The Princeton union., 1892-07-07
TALMAGE ABROAD.
DR.. Talmage breaches a Sermon in
Rev. Joseph Parker's Church in
London.
He Takes as His Text ]. Coz. Vi, 20
"Ye are Bought With a
Price"

London, Eng. Especial Cable] -
Talmage preached in the City Temple
by invitation OF the celebrated divine
Joseph Parker, he was greeted by a
tremendous audience.
DIR. Talmage entities his sermon,
"'The Immense Cost" from the text,
!, Cor. vi, 90, "Ye are bought with a
price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grass-plots,
the fsh-ponds, the econservatories and
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 a costly dress rustling across
the drawing room, or you see a 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
cannot instantly tell you all it's worth.
He says: II will estimate so much for
thehouse, so much for the furniture,
SO much for laying out the grounds, so
much for the stock, so much for the
barn adding up in all making this
aggregate."
Well, my friends, I hear so much
| about our mansion in heaven, about
it's furniture and the grand surround
ings, that want to know how much
it is all worth and what has actually
been paid for it. I cannot complete in
month nor a year the magnificent
ejaculation, but before l get through
today hope to give you the figures.
''YE 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
that could take this audience into
the tower of God'smercy and strength
that you might walk around just
once, at least, and see the crown
Jewels ofeterni5y, behold their brilliance
and estimate their value. Eye are
bought with price" +.
Now, if you have a large amount of
money to pay, you do not pay it all
at once, but you pay it in installments
so mnch the LIST of January, SO
much the lst OF April, so much the 1st
OF October, until the entire amount is
paid, and have to tell this audience
that you have been bought with a
price = and that that price was paid
in different installments.
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the ignom-
inious birth of Christ in Bethlehem.
Though we may never be carefully
looked after atterWard, our advent in
to the world iscarefully guarded. We
come into the world amid kindly at
tentions. Privacy and silence are
afforded when God launches am i'm
mortal soul into the world. Even the
roughest of men know enough to stand
back. But have to tell you that in
the village on the side OF the hill there
was q very bed]am of uproar when
Jesus was born. In village capable
accommodating only afew hundred
people, many thousand people were
crowded; and amid hostlers and mule
teers and camel-drivers yelling at
stupid beasts OF burden the Messiah
appeared.
NO SILENCE-NO PRIVACY.
A better adapted place hath the Gag
let in the eyrie-hath the whelp in the
lions liar. The exile Of heaven lieth
down upon straw. The first night out
from the palace of heaven spent in
an outhouse! One hour after laying
aside the robes Of heaven, dressed in
q wrapper OF course 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 Casar's palace, then to a mer-
chants castle in Galilee, then to q
private home in Bethany, then to q
fsherman's hut, and last OF all to q
stable. No! It was oneleap from the
top to the bottom.
The second iustallment 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, 50 that you must now 60 there
armed with knife, or gun, or pistol. It
was there that Jesus went to think
and opray, and it was there that
this monster of hell ll--more sly, more
terrific, than anything that prowled
in that country Satan himself met
Christ.
The rose in the cheek OF Christ
that Publiu sLentullus, in his letter
to the Roman senate. ascribed to
Jesus-that rose had scattered it's
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 % days they had moth
ing to eat. But this sufferer had fast
ed q month and 10 days before he
broke fast. Hunger must have agon-
lied every fiber OF the body, and gnaw-
ed on the stomach s
WITH TEETH OF DEATH.
The thought OF a morsel OF bread or
meat must have thrilled the body
with something like ferocity. Turn
out a pack OF men hungry as Christ
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