The weekly intelligencer., 1895-09-07
THE GREAT CHIEF.
DR.. Talmage Disoourses ON the
Glory Of Christ.
The Ovsrtopplug Figure Of ALI Tlms-"Hs
That Cometh from Above ID Above -.
Alr-Ths Alpha and
the Omega


That Comsth from Above Is Above z.
Alr'-Ths Alpha and
the Omega
The latest sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage was Q theme that is full Of
inspiration to Christians everywhere.
The subject of his discourse was: THE
Chieftain," and the text: ''The chiefest
among ten thousand. v. 10.
Following is the sermon:
The most conspicuous character Of
history steps out upon the platform.
The finger which. diamonded with
light, pointed down to Him from the
Bethlehem sky. was only q ratification
Of the finger of prophecy. the finger of
Genealogy, the finger of chronology,
the finger of events-all Ave fingers
pointing in one direction. He is the
''vox humsna" in all music, the grace
fullest line In all sculpture, the most
exquisite mingling of light and shades
in all painting the acme of all climaxes,
the dome of all cathedraled grandeur
and the peroration of all language.
The Greek alphabet is made up of
twenty-four letters, and when Christ
compared himself to the first letter and
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 Christ, ''He that cometh
from above is above all?' It means
after you have piled up all Alpine and
Himslayan attitudes, the glory of
Christ would have to spread its wings
and descend q thousand leagues to
touch those submits. Pelion, q high
mountain Of Thessaly; Ossa, Q high
mountain, and Olympus, high
mountain; but mythology tells us when
the giants warred against the gods
they piled up these three mountains,
and from the top of them proposed to
scale the heavens; but the height was
not great enough, and there was .
complete failure. And after all the
giants-Issiah and Paul, prophetic and
apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael
Angelo. artistic giants; cherubim and
seraphin and srchangel, celestial
giants-have failed to climb to the top
Of Christ's glory they might all we'll
unite In the words of Paul. aud cry out:
"Above alp -"Above allr' But Solo
mon in my text prefers to call Christ
''The Chieftain," and 30 to-day hail
Him.
First, Christ must be chief In our
H.
ON homiletics scattered through the
country that sll laymen. IS we'll a. all
clergymen. have made up their minds
what sermons ought to be. That ser.
mon IL the most eftectual which most
pointedly puts forth Christ as the par.
don of all sin and the correction Of all
svil-indivtdual, social, political, ma.
tionaL There II no reason why we
should ring the endless changes on
few phrasea There are those who
think that IL an exhortation or . dis.
course have frequent mention of
justification, sanctificstion, covenant
Of works and covenant of grace,
therefore it must be profoundly
evangelical. while they ere suspicious
of . discourse which presents the
same truth, but under different
phraseology. Now. ] say there Il
nothing in all the opulent realm OF
AnRlo.Saxonism. Of all the word treas.
ures that we inhsrited from the Latin
and the Greek and the Indo- European.
but we have . right to marshal 1t In
religious discussion. Christ sets the
example. His illustrations wers from
the grass, the flowers, the barnysrd
fowl, the crystals of salt, - we'll -
from the seas and the stars; and we do
not propose in our Sunday school teach
ing and In our pulpit address to be put
on the limitA
know that thsrs IL great deal
said In our day against words, ~
though they were nothing. They NAY
bs misused. but they have IN imperial
power. They are the bridge between
soul and soul, between Almighty God
and the human race. What did God
write upon the tables of stone? Worda
What did Christ utter on Mount OlivstP
Words. Ont Of what did Christ strike
the spark fov the illumination of the
universe? Out Of words, LET there
b light" and light waa OF
course, thought Il the cargo.
and worda are onlv the ahin. but
how fast would your cargo get on
without the shipp What YOU need
nv friends. In ali vour vork. in vour
asbbath school ciass In vour reforms,
torv inatitutions. and what va ALI nesd
a 70 enlarge our vocabulary when we
come to speak about God and Christ
and Heaven. We ride n few old words
70 death vhen there a auch illimita.
bls resource. Shakespeare emploved
is.ooo di6erent words for drsmstio
purposss: Milton employed 600 di6Ier.
ant words fo, poetio purposes: Ruff.
Choate emuloved over II GOO difYerent
worda Tor isra purposes. but the most
Of us have lsss than . thousand words
that we can msuaRe, and that makes
ma so stunid.
when we come To set forth the love
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