Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-27
THE IMMENSE COST.
DR.. TALMAGE SPEAKS OF THE PRICE
OF SALVATION.

The Popular Preacher Is Cordially Re
ceived In England-He Addresses nj
Immense Congregation IN London-Th
Cost OF Our Mansion in Heaven.
LONDON, June 26.-An enormous au
dience greeted DR.. Talmage in this city
today, composed of people who bad come
from all parts of the British metropolis
to hear the famous American preacher
His reception in England has been most
enthusiastic. Many letters were await.
ing him from different cities eagerly
pleading for a visit. The doctor Will
have to preach five or six times we k if
he accepts even small percentage Of the
urgent invitations already sent to him.
He is very much gratifed by the extreme
cordiality of his reception. DR.. Talmage
entities his sermon The Immense Cost
from the text, Corinthians vi. 20, ''Ye
are bought with a price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grassplots, the
fishponds, the conservatories. the parks
of deer, and you say within yourself or
you say aloud. "What did all this
costT' You see a costly diamond flash
ing in an earring, 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 large estate can
not instantly tell you all it is worth He
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 quipage-adding
up in all making this aggregate.
Well, my friends, | hear 50 much
about our mansion in heaven, about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that want to know how much it 10 all
worth and what has actually been paid
for it. | cannot complete in month
nor year the magnificent calculation,
but before get through today hope to
give you the figures. ''Ye are bought
with price
With some friends | went to your
Tower to look at the crown jewels. We
walked around, caught one glimpse of
them, and being in the procession were
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 brilliance and estimate
their value. "Ye are bought with a
price"
THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.
Now if you have a 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 July,
SO much the first of October, until the
entire amount is paid, and have to tell
this audience that ''yoa have been
bought with price," and that that
price was paid in different installments.
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the igno-
minious 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 at
tentions. Privacy and silence are af-
forded when God launches an immortal
soul into the world. Even the toughest
of men know enough to stand back.
But have to tell you that in the vii
lage on the side of the hill there was
very bedlam Of uproar when Jesus was
born.
In village capable of accommodating
only few hundred people many thou
sand people were crowded, and amid
hostlers and muleteers and camel driv-
ers yelling at 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
lieth 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 a
wrapper Of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would have
made more gradual descent, coming
from heaven first to half way world of
great magnitude, then TO Caesars pal
ace, then to merchants castle in Cali
lee, then to private home in Bethany,
then to fisherman's hut, and last of all
to a 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 the
camels. Press on through the group of
idlers and loungers. What, oh, Mary!
no lightp mo light" she says. "save
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 Beth
lehem woman who has come in here
with kindly attentions put back the COW
ering from the babe that we may look
upon it. Lookl Look! Uncover your
head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be
hushed. Son of Mary! Son of God!
Child Of n day-monarch of eternity!
In that eye the glance of God Om-
Impotence sheathed in that babes arm.
That voice to be changed from the fee
BILE plant to the tone that shall wake
the dead. Hosanna! Hosannal
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 way to
let us in. Let all the bellmen of heaven
lay hold the rope and ring out the news,
Behold. bring You glad tidings of
great Joy, which shall be TO all people;
for today is born in the city of David a