Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
CHRIST'S SAD EXILE.
THE LONG EXPATRlATlON WAS DR..
TALMAGE'S SUNDAY THEME.


When the King Went Forth and farried
In Place which Was Far OT-Christ's
Great Homesickness- the Throne
room to the Sheep Pen.
WASHINGTON. April l9.-It is won-
derful to how many tunes the gospel
NAV be set DR.. Talmagc's sermon to-
dav shows another way in which tha
earthly experience Of our Lord is set
forth. His text was II Samuel XN IT,
"And the king went forth and tmuod
in a place which was far OF.
Far up and far back in the history ot
heaven there came a period when IFS
most illustrious citizen was about Co abe
sent himself. He was not going to >.A
from beach 10 beach; we have ci Do
done that. He was not going O. Iuf ont
from one hemisphere to another hcml-
sphere; many of us have done that. bu
he was TO sail from world to world, tae
spaces uncxplored and the immon-i'i.'
untraveled. No world has ever hailed
heaven. and heaven has never hailed
any other world. think that the WIN
dows and the balconies wore thrlucrd.
and that the pearly beach was crowded
with those who had come to see him sail
ont of the harbor Of light into the ocean
bevond. Out and out and ont, and cu
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 Decentralization 50 uupretendlnS- So
ouiet that it was not known on earih
until the excitement i'll the cloud gave
intimation 70 the Bethlehem rusticS that
something grand and glorious had hap
pened Who comes there? From what
port did he sail? Why was this the place
Of his destination? | question the shep-
herds. Lquestion the camel drivers.
ouestion the angels. l have found out.
He was an exile. But the world had
plentv Of exiles. Abraham, an exile
from Haran John, an exile from Lphe-
sus; KosciuskO, an exile from Poland
Mazzini. an exile from Rome; Emmett,
an exile from Ireland Victor Hugo, an
exile from France; Kossuth, an exile
from Hungary. But this one Of whom
l speak today had such resounding fare
we'll and came into such chilling rCcop
tion-for not even a hostler went out
with his lantern to light him in-thai
he is more to be celebrated than any 9th
er expatriated exile Of earth or heaven
From Throneroom to Sheep Pen.
First, remark that Christ was al
imperial exile. He got down OF
throne. He took off tiara. He closed
palace gate behind him. His tamll.
were princes and princosseS. Nashtl wa
turned out Of the throneroom by Ahas
uerus. David was de.h10ned by Absa
lom's infmny. The five kings wer
h,n,ed into a cavern by Joshua S cour
| age Some Of the Henrys Of Engim
and some Of the Louis Of France wer
iostled on their thrones by discontente
subjects. But Christ was never mon
honored or more popular or more love
than the day he left heaven. Exile
, have suffered severely, but Christ turne
himself out from throneroom into shee
pen. and down from the top to tie bot
tom. He was not pushed off. lie wa
not manacled for foreign Transportation
He was not put ont because they ID
more wanted him in celestial DOMAIN
but by choice, departing and descendlh
into an exile five times as long rs tina
Of Napoleon at st. Helena, and a tho'
sand times worse-the one exile suiform
for that he had destroyed nations I'll
other exile suffering because he came
= save a world. An imperial exile hni
eternal. blessing and honor and glcl
; and mower be unto him that sitteth nj
on the throne "
q But 90 farther and tell you he W..
an exile on a barren island. inns Wofl
is one of the smallest islands Of hgl
J. in the ocean of immensity. Other ste
u lar kingdoms are many thousand tim
larger than this. Christ came to tn
small Patmos Of a world. When exil
are sent out they are generally sent
u ceoions that are sandy or cold or hot
d some Dry Tortugas Of disagreeablenes
Christ came as an exile TO wor
scorched with heat and bitten WI
y cold. to deserts simoom swept TO
howling wilderness 1t was the ba'
dooryard seemingly Of the uniyers
Yea. Christ came to the poorest part
" this barren island Of world-As
Minor, with its intense summers IN
for the residence Of a foreigner, and
% the rainy season unfit for the residen
of a native Christ came not to such
land as America or England or Fran
u or Germany. but to a land one-third
II the year drowned, another third OF {
n wear burned up, and only one-third
the year Just tolerable. Oh, it was t
barren island Of a world Barren enou
for Christ, for it gave such small W.
ship and such inadequate affection, a
D. such little gratitude. Imperial exile
the barren island of world.
The Earth Against Him.
Ieo farther and tell ycu that he "
~ An exile in a hostile country. TURK
was never so much against Russ
France was never SO much against G
ts many, as this earth was against Chr
- II took him in through the door Of
: stable. It thrust him out at the point
IL a spear. The Roman government agai
him with every weapon. Of its arm, 9