The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-04-25
FROM WORLD TO WORLD.
Christ's Journey Ends at a Tree
Without One Leaf.
The Royal Exile Lands In q World That Is
soorohed with Heat and Bitten
with Cold aud Among
Strangers.

Strangers.
In a recent sermon DIR. Talmage
showed another way in which the
earthly experience of our Lord is set
forth. His text was II. Samuel, XVIII:
'tAnd the King went forth and tarried
in a place which was faro Off"
Far up and far back in the history
of Heaven, there came a period when
it's 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 un~explored
and the ~immensities untraveled. No
world has ever hailed Heaven, and
Heaven has never hailed any other
world. 1 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 n night,
"ASA JIM OAO W SACOb AAAht "ASA
He arrived, His decentralization
SO unpretending, SO quiet, that
1t was not known to earth
until the excitement in the cloud gave
intimation to the Bethlehem rusties
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-
Ht4- fhA ohArharla question tho
camel drivers. 1 question the angels.
1 have found out He vas ar exile.
But the world had plenty of exiles.
Abraham, an exile from Haran; John,
an exile from Ephesus: Kosciusko, an
exile from Poland; M~azzinni. 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 1 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, 1 remark that Christ was an
imperial exile. He got down off a
throne. He took off a tiara. He
closed q 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
avern by Joshua's courage. Some of
the Henry's of England and some of
the Louisss of France were jostled on
their thrones by disconnected subjects.
d. Hh-sak ruo - h@-@-A1
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 of.
He was not m~anacled for foreign trans
portation. He was not put put be-
cause they no more wanted him in
celestial domain, but by choice depart
ing and descending into an exile five
times as long as that of Napoleon at
st. Helena, and q thousand times
worse; the n exile suffering for that
he had destroyed nations, the other
exile suffering because he came to
ave a world. An imperial exile. King
eternal. blessing and honor and
glory and power be unto Him that
stitch upon the throne"
But l 60 further, and tell you He was
an exile on q 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
q bowling wilderness. It was the back
door yard, seemingly, of tho universe,
Yea, Christ came to the poorest part
of this barren island of a 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 q land one-third of the year
drowned, another third of the year
burned up, and only one-third of the
year just tolerable. Oil it was the
barren island OF q world. Barren
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.
/ go further, and tell you that He
was an exile in q 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-
@Ouarnnank anafnRf Him UUifh
every weapon OF its army, n every
decision of its courts. and every beak
OF its war eagles. For q year after His
arrival, the only question was how
best to put Him out. Herod hated
HIN, 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
steps. And yet He faced this ferocity.
were in front. Some scourging on the
shoulders, but most of Christ's wounds
in front He was not on retreat when
He expired. Face to face with h
worlds sin. Face to face with the
worlds woe. His eye on the rag
ing -countenances Of His foam
ing "heh no O4PlTCQs
When the cavalry officer row.
eled his steed SO that he might
come nearer up and see the tortured
visage of the suffering exile, Christ
saw it. When the spear was thrust at
His side, and when the hammer was
lifted for His feet, and when the reed
was raised to strike deeper down the
spikes of thorn, Christ watched the
whole procedure. When His hands
were fastene ed to the cross they were
wide open still with benediction.
Mind you, His head was not fastened,
He could look to the right and He
could look to the left, and He could
look up and He could look down. He
saw when the spikes had been driven
home, and the hard, round. iron heads
were in the palms of His hands; He
saw them as plainly as you yer sa W
anything in the palms of your hands.
No ether, no chloroform, no merciful
anesthetic to dull or Supply, but
wide awake, He saw the observation
of the Heavens, the u~nbalancing of
the rocks, the countenances quivering