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REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The ImEsccse Cost
preached in London.>

q Cor. vi. 20.
Your friend takes you through his Valua-
i 'ble house. You examine the arches, tne
frescoes, the grassplots, the fshponds, the
conservatories, the parks of deer, and you
say within yourself or you say aloud, wv nat
| did all this costY' You see costly diamond
| flashing in an earring. or you hear costly
dress rustling across the drawing room, or
you see high m sttled span OF horses har-
: messed with silver and gold, and you oegin
to make an estimate OF tie value.
The man who owns a large estate cannot
1 instantly eell you all it is worth. He says,
50 will estimate so much for the house, SO
I much for the furniture, 80 much for laying
out the grounds, so much for the STOCK, SO
much for the barn, so much for the equip
age-adding up in all making this aggre-
gate"
Well, my friends, I hear so much ABOUT
our mansion in heaven, about its furniture
and the grand surroundings, tnat want
to know how much it is all worth, and what
has actually been paid for it. cannot
complete il a month nor year tue mag
nifcent calculation, but before get tarouSa t,y
to-day hope to give you the hgureS 10
are bought with price"
With some friendsI went to your Tower
to look at the crown jewels. We walked
around, caught one glimpse OF them, ana
being in the procession were compeued 10
pass out. I wish that could take thls au.
dience into the tower of Gods mercy anu
strength that you might walk arouno 2uss
once, at least, and see the crown Je"eis o.
eternity. behold their brilliancy AMI estl-
mate their value. "Ye are bought with
price"
Now il you have large amount of money
to pay, YOU do not pay it all at once, bue
you pay it by installments-so much the
the first of January, so much the nrs1 OF
April so much the first OF July, SO
much the first of October. until the entire
smonnt is paid, and I have to tell this
audience that you have been bought with
a price" and that that price was paid In
different lnstallments
The first installment paid for the Clear
Snce of our souls was the ignoMlnsous olren
of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we may
never be carefully looked after atterward,
our advent into the world IS carefully g guar.
ed We come into the world amid kindly
attentions. Privacy and silence are al
forrled when God launches an immortal soul
into the world. Even the roughest OF men
know enough to stand back. But nave 10
tell YOU that in the village on the side OF the
hill there was a very bedlam OF uproar "nen
Jesus was born.
only few hundred people many thousand
people were crowded, and auld host!ers ana
mufeteers and camel drivers yelling at
sn1nid beasts Of burden the Messiah ap.
peared. No silence; no privacy. A better
adapted place hath the eaglet in the eYrle-
hath the whelp in the lions lair. The exue
of heaven lieth down upon straw. Inc nrse
night out from the palace OF heaven spent
in an outhouse! One hour after laying
aside the robes Of heaven, dressed IN wrap
ner of coarse linen. One would have sup.
possd that Christ would have made more
Gradual descent coming from heaven nrst
to a half way world of great magnitude
then to Cesars palace, then to merchants
castle in Gaiilee, then to private nome ~
Bethany, then to fishermans hut, aud iase
of all t6 a stable. No! 1t was one leap from
the top to the bottom.
Let us open the door of the caravausary
In Bethlehem and drive away the camels.
Press on through the group OF ldlers ana
loungers. What o Mary! no light! mo
Eohtn - she saws ''save that which comes
through the door," What Maryl no food?
t!None." she says, ''only that wnich was
brought in the sack on the journey" Let the
Bethlehem woman who has come IN hers
with kindly attentions put back the covering
from the babe that we may look upon u.
Iookl Look! Uncover your head. Let US
lneel. Let all voices bs husned. Son or
Mary, Son of Godl Child Of day-mon..
arch of eternityl In that eye the glance OF
a God. Omnipotence sheathed in that babe
arm. That voice to be changed from the
feeb,e plant to the tone that shall wake the
dead. -Rosannal Hosanna! :,
The second installmen5 paid for our soups
clearance was the scene in Quarantanla- a
Mountainous region, full OF caravans, where
There are to this DAY panthers and Wild
beasts Of all sorts, so that you must now 60
| there arme with knife or gun or pistol. IL
was there that Jesus went TO think anu 10
pray and it was there that this monster or
heli-more sly, more terrific than anytninS
that prowled in the country-satan nlnsen'
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that Pub
Illus Lertullus, In his letter to the Roman SEN
ete ascribei to Jesus-that rose had scat.
! tered its petals Abstinence from food mad
thrown Him into emaciation. Along aoStl-
nence from food recorded in profane history
Is that OF the crew Of the ship Juno; 1ot
twenty-three days they had nothing 70 eat
But this sufferer had tasted month and ter
davs pefore He broke fast. Hunger mus
have aeonized every fiber OF the BODY anc
| onawed on the stomach with teeth OF death
fhe thought of a morsel OF bread or mea
must have thrilled the body with something
like ferocity. Turn out pack of men nun
CRY as Christ wss a-hungered, anu 1ne'
had strength with one yell tney woul1 de
YOUR you as lion kid.
It was in that pang of hunger that Jesu
was accosted, and satan said, Now chang
these stones, which look like bread, into al
actual supply of bread" Had the tempta
tlon come to you aud ms under these cir
| cumstances, we would have cried, BREAD l
shall ben and been almost impatient at to-
time taken for mastication. But Chris
with one hand beat back the hunger, AM
with the other hand beat back the monarch
/ Of darkness. Oh. We tempted ones! Chris
was tempted. We are told that Napoleon
! \ordered coat Of mail made, but he was no
! Quite certain that it was impenetrable, 50 ht
said to the manufacturer of the coat o
mail, Put it on now yourself, and let u
try it.n and with shot after shot from hi
own pistol the Emperor found out that l
was Just what it pretended to be-a goo,
coat of mail. Then the man received I
large reward.
bless God that the same coat of mai
that struck back the weapons OF Temptation
from the head Of Christ we may now al
wear; for Jesus comes and says: Il hav
been tempted. and I know what it is to b
tempted. Take this robe that defended m;
and wear it for yourselves. l shall Sc
through all trials and shall see you throu5
all temptations"
But" says satan still further to Jesus
''cone and will show you something wort
looking at: and after half days journe.
they came to Jerusalem and to the top o
the temple. Just as one might go up III tn
tower OF Antwerp an1 iook off upon Belgium
so satan brought Christ to the top OF tn
temple. Some people at great height fee
dizzy. and a strange disposition to jump: 5
satan comes to Christ in that very crisis
Standing there at the top Of ths temple the
look off. A magnificent reach OF country
Grain fields, vineyards. olive groves forest
and streams, cattle in the valley, hocks o
nd oiti q nd raa lTns