Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-27
rTALMAGE IN LONDON.
WHAT 1T COST TO GIVE HUMANITY
! THE CHANCE OF SALVATION.

The LowIy Birth of Christ--The Temp
tation in the wilderness-Christ Before
PiIate-How Nature Groaned and sbud-
dered at the Cruci6xion.
LONDON, June 26.An enormous audi
ence greeted DIR. 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
reception In England has been most enthu-
siastic. Many letters were awaiting him
from different cities eagerly pleading for a
visit. The doctor will have to preach five
or six times week If he accepts even
small percentage of the urgent invitations
already sent to him. He Is very much
gratified by the extreme cordiality of his
reception. Dr. Talmage entities his ser
mon "The Immense Cost, !" from the text,
I Cor vi, 90, Eye are bought with price.
Your friend takes you through his valu-
able house. You examine the arches, the
frescoes, the grassplots the fshponds, the
conservatories, the parks of deer, and you
say within yourself or you say aloud,
"What did all this COST" You see cost
ly diamond flashing in an earring, or yen
hear costly dress rustling across the
drawing room, or you see high mettlen
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 tho furniture, so much for lay
ing 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, 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 1t. / can
not complete in month nor year the
magnificent calculation, but before | get
through today hope to give you the fig
ures. aye are bought with price"
THE CROWN JEWELS.
With some friends went to your Tower
to look Mt the crown jewels. We walked
around, caught one glimpse of them, and
being In the procession were compelled to
mss out, | wish that | could take this
audience into the tower of Gods mercy and
strength that you might walk around just
once. Mt least and see the crown jewels OF
eternity, behold their brilliance and est
mate their value aye are bought with n
price" -,
money to pay, you do not pay it all Mt once
but you pny it by nstallments-so mnch
the first of January, so much the firs'sn
April, so much the first of July, sc
much the first of October, until the entire
amount Is paid and ] have to tell this
audience that ''you have been bought witt
price" and that that price was paid II
different installments.
The first instnllmcnt paid for the clear
ance of our souls was the iEnominiou
birth OF Christ in Bethlehem. Though WI
may never be carefully looked after after
ward. our advent into the world Is careful
ly guarded. We come into the world ami'
kindly attentions. Privacy and silence ar
afforded when God launches nm immorta
soul into the world. Even the toughest o
men know enough to stand back. But
have to tell you that in the village on tn
side of the hill there was n very lo&lHm c
uproar when Jesus was born.
In n village capable Of accommodation
only few hundred people many thousan
people were crowded, and amid hostler
and muletcers and camel drivers yelling a
stupid beasts of burden the Messiah NJ
peared No silence; no privacy. bette
adapted place hnth the caglet In the eyrle-
hath the whelp in the lions lair. The e.
ilo of heaven ieth down upon straw. TT
first night out from the palace of heave
anent In an outhousci One hour after la
ing aside the robes of heaven, dressed In
wrapper of coarse linen. One would hay
supposed that Christ would have made
more gradual descent, coming from heaVt
first to half way world of great maRt
tude, then to Caesars palace, then TO
merchants castle In Galilce, then to II PI
yate home in Bethany, then to flshe
mans hut and last of all to stable. N
1t was one leap from the top to the bottof
THE MANGER At BETHLEHEM.
LET rs open the door of the caravansa
In bethlehem and drive away the came
Press ON through the group of oilers M
lounpers. What, O Maryl no lightr -
light" she says, "save that which com
through the door" What, Mary no foo
"None," she says, "only that which W
brought in the sack on the journey" l.
Tho Bethlehem woman who has come
here with kindly attentions put back {
covering from the babe that we may 10
unon It. Look Look Uncover 20
head Let us kncel. Let all voices
bushed. Son of Maryl Son of Godl Oh
of n day-monarch of etcrnityl In tt
owe the glance Of u God. Omnipoter
sheathcl In that babes arm. That Vo
Ia he changed from the feeble plant
the tone that shall wake the dead. !
sannal Hosannal
Glory be to God That Jesus came fr
throne to manger that we might rise IT
Manager TO throne, and that all the ga
nrc omen. and that the door of heaven, u
once swung this way TO let Jesus out, n
swings the other way to let us III, Let
the bellmen Of heaven lay hold the r.
and ring out the news, "Behold, br
Won Glad tidings of great joy, which ST
be to all people for today Is born In
city of David IA Saviour, which Is On
the Lord'
The second installment paid for our sol
clearance was the scene In Quarantan
mountainous region, full of caverns, WI
there are to this day panthers and
beasts of all sorts so that you must I
qo there armed with knife or gun or pts
H. was there that Jesus went to think
to nrny. and It was there that this mon
of hell-more sly, more terrific than 4
thing that prowicd In that country 5"
himself, met Christ.
Tho rose In the check Of Christ
puhlius Lentullus, In his letter to
Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus-that
had scattered its petals. Abstinence I
food had thrown him INTO ehhci".lun'
tong abstinence from food recorded in
fame history is that of the crew Oh 1he
Juno, for twenty-three days they
nothing TO eat. But this SUFFERER
tasted n month and ten days pel"r'
broke fast Hunger must have agon
every fiber OF the body ana snnWeu ~, y.
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