Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-30
IN FAMOUS LONDON.
DR.. TALMAGE GREETED BY A
MIGHTY THRONG.
His First Sermon Heard by Many
Thousand People--"Ye Are Bought
with q Price" For O Text.

LONDON, England. June 26, 1892.-An enor-
nous audience greeted DR.. Talmage In this
city to-day composed OF people who had come
from all parts of the British metropolis TO
hear the famous American preacher. His re-
ception in England has been most enthusiastic.
Many letters were awaiting him from different
cities eagerly pleading for visit The Doctor
will have to preach five or six times week IL
he accepts even small percentage OF the ur-
gent invitations ALREADY sent 10 him. He is
very much gratifed by the extreme cordality
of his reception. DR.. Talmage entities his SER
mon, The Immense Cost" from the text, 1.
Cor. 8 - aye are bought with price"
Your friends takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grass-plots,
the fish-ponds, the Conservatives, the
parks of deer, and you say within
yourself or you say aloud: What did
all this cost?" You see costly dia-
mond flashing in an earring, or you
hear Il costly dress rustling across the
drawing-roon, or fou see a high
mettled span of horses harnessed with
silver and gold, and you begin to make
an estimate of the value.
The man who owns large estate
cannot instantly tell you all it is worth.
lie says: II will estimate so much for
the house, so much for the furniture,
SO much for laying out the grounds, so
much for the stock, so much for the
barn, SO much for the equipage-add-
ing UP in all making this aggregate"
Well, my friends, | hear so much
about our mansion in heaven, about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that | want to know how much it is all
worth, and what has actually been
paid for it. | cannot complete in a
month nor year the magnificent cal
culation, but before | get through to-
day | hope to give you the figures.
"Ie are bought with II price"
With some friends | went to your
Tower to look ut the crown jewels.
We walked around, caught one glimpse
OF them, and being in the procession
we're compelled to pass out | wish
that could take this audience into the
tower of Gods mercy and strength,
that you might walk around just once,
at least, and see the crown jewels of
eternity, behold their brilliancy, and
estimate their value. aye are bought
with prize"
Now if you have large amount of
money to pay, you do not pay it all at
once, but you pay it by installments-
so much the first of January, so much
the first of April, so much The first of
,lu'v, so much the first of October, until
the entire amount is paid. and | have
to tell this audience that you have
been bought with a price" and that
price was paid in different installments
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the igno-
| miniOus birth o. 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 atten'
| tions. 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
| hive to tell you that in the
village on the side of the hill
! there was very bedlam of uproal
when Jesus was born. In n village
capable of accommodating only a few
| hundred people, many thousand people
were crowded; and amid hostlers and
muleteers and camel-drivers yelling al
stupid beasts of burden the Messiah
appeared. No silence. No privacy
A better adapted place hath the eaglet
in the eyrie-hath the whelp in the
lions lair. The exile of heaven lietl
down upon straw. The first night out
from the palace of heaven spent
In an clubhouse! One hour after laying
! aside the robes of heaven, dressed in 6
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 Il
Caesars palace, then to merchant:
castle in Galilee, then to private
home in Bethany, then to fisherman
hut, and last of all TO n stable. No
1t was one leap from the top to the
bottom.
Let us open the door of the caravan,
sary in Bethlehem and drive away tn,
l
of idlcrs and loungers. What, o Mary
no light? mo light" she says, 'savt
that which comes through the door.
What, Mary! no food? None" she
says "only that which was brought in
the sack on the journey" Let the
Bethlehem woman who has come il
here with kindly intentions put bacl
the covering from the babe that we
may look upon it. Look! Look! Tn
cover your head. Let us kneel. Lee
all voices be hushed. Son of Mary
Son of God. Child of n day
Monarch of eternity! In that eye the
glance of God. Omnipotence sheathet
in that Babes arm. That voice TO bC
changed from the feeble plant to TIL,
tone that shall wake the dead
Hosanna! Hosanna! Glory be to Goo
that Jesus came from throne to mangeI
that we might rise from manger t.
throne, and that all the gates are open
and that the door of heaven, that once
swung this way to let Jesus out, nov
swings the other way to let us in. Ii
all the bellmen of heaven lay hold tn,
rope and ring out the news: "Behold
/ bring you glad tidings of great joy
which shall be to all people: for to-da.
is born in the city of David Savior
which is Christ the Lord.'
The second installment paid for on
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania, a mountainous region, full o
caverns, where there are to this da.
panthers and wild beasts of all sorts
so that you must now go there arme'
with knife, or gun, or pistol 1t wa
there that Jesus went to think and u
pray, and it was there that this monste
of hell-more sly, more terrific, tina
anything that prowled in that countr.
Satan himself, met Christ.
The rose in the cheek of Christina
Publius Lentullus, in his letter to tn
Roman Senate, ascribed to Jesus-tha
rose had scattered its petals. Abstiu
ence from food had thrown him int
emaciation. A long abstinence iron
food recorded in profane history is tina
of the crew of the ship Juno; TO
.l.oo Ia,,S tbau had not hipor 4