The Penn's Grove record., 1892-07-01
REV. DR. TALMAGR
The Brooklyn Divineis Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "The Immense Cos'."
preached In London,

TEXT, aye are bought With a price."-
] Cor. vi. 90.
Your friend takes you through his valua-
BILE house. You examine the arches, the
frescoes, the grassplots. the hshponds, the
c~onservatories, the parks of deer. and you
say within yourself or you say aloud, VIVA,
did all this cost?' You sec q 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 har-
messed 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 Is worth. he says,
~ 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 equip
a~ge-adding up in all making this aggre
gate"
our mansion in heaven, about its furniture
and the grand surroundings, tnat 1 want
to know how much it is all worth, and what
has actually been paid for it. l cannot
niicent calculation, but before | get through
to-day / hope to give you the figures. X
are bought with a price"
With some friendsI 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 10
pass out. l wish that l could take this au.
dience into the tower OF Gods mercy M
strength that you might walk around Just
once. at least, and see the crown jewels OF
eternity. behold their hrilliancy and esti-
mate their value Eye are bought with .
price"
to pay, you do not pay it all at once, but
you pay it by installments-so much ths
the first Of January, so much the hrst OF
April, No much the first 4 July. 50
amount is paid, and / have to tell this
audience that ''you rave been bought with
a price, and that that price was paid in
different lnstallments.
The first installment paid for the clear.
ance Of our souls was the i~guoxinious birth
of Christ in Bethlehem. Though We may
never be carefully looked after afterward,
our advent into the world is carefully guard
ed. We come into the world amid kindly
attentions. Privacy n silence are az.
forded when God launches an immortal soul
into the world, Even the toughest 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 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 q
muieteers and camel drivers yelling at
stupid beasts Of burden the Messiah ap-
peared. No silence; no privacy. A better
adapted place hath the eaglet in the eyre
hath the whelp in the lions lair. The exils
Of heaven lieth down upon straw. The first
night out from the palace OF heaven spent
in an outhousel One hour after laying
aside the robes of heaven, dressed in a wrap
per Of coarse linen. One would have sup
posed that Christ would have made q more
gradual descent, coming from heaven hrst
to a half way world OF great magnitude,
then to Caesars palace, then to q merchants
castle in Gaiilee, then to . private home in
Bethany, then to a fisherman's hut, and last
of all to a stable. MOI 1t was one leap from
the top to the bottom
Let u open the door OF the ~caravausary
in Bethlehem and drive away the cameis.
Press on through the group OF idlers and
~loupeers. What, o Mary! no lightf N
light she says, save that which comes
through the door" What Maryi no foods
s.None." she says, ''only that which was
brought in the sack On the journey" Let the
Bethlehem woman who has come In mere
with kindly attentions put back the covering
from the babe that we may look upon it.
LookI LookI Uncover your head. Let US
kneel, Let all voices bs hnsaed. Son OF
Maryl Son of Godt Child of q day-mon-
arch OF eternityl In that eye the glance Of
q God. Omnipotence sheathed in that baoe's
arm. That voice to be caanget from the
feeble plant to the tone that snail wake tine
dead. Hosannal Hosaunal
The second installment paid for our souls
clearance was the scene in Quarantanla, q
mountainous region. full Of caravans, where
there are to this day partners and Wild
beasts Of all sorts, so that you must now go
there arme / witn knife or gun or pistol IL
was there that Jesus went to think and TO
pray, and it was there that his monster OF
heli-more sly, more terrific than anything
hat prowled IN the country-sasan nitnseits
met Christ.
The rose in the cheek Of Christ that Pub
lfus Lentuilus, In his letter to the Roman sem
ate. ascribe1 to Jesus-that rose had scat
tered its petals. Abstinence from food had
thrown Him into emaciation. Along abstt-
nence from food recorded in p~rofane history
is that OF the crew of the ship Juno; for
tw~enty-three days they had nothing to eat.
But this sufferer had tasted a month and ten
DAYS before He broke fast. Hunger must
have aeonized every fiber OF the body and
enawed on the stomach with teeth of death
The thought of q morsel OF bread or meat
must nave thrilled the body with something
like ferocity. Turn out q pack of men hun
CRY as Christ wa a-hungered, and II they
had strength, with one yell they would de
your you as a lion q kid.
1t was in that pang of hunger that Jesu.
was accosted, q satan said, snow change
these stones, which look like bread, into ar
actual supply of bread" Had the tempta
ton come to you and me under these cir
cumstances, we would a cried, Bread II
shall bep' and been almost impatient at this
time taken for mastication. But Chris
with one hand beat back the hunger, ant
with the other land beat back the monarch
of darkness. Oh, We tempted onesi Christ
was tempted. We are told that Napoleon
ordered a coat of mail made, but he was mo-
quite certain that it was impenetrable, so he
said to the manufacturer of the coat oil
mail, Put it on now yourself, and let US
own pistol the Emperor found out that il
was just what it pretended to bs-a good
coat of mail. Then the man received q
large reward.
1 bless God that the same coat of mail
that struck back the Weapons OF temptation
from the head of Christ we may now al
wear; for Jesus comes aud says: II nave
been tempted, and 1 know what it is to be
tempted. Take this robe that defended me
through all trials and Ishall see you throuyh
all Temptations"
"But," says satan still further to Jesus,
''come and | will show you something worth
looking at; and after a half days Journey
they came to Jerusalem and to the top OF
tile temple. Just as one might go up m the
tower OF Antwerp and look off upon Belgium,
so satan brought Christ to the TOP OF the
temple. some people at a great height fee
dizzy, and a strange disposition to jump: 81
satan come to Christ in that very crisis
Standing there at the top of the temple the,
look off. A magnificent reach of country
Grain fields, vineyards, olive groves. forest
and streams cattle in the valley, fiocks OF
the hills and villages and cities and realms.
"Now," says satan. 'Pll make a bargain
Just jump off. / know it is a great way
from the top OF the temple to the valley
but il YOU are divine you can hy. Jump of
II won't hurt you. An se,s will catch you.
Your Father will hold you. Besides, I'll
make you a large fortune IL you will. III
give you Asia Minor, IN give you China,
III give you Ethiopia, IN give you Italy,
FL give you Spain, IN give you Germany,
III give you all the world.n What q
temptation IL must rave bssni
TO tomorrow morning AMI gee IN 81
alteration with soma wretch crawling u,
from a gin cellar in the lowest part of youi
city. mo" you say. 81 would not bemear
myself by getting into such a contest" TheI
hin what the King OF heaven and earti
endured when He came down aud Tough
the great wretch Of hell. AMI fou ,ht hun Ia
the wilderness and on top of the temple.
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