The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-02
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Sermon by the Rev. I. De Witt
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From the new York Herald .

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From the new York Herald.
Mr.. Talmage preached in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle from the text
l. Corinthians, vi, 2O:-" Ye are
bought with a price" Your friend,
said Mr.. Talmage. asks you to visit
his house aud grounds and you i'm.
mediately ask or you say within
yourself, " What did all this costF
The ewner of vast estate may not
be able Immediately to tell you what
it all cost. Now we hear a great
deal said about our mansion in
heaven. I want to know what it is
worth. 1 want to k~ov what was
paid for 1t. IF you b. q large sum
of money to pay you do not pay
it all at once, but in installments. l
have to tell you this morning that
the price paid for your salvation was
not paid all at once, but in magnif.
cent installments. ....
The first installment paid for your
soul clearance was the ignominious
birth Of Christ. The first night away
from the palaces of heaven spent in
an clubhouse He, who only little
while before had worn the robes Of
heavenly dominion, now dressed in
a coarse wrapper of linenl One
would have supposed that Christ
would have made gradual descent TO
our world. But no; it was one leap
from top to bottom. Glory be to
God that Christ came from the
throne to the manger that we might
rise from the manger to the throne
and that all the gates of heaven
we're huag open, and that the door
of heaven, which swung this way to
let Jesus out, now swings the aother
way to let us In.
The second instalment paid was
the scene in Quarantania, a mou3:
tain region full of caverns. 1t was
in that region that Christ went to
think and pray and there He was
tempted. Then the devil took
Christ on the pinnacle of the Tenn
pie. Sometimes people at great
heights are seized with dizziness
and are tempted to jump off. 1t was
at that time that a great temptation
came to Christ. "Now," says Sa-
tan to Christ, Jump Off The angels
will catch you. 1t won't hurt" He
promised to give Christ all the king
doms of the earth. He lied. He
had not foot Of ground in all the
world. He never has had aad never
will have. Gaughter.) But see the
humiliation 10 which Christ was sub
jected. Christ has been tempted
and Christ will help you bear the
storm. o ye tempted sons and
daughters of men, take courage!
The third instaIment for our souls
clearance was the sham trial of
Christ. There never was anything
so unfair or indecent enacted in the
Tombs Police Court as the trial Of
Christ. At two O'Clock in the morn
ing they hustled Him into the court
reom, giving Him no time to employ
counsel or subpoena witnesses.
Christ's friends were sober men and
were asleep at that hour. The whole
trial is farce, lasting, perhaps, for
one hour. and then the Judge rises
to give sentence, Ye who are suf-
fering from the injustices of men,
you have divine sympathizer.
The fourth great instalment was
The demise of Christ. The darkest
day since the creation of the world
was when the carnage of Calvary
was enacted. The Lord Jesus adj.
dresses you this morning with a
voice charged with infinite suffering
and He asks you to come. Will
you come and get the advantage Of
this salvation? One and all, 1 In
vite you to come.