Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-07-01

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= Pnate-How Nature Groaned and shud
i dered at the CruciAxiOn.
LONDON, June s8.-An enormous audi
Z rnce greeted DR.. Talmage in this city to
d day, composed Of people who had com,
j from all parts Of the British metropolis t.
;, hear the famous American preacher. 81.
+ reception in England has been most enth 4
: siastie, Many letters were awaiting him
from different cities eagerly pleading for a
! visit. The doctor will have to preach five
or six times aAgeek If he accepts even a
? tsmall percentage Of the urgent invitations
> ! already sent to him. He is very much
gratified by the extreme cordiality Of his
reception. DR.. TalmRge entities his ser
mon 'The Immense Cost" from the text,
Cor. Vi, %, I'VE are bought with a price. "
Your friend takes you through his valu-
able house. You examine the arches, the
frescOes, the grassplots, the hshponds, the
eOnservatories, the parks Of deer. and you
say within yourself or you say aloud
'.What did all this cost" You see cost.
~ diamond flashing in an earring, or you
hear costly dress rustling across the
drawing room, or you see high mettled
span Of horses harRessed with silver and
gold, and you begin to'make an estimate
Of the value
The man who owns large estate cannot
instantly tell you al 1t Is worth He says,
II will estimate so much for the house, 50
much for tho furniture, 90 much for lay
Ing out the grounds, so much for the stock,
50 much for the barn, so much for the
sduipaGevadding 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
10 know how much It Is all worth, and
what has actually been paid for It. can
not complete in month nor year the
magnificent calculation, but before I get
through today 1 hope to give you the hg-
ures ''Ye are bought with price"
THE CROWN JEWELS.
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 so
pass out. I wish that I could take this
audience into the tower Of Gods mercy and
strength that you might walk around lust
pnce, at least, and see.the crown Jewels of
eternity, behold their briliianne and estl-
mate their value, I've are bought with a
price"
Now If you have n large amount Of
AAAoAANN W ltsf lty 10 III once
but you pay it by installments-so much |
the first Of January, so much the first Of 1
April so much the first of July, so
much the first of October, until the entire I
amount is paid, and I have to tell this .
audience that lyon have been bought with /
a price" and that that price was paid in
different installments
The first installment paid for the clear
ance Of our souls was the ignominiOus
birth Of Christ tn Bethlehem, Though we
may never be carefully looked after after
ward, our advent into the world is careful
ly guarded. We COME into the world amid
kindly attentions. 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
have to tell you that in the village on the
side of the hill there was a very bedlam Of
uproar when Jesus was born.
IN u village capable of accommodating
only n few hundred people many thousand
people We're crowded, and amid hostlers
and mn ,ers and camel drivers yelling at
stupid .sts of burden the Messiah ap-
peared. No silence; no privacy. A better
adapted place hath the eaglet in the eyrie-
hath the whelp in the lions lair The ex-
BE Of heaven lieth down upon straw. The
FIRST night out from the palace Of heaven
Ipent in an outhOusel One hour after lay
ng aside the robes of heaven, dressed in q
Of coarse linen. One would have
that Christ would have made a
more gradual descent, coming from heaven
lrst to half way world Of great magni
ude. then to Cesar's palace, then to a !
castle in Galilee, then to pri-
ate home in Bethany, then to a fisher 9
mans hut, and last Of all to a stable MOI
{ was one leap from the top to the bottom. y
THE MANGER AT BETHLEHEM q
Let US open the door Of the carAvansary {
a Bethlehem, and drive Rway the camels.
'ress on through the group Of idlers and 9
oungers. What, o Maryl no light9 mo q
ght" she says, "save that which comes 4
trough the door" What. Mary no foodi !.
None, J." she says, ''only that which was II
rought in the sack on the journey" Let y
be Bethlehem woman who has come in =
ere with kindly attentions put back the
jvering from the babe that we may look z
pom it. Lookl Look Uncover your Il
cad. Let us kneel. Let all voices be u
ushed. Son OF Mary Son Of Godl Child n
= day-monaroh Of eternityl In that a.
re the glance Of q God. Omnipotence K
leathed in that babes arm. That voice 81
be changed from the feeble plant "a u
le Zone that shall wake the dead. H0- v
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Glory be TO God that Jesus came from SC
lrone to manger, that we might rise from m
anger to throne, and that all the gates q
'e open, md that the door Of heaven, that u
ICE swung this way,t let Jesus out, now u
wings the other way to let Us In. Let all
e bellmen Of ,heaY6n lay bold the rope
I'd ring out the news. Behold, bring &c
N glad tidings Of great Joy, which shall "a
to all people; for today Is born In the q
sY OF David a Saviour which Is Christ w
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second tnstallmept paid for our sOul's 10
sarance was tho scene IN Quarqntania,
region. full Of caverns, where w
ere are to this day panthersN and wild 60
asts of all sorts, so that you must now ~
there armed With knife or gun or pistol. ga
was there that Jesus gent TO think and 81
pray, and 1t was there that this monster tit
hell-moye sly, more terrific than any "a
ing that prOwled IN that country-satan
mself, met Christ
The rose in the cheek Of Christ-that ga
lbIins Lentullus, in his letter to the on
IMAM senate, ascribed to Jesus-that rose wa
d scattered its petals. Abstinence from ar
ID had thrown him Into cancellation. a WI
n abstinence from food recorded In pro Boz
le history Is that Of the crew Of the ship Go
no; for twenty-three days they had the
thing to eat But this sufferer had a b
ted month and ten days before be ale
ike fast. Hunger must have agonized thi
cry fiber of the body and gnawed on the grt
mach with teeth of death. The thought the
a morsel OF bread or meat must have
Tiled the body with something like sac
ocity. Turn out pack Of men hungry car
Christ was a-hungered, and II they had Iyi
ength, with one yell they would deyOur ans
! as a lion u kid. VIII
{ was in that pang Of hunger that Jesus fac
5 accosted. and satan said, Now change no,
csc stones, which look like bread, into ing
actual supply Of bread" Had the hay
nptation come to you and me under co
sse circumstances, we would have cried, SO
read It shall ber and been almost inn can
.i.r,t nt tho tina inlan for rrlnafinntinn of