The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-08
BOUGHT WITHOUT PRICE.
DR.. Talnage breaches to a Large
London Audience.
A Thrilling Picture of the Price of Mans
Redemption-The Great Cost Was
Paid by the Suffering and Death
of the Saviour.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, the great
in Europe. The first Sunday after his
arrival in London he was greeted with
an immense congregation and by invita-
ton of Rev. Joseph Barker preached in
his temple upon the subject, THE I'm
mense Cost" His text was from L Cor
inthians vi, 20: "Ye are bought with a
| price" DR.. Talmage said:
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grass plots, the
| fish ponds, the conservatories, the parks
of deer. and you say within yourself or
you say aloud: what did all this
cost?" You see costly diamond fash
ing in an earring or you hear 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
cannot instantly tell you all it is worth
| He says: 81 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-adding
Up in all making this aggregate"
Well, my friends, l hear so much
bout our mansion in Heaven, about its
1rniture and the grand surroundings,
chat want to know how much it is all
worth and what has actually been paid
for it l cannot complete in n month
nor year the magnificent calculation,
but before get through to-day hope
to give you the figures. "Ye are bought
with price"
With some friends I 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. I wish that l
| 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"
Now if you have large amount of
money to pay, You do not pay it all at
once, but you payit 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 1 have to
tell this audience that you have been
bought with a price" and that that
price was paid in different installmeuts
10 Anl1 &Is.
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 atten-
tons Privacy and silence are afforded
when God launches an immortal soul
into the world. Even the toughest of
men know enough to stand batl.. But
have to tell you that in the village on
the side of the hill there was n very
bedlan of uproar when Jesus was
born. In village capable of accom-
modating only few hundred people,
many thousand people were crowded;
and amid hostlers and muleteers and
camel drivers 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 heth 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 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 palace. then to mer-
chants castle in Galilee, then to a pri-
vate home in Bethlehem, then TO fish
ernan's hut, and last of all to a stable.
No! It was one leap from the top TO
the bottom
Let us open the door of the caravan
sary of Bethlehem and drive away the
camels- Press on through the group of
idlers and loungers. What o. Mary!
no light? 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 Bethle-
hem woman who has come in here with
kindly attentions put back the covering
from the babe that we may look upon
il. Look! Look Uncover your head.
Let US kneel. Let all voices be hushed
Son of Mary! Son of Godl Child of a
day-Monarch of eternity! In that eye
the glance of God. Ornnipotence
sheathed in that babes arm That
voice to be changed from the feeble
plant to the tone shall wake the dead.
Hosannal Hosanna! Glory be to God
that Jesus came from throne to manger,
that we might rise from manager to
throne, and that all the gates are open
and that The door of Heaven, that once
swung this way to let Jesus ont, now
swings the other was TO let us in Let
all the bellmen of Heaven lay hold the
rope and ring out the news: Behold,
bring you glad tidings CT great JOY,
which shall be to all people. for to-day
is born in the city OF David a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord.'
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania- a mountainous region, full of
caverns, where there are ~ this day
panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so
that you must go there armed with
knife or gun or pistol 1t was there that
Jesus went 70 think and 70 pray, and it
was there that this monster of hell
more sly, more terrific than anything
that provided in that country-Satan
himself, met Christ
The rose in the cheek Of Christ-that
Pubiius Lentullus, in his letter TO the
Roman senate, sscribed to Jesus-that
rose has scattered its petals Abstinence