TALMAGE.
THE NOTED AMRRIOAN UFINK I
' SCOTLANU ;
A SERMON PURACniRD TO SCOTCH
j rniLSuvrEuiAK
1 he Rul.j.t of His 8ei mn la Tre-FminnV
and Hit Tnt g Taken From John
v 111- 31 : H He That Com to From
Above li A bore All." ,
J -T- v
Loxnow, July 31. Dr. Talmage's ser
mon preached in Scotland to-duy was
upon the theme "Pre-eminence, the
text being from John 3: 31, "He that
oometh from above is above all." Mr.
: Talmage tpoke as follows irom the text
The most conHpteuooscharactcrin hi
tory steps our upon the "platform. Tlic
finger which," diamonded with light,
pointed down to him from the Bethle
hem sky was only a ratification of the
linger of prophecy, the finger of geneal
o?y, ,the finger of chronology, the finger
of events all five finpgers pointing in
one direction. Christ is the overtopping
figure of all time. He is the vox hu
man in all music, the gracefulest line
in all sculpture the not exquisite
mingling of lights and shades in all
painting, the acme of all climaxes, the
- dome of all cathedraled grandure and
(he peroration of all splendid 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 ail the splen
dora that you can spell out either with
those two letters or all letters between
them. "1 am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first and
the last" Or, if you preier the words
of the text, "above alL'V ... .
ALL nCMiS MEAK3 FALL IXFiSlTEI.T
SHORT.
,. It means, after you Lave piled up all L
Alpine and Himalayan altitudes, th '
glory of Christ would have to spread its
wings and descend a thousand, leagues
to touch those summits. Pelion, a high
mountain of Thessaly, 0sa, a high
mountain, and Olympus, a high motm- -tain;
but mythology tells us wh on the
giants warred against the goda they
piled up these . three mountains, and
irom the top of them proposed to scale
the rheavens; but the height was not
great enough and there was a complete
failure. And after all the giants Isaiah
and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giant;
Baphael and Michael Angela, artistic
giants; cherubim and seraphim and j
archangel, celestial giants have failed
to climb to tlie top of Christ's glory,
they might all well unite in the words ;
of the text and say, "He that comet h (
irom above is above alL"
First. Chirst must be above all else in
our preachings There are 60 maiy
books on homilies scattered through the
world that all layman as well as ali
clergymen, have made up their minds
what sermons ought to be.. That sor- j
mon is most effectual which most point :
.dly puts forth Christ as the pardon of
all sin and the correction of all evil, in
' dividual, social, political, national.
There ia no reason why we should ring
tbe endless changes on a lew phrases.
.Tbr are those who think that if an
exhortation or a discourse have frequcnt
mention of justification, Banctification,
covenant of works1 and covenant of
jrace, that therefore., it must be pro
foundly evangelical, while they are bus
iuspicious of a discourse which tvresents
the tame truth, but under different
phraseology.' ;'
Now, I say there is nothing in all the
"opulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism or all
the word treasures that we inherited
from i the Latin and Greek and tha
Indo-European but we have a right to
marshal it in religious discussion.
Christ sets tbe example. His illustra
- tions were from the grass, the flowers,
the spittle, the 6alve, the barnyard fowl,
the crystals of salt a well as from the
seas and the stars, and we do not pro
pose in our Sabbath school teaching and
In our pulpit address to be put on the
limits. .
THE POWER OF BTOIIT WORDS.
. X know there is a great deal said in
our day against words, as though they
were nothing. They may be misused,
but they have imperial power. They
aro the bridge between soul and oul,
between Almighty God and the human
ace. What aid God write upon' the
tables of stones? Words. What did
Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Wordh.
Out of what did Christ strike the spark
(or the illumination of the i universe?
Out of words. "Let there be light," '
and, light was. Of course thought is
tbe cargo and words are only the ship;
but how fast would your cargo get on
without the ship? . '
What you need, ray friends, in'- all
Eour work, in your Sabbath sphool cloa.
i your reformatory institutions, and
what we all need is to cnlargo out
vocabulary when we ccme to speak l
about God and Christ and heaven. We
ride a lew old words to death wlun
there is .such illimitable repourco
rhflkeepeafe employed fifteen thousand
different., works for dramatic purpose.
