The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-04-27
THE ONE ABOVE ALL.
DR.. Talmage Sounds Praises OF the
Worlds Redeemer.
lie Puts Before Us the Portraits OF
some of His Great Disciples ana
Exponents-Thc Glories
of
rcopyrisht, 1901, by Louis klopsch' N. ~
Washington,

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traits of some of His great disclples
and exponents; text, John 3, 81;
that cometh from above is above all.
The most conspicuous character Oh
history steps out upon the platform
The finger which, diamonded WIN
light, pointed down to Him from the
Bethlehem sky was only a ratlhcation
of the finger of prophecy, the hngero Oh
genealogy, the finger of chronology
the finger of events-all i've myers
pointing in one direction. Christ Is
the overlapping figure of all time. ne
Is the vox humane in all music the
gracefulest line in all sculpture 'he
most exquisite mingling of lights ana
shades in all painting, the acme OF an
climaxes, the dome of all cathedraieu
grandeur and the peroration OF all
splendid language.
The Greek alphabet is made up OF
"a 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 splen-
dors that you car spell out with those
two letters and all the letters etween
them. 81 am the alpha and the omega
the beginning and the end, the frst
and the last" or. if you prefer the
words of the text, 'above all"
1t means, after you have piled up all
Alpine and Himalayan attitudes, the
glory of Christ would have to spread
its wings and descend a thousand
leagues to touch those SUBMITS.
Pelion, a high mountain of Thessaly;
Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympus,
a high mountain, but mythology tells
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, ano
there was a complete failure. And
after all the giants-Isaiah and Paul
prophetic and apostolic giants;
Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic
, giants; cherubim and seraphim ant
~archangel, celestial giants-have failed
to climb to the top of Christ's glory
they may all well unite in the words
. of the text and say: "He that cometi
. from above is above all"
' First, Christ must be above all els'
$ in our preaching. There are so man,
g books on homiletics scattered
. through the world that all laymen a
q well as all clergymen have made NJ
their minds what sermons ought t
= be. That sermon is most effectua
which most pointedly puts forth Chris
as the pardon of all sin and the con
r|ection of all evil, individual, socia
> political, national. There is no reaso'
{ why we should ring the endless change
on a few phrases. There are thos
a who think that if an eXhortation o
l. a discourse have frequent mention O
justification, sanctification, covenan
! of works and covenant of grace tina
N therefore it must be profoundly eva1
AZ gelical, while they are suspicious {
r discourse which presents the sam
:. truth, but under different phraseo
- ogy. Now, l say there is nothing
- all the opulent realm of Anglo-Sa,
onism or all the word treasures tn;
y we inherited from the Latin and II
Greek and the Indo-European but v
have a right to marshal it in religion
. discussion. Christ sets the eXampl
LIE llluoLla NlOllS NFiG II III III * az
III the flowers, the spittle, the salve, Il
barnyard fowl, the crystals of sa'
ne as well as from the seas and the star
and we do not propose in our Sundi
school teaching and in our pulpit a
80, dress to be put on the limits.
Xix know hat there is a great deal sa
lst in our day against words, as thou
re- they were nothing. They may
misused, but they have an impert
power. They are the bridge betwe
soul and soul, between Almighty G
~ and the human race. What did G
rN write upon the tables of ston
Words. What did Christ utter
ay Mount Olivet? Words. Out of WI
S did Christ strike the spark for t
per illumination of the universe? Out
,he words. LET there be light" a
eat light was. OF course, thought is I
cargo, and words are only the sh
ion but how fast would your cargo go
without the ship? What you ne
my friends, in all your work, in "
he Sunday school class, in your refor
ney atory institutions, and what we
AXE need is to enlarge our vocabul;
,n's when we come to speak about {
,er. and Christ and Heaven. We ride
ex- few old words to death when tn
lin is such an illimitable resoui
net Shakespeare employed $4,000 diff
in ent words for dramatic purposes, J
ton employed 5000 different wo
for poetic purposes, Rufus Che
the employed over 1900 different wo
an for legal purposes, but the most
cers us have less than 1000 words that
A. can manage, less than 500, and t
!. l.. makes us so stupid.
cas- When we come to set forth the
,ard of Christ, we are going to take
lille; tenderest phraseology wherever
find it, and if it has never been L
in that direction before all the N
shall we use it. When we come
'oint speak of the glory of Christ, the
the queror, we are going to draw
! to SMILES from triumphal arch and
the torio and everything grand and
.,- Tba Eranob navy how,