Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-23
PALACE GATES
Closed Behind Him When Christ Came
to the Manger.
lie Left Ills Fathers Mansion For "a volun-
tary Exile Through Deaths valley
Rev. DIR. Tsimsge's Elegant An
| alysis of Homesickncss.

| lie Left Ills Fathers Mansion For Volun-
tary Exile Through Deaths valley
Rev DIR. Tsimsge's Elegant An
aIysis of Inconsistencies.
DR. Talmage's sermon Sunday shows
another way in which the earthly ex-
perience of our Lord is set forth. His
text was II. sam. XIV, Il: And the
| King went forth and tarricd 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. lie was not going to
sail from beach tn beach; we have often
done that. lie was not going to put
out from one hemisphere to another
hemisphere: many of us have done
that. But lie was to sail from world
To wsrld. the space unexplored and the
/ immensities untravelcd. 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 the pearly beach was crowded
with those who had come to 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
down and down lie sped, until one
/ night, with only one To greet Him,
when He arrived. His Decentralization
50 unpretending, So quiet, that it was
not known on earth until the excite
ment in the cloud gave intimation to
| e,t hlAh 10 1,
grand and glorious had happened. Who
comes there? From what port did lie
sail? Why was this the place of His
destination? Iqucstion the shepherds.
| question the camel drivers. qucs-
ton the angels. | have found out.
lie was an exile. But the world had
plenty of exiles. Abraham was an cx-
lie from liaran; John, 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 speak to-day had such re-
sounding farewell and came into such
chilling reception-for not even host
Ter went out with his lantern tn light
Him in-that lie is more to be ccle-
brated than any other eXpatriatcd eX-
| lie of earth or Heaven.
First, | remark that Christ was an
| imperial exile. lie got down off
throne. He took off tiara. lie clos
ed n palace gate behind Him His
family were princes and princeses.
Vashti was turned out of the throne
room by Ahasuerus. David was de-
throned by Absalom's infamy. The
five kings were hurled into a cavern
by Joshua's courage. Some of the
Henrys of England and some of the
Louises of France were jostled on their
thrones by discontinued subjects. But
Christ was never more honored, or
more popular. or more loved than the
day lie left Heaven. Exiles have
suffered severely, but Christ turned
Himself out from the throne-room into
sheep pen, and down from the top to
the bottom. lie was not pushed off.
He was not manacled for foreign trans
portation. lie was not put out because
they no more wanted Him i'm celestial
domains, but by choice departing and
descending into an exile five times as
long as that of Napoleon at St Helena,
and thousand times worse; the one
exile suffering for that he had de-
stroyed nations. the other exile suffer-
ing because lie came to save the world.
An Imperial exile. King eternal
blessing and honor and glory and
power be unto Him that stitch upon
the throne"
Butfgo further and tell you He was
an exile on n barren islam /. This world
is one of the smallest islapds 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 disagreeable-
ness. Christ came as an exile to a world
scorched with heat and bitten with cold,
to deserts simoon-swept, to a bowling
wilderness. Ii was the back-door yard,
seemingly, of the universe. Yea, Christ
came to the poorest part of this barren
island of a world-Asia Minor, with its
intense summers, unfit for the resi-
dence of a foreigner, and in the rainy
season unfit for the residence of a ma
"
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 year just tolerable. Oh! it was a
barren island of 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
world
go further and tell you that He was
an exile in hostile country. Turkey
was never so much against Russia,
France was never SO much against Ger
many, as this earth was against Christ.
1t took Him in through the door of
stable. 1t thrust Him out at the point
of spear The Roman government
against Him with every weapon of it's
army, and every decision of its courts,
and every beak of its 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 Phari-
sees hated him, Judas Iscariot hated
Him, Gestas, the dying thief, hated
Him. The whole earth seemingly
turned into detective to watch His
steps. And yet He faced this ferocity.
Notice that Christ's wounds were in
front. Some scourging on the Shout
ders, but most of Christ's wounds in
front He was 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 foe.
His eye on the raging countenances of
His foaming antagonists when He ex-
pired. When the cavalry officer rowled
his steed SO that he might come nearer
up and see the torturtured visage of
the suffering exile, Christ saw it.
When the spear was thrust at His side,
and when the hammer was lift
ed 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 fastened to the cross they were
| wide open still with benediction. Mind