Milton employed eight thousand differ .
cnt words for poetic, purposes. Rufu
Choate employed over eleven thousand
different words for legal purposes, but
the most of us have less than a thousand
words that we can manage, less than
five hundred, and that makes us k
etupidl
... When we come to eel forth the love
of Christ we are going to take the ton
derest phraseology wherever we find it,
and if it hns never been wel in thai di-
rection before, all the more shall wo use
it When we come to speak of the
glory of Christ, the conqueror, we are j
going to draw our similes from triuin
. phal arch and oratorio and everything j
grand and stupendous.The French
navy have eighteen flags by which tl.ey j
, give signal; but . tboso eighteen flag j
they can put Into sixty-six thousand j
different combinations. 'And . I have i
to tell you that these- standards of th ,
rioss may be lifted rinto combination
infinite and varieties everlasting. , And
- let me pay to young men who ure aftet
, awhi e going to preneh Jcsiw . Chri-t
you will have the largest liberty nno
uulimited resources. You only have to
present Christ in your owu way. -
,Vt .V MAX HAS HIS rROVFR CIT OF COI.
Jonathan Edward preached Christ ii
t!, i teveiewt argument ever penned, nnl
f , hi , Bun v;n, preached Christ in the
, -i .1 mv-st llleoty tsver "composed. Ed-
waid raypon, sick nrVl exhausted, loon
ed agaiiut tho side of the pulpit and
wt-pt out his discourse, , whilo George
Whiteiiold, with' the manner, and the
voice, and the start of an actor, over
whelmed his auditory. It would have
been a different thing if Jonathan Ed
wards had tried to write and dream
about the pilgrim's progress to the cele
tial city or John Bunyan had attempted
an essuy on the human wilL
Brighter than the light, fresher than
the fountains, deeper than the gcas are
all these Gospel themes. Song has no
1 melody, flowers have no sweetness, sun-
set sky lias no color compared wun uu v
glorious themes. These harvests f
grace spring up quicker than we can
sickle them... -Kindling pulpits with
their fire, and producing revolution
with their power, lighting up dying beds
with their glory, they are the sweetest
thought for the poet and they are the
most thrilling illustration for the orator,
and they ofler the most intense scene
for the artist, and they are to th e em
bassador of the sky all enthusiasm.
Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweet
est comfort ior ghastliest agony. Bright
est hope for grimmest death. Grandest
resurrection for darkest sepulcher.
Oh, what a gospel to preach I Christ
over all in it His birth, his. suffering,
his miracle, his parables, his sweat, his
tears, 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 church ? It
is because Christ died lor it- Have we a
hope of heaven? It is because Jesus
went abroad, the herald and the fore
runner.
Thp royal robe of Demetrius was so
costly, so beautiful, that after he had put
if oil' no one ever dared put it on; but
this robe of Christ, richer than that, the
poorest and tha wanest and the worst
may wear. "Where sin abounded grace
may much more abound."
"Oh, my sins, my sins," said Martin
I.uther to Staupitz; "mv sins, my sins!"
Tho fact is that the brawny German
student had found a Latin 'Bible thai
had made him quake,' and nothing else
tver did make him quake; and when he
found how, through Christ, he was par
doned and saved he wrote to a friend,
faying: "Come over and join us great
and awful sinners saved by the grace- of
God' You seem to be only a slender
sinner, and you don't much extol the
mercy of God; but wo who have been
uch very awful sinners praise his grace
the more now that we have been re
deemed." Can it bo that you are bo desperately
egotistical that you feel yourself in first
rate spiritual trim, and that from the
root of the hair to tho tip of the toe you
are searless and immaculate ? What
you need is a looking glass, and there it
u in the Bible. Poor and wretched and
miserable and blind, and naked from
the crown of the head to the sole of the
foot, full of wounds and putrefying
(ores. . 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 recfeipt 1 .
And how much we need him in our
sorrows! We are independent of cii
jumstanees if we have his crace. " ' Why,
he made Ppul sing in the dungeon, and;
under that grace St John from desolate
Patmos heard the blast o! the apocalyp
tic trumpets. After all other candles
have been snuffed out, this is the light
that gets brighter and brighter iin.to the j
perfect day, and after, under the hard ,1
hoors of calamity, all the pools of
worldly enjoyment have been trampled :
into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal 1
rock the christian, from cups of granite, ' J
lily rimmed and vine covered, put out
the thirst of his soul. i ' , -:
- T "ERE IS NO OTnen NAME.
