The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-09-13
''THE CHfEFTAIN.'
T,r. Talmage Describes History's
Most Noted Character.
sCnrlst IL Above AL the Chiefest Among
Ten Thoassnd-Through Him
Comes Pardon Of All Sin
Aad Eternal Life.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage for public,
ton this week. 1t is based onthe tex
The chiefest among ten thousand. -Canticl.
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The most conspicuous character o
aistory steps out upon the platform
The finger which. diamonded witt
light, pointed down to him from tn
Bethlehem sky. was only q ratifica
sion OF the finger of prophecy. tn,
hnger OF genealogy. the finger o
chronology the finger of events al
Eve fingers pointing in one direction
Christ is the overlapping figure of ali
time. He is the *''vox humane" in all
music, the gracefulest line in all
sculpture. the most exquisite mingling
OF lights and shades in ali paintings.
the acme of all ciimaxes, the dome of
NIL cathedraled grandeur, and the per-
oFation OF all language.
The Greek alphabet is made up Of
twenty-four letters. and when Christ
compared himself to the first letter
and the last letter. the Alpha and the
Omega, he appropriated to himself all
the splendors that you can spell out
either with those two letters or all the
Letters between them: II am the
alpha and the Omega, the beginning
and the end"
What does that Scripture mean
which says of Christi "He that COM
eth from Above is above alp" 1t means
after you have piled up all Alpine and
Himalayan attitudes, the glory of |
Christ would have to spread its wings |
and descend thousand leagues to
souch those submits. Pelion, a high |
mountain OF Thessaly; Ossa a high
mountain. and Olympus, high
mountain; but mythology tells when
the giants warred against the gods
they piled up these three mountains,
and from the top of them proposed tc
scale the heavens: but the height was
mot great enough, and there was
complete failure. And after all the ,
giants-lsaiah and Paul. prophetic and 8
apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael
angelo, artistic giants; cherubim and
seraphim and archangel, celestial a
giants-have failed to climb to the top /;
OF Christ's glory, they might all well j,
unite in the words of Paul and CRY r
cut: Above ALL" "Above allp' But q
Solomon in my text prefers to call ~
Christ The Chieftain." and so to-day 9,
hail Him. 81
Elrst Christ must be chief in our Il
preaching. There are SO many books y,
On homiletics scattered through the n,
oountry that all laymen, as we'll as all N
'iergymen, have made up their minds W.
what sermons ought to be. That ser "
non Is the most effcctual which most he
'ointedly puts forth Christ as the par w,
ON OF all sin and the correction of all ma
social, political. ma IN
lonaL There is no reason why we on
mould ring the endless changes on An
NV phrases There are those who ra
I&k that if an exhortation Or a dis an
'nrsa have frequent mention of rec
.stlncation, sanctification, covenant in
works and covenant of grace ~
Ierefore it must be profoundly evan nv,
'Ilcal' while they are suspicious of du,
sconrse which presents the same Jol
nth' but under different phraseology. bla
0~, say there is nothing in all the ter
ntcnt realm OF anglo-Saxonism, of ont
the word treasures that we inner and
"a from the Latin and the Creek and aft,
g Indo- European, but we have a ian
INT to marshal it in religious discus mo,
N. Christ sets the example. His mir
nstrations were from the grass, the the
wers, the barnyard fowl, the CRYSTALS liIv
salt, as well as from the seas and son
stars; and we do not propose in A
Sunday-school teaching and in in d
pulpit address to be put on the SWIM
tits. yn
know that there is a great deal Con
d in our day against words, as DIV
'ugh they were nothing. They may sho,
nisused, but they have an imperial the
ver. They are the bridge between won
j and soul. between Almighty God ar.
the human race. What did God dan,
tie upon the tables of stone? Words. the
at did Christ utter on Mount ars
vet? Words. Out of what did man
list strike the spark for the illumi. vor
ion OF the universe? Out of words. :.
It there be light" and light was. HE
course, thought is the cargo, and trn;
DIS are only the ship; but how fast his !
I'D your cargo get on without the his .
}? what you need, my friends, ever
all your work. in your Sabbath "Rs,
'ol class, in your reformatory insti- emn,
!. -. 10. "e al heeu Is 10 en- state
:. -. 80 "hen we come 10 he a,
W. "a. anu onrist ana heav- but
!. .ta-s :. .e" M, viu moIas 10 death with
Sespeare employed fifteen thou bs,r
different words for dramatic pur- from,
S; Milton employed eight thousa nd 90,
rent words for poetic purposes: let
Is Choate employed over eleven ,Lars
{ md different words for legal pur-