The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-02-07
At The TABERNACLE.
rR. TALMaGE breaches A SERMON
OF REMARKABLE POWER.

~ iNSui<NANNNO-- O'' -'<'
An Old-Eah,oned Plea Couched In Sur
pas sing Eioquence-The Feast Proposed
by Divine Power Aa Earnest Perosa-
tioD.
BRocxnYS. Jan. 2s.-The usual
lsroe sn6ience assembled in the Taber-
pacle today and listened to sermon Of
remarkable power and interest by Rev.
DIR. Talnage, the subject being
s.Festi7l.y." The text selected was
Luke xiv, II, ''Come. tor all things are
now ready"
It was one Of the most exciting times
in Eogllsh history when Queen Elizs'
bath visited Lord Leicester Ct Kenll-
wsrth castle. The moment OF her ar
rival was considered so important that
all the clocks Of the castle were stopped,
80 that the hands might point to that one
moment as being the most significant OF
all. She was greeted tothe gate with
floating islands and torches and the thun-
der of cannon and fireworks that get the
night ablaze, and great burst OF music
that lifted the whole scene into perfect
enchantment. Thea she was introduced
In dining hall, the luxries Of which as
tonished the world. Four hundred SER
wants waited upon the guests. The en-.
tertsinment cost $500 each day. Lord
Leicester made that great supper ID
Kenilworth castle.
Cardinal Wolsey entertained the
French ambassadors at Hampton court.
The best cooks in all the land prepared
for TIE banquet. PurTeyors went OUT
and travelled all the Kingdom sr TO mao
spoils for the table. The time came
The guests were kept during the Cay
bunting in the kings park, so that their
appesites might be keen, and then IN the
evening, to the sound of the trumpeters,
they were introduced into hall hung
with silk and cloth OF gold, and there
were tables aglitser with Imperial plate
and laden with the rarest Of meats and
ablush with the costliest wines. And
when the second course of the feast
came it was found that the articles OF
food had been fashioned into the shape
otmen, birds and beasts, and groups
dancing. and jousting parties riding
seainst each other with lances. Lords
and princes and ambassadors out OF cups
filed to the brim dsank the health first
OF the king of Enfland and next OF the
king of France. Cardinal Wolsey pre-
pared ehat great supper IN Hampton
court.
But I have to tell you Of a grander
entertainment Ny Lord the King Is
the banlueter. Angels are the cuphes-
ers. All the redeemed are the guests.
The halls OF eternal love, trescoed with
light end paved With JOY and curtalDec
With untadlDg beauty, are the banquet
ing place. The barmonies of eternity
are the music. The chai.ces OF heaven
are the plate, and am enc of the ser.
wants coming out with both hands filed
with invitations, scattering them any
where, and, oh, that for yourselves you
might break the seal Of the invitation
and read the words written in red INK OF
blood by the treuulous hand of dying
Christ, "Come now, for all things are
ready"
There have been grand entertainments
where was q taking oE-the wine gave
oct. or the servants we're rebeillous, or
the hight failed, but I have gene all
around about this subject and looked at
the redemption Which Christ has pro-
vided, and I come here to tell you It IS
complete, and swing open the door OF
the feast, telling you that ''all thing are
now ready"
In the Arst place, I have to announce
that the Lord Jesus Christ himself Is
ready. Cardinal Welsey came into the
feast after the frat course. He came in
booted and spurred, and the guests arose
and cheered him. But Christ comes II
st the very beginning of the feast-aye,
he has been waiting 1884 years for his
guests. He has been standing on bis
mangled feet. he has had his sore haad
on bis punctured side, or he mas been
pressing his lacerated tenples-walting,
waiting.
It is wonderful that he has not>been
inpa Nent, and that he has not said,
ssShut the door, and let the laggard stay
out" but he has l,een waiting. No ban.
aueter ever waited for his guests 80
patiently as Christ has waited for Us.
70 prove how willing be is to receive US
I gather all the tears that rolled down
his cheeks in sympathy for your sor.
rows. 7 gather all the drops Of blood
that chameled bis brow and bis back, ard
his hands and feet, in trying to purchase
yaRs- eaelogsiea.-I gather all The groans
that he uttered IN midnight chill, and IN
mountain hunger, and in desert loneli
ness, apd twist-them into one crYbltter,
agonlzing, overwhelming.
I gather all the pains that shot from
spear and spike and cross jolting into
one ang--remorseless, grinding, ex.
cruciatlng. I take that one drop OF
sweat on, his brow, and under the gospel
glass that drop enlarges until I see II it
lakes Of SORROW and an ocean Of agony.
That Icing standing before you now,
emaciated and gashed and CORY, eoaxes
for your love with pathos in which
every werd Is hesrtbreak and every
sentence martyrdom. How can you
think he triAes?
0HasGc4OS p4opaAOo q 4Se@os '0A ASe
days, but this feast is for all eternity,
Lords and princes were invited 70 that.
You and and all our world are invited
to this. Christ is ready. You know
that bansueters of elden time used to
wrap themselves in robes prepared for
the occasion. So my Lord Jesus hath
wrapped himself in all that IS beautiful.
See how tair heis His eye, ,.his brow,
his cheek, so radiant that the stars have
no CLEAN and the morning no brlliancy
compared with it. His face rejecting
all the joys of the redeemed. his hand
having the omnlpotsnt surgery with
which he opened bind eYesand straight
ened crooked limbs and hoisted the pill
lars of hsayen and swung the II gates
which are 12 pearls.