Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-07-01
in FAMOUS LONDON.
DR.. TALMAGE GREETED EY A
MIGHTY THRONC.
His First Sermon Heard by Many
Thousand People--"Ye Are Bought
with Price" For a Text.

nous audience 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 re-
ception in England has been most enthusiastic.
Many letters were awaiting him from different
| cities eagerly pleading for n visit. The Doctor
will have TO preach five or six times week II
he accepts even a small percentage OF the ur-
gent invitations already sent 10 him. He is
very much gratihed by tho extreme cordielity
OF his reception. DIR. Talmage entities his SER
mon THE Immense Cost" from the text, 1.
Cor. 6:2l, aye are bought with price"
Your friends takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grass-plots,
the 6sh-ponds, the cOnservatories, tho
parks of deer, and you say within
yourself or you say aloud: What did
all this cost?' You see costly dia-
mond flashing 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 va'ue.
The man who owns a large estate
cannot instantly tell You all it is worth.
He says: II will estimate so much for
so much for laying out the grounds, so
much for the stock, so much for the
barn, so much for the equipage-add-
ing 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 it. / cannot complete in
month nor year the magnificent cal
culation, but before get through tt
day l hope Co give you the figures.
Eye are bought with Il price
I With some friends I went 10 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 ont. 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 brilliancy, 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 first of January, so much
the first of April, so much he 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 a price," and 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 atten-
tons 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
i 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 lieth
down upon straw. The first night out
from the palace of heaven spent
in an outhousel One hour after laying
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! wrapper of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would
have made more gradual descent,
coming from heaven first TO a halfway
world of great magnitude, then TO
C@sar's palace, then to a merchants
castle in Galilee, then to private
home in Bethany, then to a fisherman's
hut, and last of all to n stable. No!
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 light? "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 intentions put back
the covering from the babe that we
may look upon it. Look! Look! I'm.
cover your head. Let us kneel. Let
4 all voices, be hushed. Son of Mary!
Son of Godl Child of day
4 Monarch of eternity In that eye the
glance of a God. Omnipotence sheathed
in that Babes arm. That voice to he
changed from the feeble plant 10 the
tone that shall wake the dead
Hosannal Hosanna! 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. lie
all the bellmen of heaven lay hold the
rope and ring out the news: "Bebold,
bring you glad tidings of great joy,
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