Dr. Talmage Gives Portraits of Some of His (reat Disciples and Exponents. The Love of Christ Set Forth~He That Com- eth From Above is Above AN" {Coypright 1001.) WasmingroN, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage sounds the praises of the world’s Redeemer, and puts before us the portraits of some of His great disciples and exponents; text, John ii, 31, “He that cometh from above is above all.” The most conspicuous character of his- tory steps out upon the platform. The finger which, diamonded with light, point- ed down to Him from the Bethlehem sky was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the finger of chronology; the finger of events ~—all five fingers pointing in one direction. Christ is the overtopping figure of all time. He is the vox humana in all music, the gracefullest line in all sculpture, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades in all painting, the acme of all climaxes, the dome of all cathedraled grandeur and the peroration of all splendid language. The Greek alphabet is made up of twen- ty-four letters, and when Christ com- fered Himself to the first letter and the ast letter, the alpha and omega, He ap- propriated to Himself all the splendors that you can spell out with those two let- ters and all the letters between them. “I am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” Or, if vou prefer the “Above all.” It means, after you have piled up al ‘Alpine and Himalayan altitudes, the gl of Christ would have to spread its w and descend a thousand leagues to those summits. Pelion, of Thessaly: Ossa, a high mountain, Olympus, a high mountain, but mythology tells us when the giants warred against the gods they piled up these three mot and from the top of them proposed to scale the heavens, but the height was not great enough, and 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 and arch angel, celestial giants—have failed to climb words of the well unite in the words of the text and say, “He that cometh from above is above all.” First, Christ must be above all else in our preaching. There are so many books on homiletics scattered through the world that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have made up their minds what sermons ought to be. That sermon is most effec- tual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin and the correction of all evil, individual, social, po litical, national. There is no reason why we should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an exhortation or a discourse frequent mention of justification, s fi cation, covenant of works and covenant of grace, therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the same truth, but under different phraseology. Now, | say there is nothing in all lent realm of Anglo-Saxonism or all t the he word and the Greek and the Indo-E but we have a right to marshal 1 fous « : Christ sets ti fis illu from t flowers, fowl, the seas and t pose in our Sunday our pulpit address t i kn w that in our day against words, were nothing. They m h have an imperial ne eryst there js 2Y in you and what we all need 1 when we Christ in heaven. We i words to death when there is su resource. St ployed 15,000 aifferent words for « purposes, Milton employed 8000 diffe words for purposes: Ri te employed over 11,000 different words for legal purposes, but the most us have Jess than a thousand words that we can manage, less than 500, and that makes us so stupid. When we come to set forth the love of Christ, we are going to take the tenderest shrageology wherever we find it, and if it as never been used in that direction be fore all the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ the conqueror, we are going to draw our gimiles from triumphal arch and oratorio and everything grand and stupendous. The French navy has eighteen flags by which they give mignal, but those eighteen flags they can put into 66,000 different combina- tions, combinations infinite and varieties everlasting. And let me say to young men who are after a while going to preach Jesus Christ, you will have the largest lib erty and unlimited resource. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in the severest argument ever penned, and John Bunyan preached Christ in the sub- limest allegory ever composed. Edward Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned up against the side of his pulpit and wept out his discourse, while George Whitefield, with the manner and the voice and the art of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory It would have been a different thing if Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and dream about the pilgrims progress to the celestial city or John Bunyan had at tempted an essay on the human will. Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than the seas, are these ospel themes. Song has not melody, er have no sweetness, sunset sky has no color, compared with these glorious themes, These harvests of grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with their fire and pro- ducing revolutions with their power, light ing up dying beds with their glory, th 3 4 are the sweetest thought for the poet, and they are the most thrilling illustration for the orator, and they offer the most in- tense scene for the artist, and they are to the embassador of the sky all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for direst guilt, Sweet- est comfort for ghastliest agony. Bright. est hope for grimmest death. Grandest resurrection for darkest sepulcher, “Oh, what a gospel to preach! Christ over all in it. His birth, His suffering, His miracles, His parables, His sweat, His fears, His blood, His atonement, His in- tercession—what glorious themes! Do we exercise faith? Christ is its object. Do we have love? It fastens on Jesus. Have we a fondness for the chureh? It is be. cause Christ died for it. Have we a hope of