The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-08
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The American Preacher in the En-
glish Metropolis.
He breaches In the London TempIe-The
Price Paid for the Clearance OF
Our SOuis-The Temptation
and the Crucinxfon.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage delivered the
following discourse in the London City
Temple, to congregation that packed
every available inch of the great audi
forum. His subject was: ''The Inn
mense Cost, and his text:
Ye are bought with price.-I Cor, vi, %
Your friend takes you through hisval-
liable house. You examine the arches,
the frescoes, the grass-plots, the fish
ponds, the Conservatives, the parks of
deer, and you say within yourself or
you say aloud: what did all this cost?''
You see a costly diamond flashing in an
earring, or you hear n costly dress
rustling across the drawing-room, or
you see highly-mettled span of horses
harnessed with silver and gold, and you
begin to make an estimate of the value.
The man who owns a large estate can.
not instantly tell you what it is worth
He says: Il will estimate SO much
for the house, so much for the furniture,
so much for lsying 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, I hear so much
about our mansion in Heaven, about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that want to know how much ii is all
worth and what has actually been paid
for it. / can not complete in a month
nor a year the magnificent calculation,
but before get through to-day hope
20 give you the figures. Eye are
bought with price"
With some friends / went to your
tower to look at the crown jewels. We
walked around, caught a glimrse 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"
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 LIST of January, so much
the 1st of April, so much the of July,
so much the 1st of October, until the
entire amount is paid, and 1 have to
bought with a price," and that that
price was paid in different installments
The first installment paid for the
clearance of souls was the ignominious
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 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 1 have to tell you
that in the village on the side of the
hill there was very bedlam of uproar
when Jesus was born. In a village
capable of accommodating only a 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 lleth down
upon straw. The first night out from
the palace of Heaven spent in an out
housed One hour after laying aside the
robes of Heaven, dressed in a wrapper
of coarse linen. One would have sup
posed that Christ would have made a
more gradual descent, coming from
Heaven first to n halfway world of
great magnitude, then to Cesar's
palace, then to merchants castle in
Galilee, then to fsherman's hut, and
last of all to stable. No. It was one
r.. 4 a.. a. I.
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, 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
Bethlehem woman who has come in
here with kindly attentions put back
the covering from the babe that we
may look upon it. Lookl Lool1l I'm
cover your head. Let US kneel. Let
all voices be hushed. Son of Maryl
Son of God! Child of day-Monarch
of eternity! In the eye the glance of a
god. Omnipotence sheathed in that
babes arm. That voice to be changed
from the feeble plant to the tone that
shall wake the dead. Hosannal Hosan-
ma Glory be to God that Jesus came
from the 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
End ring out the news: Behold, /
bring you glad tidings of great Joy,
which shall be to all people; for to-day
Is born in the city of David Saviour,
which is Christ the LordT'
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
sntania, a mountainous region, full of
caverns, where there are to this day
panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so
that you must now go there armed
with knife or gun or pistol. 1t was
there that Jesus went to think and to
pray, and it was there that this mons
ter of hell-more sly, more terrific than
anything that prowled in that coun-
try-Satan himself met Christ.
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that
Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the
Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus-that
rose had scattered its petals. Absti-
nence from foodIhad thrown Him into
emaciation. A long abstinence from
food recorded in profane history is that
of the crew of the ship Juno; for
twenty-three days they had nothing to