The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-05-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
TIE Experience Of the Saviour a.
an Exile.
Compared with Other Exiies He Was the
Most Foriorn-His Hopeless Sur
roundings on the Arid
Plains OF Palestine

| Plains OF fbiosttn&
II Is wonderful to how many tunes
the Gospel may be set. DIR. Talmage'a
latest sermon shows another way In
which the earthly experience Of our
Lord Is set forth. His text was IL
Samuel, w., II:
And the king went forth and tarried IN Q
| place which was far on.
Far up and far back In the history
| of Heaven there came a period when
its most illus.rious citizen was about
to absent Himself. He was not going
TO sail from beach to beach; we have
often done that He was not going to
put out from one hemisphere to an
other hemisphere; many OF US have
done that. But He was to sail from
world to world, the spaces unexplored
and the hemispheres untraveled. No
world has ever hailed heaven, and
heaven has never hailed any other
world. think that the win
dows and the balconies were
thronged, and that the pearly
beach was crowded with those
who had come to see Him sail out Of
the harbor Of light into the ocean be.
yond. Out and out and out, and on
and on and on, and down and down
and down He sped, until one night,
with only one to greet Him, when He
arrived, His disembarka ton SO unpre-
tending, so quiet, that 1t was not
known on earth until the excitement
In the cloud gave intimation to the
Bethlehem rustics that something
grand and glorious had happened.
Who comes there? From what port did
He sail? Why was this the place of His
destination? Questions the shepherds.
Iquestion the camel drivers. question
the angels. have found out. He was
an exile. But the world had plenty Of
exiles. Abraham, an exile from Har-
an; John, an exile from Ephesus; Kos
ciuslso, an exile from Poland; Mazzini,
an exile from Rome; Emmett, an exile
from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exile
from Hungary. But this one Of whom
speak to-day had such resounding
farewell and came into such chilling
reception for not even an hostler
went out with his lantern to light Him
in-that He is more to be cele brated
than any other expatriated exile of
earth or Heaven.
First / remark that Christ was an
imperial exile. He got down off q
throne. He took off tiara. He closed
a palace gate behind him. His family
were princes and princesses. Vashti
was turned out of the throne room by
hoc no lafh
Absalom's infamy. The five kings were
hurled into cavern by Joshua's cour-
age. Some of the Henrys of England
and some of the Louises Of France
were jostled on their thrones by dis
contented subjects. But Christ was
never more honored, or more popular,
or more loved than the day He left
Heaven. Exiles have suffered severely,
but Christ turned Himself out from
throne room into sheep pen, and
down from the top to the bot
was not manacled for foreign
He was not put out
because they no more wanted Him in
celestial domain, but by choice depart
ing and descending into an exil FIVE
times as long as that of Napoleon at
st. Helena, and thousand times worse;
the one exile suffering for that he had
destroyed nations, the other exile suf-
fering because He came to save a
world. An imperial exile. King eter-
nal Blessing and honor aud glory
upon the throne"
But l go further, and tell you he
was an exile on barren island. This
world is one of the smallest islands
OF light in the ocean Of immensely.
Other stellar kingdoms are many
thousands times larger than this
Christ came to this small Patmos Of
world. When exiles are sent out they
are generally sent to regions that are
sandy or cold, or hot-some Dry Tor
tugas of disagreeableness. Christ
came as an exile to world scorched
with heat and bitten with cold, to
deserts simoon-swept, to bowling
1t was the back door yard,
seemingly, of the universe. Yea, Christ
came to the poorest part Of this barren
island Of q world-Asia Minor, with
its intense summers, unfit for the
residence of a native. Christ came
not to such land as America, or En-
gland, or France, or Germany, but to
a land one-third of the year drowned,
another third of the year burned up,
and only one-third of the year just
tolerable. Oh! it was the barren island
of world. Barren enough for Christ,
for 1t gave such small worship and
such inadequate affection, and such
little gratitude. Imperial exile on the
barren island Of world.
go further, and tell you that He
was an exile in hostile country. Tur-
key was never so much against Rus
STA, France was never so much against
Germany, as this earth was against
Christ. 1t took Him in through the
door of a stable. 1t thrust Him out at
the point Of a spear. The Roman gov
eminent against Him with every
weapon of its army, and every decision
of its courts, and every beak of its
war eagles. For years after His ar
rival, the only question was how