Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-05-14
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE PREACHING TO
SEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE.
After Baptizing infants with Water from
the Jordan, He piscoursos on
the subject, "Iuyitation
to Welding"

Holy festivities to-day. We gather other
sheayes INTO the spiritual garner. our joy
! Is like the Joy OF heaven. spread the ban
quet, fill all the chalicGS. We are not TO-
day at the funeral OF II dca!l Christ; we are
| celebrating the marriage OF the Kings son.
| 1t was an exciting time in English his
| tory when Queen Elizabeth visited Lord
! Leicester at kenilwOrtn Castle The clocks
| In all the towers and throughout the castle
were stopped at the moment OF her arrival,
so continuing TO point to that moment rs
| the one SURPRISING all Others in interest.
| The door Of the great bauqucting hall was
| opened. The queen marched IN TO tho
sound OF the trumpcts. Four hun
dred servants wait0l upon the guests. 1t
was scene that astOnIShGi all nations when
they heard OF it. Five thousand dollars 4
! day did the banquet cost us It went OF day
! after day. She was greeted to the palace
gates with floating islands, anl torches and
/ the thundcrs OF cannOA, ami ircWOrks thL4
| set the night aOlaZc, and burst OF music
! that lifted the whole scene into Cuchant-
ment. Beginning IN that way, il went on
from Joy to JOY, and from excitement 10
excitement, and from rapture to rapture
| That was the great banquet that Lord Lei
ceStcr spread IN Wentworth Castle.
Cardinal WOlsey entertained the French
ambassadors in Hampton Court. The best
cooks of all the land provided for the table.
/ nt SutolS NtIG hfIA Hll'itI5 ia bhb I'Al NJ
nil the day, so that their appetttcS might DO
keen, and then in the evening hour they
were shown into the Ganquetm% hall, with
table aglttter with imperial plate,
and ablaSn with the very costliest
wines aud the second course OF TIE
feast was made OF food in all shapes of
men and birds and beasts, end dancing
groups, and jou,ting parties rtGing upon
each other with up!iftrd lancCs.
But to-day, my brothers and sisters, in
wife you to grandcr entertainment. Ny
Lord, the King, is the banqueter. Angels
Of God are the cupbearers, all the redeemed
are the guests; the halls of eternal love
frescoeG with light and paved with Joy,
and curtaned with uafadmg beauty are tho
banqueting place, the harmonles OF eternity
are the music, the chaliccS OF God are the
plate, and | am one of the servants come
out with invitations to all the people, and.
oh, that you may break the seal OF the iuvl-
tatOn and read in ink OF blood, and with the
trcmulous hand Of a dying ChriSt: "COalc,
come, for all things are now ready
Illustrating my text | 20 On and in the
first place say that the Lord Jesus Christ IS
ready. Cardinal WolScy dld not come into
the banqueting hail until the second course
OF the feast, aud when lie entered booted
and spurred, all the guests arose and
Cheered HIM; but | have 10 tell YOU HAT
our banqucter, tile Lord Jesus Christ comes
in at the beginning OF the feast. Az, lie has
been waiting for his glests, waiting for
some OF them 1891 years, waiting with man
gled feet, waiting with hand on the pune
iuTCd side, waiting with haEi on the lHCcr-
hted temples, waiting, Waiting! Wonder 1t
j. that the hanQueter did not weary and say:
'Shut the door and let the laggards stay out
No. he has been waiting. How much he
is in earnest! Shall show you? | gather
up all the tears that Hooded his cheek III
kympathy, all the blood that channcled his
lrOy and h0Ci, and hand and fnDt N mr..
chase our redemption. gather up all the
grOans coming from midnight chill and
mountain hunger and desert loneliness, and
put them into one bitter cry gather up
all tho pangs that shot from cross and
kpike and spear, INTO one groan-I take one
drop OF sweat on his brow, and | put It
under the glass OF the Gospel, and it en-
larges to lakes OF sorrow, to oceans OF
agony. That Christ today, emArittGd and
worn and weary, comes here, and with Il
pathoS in which every word is heartbreuk
and every sentence Il martyrIOm, lie says to
you and he says to me: Come, come, for
all things are now rcAly.'
Ahasuerus made a feast that lasted $50
days. This lasts forever Lords and princes
were invited 10 that. You and | are ill.,
vited to this. Yes, he has been waiting, he
IS waiting now. Other kings wrap them
selves in robes OF beauty ant power before
/ they come INTO a banquet. SO does Christ.
s. Tho o,nriro,a't s,I,,,o,\, tIi o,,n,,ad IIi''
ewes aud Strengthened crooked limbs aud
hoisted the pillars Of heaven, and swung
tile twelve gates which are twelve paris.
ON. what Il Christi Christ of beauty. a
Christ Of power. There are not enough
cups on earth TO dup up this ocean
OF beauty. There are not ladders TO
scale these heights Of love.
All. there Is one wCrl Of five letters that
] would like to write; but | have no sheet
far enough to write II on, and no pencil
good enough to in,cribe It. give me u sheet
from the heavenly records, and some pencil
used by angel IN describing Il victory, and
then, with hand struck by supernatural