Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-06-30
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
WHAT 1T COST TO GIVE HUI
MANITY SALVATION.
The Lowly Birth of Christ-The Temp
tation in the Christ Before
Pilate-How Nature Groaned and Sla.sel-
dered at the Crucifxion.
Talmage in London.

Tallnage in London.
DR.. Talmage preached in London last
Sunday and was greeted by an enormous
audience. He entitled his sermon THE
Immense Cost" from the text l. Cor. 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 conseryatories, the parks of deer,
and you say within yourself or you say
aloud, ''What did all this cost?' You
see costly diamond flashing in an ear
ring. 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 q large estate cam
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 cquipage-adding
up in all making this aggregate.
Well, my friends, hear SO much about
our mansion in Heaven, about its furni-
ture and the grand surroundings, that l
want to know how much it is all worth,
and what has actually been paid for it.
1 cannot complete in a month nor year
the magnificent calculation, but before l
get through to-day l hope to give you
the figures. eye are bought with a
price,"
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 to pass out. wish l
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, be-
hold their brilliance and estimate their
value rye are bought with price"
Now if you have a large amount of
money to pay, you do not pay it all at
once, but yon pay it by installnents-so
much the 1st of January, so much the
1st of April, so much the 1st of July, so
much the LIST of October, until the entire
amount is paid, and I 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 clear
ance of our 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 l have to
tell you that in the illage on the side of
the hill there was very bedlam OF up
roar when Jesus was born.
In village capable of accommodating
only few hundred people many thou
sand people were crowded, and amid
hostlers and muleteers and camel drivers
yelling at stupid beasts OF burden the
Messiah appeared. No silence; no pri-
vacy. 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 a half way world of
great magnitude, then to Caesars palace
then to a merchants castle in Galilee,
then to private home in Bethany, then
to a fsherman's 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 caravan
sary in Bethlehem and drive away the
camels- Press on through the group Of
idlers and loungers. What, o Mary! no
light3 ''No light" she says, save that
which comes through the door" What.
Mo- oh 1u
that which was brought in the sack on
the Journey" Let the Bethlehem wo-
man who has come in here with kindly
the babe that we may look upon it. Look!
Look! Uncover your head. Let us
kneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son
of Mary! Son of God! Child of q day
monarch of eternity! In that eye the
glance of God Omnipotence sheathed
in that babes arm. That voice to be
changed from tho feeble plaint to the
tone thatshall wake the dead Hosanna!
Hosanna!
Glory be to God that Jesus came from
throne to Manager, 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 and 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 o
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord!''
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quaran-
tania, mountainous region, full Of cav
erns, where there are to this day pam
theirs and wild beasts of all sorts, so that
you must now go there armed with
knife or gun or pistol. It was there that
Jesus went to think and to pray, and it
was there that this monster of hell
more sly, more terrific than anything
that prowled in that country-Satan
himself, met Christ.
The rose in the check of Christ-that
Publus Lentullus, in his letter to the
Roman senate, ascrbed to Jesus-that
rose had scattered its pedals. Abstinence
from food had thrown Him into emacia-
ton. A long abstinence from food re-
corded in profane history is that Of the