The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-03

utmost by fashionable and refined as
semblage, who had come to listen 10 the
reverend gentleman's eloquent words Of
wisdom. The opening hymn, commence
ing,
Come let us join our friends above,
Who have obtained the prize"
Being rendered, the lecture was begun
as follows:
SUBgEcT: "BoUGHT Our"
Text; l. Corinthians, vi. 20 -"Ye are
bought with price,"
Your friend takes you through his val
liable house. You examine the arches,
the fresCo, the grass plots, the fish-ponds,
the conservatories, the parks of deer, and
you say within yourself or you say aloud,
"What did all this Cost?" You see cost
ly diamond flashing in an ear ring, or you
hear a costly dress rustling across the
drawing-room, or you see high,mettled
span of horses harnessed with silver and
gold, and you begin to make an estimate
of the value. The man who owns a large
estate can not instantly tell you all it is
worth, He says, Il will estimate so much
for the house, so much for the furniture,
30 much for laying out the grounds, so
much for the stock, so much for the barn,
30 much for the equipage-adding up in
all making this aggregate"
Well my friends, l hear 80 much about
our mansion in heaven, about its furni.
ture and the grand Surroundings, that l
want to know how much it is all worth
and what has actually been paid for it.
l can not complete in month nor year
the magnificent calculation, but before
get through to-day hope to give youth
figures. "Ye are bought with price,"
With some friends went into London
Tower to look at the Crown jewels of
England. We walked around, caught
one glimpse of them, and, being in the
procession, were compelled to pass out.
wish | could take this audience into the
tower of Gods mercy and strength, that
you might walk around just once, at least,
and see theCrown jewels of eternity, be-.
hold their brilliance and estimate their
value. "Ye are bought with price,
Now, if you have large amount OF mon
ey to pay, you do not pay it all at once
but you pay it by installments-so much
the 1st Of January, so much the 1st of
April, so much the first OF July, so much
the 1st of October. until the entire amount
is paid. And 1 have to tell this audi
ence that "you have been bought with
price" and that that price was paid in
different installments.
The first installnent paid for the clear
anCe of our souls was the ignominious
birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though
we may never be carefully looked after
afterward. our advent into the world is
carefully guarded We come into the
world amid kindly attentions Privacy
and silence are afforded when God
launches an immortal soul into the
world. Even the toughest of men know
enough to stand back. But l have to
tell you that in the village on the side of
the Hill, there was very bedlam of up.
roar when Jesus was born. In village
capable of accommodating only a few
hundred people many thousand people |
were crowded and amid hostlers and
mulesers and camel drivers yelling at
stupid beasts of burden the Messiah ap
peared. No silence; no privacy. A bet
ter adapted place hath the eaglet in the
eyrie-hath the whelp in the lions lair. |
the exile of heaven lieth down upon the |
straw. The first night out from the pal.
lace of heaven spent in an out. house,
hours after laying aside the robes of
heaven, dressed in wrapper of coarse |
linen. One would have supposed that |
Christ would have made more gradual |
descent, coming from heaven first to |
halfway world Of great magnitude, then |
to Caesars palace, then to merchants
castle in Galilee, then to private home |
in Bethany, then to fsherman's hut,
and last of alto stable Mol 1t was |
one leap from the top to the bottom.
Let rs open the door of the caravan
sary in Bethlehem aud drive away the
Camels. Press on through the group Of
idlers and loungers. What, oh, Mary, |
no light2 "No light" she says, save |
that which comes through the door -
What, Mary, no food? "None," she |
says, "only that which is brought in the |
sack on the journey" Let the Bethle.
hem woman who has come in here with
kindly attentions nJ back the covering |
from the babe, that we may look upon
it. Look Look Uncover your head.
Let us kneel. Let all voices be hushed. |
Son of Mary Son of Ged Child of a
day-monarch Of eternity! In that eye
the glance of a God. 0mnipotence
sheathed in that babes arm. That voice
to be changed from the feeble plant to
the tone that shall wake the dead Ho-
sanna Hosanna Glory be to God |
that Jesus came from throne to manger
that we might rise from manger to
throne, and that all the gates are open,
and that the door of heaven, that once
swung this way to let Jesus out, now
swings the other wsy to let us in. Let
all the bellmen of heaven lay hold the
rope and ring out the news, Behold, l
bring you glad tidings of great Joy, which
shall be to all people; for to. day is born,
in the City of David Savior which is
Christ the Lord"
Ano 5eConu lhsIalllneuG palu IOf our |
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-.
antania, mountainous region, full of
CaVerns where there are to this day PAN
theirs and wild beasts Of all sorts, 30 that
you must now, the traveller says, go there
armed with knife or gun or pistol. 1t
was there that Jesus went to think and
to pray, and it was there that this mon
ster of hell-more sly, more terrific than
anything that prowled in that country
Satan himself, met Christ The rose in
the cheek Of Christ-that Publius Len
tullus, in his letter TO the Roman Senate,
asCribed to Jesus-that rose had scatter
ed its petals. Abstinence from food had
thrown him into emaCiation. The long
est abstinence from food recorded in
profane history is that OF the crew Of the