The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-24
FROM WORLD TO WORLD.
Christ's j Quincy Ends at a Tree
Without One Leaf
The Royal Exile Lands In q World That Is
Seorchsd with Heat and Bitten
with { old and Among
Strangers.

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forth. His text was IL Samuel, XVIII:
"And the King went forth and tarried
in place which was far off. "
Far up and far back in the history
of Heaven, there came a period when
its most illustrious 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 immensities untraveled. No
world has ever hailed Heaven, and
Heaven has never hailed any other
world. l think the windows 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 disem barkation
so unpretending, SO quiet, that
it was not known to 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? / ques-
ton the shepherds 1 question the
camel drivers. l question the angels.
/ have found out. He was an exile.
But the world had plenty of exiles.
Abraham, an exile from Haran; John,
an exile from Ephesus: Kosciusko, an
exile from Poland; Mazzinni, an exile
from Rome; Emmett, an exile from Ire
land; Victor Hugo, an exile from
France; Kossuth, an exile from Hun
gary. But this one of whom l speak
to-day had some surrounding farewell
and came into such chilling reception
for not even a hostler went out with
his lantern to light Him in-that He is
more to be celebrated than any other
. expatriated exile of earth or heaven.
First, remark that Christ was an
imperial exile. He got down off a
| throne. He took off a tiara He
closed palace gate behind him.
, His family were princes and prin-
cesses. Vashti was turned out of the
throne-room by Ahasuerus. David
was dethroned by Absalom's infamy.
, The five kings were hurled into a
cavern by Joshua's courage. Some of
the Henry's of England and some of
the Louises of France were jostled on
their thrones by disconnected 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 drove from the top to
the bottom. He was not pushed off.
He was not manacled for foreign trans.
portation. He was not put out be-
. cause they no more wanted him in
s celestial domain. but by choice depart
ing and descending into an exile five
times as long as that of Napoleon at
st. Helena, and a thousand times
: worse; the one exile suffering for that
he had destroyed nations, the other
? exile suffering because he came to
save a world An imperial exile. King
: eternal. Blessing and honor and
glory and power be unto Him that
sitteth upon the throne"
But go further, and tell you He was
an exile on a barren island. This
= world is one of the smallest islands of
light in the ocean of immensely. Other
stellar kingdoms are many thousand
times larger than this. Christ came to
: this small Patmos of a world. When
exiles are sent out they are generally
sent to regions that are sandy, or cold,
or hot-some Dry Tortugas of disagree
ableness. Christ came as an exile to a
world scorched with heat and bitten
with cold, to deserts simoon-swept, to
a bowling wilderness. 1t was the back
! door yard, seemingly, of the universe.
, Yea, Christ came to the poorest part
of this barren island of world-Asia
. Minor, with its intense summers, unfit
, for the residence of a native. Christ
, came not to such a land as America,
; or England, 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
wear just tolerable. Oh! it was the
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) enough for Christ, for it gave such
small worship and such inadequate af-
: lection, and such little gratitude. I'm
, perial exile on the barren island of a
world.
; 1 go further, and tell you that He
was an exile in a hostile country.
Turkey was never so much against
Russia, 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 Ro.
man government against Him with
every weapon of its army, and every
decision of its courts, and every beak
of its war eagles For year after His
arrival, the only question was how
best to put Him out Herod hated
Him, the high priests hated Him, the
Pharisees hated Him, Judas Iscariot
hated Him. Gestas, the dying thief,
hated Him. The whole earth seemed
. turned into a detective to watch His
stems And vet He faced this ferOcity.