Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-27
BOUGHT WITH BLOOD.
Our Savior Purchased Our Salvation
at a Most Terrible Cost
In FOUR HEAVY INSTALLMENTS.
a Lowly Birth, Temptation, a Mock Trial
and Death in Shame.
TALMAGES FIRST SERMON In LONDON

lsPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.I
LONDON, June 26.-An enormous audi
ence greeted Dr. Talmage in this city to-day
DR.. Tslmage entitled his sermon ''The I'm
mense Cost" from the text, L Cor, vi, 20
''Ye are bought with price"
Your friend takes you through his valu
able 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: "w ha
did all this cost" You see q costly diamond
flashing in an earring, or you hear a costly
dress rusrling across the drawing room, OIL
you seea high span of horses har
messed with silver and gold, and you begin
to make an estimate of the value
Wei, my friends, L hear so much about
our mansion in heaven, about its furniture
and the grand surroundings, that want tc
know how much it is all worth and what has
been actually been paid for it. cannot com
plete in a month nor year the magnificent
calculation, but before get through to-day
hope to give you the figures. "Ye are
bought with price"
Now, IL you have large amount of money
to pay, you do not pay it all at once, but
you pay 1t by installments And have to
tell this audience that "you have been
OSuS WIN ptlSSy anu bndJ pllCO
was paid in different installments.
Lowry Birth the First Installment.
The first installment paid for the clearance
of our souls was the ignominfous birth of
Christ in Bethlehem. Though we may never
be carefully looked after afterward, our ad-
vent into the world is carefully guarded. We
come into the world amid kindly attentions
Privacy and silence are afforded when God
launches an immortal shoul into the world
Even the roughest OF men know enough to
stand hack
on the side of the hill there was q very bed
lam OF uproar when Jesus was born. In
village capable of accommodating only
lew hundred people, many thousand people
muleteers and camel drivers yelling at
stupid beasts 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 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 halfway world of
great magnitude, then to Caesars palace then
TO merchants castle in Galilee, then to a
private home in Bethany, then to a fisher
mans hut and last of all to stable MOI
1t was one leap from the top to the bottom,
Let us open the door of the carayansary in
bethlehem and drive away the camels.
Press on through the group of idlers and
loungers- What, o Mary! no light? ''No
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
The Worship of the New Born Babe.
Let the Bethlehem woman who has come
IN here with kindly attentions put back the
covering from the babe that we may look
upon it, Look! Look! Uncover your head.
Let us Rneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son
of Maryi Son of God! Child OF a day
Monarch OF eternity! In that eve the glance
of q God. Omniposence sheathed in that
Babes arm. That voice to be changed from
the feeble plant to the tone that shall wake
the dead. Hosannai 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.
The second installnent paid for our souls
clearance was the scene in Quarantania, a
mountainous region, full of caverns where
beasts of ali sorts, so that you must now go
there armed with knife, or gum or pistol
1t WAS there that Jesus went to think and to
pray, and it was there that this monster of
heil-more sly, more terrific, than anything
that prowled in that country-Satan him.
self, met Christ
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that
P1hlius Lentullus, in his letter to the Roman
Senate, ascribed to Jesus-that rose had
Its petals Abstinence from food
had thrown him into emaciation. Turn out
a pack of men hungry as Christ was a.
hungered, and if they had strength, with
one yell they would devour you as a lion
Sld. 1t was in that pang of hunger that
esus was accosted. and Satan said: snow
change these stones, which look like bread,
INTO an actual supply of bread"
Ch.ist Further Tempted by Satan.
I bless God that the same coat of mail
that struck back the weapons of temptation
from the head of Christ we may now all
wear for Jesus comes to say: Il have been
tempted, and / know what it is to be
tempted. Take this robe that defended me,
and wear it for yourselves. l shall see you
through all trials and L shall see you
through all temptation"
"But' says Satan still further to Jesus,
Come and 1 will show you something
worth looking at;'' and after half day's
top of the temple. Some people at great
height feel dizzy, and strange disposition
to jump; SO Satan comes to Christ in that
very crisis.
"Now," says Satan, "IYl make q bargain.
Just jump on know it is great way from
the top of the temple TO the valley, but if
you are divine you can fly. Jump of. 1t
Your Father will hold you. Besides, III
make you a large present if you will. I'll
give YOU Asia Minor, I'll give you China, I'll
give you Ethiopia, III give you Italy, III
give you Britain, III give you all the world"
W hat temptation it must have been!
Go tomorrow morning and get in an
lltercation with some wretch crawling up
from gin cellar in the lowest part of your
city. NO." you say, Il would not bemean
myself by getting into such a contest
Then think of what the King of heaven and |
earth endured when He came down aud
fought the great wretch of hell, and fought
lim in the wilderness and on top of the
Temple. But bless God that in the triumph
over temptation Christ gives us the assur-
ance that we also shall triumph.
1he Mock Trial of the Savior.
The third installment paid for our re.
iemption was the Savior's sham trial. 1
,alI it a sham trial-there has never been
anything SO indecent or unfair in any Grim |
nal court as witnessed at the trial Of
Christ. Why, they hustled him into the
courtroom at o'clock in the morning. They |
rave him no time for counsel They gave
Tim no opportunity for subpenaing wit |
lesses- The rnffians who were wandering |
lround through the midnight, of course |
hey saw the arrest and went into the court
'oom. But Jesus friends were sober men,
we're respeciaDle men, ana at tnat hour,
,'clock in the morning, OF course they were |
II home asleep. Consequently Christ |
entered the courtroom with the ruffians. |
Oh, look al him No one to speak word |
or him. lift the lantern until 1 can look |
nto his face, and as my heart beats in SYM
)athy for this, the best friend the world |
yer had, himself now utterly friendless, an |
,1f1cer of the court room comes up and |
mites him in the mouth and see the blood |
tealing from gum and lip. OH 1t was /
arce of a trial, lasting Oniv perhaps an hour L
md then the Judge rises for sentence. Stopl |
[ is against the law to give sentence unless |
here has been an adjournment of the court |