Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-05
THE ROYAL EXILE.
Coming Down from the Great White Throne
to a Barren Island ia the Ocean
: --r- of the Universe '.,
ON A MISSION OF LOVE AND MERCY.

Wv HioSION VI LSSI ANU mInSI'
Special 10 ae Regiser.
BROOKLYN. March 4-Dr. Talmage, this
morning, expounded passage in the life
Of Christ, opening hymn:
Oh, could speak the matchless worth,
Oh, could l sound the gloTies forth,
Which in my savior shine: '.
Sabjeet: "The Royal Exile.r
TKxr-Isaiah liv: Surely he hath
borne onr griefs and carried our sorrowan
Far up and far back in the history of
heaven there came period when its most
iilustrious citizens was about to absent
himself. He was not going to sail from
one beach to another beach. Most Of rs
have done that, nor from one hemisphere
to another-many of us have done that, but
to push out from one world to another
world the spaces all unexplored, the i'm
mensities all untrayelled. No other world
had ever hailed heaven and heaven had
never hailed another world. I think oil
the windows and balconies were filled with
Spectators and the city walls in the opa.
line beach were crowded with those who
had come down to see Christ, sail out OF the
harbor Of light into the oceans beyond.
Out ana OUT anu OUT anu on dDu on ano
on and down and down and down, he sped
till one night with only one to meet him,
the celestial visitant arrived. 30 unob-
served and so quiet and so unpretentious
the disembarcation, that the earth knew
nothing Of il till from the excitement In
the clouds, the Bethlehem rustics got:i ntima.
tion that something great and glorious had
happened. Who goes there? From what
port did he sail? Why this the place Of
bis destination? Iquestion the shepherds.
| question the angels. question the cam.
ell drivers. Iquestion him. have found
out he was an exile! Not the only exile
the world has seen! Kosciusko was an ex-
lie from Poland. Mszzini was an exile
from Rome. Robert Emmett was an exile
from Ireland. Victor Hugo was an exile
from France. Kossuth was an exile from
Hungary. Abraham was an exile from Ca
naan. John was an exile from Ephesus.
But this one of whom speak, started with
such resounding farewell and arrived amid
such dark and chilling reception-for not
so much as hostler went out with Ian.
tern to let him in-was more to be celebra-
ted than any ether expstriated one Of earth
or heaven.
First, he was
An Imperial Exile.
He got down off of throne. He took Off
tiara. He closed behind him palace
gate. All his family were princes and
princesses. Yacht was burned out OF the
throne-room by Ahssuerus. David was
dethroned by Absalom's infamy. The five
Kings were flung into the cavern by
Joshua's courage. Some OF the Henrys OF
England and the Louis OF France were
jostled on their thrones by disseminated
subjects. But Christ was never more hon
ored or beloved or popular in Heaven than
on the day he exiled himself. Australian
exile has been severe for English criminals.
Siberian exile has been severe for Russian
offenders. But Christ turned himself out
from throne-room TO sheep pen, down from
the top to the bottom. Not pushed off or
manacled for safe transportation or put out
as though he were no longer wanted in the
celestial domain, but by choice departing
and descending into exile five times longer
than that of Napoleon at st. Helena and a
thousand times more agonizing, the
former of these eIiles destroying nations,
but the latter saving'a world,
Again, Christ was an exile
On Barren Island.
Our world was one OF the smallest islands
in all the oceans OF immensely. Some OF
the other stellar Kingdoms hundreds OF
thousands of times larger than ours, but
He chose this small. ..Patmos OF world for
exile. When men have been banished tn ey
have generally been sent to some rocky OF
cold or sandy place, some dry Tortugis OF
disagreeableness. Christ exiled Himself TO
a world which has scorching heats and Bit
ing colds and simeon swept deserts and
bowling wildernesses. II IS one OF the
back -door-yards OF the universe. Yea, He
came to one OF the poorest parts OF this
island of a world. Asia Minor has such
intense summers that foreigners do. not
dare to stop there, and when the rainy sea-
son comes il is unit for resi-
dence. To no such land as
America or England or France or
Germany did Christ come but TO land
third of the time burnt up and third OF
the time drowned and only one.third tol.
ersble. 1t was barren island OF a world,
for what did il yield that Christ wanted?
But little grutitude, but small worship and
no adequate affection, on all its surface
nothing worth celestial embassshor? Yes,
He was an exile in q hostile country
Turkey is not so much against Russia, Ger.
many 10 not so much against Brance rs this
world was against Christ. 1t took Him in
through door OF = stable and drove Him
out OF it with the point OF spear. Roman
government against Him with every bayo-
net Of her army and every decision OF her
courts and every besk of her war esSies.
The one question for years after Christ
came in was which was the best way
To Pat Him Out.
Herod hated Him. Pharisees hated Him.
Chief Priests hated Him. Judas Iscariot
hated Him. Gestas, the dying thief, hated
Him. The whole world turned itself into
a detective to watch His steps, but He faced
this hostility. He died with His face to the
foe, and the palms nailed were open to the
last with benediction. No wound on His
back save by the scourges. His chief
wounds were in front. He was not on the
retreat when He expired, but face to face
with the worlds hostility; face TO face With
the worlds sin; face TO face with the worlds
woe. With His eyes wide open on raging
countenances OF His foaminR antagonists,
He expired. When the cavalry officer row.
elled his horse to get near enough TO catch
the tortured expression OF the suffering ex-
lie, Christ noticed it When the spear was
aimed for the side and the hammer was
lifted for the foot, and the rod was raised 10
drive deeper down the spikes Of thorns
Christ looked at the whole procedure.
When the nails had been driven fully home
and the large round iron head Of them
touched the middle Of the hand, He saw
it as plainly as you ever saw anything in
the palm Of your hands His head was not
fastened, and He could look TO the right
and to the left, and look up and look down.
With no ether. or chloroform, or merciful
anesthetic to dull and stupefy, but with
wide awake faculties He saw all the obscur-
alton of the Heavens, the unbalancing OF
| the rocks, the human faces quiyering with
| hate, and the cacchinu alton diabolic. Oh,
| What hostile land for the Royal Exilel
1t was exile that he knew would
| End I'm AssassiBsti0u.
| Holman Hunt, the master painter, ha,
made picture Of Christ 10 His Nnirene
I Carpenter shop. Around him are all the
saws and hammers and drills aud axe, OF
carpentry. Christ is represented ~ riHny
from the working bench aod Hsarily
stretching cut his arms as one will after
| long sitting In contracted or uncomforta-
bic posture, and the light OF the picture Is
| so arranged that as Christ stretches out
His arms, they, with the rest OF His body.
throw on the ground the shadow OF across!
| Ny friends, that shadow was on everything
| in Christ's lifetime. Shadow OF cross on
the swsddling clothes OF Bethlehem.
Shadow OF cross on the road along which
the three fugitives fed to Egypt. ShadoS