Again I remark that Christ is above
all in dying alleviations. I have not
any Bympathy with the morbidity
abroad about our demise. The emperor
of Constantinople ai ranged that on the
day of his coronation the stonemason
should come ar d consult him about his
tombstone that after awhile he would
need. And there are men who are
monomaniacal on the subject of depart
ure from this life by death, and the
more they think of it the less they are
prepared to go. This is an unmanliness
not worthy of you, not worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his
day, while dying, ordered the tun c ho
bad on him to be carried after his death
on a spear at the head of his army, and
then the soldier, ever and anon, should
stop and say: "Behold, all that is left of
Saladin, the emperor and conqueror. Of
all the states he conquered, of all the
wealth he accumulated, nothing did he
retain but this shroud." I have no sym
pathy with such behavior or such absurd
demonstration or with much that we
Lear uttered in regard to departure from
ih'i life to the next The-.e is a com
monsensical idea on this subject that
rou and I need to consider that there
ire only two styles of departure.
A thousand feet underground by light
of torch, toiling in a miner's shaft, a
lodge of rock may fall upon us, and we
may die a miner's death. Far out te
sea, falling from the slippery ratlines
and broken on the halyards,' we may die J
a sailor s death. On mission of mercy'
In hospital, amid broken bones and reek
ing leprosies and raging fevers, we may
die a philanthropist s death. On the
Sold of battle, serving God and our
countrv, the gun carriage may roll over
us and we may die a patriot's death.
But, after all, there are only two styles
of departure; the death of the righteous
xnd the death of the wicked, and we all
want to die the former.
God grant that when that hour comet
vou may be at home! You want the
hand of your kindred in your hand
You want your children to surround
you. You "want the light on your pii
low from eyes that have long reflected
your love, You want the room stilL
You do not want any curious stranger
stunding around watching you. You
want your kindred from afar to
hear your last prayer. . I think
that is : tho wish of all of us.
lut is that all 7... Can earthly
friends hold us . when tho billows of
uvatn come up
human voico
mi's cate? Can
to the girdle? Can
charm ' open heav
hurnan hands pilot
through the narrows of death
into hcaveu's harbor? Can an earthly
lriendf-h ip shield iw from the arrows of
death and in the hour when catan shall
;irnct;ct) upon us his infernal archery?
'Sn, no, no no! Ala! poor 60ul, if that
.s .-ill. i cUer djo in tho vilde in es, fax
from tree shadow, and from fountair,
alono, vultures ciroling tlnough the ail
waiting ior our body, unknown to men,
and to have 'no burial if only Christ
could say through the solitudes, "I will
never leave thee, I Will never forsake
diee." From that nillow of atone a lad-
tor would soar heavenward, angels com
ing and going; and across the solitude
and the barrenness would ' come the
sweet notes or heavenly minstrelsy. ;
DEATH SWEET TO THE CHRISTIAN. '
Gordan Hall, far from home, dying in
the door of a heathen' temple, said,
Glory to thee, 0 God !" What did dy
ing Wilberforce eay to bis wife ? Como
and sit beside me and let us talk of
heaven. ' I never knew, what happiness
was until I found Chri-t" What did
dying Hannah More say? To go to
heaven, think what it is ! To go to
Christ,' who died that I might live! Oh,
glorious ' grave I Oil, ; what a glorious
thing it is to die! Oh, the love of
Christ; the love of Christ I" What did
Mr. Toplady,' the great hymn maker,
ay in his last hour? "Who can measure
the depth of the third heaven ? 01l
the sunshine that fills my soul ! I shall
tfoon be gone, for sure no one can live
in this world after auch glorios as God
has manifested to my soul." ,.
: What did the dying Faneway say? "I
can as easily die as close my eyes or turn
my head in sleep. Before a few hours
have passed 1 shall stand on Mount ion
with the one hundred and forty and
tour thousand, and with the just men
made perfect, and we shall ascribe
riches and honor aud glory and majesty
and dominion unto God and the Lamb.
Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at tho
take, on his way thither broke away
irom the guardsmen and went bounding
and leaping and jumping toward the
fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die tor
him. Mr Charles Hare, in his last mo
ment, had such rapturous vision that he
cried, "Upward, upward, upward ! "
And so great was the peace of one of
Christ's disciples that he put his fingers
upon the pulse in his wrist and counted
It and observed it, and so great was his
placidity that after awhile he said,
'Stopped," and his life had ended here
to begin in heaven. ' But grander than
that was the , testimony of the worn out
first missionary when in the Mamartine
dunseon he cried: "I am now readv to
be offered, and the time of my departure
is at hand. ' I have fought the good
fight, I have finished my course, 1 nave
kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown of righteousness
which the Lord, the righteous judge,
will give me in that day, and not to mo
only, but to all them that love bis ap
pearing I" Do you not see that Christ
Is above all in dying alleviations?
