the miracles Of human nom
sense to the glorious miracles Of Jesus
Christ
They say there was no miraculous birth
in Bethlehem, but that il is al a fanciful
story, just like the story OF Romulus
said to have been born Of Rhea Silvia
and the god liars. They say no star
pointed to the manager; 1t was only the
fash Of passing lantern. They say
there was 10 miraculous making Of
bread, but that it is q corruption Of the
story that Elisha gave 90 loaves of bread
to hundred men. They say the water
was never turned into wine. but that it IS
o corruption OF the story that the Egyp-
tian plague turned the water into blood.
They say it is no wonder that Christ
sweat great drops of blood: ne had been
out IN the night air and was taken sud
denly i'll. They say that there were nc
tongues of fire on the heads of the disci-
pies at the PentecOst; that there was only
q great thunder storm, and the air was
full Of electricity, which snapped and
few all around about the heads Of The
disciples.
They say that EZary and Martha anG
Christ felt it important to get up an ez
citement for the forwarding Of their re
hgion, and so they dramatized a funera.
and Lazarus played hecorpse, and Mary
and Martha played the weepers, an6
Christ was the tragedian. I put it il
nv own words, but this is the exact
meaning Of their statements. They say
the Bible is q spurious book written by
SupeTSI1TlOuS or lying men. packed up 10y
men who died for that which they die
not believe.
THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.
Now, 1 take back the limited state
ment which made q Few moments ago
when said it requires as much faith K
be an infdeI as 20 be . Christian. It re
quires q thousandfold more faith to b
an infdel than to be Christian, for i
Christianity demand that the whale
swallowed Jonah, then skepticism De
mands that Jonah swallowed the whale
L can prove to you that Christ was Ctod
not only by the supernatural appearance.
on that Christmas night, but by whatin