The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-07-07
TALMAGE IN LONDON.
WHAT IT COST TO GIVE HUMANITY
THE CHANGE OF SALVATION.

The Lowly Birth of Christ-The Telnpta
tIon in the Wilderness-Christ Before
PIlate--How Nature Grosned and shud-
dored at the Crucinxion.
LONDON, June 2G.-An enormous
audience greeted DR.. Talmage in this
city today, composed OF people who had
come from oil parts of the British me-
tropOlls to hear the famous American
preacher. His reception in England
has been most enthusiastic. Many let
tcrs were awaiting him IRON different
cities eagerly pleading for visit. The
doctor will have to preach five or Six
times a week if he accepts even small
percentage of the urgent invitations al
ready sent TO him. lie is very much |
gratified by the extreme cordiality OF his |
reception. DR.. Talmage entities his
sermon 1.-The Immense Cost,' from the
text, l Cor. vi, 20, "Ye are bought
with price,"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house, You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grassplots, the
iishponds, the conservatories, the parks
OF deer, and you say within yourself or
you say aloud, 'What did all this cost?"
You see costly diamond flashing in an
earring, or you hear costly dress rust
ling across the drawing room, or you
SEQ high mettled span of horses har-
messed with silver and gold, and you be-
gin to make an estimate of the value.
The man who owns a large estate
cannot instantly tell you all it is worth.
He says, II will estimate so much for
the house, 80 much for the furniture, 80
much for laying out the grounds, 80
much SOr the stock, so much for the
barn, so much for the equipage-add;ng
up in all making this aggregate"
Well, my friends, l hear so much
about our mansion in heaven, about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that l want to know how much it is all
worth, ahd what has actually been paid
for it. l cannot complete in a month
nor year the magnificent calculation,
but before l get through today I hope to
give you the figures. "Ye are bought
with price,"
With some friends l went to youl
Tower to look at the crown jewels. We
walked around, caught one glimpse Of
them, and being ill the procession were
compelled to pass out. | wish that
could take this audience into the tower
OF Gods mercy and strength that you
might walk around just once, at least,
and sec the crown jewels Of eternity, be-
hold their brilliance and estimate Their
value. "Yc arc bought with price"
Now if you have large amount Of
money to pay, you do not pay it all at
once, but you pay it by installmcnts-
80 much the first Of January, so much
the fret 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 price," and that that
price was paid in different installmcnts.
The first mstallment paid for the
clearance OF our souls was the ignOmini.
GUS birth Of Christ in Bethlehem.
Though VIC may never be carefully
looked after aitcrward, our advent into
the world is carefully guarded. We
come into the world amid kindly attcn-
tions. Privacy and silence arc afforded
when God launches an immortal soul
into the world. Even the toughest OF
men know enough to stand back. But
L have to tell you that in the village on
the side of the hill there was very
bedlam of upcoar when Jesus was born.
In village capable Of accommodate
ing only n few hundred people many
thousand people were crowded, and
amid hostlers and muletcers and camel
drivers yelling at stupid beasts of bur-
den the Messiah appeared. No silence;
no privacy. a better adapted place
hath the eaglct 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 heav-
en- spent in an clubhouse! One hour af-
ter laying aside the robes of heaven,
dressed in wrapper OF coarse linen.
One would have supposed that Christ
would have made more gradual de-
scent, coming from heaven first TO half
way world Of great magnitude, then to
C&sar's palace, then to a merchants
castle in Galllee, then to private home
in Bethany, then to lisherman's hut,
and last OF ali to stable. No! II 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 attentions put back the
covering from The babe that we may look
upon it. Look! Look! Uncover your
head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be
hushed. Son of Mary! Son of God!
Child Of u day-monarch Of eternity!
In that eye the glance ofa God. Om-
impotence sheathed in that babe's arm.
That voice to be changed from the fee
bic plant TO the tone that shall wake
the dead. Hosanna! IIOsanna!
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. Let all the bellmen of heay-
en- lay hold the rope and ring out the
news, "Behold, bring you glad tidings
of great joy. which shall be to all peo-
pie; for today IS born In the city of
David Saviour, which is Christ the |
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