WK ARK HASTEN1NO TO THE GRAVE. ..
Toward the last hour 'of our earthly,
residence we are speeding. . When I see
the sunset I Bay, "One day leas to live."
When I see the. spring blossoms scat
tered I say, "Another season, gone. kr
ever." Wrhen . close this Bible on -Sabbath
night I Bay, "Another Sabbath de
parted. When .1 bury a friend I say,
"Another earthly attraction gone for
ever. What nimble feet tho years hayo !
The roebucks' and tbe lightnings run hot
to fast. From decade to decade, from
sky to sky they go at a bound. :
. There is & place for us, whether
marked or not, where you and'l will
sleep the last sleep, and the men arc
now living who will wi'h soloiuu tread
vorry us to our, lost resting place. r .Aye,
it is known in heaven " whether our de
parture will be a coronation or a ban
ishment. . Brighter than a banquetting
uall through which the light feet ot the
daucers go up and down to the sound of
trumpeters will be the sepulchers
through whose rifts the holy light of
heaven streameth. God wdl watch
you. He will send his angels to guard
Iour slumbering ground until at Christ's
ehest they 6hall roll away the stone.
So also Christ is above all in heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
the theme of the celestial ascription, all
the thrones facing his throne, all the
palms waved before his face.at the crowns
thrown down at his fect Cherubim to
chermbim, seraphim, to , seraphim, re
deemed spirit to redeemed spirit shall
recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of heaven
and in all the radiant sweep tho most
glorious object will be J esus. Myriads
gazing on the scars of h s Buffering, in
ailence first; 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 apostles, all the
happier for the shipwreck and the
scourging through which they went,
will say, "This is the . Jesus ! whom wo
preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia.
nd at Antioch, and at Jerusalem."
Little children - clad in" white will say, fc
Ihis is tbe Jesus who took us in his
arms and blessed us, and when tho
storms of the world were too cold and
loud brought us into this beautiful
place." The multitudesv ot ihe bereft
will say, "This ia the Jesus who com
forted us when pur heart broke." Many
who had wandered clear off from k God
and plunged into vagabondism, .. but
were saved by grace, will say : "This fs
the Jesus who pardoned -us,.., We wore
lost on the mountains, and he" brought
us home. We were guilty and he made
us white as snow." Mercy .boundless,
grace unparalleled. And-, then, v after
each one has recited hiskjeculiar deliv
erances and peculiar mercies, . recited
them as by solo, all the voioes will como
together in a great chorus, Which shall
make the arches echo and re echo, wilth
the eternal v reverberation, of i gladnbss ,
and peace and triumph ,i j ' ,
TO THE HOLY LAND.. ' ' -v V
9 Edward I. was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed S1G0.000 to have
his heart, after his decease, taken tb the
Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his re
quest was complied with. But there are
hundreds today whoso hearts are al
ready in the land of heaven. Where
your treasures are there are your hearts
also. John Bunyan, of whom I spoke at
the opening of the discourse, caught a
glimpse of that place, and In his; quaint
way ho said: "And 1 heard in . my
dream, and lo! the bells of the city
rang again for joy; and as they opened
the gates to let in the men I looked in
alter them, and lo! the city shone like
the Eun, and ther were street of gold,
and men walfeed on them, harpj in
their hands, to sing prawc3 with all;
and after that they shut up the gates,
which when I had seen I wished myself
amonatheml" .. !H'3-
MSN AND WOMEN.
Miss Annie Howard, of New' Orleans,
is the richest woman In Louisiana. .
Robert Shaw, of Brooklyn, owns the
, old gun with which Israel Putnam shot
the wolf,A . . f . , " 'I
It is assorted that there is now Living
in Massachusetts a direct descendant of i
Massasoiti' v ' i
Annie iBesant has 5 fed 120,000 poorf
school children in three years. If this is
theosophy, It is a good thing. "
Senator Hoar's beardless face, black
suit, white tie, and eyeglasses often cause
lum to be taken for a minister, r
( Judjre Cooler, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, is said to be "a gray
old shadow" of his former self, bo poor is
his health. - '
Dr. Martha Robinson,' of Cleveland, has
been her father's partner in dentistry for
. five years past, and the ,old gentleman
leaves all the difficult operations to her
especial care, . . . v
, The late Charles Pratt, of Brooklyn,
accumulated a fortune of $13,000,000, but
tbe work wore him out. His money gave
"him little or no pleasure.'. He didn't take
time to enjoy life, r- v
Jean Ingelow , Bays : "Nothing is , bo
'little worth while, even here, as being
religious by halves. It's not worth while
looking out for heaven on the whole, and
yet going as near the edge of hell as we
dare and as we can find footing.