heaven? It is because Jesus went ahead, the herald and the forerunner. The royal robe of Demetrius was so costly, so beautiful, that after he had put it off no one ever dared put it on. ut this robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and wannest and the worst may wear. “Where sin abounded grace may much more abound.” “Oh, my sins, my sing,” said Martin Luther to Staupitz; “my sins, my sins!” The fact is that the brawny German stu: dent had found a Latin Bible that bad made him quake, and nothing else ever did few an CEDCATEe me i poetic ifus Choat of make him quake, and when he found how, through Christ, he was pardoned an saved he wrote to a friend, saying: “Come | saved by the grace of God. You seem to be only a slender sinner, and vou don’t have been such very awful sinners praise Hig grace the more now that we have been | redeemed.” Can it be that you are so des- | perately egotistical that you feel yourself in first rate spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you are scarless and immaculate? What | vou need is a looking glass, and here it is | in the Bible. Poor and wretched and mis erable and blind and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full | of wounds and putrefying sores. No health in us. And then take the fact that Christ | gathered up all the notes against us and | paid them and then offered us the receipt, And how much we need Him in our sor rows! We are independent of eircum- stances if we have His grace. Why, He made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under that grace St. John from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the apocalyptic trum- pets. After all other candles have been snuffed out this is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfect | day, and after. under the hard hoofs of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoy. ment have been trampled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock, the Chris tian, from of granite, hly rimmed and vine covered, puts out the thirst of his soul. Again I remark that Christ is above all | in dying alleviations. I have n« 1y sym: pathy with the morbidity about | our demise. The Emperor antino ple 1 cups » arranged that on the day of his core and | ter 7 - nation the shoul consult him about his tombst a while he would ! needa, are monom stonemason net and there men the subject of | and the | red | 1 unmaniiness death, more they think less are they to go. ot worthy of you, 1 Saladin, the greatest conqueror of day. while dying ordered the tunic he had | ath on a i on him to be carried then | hy of me after his de army, and the soldier ever and anon sk say: “Behold all that is left l emperor and conqueror! Of all the he conquered, of all the wealth he accumu lated, nothing did he retain but this | 1 have no sympathy with such behavior | such absurd demonstration, with | much that we hear uttered in regard to de- parture from this life to the next. There | i$ a common-sensical idea on this subject that you and I need to consider — that | there are only two styles of departure A thousand feet under ground, by light | torch toiling in a miner's shaft, a ledge | of rock may fall upon us, and we may die | a miner's death. Far out at sea, falling | from the slippery ratlines and broken on | the halyards, we may die a sailor's death. | On mission of mercy in hospital, amid bro- | ken bones and reeling leprosies and raging fevers, we may e¢ a philanthropist’s | death On the field of battle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, the | gun carriage may roll over us, and we may | die a patriot's death jut, after all, there | are only two styles of departure—the death | of the righteous and of the wi all want to die ti did the dying Janeway say? : ¢e as close mv Befo I shall stand or or § ( di we in sleep for me me in that d to all them that love His appearing!” ‘ou not see that Christ is above all in ng alleviatic yward the last } are specd When I see the ing blossoms sca I say, “Another geason gone forever.” Yh se the | Bible on igh say, "Another Sabbath departed.” When I bury a friend, | “Another earthly attraction gone : What nimble feet the years 1 our earthly resi dence we «Or Sabbath nig The roebucks and the lightnings run not From decade to decade, from sky to sky, they go at a bound. There iz a wee for us, whether marked or not, where vou and I will sleep the last sleep. and the men are now living who will with solemn tread carry us to our resting place. So, also, Christ is above al. in heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ is the chief theme of the celestial ascription, all the thrones facing His throne, all the palms waved before His face, all the crowns down at His feet. Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice. Stand on some high hill of heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorious | object will be Jesus. Myriade gazing on | the scars of His suffering, in silence firet, afterward breaking forth into acclamation. The martyrs, all the purer for the flame through which they passed, will say, “This is Jesus, for whom we died.” The apos- tles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went, will say, “This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and in Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem.” Lit tle children, clad in white will say, “This is the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud brought us into this beautiful place.” The multitudes of the bereft will say, “This is the Jesus | who comforted us when our heart broke.” Many who had wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will gay: “This is the Jesus who par oned us. e were lost on the mountains, and He brought us home. We were guilty and He made us white as snow.” Mercy boundless, grace unparal- jeled. 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