The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
IN LONDON.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage breaches in the
English Metropolis.
The Audience Was Moved to Tears BY the
Noted Preachers Eloquence-A Tre-
mendous Multitude Listens
to the Sermon.

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DR.. Talmage preached by special in
vitation of Rev. Jos. Parker, the cele-
brated English divine, in the City Tenn
pie, London, Sunday forenoon. Long
before the opening hour dense mass of
people besieged the doors of the temple.
The crowd was so tightly wedged that
women tainted during the struggle for
| entrance.
! DR.. Parker introduced DIR. Talmage
to the audience and greeted him in low
ing cordality. Talmage's sermon moved
the auditory to tears. At the conclu-
sion Parker took the platform, and, adj
dressing the audience, said with much
feeling:
"That is the most solemn, pathetic
and impressive appeal ever listened to-
1t has kindled the fire of enthusiasm in
our souls that will burn on forever. 1t
has unfolded the possibilities of the pull
pitnever before reached. 1t has stirred
all hearts with hottest ambition"
Then, lifting his eyes heavenward,
he added, impressively: 81 thank God
for DIR. Talmage's life and ministry
and despise the man who can not APP
preciate his services to Christianity.
Great applause. May he preach in
this pulpit again."
After the service, and as the congre-
CATION was being dismissed, DR.. Parker
embraced the American preacher in the
pastors study, and fervently invited
him to make the City Temple his head
quarters.
When DR.. Talmage left the church he
found that great audience remained
outside, and an almost impossible
crowd blocked the street. He was i'm
mediately surrounded by the crowd,
which was kept back by the police,
while the doctor, guarded by police
men, made brief address, standing in
a carriage when he spoke. In the coach
were Miss Maud Talmage and Dr. and
Mrs. Louis Klopsch, of New York city,
who are with the Talmage party.
After his remarks there was a season
of handshaking. At last the police sue
ceeded in clearing path, and the car
riage passed through the multitude,
many running after it to get glimpse
of the Tabernacle preacher. Dr. Tai
mage's stay in London is uncertain, as
he leaves soon for st. Petersburg to dis
tribute the cargo of the Christian Her
aid Russian relief steamer Leo.
DR.. Talmage entities his sermon,
THE Immense Cost" for the text, 1
Cor vi: 90, "Ye are bought with a
price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grass plots, the
fish ponds, the Conservatives, 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
rustling across the dra wing-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 a large estate can
not instantly tell you what 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-adding
lip 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 | want to know how much it is all
worth, and what has actually been paid
for it. can not complete in month,
nor in a year, the magnificent calcula-
ton, but before get through to-day
hope to give you the figures Eye are
bought with price"
With some friends l 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. 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. "Ye are bought with a
price"
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 1st of January, so much
the LIST of April, so much the first OF
July, so much the LIST of October, until
the entire amount is paid, and l have
to tell this audience that you have
been bought with a price," and that
price was paid in different installments
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the ignomin
ious 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
tons Privacy and silence are afforded
when God launches an immortal SOU
into the world. Even the toughest Of
men know enough to stand back. But
have to tell you that in the village or
the side of the hill there was very
bedlam of uproar when Jesus was born
In village capable of accommodating
only a few hundred people, many
thousand people were crowded, and
amid hostlers and muleteers and camel
drivers yelling at stupid beast:
of burden, the Messiah appeared. NJ
silence. No privacy. A better adapted
place hath the eaglet in the eyrie-hatt
the whelp in the lions lair. The exil,
of Heaven lieth down upon straw. TIL,
first night out from the palace o.
Heaven spent in an outhouse! On,
hour after laying aside the robes O