Connecticut western news., 1896-04-23
CHRIST'S SAD EXILE.
THE LONG REPATRIATION WAS oR.
 TAlMAGE,S SUNDAY THEME.

When the King Went Forth and Tarried
 In . Place Which was Far On-Christ's
 Great Homesickness-From the Throne
 room to the sheep Pen.
 WAsHINaToN, April l9.-It is won- Gcrful to how many tunes the gospel may be set. Dr. Talmagcs sermon to- Jay shows another way in which the tarthly experience of our Lord is set l rth His text was II Samuel xv, IT, 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 ab- sent himself. He was not going to sail frum beach to beach; we have often dcne that. He was not going to put out frcm enc hemisphere to another hemi- sphere; many cf us have done that. But he was to sail from world to world, the spaces unexplored and the immensities nntraveltd 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 elle harbor of light into the ocean b yond Olt and out and out, and on and on and on, and down and down and duwn he sped, until one night, with only one to greet him when he arrived, h;s disembarkation so unpretending. so quiet that it was not known on earth until the excitement in the cloud gave intimation to the Bethlehem rustics that something grand and glorious had hap pened Who comes there? From what part did he sail? Why was this the place of his destination? question the shep- hs rds question the camel drivers. l question the angels. I have found out. He was an exile. But the world had plenty of exiles Abraham, an exile from Haran; John, an exile from Ephe- sns; Kosciusko, an exile from Poland; Mazzini. an exile from Rome; Emmet, 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 well and came into Such chilling recep- tion-for not even 8 hostler went out with his lantern to light him in-that he is more to be celebrated than any oth- CT expatriated exile of earth or heaven.
 From Throneroom to Sheep Pen.
 First, l remark that Christ was an imperial exile. He got down of . throne. He took of tiara He closed . palace gate behind him. His family were princes and princesses. Vashti was turned out of the throneroom by Ahas- uerus David was dethroned by Absa- lom's infamy. The five kings were hurled into 8 cavern by Joehua's oour- age Some of the Henrys of England and some of the Louis of France were jostled on their thrones by discontented 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 himseh out from throneroom into sheep pen. and down from the top to the bot tom. He was not pushed of. He was not manacled for foreign transportation He was not put out because they no more wanted him in celestial domain, but by choice. departing and descending into an exile five times as long as that of Napoleon at St Helena, and a thou sand times worse-the one exile suffering for that he had destroyed nations, the other exile suffering because he came to save world An imperial exile King eternal Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth up on the throne.
 But 90 farther and tell you he was an exile on Q barren island This world h one of the smallest islands of light in the ocean of immensity. Other stel- lar kingdoms are many thousand 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 Tortugas of disagreeableneR. Christ came as an exile to 8 world scorched with heat and bitten with cold. to deserts simoom swept, to 8 bowling wilderness It was the back dooryard seemingly of the universe. Yea. Christ came to the poorest part of this barren island of a world-Asia Minor, with it's intense summers, unfit for the residence of foreigner, and in the rainy season unfit for the residence of 8 native. Christ came not to such Q land as America or England or France or Germany, but to 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 a world! Barren enough for Christ. for it gave such small wor- ship and such inadequate affection, and such little gratitude. Imperial exile on the barren island of world
 Tho Earth Against Him.
 I go farther 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 Ger many. as this earth was against Christ. It took him in through the door of Q stable. It thrust him out at the point of aspear. The Roman government against him with every weapon of its arm, and every decision of it's courts and every beak of it's war eagles For years 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 seemingly turned into de tective to watch his steps And yet he faced this ferocity. Notice that most of Christ's wounds were in front. Some scourging on the shoulders, but most of Christ's wounds in front. He w;..i not on retreat when he expired Face to face with the worlds ferocity. Face to face with the worlds sin. Face to face with the worlds woe. His eye on the raging countenances of his foaming antagonists when he expired. When the cavalry off cor r,wcleG his stecd so that he might come nearer up and see the tortured yis- age of the suffering exile, Christ saw it. When the spear was thrust at his side, and when tie hammer was lifted for his feet, and when the reed was raised to strike deeper down the spikes of thorE. Christ watched the whole procedure When his hands were fastened to the cross they were wide open still with benediction. Mind you, his head was not fastened He could look to the right