Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-04-23
AN IMPERIAL EXILE.
Or. TALMaeE'S ELOQUENT SERMON
ON cHRiST's ExPATRIATIoN.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-It is wonderful
10 how many tunes the gospel may be set.
DR.. Talmage's sermon today shows another
way in which the earthly experience of ouI
Lord Is set forth. His text was II Samuel
XIV, II, "And the king went forth and tar
ried In place which was far off,
Far up and far back in the history oi
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 another hemisphere. Many
Of us have done that. But he was to sal
from world to world, the spaces unex
plored and the immensities untraveled
No world has ever hailed heaven, and
heaven has never hailed any other world
think that the windows and the balconies
were thronged, and that tho pearly beach
was crowded with those who had come Il
see him sail out Of the harbor of light into
the ocean beyond. Out and out and out
and on and on and ON and down and dow1
and down he sped, until one night, with
only one to greet him, when he arrived
his Decentralization SO unpretending, sc
| quiet, that Is was not known on Garth un
til the excitement In the cloud gave init
| nation to the Bethlehem rustios that
something grand and glorious had hap
pened. Who comes therep From what
port did he sailP Why was this the place
of his destinations / question the shep
herds. question tho camel drivers.
question the angels. l have found out
Ha ayiln tho xunrl1 ha6
plenty of exiles. Abraham, an exile from
Haran; John, an exile from Ephesus; Kos.
ciusko, an exile from Poland; Mazzini, al
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 hat
such resounding farewell and came into
such chilling reception-for not even a
hostler went out with his lantern to light
him in-that he Is moro to be celebrated
than any other expatriated exile of eartf
or heaven.
An Imperial Exile.
First, l remark that Christ was an i'm
perial exile. He got down off q throne
He took off tiara. He closed O palace
gate behind him. His family were prince!
and princesses. Vashti was turned out o
the throneroom by Ahasuerus. David wa!
| dethroned by Absalom's infamy. The five
kings were hurled into a cavern by
Joshua's courage. Some of the Henrys o
England and some of the Louis O
France were jostled on their thrones b.
discontented subjects. But Christ wa!
never more honored, or more popular, ol
more loved than the day he left heaven
Exiles have suffered severely, but Chris
| turned himself out from throneroom into
| sheep pen and down from the top to thu
| bottom. He was not pushed off. He wa
not manacled for foreign transportation
| He was not put out because they no NOR
| wanted him in celestial domain, but b,
choice departing and descending into al
exile five times as long as that of Napoleon
at St. Helena and 1000 times worse; th
one exile suffering for that he had de
stroyed nations the other exile suffering
because he came to save world. An i'm
| perial exile. King eternal. Blessing an
honor and glory and power be unto hin
that sitteth upon the throne"
| But go farther and tell you he was Al
exile on q barren island. This world
one of the smallest islands of light in tn
ocean of immensity. Other stellar king
doms are many thousand times larger tina
this. Christ came to this small Patmos c
a world When exiles are sent out the
are generally sent to regions that are sand
or cold or hot-some Dry Tortugas of dis
| agreeableness. Christ came as an exile t
world seorched with heat and bite
with cold, to deserts simoom swept, to
bowling wilderness. 1t was the back dool
yard, seemingly, Of the universe Yea
Christ came to the poorest part of thi
barren island of world-Asia Minor
with its intense summers, unfit for tn
residence of foreigner and In the rain
season unfit for the residence Of native
Christ came not to such land as Amer
lea, or England, or France, or Germany
but to land ono-third of the year drowned
another third of tho year burned up an
only one third of the year just tolerablt
Obi it was the barren island of world
Barren enough for Christ, for it gave sue
small worship and such inadequate affet
tion and such little gratitude. Imperia
exile on the barren island of a world
In a Hostile Country.
60 farther and tell you that he was al
exile in a hostile country. Turkey wa
never so much against Russia, France wa
never so much against Germany, as thi
earth was against Christ. 1t took him l.
through the door Of a stable. 1t thrus
him out at the point Of a spear. The Re
man government against him, with ever
weapon Of its army, and every decision {
its courts, and every beak of its war eagle:
For years after his arrival the only ques
tion was how best to put him out. Hero
hated him; the high priests hated him; th
Pharisees hated him; Judas Isoariot hate
him; Gestas, the dying thief, hated hin
The whole earth seemingly turned into
detective to watch his steps. And yet b
faced this ferocity. Notice that most c
Christ's wounds were in front. Som
scourging on the shoulder, but most {
Christ's wounds in front. He was not o
retreat when he expired. Face to fac
with the worlds sin. Face to face wit
the worlds woe, His eye on the ragin
oountenances Of his foaming antagonist
when he expired. When the cavalry office
roweled his steed so that he might com
nearer up and soc the tortured yisage {
the suffering exile, Christ saw 1t. Whe
the spear was thrust at his side, and whe
the hammer was lifted for his feet, an
when the reed was raised to strike deepe
down the spikes Of thorn, Christ watche
the whole procedure. When his hant
were fastened to the CROSS, they. were wid
open still with benediction. Mind yor
his head was not fastened. He could loo
to the right, and he could look to the lef
and he could look up, and he could loo
down, He saw when the spikes had bee
driven homs, and tho hard, round iro
heads were Ii the palms Of his hands. e
saw them as plainly as you ever saw an,
thing in the palms of your hands. n
ether, no ohloroform, no meroiful ane
thetic to dull or stupify; but, wide awak
he saw the observation of the heavens, I'll
unbalancing of the rocks, the count
nances quivering with rage and the oacl
innation diabolio. Oh it was the hosti
as we'll as the barren island of world
go farther and tell you that this exi
was far from home. 1t is 95, 900, 900 milt
from here to the sun and all astronomer