Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-05-11
DR.. Talmage Sounds Praises of the
Worlds Redeemer.
ne Pats Before u the Portraits %
some os His Great Disciple. asd
Exponents-The Cherries
of Heaven.
lcopyrisht. 1901. by Louis Kiopsch. n. u
Washington. April p.


and opponents; text. John ,, 81: He
that eometh from above is above all.
The most conspicuous character OF /
history steps out upon the platform.
The finger which. diamonded with 1
light, pointed down 20 Him from the |
Bethlehem sky was only ratification |
OF the finger OF prophecy, the finger Of |
genealOgy, the finger of chronology. |
the finger of events-an 1--WE fingers |
pointing in one direction. Christ Is
the overlapping figure Of all time. He
is the vox humana in all music. the
grscefulest line in all sculpture, the
most exquisite mingling OF lights and
shades In oil painting. the acme OF all
climaxes, the dome Of all cathedraled
grandeur aud the perOration OF all
splendid language.
The Greek alphabet is made up OF
"a letters. and whea Christ compared
Himself 20 the first letter and the last
letter. the alpha and the omega, He
appropriated 10 Himself all the spler
doris that you can spell out with those
two letters and all the letters between
them. Il am the alpha and the omega
the beginning and the end. the frs
and she last" or. II you prefer the
words Of the text. ~above all"
II means. after YOU have piled mp al
Alpine and Himalayan attitudes. the
glory Of Christ would have 70 spread
its wings and descend a thousand
leagues 20 touch those SUBMITS.
| Pelion. n high mountain OF Thessaly:
OSsa. a high mountain. and Olympus
a high mountain. but mythology telis
us when the giants warred against the
| gods they piled up these three noun
tains and from the top Of them pro
/ posed TO scale the heavens. but the
height was not great enough, and
| there tess a complete failure. And
after all the giants-Isaiah and Paul
| prophetic and apostolic giants;
Raphael and Michael Angelo. artistic
giants; cherubim and seraphim and
archangel. celestial giants-have faile6
20 climb 20 the top OF Christ's Clor1
they may all well unite in the words
OF the text and say; ~He that cometh
from above IL above ell"
| First. Christ must be above all else
IN our preaching. There are so many
books on homlletics scattered
| through the world that all laymen a,
well as all clergymen have made M
their minds what sermons ought g
| be. That sermon is most effectua
which most pointedly puts forth Chris
Is the pardon OF all sin and the cor
| rection OF all evil. individual. social
| political. national There is no reason
why we should ring the endless change.
on a few phrases. There are thos,
who think that IL an cNhortation OF
discourse have frequent mention ot
justification, ssnctification. covenant
OF works and covenant OF grace thai
therefore il must be profoundly evan
gelical, while they are suspicious O,
a discourse which presents the sam,
truth. but under different phraseol
o v. Now. / say there Is nothing IL
ali the Opulent realm OF Anglo-Sax
ouism OF all the word treasures tina
we inherited from the Latin and tn
Greek and the European but W
have a right 10 marshal il in religion
discussion. Christ sets the example
His Illustrations were from the grass
the flowers. the spittle. the salve. IN
: barnyard fowl. the crystals Of salt
as well as from the seas and the stars
and we do not propose IN our Sunda
school teaching and in our pulpit ad
dress TO be put on the limits.
know that there is a great deal sal
IN our day against words. as thong
they were nothing. They may D
: misused, but they have an imperis
e power. They are the bridge betwee
+ soul and soul. between Almighty Go
!. and the human race. What did Go
o write upon the tables OF stone
( Words What did Christ utter O
p Mount Oiivet? Words Out OF VIVA
: did Christ strike the spark for III
}, illumination of the universe? Out Z
= words let there be light" an
, light was. OF course. thought is IN
J. cargo. and words are only the shil
: but how fast would your cargo go o
! without the ship7 What you nee,
n my friends. in all your work. in YOU
n Sunday school class. in your reform
story institutions. and what we a
r need is 10 enlarge our vocabular
Al when we come 90 speak about CO
;, and Christ and Heaven. We ride
, few old words 20 death when thes
h Is such an illimitable resourc
Il Shakespeare employed $4,000 dine
J. ent words for dramatic purposes. NJ
s. ton employed 5000 different wors
o for poetic purposes, Rufus Choa'
< employed over IL. 600 different wor.
% for legal purposes, but the most
IS Us have less than 1000 words that v
- can manage less than 500, and TIT
makes US so stupid.
When we come 20 set forth the lo'
Of Christ. we are going 20 take a
" tenderest phraseoloSy wherever v