News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-30
THE IMMENSE COST.
DR.. TALMAGE SPEAKS OF THE PRICE
OF SALVATION.

Or SALIVA ION.
The Popular Preacher Is Cordially Re
ceived in EngIand-He Addresses an
Immense Congregation in London-Ths
Cost of Our Mansion in Heaven.
LONDON, June 26.-An enormous au
dience greeted DIR. Talmage in this city
today, 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
enthusiastic. Many letters were await
ing him from different cities eagerly
pleading for visit The doctor will
have to preach five or six times week il
he accepts even small percentage of the
urgent invitations already sent to him.
He is very much gratifed by the extreme
cordiality of his reception. DR.. Talmage
entities his sermon 1.-The Immense Cost, .
from the text, Corinthians vi, 20, eye
are bought with a price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grassplots, the
fishponds, the Conservatives, the parks
of deer, and you say within yourself or
you say aloud, What did all this
costY You see costly diamond flash
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 a large estate can
not instantly tell you all it is worth. He
says, II 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
mp 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 it. / cannot complete in month
nor year the magnificent calculation,
but before get through today hope to
give you the figures. "Ye arc bought
with a price"
With some friends l 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. | 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. I'VE are bought with a
price"
THE NsTALLMENT PLAN.
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 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 l have to tell
this audience that "you have been
bought with price," and that that
price was paid in different installments.
The first installment paid for the |
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 at |
tentions. Privacy and silence are af- |
forded 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 vii
lage ON the side of the hill there was a
very bedlam of uproar when Jesus was
born.
In a village capable of accommodating
lonly few hundred people many thou
sand people were crowded, and amid
hostlers and muleteers and camel driv-
,ers 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
i'm 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 a more gradual descent, coming |
from heaven first to half way world of |
great magnitude, then to Caesars pal |
ace, then to a merchants castle in Cali
lee, then to a private home in Bethany, |
then to a fsherman's hut, and last of all |
TO a stable. Mol 1t was one leap from
the top to the bottom.
Let us open the door of the caravan
sary in Bethlehem and drive away the
lcamels. Press ON through the group of
idlers and loungers. What, oh, Maryl |
no light? mo light" she says, 'save |
that which comes through the door,"
What, Maryi no food? 'None," she |
says, "only that which was brought in
the sack on the journey" Let the Beth
Elehem woman who has come in here
with kindly attentions put back the COW
ering from the babe that we may look |
upon it. Look! Lookl Uncover your
head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be
hushed. Son of Mary! Son of Godl
Child of a day-monarch of eternityi |
In that eye the glance of God. Om-
impotence sheathed in that babes arm.
That voice to be changed from the fee
bile plant to the tone that shall wake |
the dead. Hosannal Hosannal
J 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. Let all the bellmen of heaven
Nay hold the rope and ring out the news,
behold, | bring you glad tidings of
great joy, which shall be to all people,;
for today is born in the city of David
Saviour, which is Christ the Lordl"
BATTLING THE EVIL SPIRIT.
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania, mountainous region full of
where there are to this day
Ipanthers 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 to think and to pray,
and it was there that this monster of
hell-more sly, more terrific than any
thing that prowled in that country
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. Abstinence
from food had thrown him into emacia-
ton. A long abstinence from food re-
corded in profane history is that of the
crew of the ship Juno; for twenty-three
lays they had nothing to eat. But this
tufferer had tasted month and ten days
before he broke fast. Hunger must have
agonized every fiber of the body and
gnawed ON the stomach with teeth of
Heath. The thought of morsel of
bread or meat must have thrilled the
body with something like ferocity.
Turn out a pack of men hungry as
Christ was ashungered, and if they had
with one yell they would de-