The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-29
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
WHAT IT COST TO GIVE HUMANITY
THE CHANCE OF SALVATION.

The Lowly Birth OF Chrtst-The Temp
tation IN the wilderness-Christ Before
PiIate-How Nature Groaned and shud-
dered at the CrucihxiOn-
LONDON, June 26.-An enormous audi
ence greeted DR.. 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
visit. The doctor will have to preach five
OF six times a week II he accepts even q
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 ser
mon THE Immense Cost" from the text,
Cor. vi, 20, ''Ye are bought with price"
Your trield takes you through his valu-
able house. You examine the arches the
frescoes, the grassplOts, the fshponds, the
Conservatives, the parks of deer, and yoI
say within yourself or you say aloud,
what did all this cost" You see a cost
IL diamond flashing I'm 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 large estate cannot
instantly tell you all it is worth. He says,
Il will estimate 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
aggreSat
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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 month nor year the
magnificent calculation, but before 1 get
through today hope to give you the fig
ures. "Ye are bought with price"
THE GROWN JEWELS
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 that l could take this
audience into the tower Of Gods mercy and
strength that you might walk around Just
once, at lesst, and see the crown Jewels of
eternity. behold their brilEance and esti-
mate their value. "Ye are bought with a
price"
NOW II you nave q large amount OF
money to pay. you do not pay il 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 clear
ance OF our souls was the ignominous
birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we
may never be carefully looked after after
ward. our advent into the world is careful
ly 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 roughest Of
men know enough 10 stand back.
In village capable of accommodating
only few hundred people many thousand
people were crowded, and amid hOstlers
and muleteers and camel drivers yelling at
stupid beasts of burden the Messiah ap-
peared. No silence; no privacy. A better
adapted place hath the eaSlet in the eyrie-
path the whelp in the lions lair The er-
lie of heaven lieth down upon straw. The
arst night ont from the palace of heaven
spent in an outhousei One hour after Law
Ing aside the robes Of heaven, dressed in a
wrapper Of coarse linen. One would have
supposed thar Christ would have made a
more gradual descent, coming from heaven
Grst 70 half way world Of great magni-
Iude. then TO CGslr's palace, then to a
merchant castle in GaliIee. then to a pri-
rate home IN Bethany, then to a fisher
mans hut. and last Of all to a stable. Mol
1t was one leap from the top TO the bottom.
THE HANGER AT BETHLEHEM.
Let US open the door Of the caravansarv
in Bethlehem and drive away the camels.
Press on through the group Of idlers and
ioungers. What. o Maryl no lights '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" 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 kneel Let all voices be
hushed. Son of Mary Son Of Godi Child
of = day-mOnarch of eternity In that
eye the glance Of God. Omnipotence
sheathed in that babes arm. That voice
10 be changed from the feeble plant to
the tone that shall wake the dead. Ho-
sannai Hosannal
Glory be 70 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 tbe door Of heaven that
once swung this way TO let Jesus out, now
swings the other way TO let US in. Let all
the beilmen of heaven lay hold the rope
and ring out the news, Behold, 1 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 Lordp'
The second installment paid for our SOULS
clearance was the scene in Quarantania, 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.
Il was there that Jesus went to think and
10 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 emaciation. A
long abstinence from food recorded in pro-
fame history is that Of the crew Of the ship
Juno, for twenty-three days they had
nothing 10 eat. But this sufferer had
tasted a month and ten days before 4
broke fast. Hunger must have agonized
every fiber of the body and gnawed on the
stomach with teeth Of death. The thought
Of morsel VI bread or meat must have
thrilled the body with something like
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