The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-01
THE IMMENSE COST.
DR.. TALMAGE SPEAKS OF THE PRICE
OF SALVATION.

ceived in EngIand-He Addresses a,
Immense Congregation in London-Th.
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 gratiied by the extreme
cordially of his reception. DR.. Talmage
entities his sermon THE Immense Cost, "
from the text, Corinthians vi, 30, eye
are bought with price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grassplots, the
tishponds, the Conservatives, the parks
of deer, and you say within yourself or
you say aloud, "What did all this
cost| You see a costly diamond flash
ing in an earring, or you hear a costly
dress rustling across the drawing room,
or you see high mettled span of horses
harnessed with silver 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, 81 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-addi
up in all making this aggregate"
Well, my friends, | 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. ! cannot complete in month
nor year the magnificent calculation,
but before get through today hope to
give you the figures. ''Ye are bought
with 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
bf 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 INSTALLMENT PLAN.
Now if you have large amount of
money to pay, you do not pay it all at
once, but you pay it by installments-so
much the first of January, so much the
first of April, so much the first of July, |
30 much the first of October, until the |
entire amownt is paid, and have to tell |
this audience that 'you have been
bought with price," and that that
price was paid in different installments.
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the igno-
luminous birth Of Christ in Bethlehem.
Though we may never be carefully
booked after afterward, our advent into
the world is carefully guarded We
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.
But have to tell you that in the vii
aage 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-
ers yelling at stupid beasts of burden
the Messiah appeared. No silence. No I
privacy. A better adapted place hath
the-eaglet 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 heaven spent in {
an clubhouse! One hour after LAYING [
aside the robes of heaven, dressed in a i
of coarse linen. One would s
have supposed that Christ would have |
made more gradual descent, coming |
from heaven first to half way world of I
great magnitude, then to Caesars pal 6
ace, then to merchants castle in Cali t
lee, then to a private home in Bethany, t
then to fisherman's hut, and last of all c
to a stable. No! 1t was one leap from {
the top to the bottom. {
Let us open the door of the caravan J
sary in Bethlehem and drive away the '
camels. Press on through the group of Z
oilers and loungers. What, oh, Maryi t
no light? NO light" she says, ''save e
that which comes through the door" i
What, Mary! no food? "None," she i
says, "only that which was brought in t
he sack On the journey" Let the Beth +
chem woman who has come in here t
With kindly attentions put back the COW
sring from the babe that we may look b
lpon it. Look! Lookl Uncover your u
head. Let us kneel. Let all voices be a
rushed. Son of Mary! Son of God! il
Child of a day-monarch of eternityl c
N that eye the glance of God. Om- p
Impotence sheathed in that babes arm. d
That voice to be changed from the fee n
lie plant to the tone that shall wake
he dead. Hosanna! Hosanna! d
Glory be to God that Jesus came from I
hrone to manger that we might rise b
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