A Sioux City evangelist who was for
merly a lawyer says ; "There is no use in
' talking; a man can't be honest and be a
' lawyer. I know tJiat to be so. A Iaw
yer goes in to win his case, and if he can't
do it by fair means he will by foul.
A daughter of Congressman Breckin
ridge, of Kentucky, having graduated
.with honors at Wellesley several years
: ago, has now taken up the study of law
in her father's office, having in the mean-
j time taught geometry and algebra in a
Washington school. , ,
t Little Wilhelmina, Holland's child
queen, is said to be the richest heiress in
the world. She is. an intelligent little
girl, and speaks four languages with
; fluency, and a constant effort is made by
those about her to preserve her natural
, ingenuity and childish simplicity.
:4 General Kosecrans, the Register of the
Treasury,' is remarkably vigorous at 71
years. He breakfasts every morning at
7 o clock, reaches his desk by 0 o clock,
and remains there hard at work until
o clock, -; The bulk of his salary goes, to
old soldiers and other needy claimants on
his chanty. . . .
; A direct descendant of Miles, Standish,
Miss Clara Langdon Woodward,:, of
Chicago, who was recently married to
Mr. Chamberlain; has in her possession
some of the tea the Bostomans tried to
throw into Boston Bay, an easy chair 800
years old, and a number of other interest
ing historical relics. ;v,
S. M , Bell, who, over CO years ago, waa
the Abolition candidate - for Vice Presi
dent, is preparing for his own cremation
and the burial of his ashes. He is 79
years old, aud for over a decade has been
attached to the Pension Office, being now
recorder. lie is in good health, but he
has ordered two urns for hfa ashes a
rough one of crockery and a finer one of
glass.
The Empress Elisabeth of Austria in
having her palace built at Corfu is pru
dently providing against the chance of
her dowagerhood, because upon the death
of her husband' she becomes a mere
cipher, and court life will know ' her no
'more. vThe empress is said to resemble
in a remarkable , degree, both physically
and mentally, her unfortunate cousin the
late King Lud wig, of Bavaria, - ''
GRAINS OV GOLD.
Time Is an inaudible file. Italian.
One foe is too many, and a hundred
friends too few, .". .
No one can be taught faster than he
can learn. Anon.
You can speak well if your tongue de
liver the message of your heart. '
Grant us, O Lord, food for to-day and
faith for to-morrow. Van Doren.
T Truth is the foundation of all knowl
edge and the cement -ef all societies. -
According (to 'Rir-AfA-, ,the present is
your eternity, anf nr abandons you.
Be firm! one constat element in lack
- Is genuine, eolld, old Teutonic pluck. . ,
' . a , , --tUolmes. ;
" Of four things every man has more
than he knows of sins, of debts, of
years, and of .foes. Persian.
The man who is amiable will make al
most as many friends as he does acquain
tances. Lord Chester field. . i .
Death is a black camel which kneels at
every man's gate to take up the burden
of a coffin there. -Turkish.
Thou shalt sooner detect an ant 'mov
ing in the dark nighfon the black earth
than all the motions of pride in thine
heart Persian. t ;
Study gives strength to the mind ; 'con
versation grace. The first is apt to give
stiffness, the other gives suppleness.
Sir William Temple, u
T "A fool, unless he knows Latin, is never
a great foot " An exquisitely witty prov
erb on learned folly as the most intoler
able of all follies. Spanish, , ;
J Diogenes, treading under, his feet a
"rich carpet of Plato's, exclaimed, "Thus
I trample on the ostentation of Plato. "
"With an ostentation of thine own," was
the retort. - '
. The highest art is always the most relig
ious, and the greatest artist' is always a
devout man. A scoffing. "Raphael ox
Michael Angelo is . inconceivable.
Blackie. ' ' . ' .
. To those who are employed and busy,
time flies with great rapidity. Life is
tedious only to the idle. Nothing is
more monotonous) than the ticking of
1 the clock to him who has notldng to do
but to listen to It.
" " There is no more universal character
istic of human nature, says Russell Low
ell, than the instinct of men to apologize
to themselves for themselves and to jus
tify personal failings by generalizing
them into universal laws.
Many 4 worthy preacher has
trousers that bagged at the knee,
worn
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