The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-14
SUBJECT OF THE DISCOURSE,
"INVITATION TO y WE'D
DING.n
All Things are Ready.--WiIl you
Conner Jesus Asks You. the ho-
IySpirit Asks You, the Church
Asks You.
ARE YOU READY ?--THEN COME.

BROOKLYN. naV H. lHteISSauiS |
ceremony was performed this morning
In the RrnokIyn tabernacle before the
sermon was preached. A number OF
infants who had been brought there by
their parents We're baptized. The water
used was some of that which was
brought by Dr. Talmage from the river
Jordau The main auditorium of the
tabernacle and the adjoining rooms
were crowded by an audience of seven
thousand persons. The subject of DIR.
Talmage's sermon was, Invitation to
Wedding" and the text Luke xiv, IL,
"Come, for all things are now ready"
HOLY FESTIVITIES.
Holy festivities today. We gather
other sheaves into the spiritual garner.
Our Joy is like the Joy of heaven.
Spread the banquet, fill all the chalices.
We are not today at the funeral of q
dead Christ; we are celebrating the
marriage of the Kings son.
1t was an exciting time in English
history when Queen Elizabeth visited |
Lord Leicester at Kenilworth castle. |
The clocks in all the towers and through |
out the castle were stopped at the mo- |
1nent of her arrival, so continuing to |
point to that moment as the one SUI
| passing all others in interest.
The doors of the great banqueting
hall was.opened. The queen marched
| in to the5sound of the trumpets. Four
hundred servants waited upon the
| guests. 1t was q scene that astonished
all nations when they heard of it. Five
thousand dollars a day did the banquet
cost as it went on day after day. She
was greeted to the palace gates with
floating islands, and torches, and the
thunders OF cannon, and fireworks that
set the night ablaze, and burst of
music that lifted the whole scene into
enchantment. Beginning In that way
it went on frcn, joy to JOY, and from
excitement to excitement, and from
rapture to rapture That was the great
banquet that Lord Leicester spread in
Kenilworth castle.
i. Cardinal Wolsey entertained the
French ambassadors in Hampton court.
The best cooks of all the land provided
for the table The guests were kept
) hunting in theparl1s all the day, SO that
their appetites might be keen, and then
in the evening hour they were shown
into the banqueting hall, with table
a-glitter with imperial plate, and
a-blush with the verycostliest wines, and
: the second course of the feast twas made
of food in all shapes, of men and birds
, and beasts, and dancing groups, and
9 jousting parties riding upon each othel
> with rlT1ifted lances. Lords and princes
y and ambassadors. their. cups cleaning
f to the 'bri1n. drank first to the health O.
the king of England, and then to th'
= health of the emperorrof France. Tha
@ was the banquet that: Cardinal Wolse.
,, spread in Hampton court.
= A GRAND ENTERTAINMENT.
: But today. my brothers and sisters,
0 | invite you to g2ander entertainment
g NY Lord the King is the banqueter
l. angels of God are the cupbearers, a
r the redeemed are the guests; the hall
IS of eternal 'love frescoed with light an
- paved with Joy and curtained with ur
e fading beauty are the barsQuetIng place
"a the harmonies Of eternity'are the music
le thechahces of God are the plate, and
q am one. of the servants come out wit
- invitations to all the people, and ol
~ that YOU might break the seal of tt
- invitation and read in ink of blood an
with the tremufous hand Of dyir
Christ, Come. come, for all things al
now ready
l,oT-o hcaoYl fpraaf. hi
appointments at q banquet. The vii
has given out, or the servants have be'
rebellious. or the lights have faile
but walk. all around the banqueti1
lr. table of my Lord today, and l til
Oh everythin 6 complete, and l swing OPP
zee the door of this banquetng house a
"a say, '-All things are now ready"
W Inust ,ating my text I.go on, and
~ 49, the firsi; place say that the Lord Jes
p, Chr;stsis ready. Cardinal Wolsey
81 not come into the banquetiIsg hall
iss til the. second course of the feast,
;tb wlfenshe entered booted and spurrs
~ all the guests arose and cheered hl
r but I have to tell you that our b
re: uueter, the Lord Jesus Christ, comes
Ter at the beginning of the feast. Ay,
has been waiting: for his.guests, wait
the for some of them 1891 years, wait
cut with man gled feet, waiting with hs
:. on the prsnctured side, waiting "
hand OF. the lacerited temples, watt
t1E waiting.
Wonder it is that the banqueter
not get weary and.say, shut the d
vo- and letsthe laggards stay out" No
)ud has been waiting. How;much he i
ady earnest, Shall.I show you? Lga'
gse- up all the tears that flooded hissch
ar I'm. sympathy, all the blood that CT
, ,i.n rseied his brow and back and hand
% foot, to- purchase our redemption
a. gather .up all theTgroans'ce'ming I
o midnight chill and d.mountain.hung
desert Loneliness, and put tn EN- into
IN bitter cy-I gatherrup all the pangs
orb shot from cross andSpike and, spear
cto- one gro an take one drop { # swes
ish- his brow, andI put it unde' theei
cal. of thesgospel, and it enlarg IS toll
ase. of sonow, TO oceans of ago ny. :
and Christi today, emat.iated and worn
orn- weary, comes here, and wild a pa
late in which every word is b ear5o
It to and every sentence marty TdoE
0rk- saystto you and lne says to me. C
per- come; for all th' 'mgs are now eady
was. AIiasuerus ms .de a feast 81 at