Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-02
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DR.. Talmage breaches to a Large
London Audience.
A Thrilling Picture of tho Price OF Mans
Redemption - Tho Great Cost Was
Paid by the Suffering and Death
of the Saviour.

MY u. DcNlJI ldlHliiRc, tnc RTCut
Brooklyn divine, is taking vacation
in Europe. The first Sunday after his
arrival in London he was greeted with
an immense congregation and by invita-
ton of Rev. Joseph Barker preached in
his temple upon the subject, 1.-THE I'm
mense Cost" His text was from l. Cor
inthians, vi, 20: "Ye are bought with q
price" DIR. Talmage said:
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grass plots, the
fish ponds, 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 mettled span of horses
harnessed with silver and gold, and
you begin to make an estimate of the
value
The man who owns n large estate
cannot instantly tell you all it is worth.
He says: II 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"
Well, my friends, I 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
f., 11.,kn -. u,
nor a year the magnificent calculation,
but before get through to-day hope
to give You the figures ''Ye are bought
with price"
With some friends l went to your
tower to look Mt the crown jewels. We
walked around, caught one glimpse of
them and being in the procession were
compelled to pass out. l wish that
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. Eye are bought with
price"
Now if you have large amount of
money to pay, you do not pay it all at
once, but you payit by installments-so
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 1 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-
minious birth of Christ in Bethlehem.
Though we may never be carefully |
looked after afterward, our advent into |
the world is carefully guarded. We |
come into the world amid kindly atten-
tions Privacy and silence are afforded |
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 very |
bedlam of uproar when Jesus was
born. In village capable of accom-
Inodating only few hundred people,
many thousand people were crowded;
and amid hostlers and muletesrs and
camel drivers 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 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 wrapper OF coarse
linen. One would have supposed that
Christ would have made more gradual
descent, coming from Heaven first to
half way world of great magnitude,
then to Cgsar's palace, then to mer-
chants castle in Galilee, then to pri-
vate home in Bethlehem, then to fish
erman's hut, and last of all to a stable.
No! 1t was one leap from the top to
the bottom.
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania, a mountainous region, full OF
caverns where there are to this day
panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so
that you must go there armed with
knife or gun or pistol 1t was there that
Jesus went 10 Luluh anu W Pray ohu ~
was there that this monster of hell
more sly, more terrific than anything
that prowled in that country-Satan
himself, met Christ
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that
Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the
Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus-that
rose has scattered its petals Abstinence
from food had thrown him into emacia-
ton. A long abstinence from food re-
corded in profane history is that Of the
crew of the ship Juno; for twenty-three
days they had nothing to eat. But this
sufferer had tasted Q month and ten
DAYS before He broke fast Hunger
must have agonized every fiber Of the
body, and gnawed on the stomach with
80 - a...th The khnrnht Of a NOR