Connecticut western news., 1892-06-30
THE IMMENSE COST.
pR. TALMAGE SPEAKS OF THE PRICE
 OF SALVATION.

The Popular Preacher Is Cordially Re-
 ceived in England-He Addresses an
 Immense Congregation in London-The
 Cost of Our Mansion in Heaven.
 LONDON, June 26.-An enormous au- dience greeted Dr. 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 a visit. The doctor will have to preach five or six times week if 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 The Immense Cost" from the text, Corinthians vi. 20. ''Ye are bought with price"
 Your friend takes you through his valuable house. You examine the arches, the frescoes, the grassplots, the fishponds, the conservatories, the parks of deer, and you say within yourself or you say aloud. What did all this cost?' You see costly diamond fash ing in an earring, or you hear costly dress rustling across the drawing room, or you see high raeettled span of horses harnessed witt sfyerA and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of the value.
 The man who owns large estate can not instantly tell you all it is worth. He says, .'l 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 up in all making this aggregate"
 We'll, my friends, l 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. l cannot complete in month nor year the magnificent calculation, but before l get through today hope to give you the figures "Ye are bought with price"
 With some friends 1 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. 1 wish that 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, behold their brilliance and estimate their value. ''Ye 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 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 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 igno- minious birth of Christ in Bethlehem Though we may never be carefully looked after afterward, our advent into 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 ButoI have to tell you that in the vil- lage on the side of the hill there was a very bedlam of uproar 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 driv- CTS 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 ieth 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 wrapper of coarse linen. One would have supposed that Christ would have made 8 more gradual descent, coming from heaven first to 8 half way world of great magnitude, then to Csesar's pal ace, then to merchants castle ill Cali lee, then to a private home in Bethany, then to a fisherman's hut, and last of all to stable. No! It 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, oh, Mary. no light? No light" she says, ''save that which comes through the door, |" s.N .l, says, "only that which was brought in the sack on the journey" Let the Beth lehem woman who has come in here with kindly attentions put back the cov- ering from the babe that we may look upon it. Lookl Lookl Uncover your head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son of Mary! Son of God! Child of day-monarch of eternityl In that eye the glance of God Om- impotence sheathed in that babes arm That voice to be changed from the fee ble plaint to the tone that shall wake the dead. Hosanna! Hosanna!
 Glory be to God that Jesus came from throne to manager that we might rise from manager 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 today is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lordt''
 BATTLING THE EVIL SPIRIT
 The second installment paid for our souls clearance was the scene in Guar antania. mountainous region full of caverns, where there are to this day panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, SC that you must go there armed with