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AN IMPERIAL EXILE.
bR. TALMAeE'S ELOQUENT SERMON
ON CHRlsT's ExPATRlATloN.

ON CHRlST'9 ExPATRlATlON.
the King who Left n Throne, Closed q
Palace aud Went Forth to Die In Hos
tile Country-America the Home of the
Voluntary Exile.
WASHINGTON April 1o.--It is wonderful
TO how many tunes the gospel may bo set.
DR.. Talmage's sermon today shows another
way In which the earthly experience Of our
Lord Is SGT forth. His text was II Samuel
XIV, II, "And the king went forth and tar
rled In place which was far of"
Far up and far back In the history of
heaven there came q period when It's most
,llustrious citizen was about to absent
himself. Ho was not going to sail from
beach to beach. We have often done that.
He was not going to put out from ono
hemisphere to another hemisphere. Many
of us have done that But he was to sail
from world to world tho spaces unex-
porod and the immensities untravolcd.
No world has ever hailed heaven, and
heaven has never hailed any other world
think that the windows and the balconies
werc thronged, and that the pearly beach
was crowded with those who Ind como to
SEQ him sail out Of the barbor of light into
the ocean beyond. Out and out and out
and on and on and on and down and down
md down he Sped until one night, with
only one to greet him, when he arrived,
his Decentralization so unpretending, so
quiet that is was not known on earth I'M
Til the excitement in the cloud gave init
nation to the Bethlehem rustics that
something grand and glorious had hap
pened Who comes there? From what
port did he sail? Why was this tho place
of his destinations ] question tho shep-
herds. / question tho camel drivers. ]
question tho angels. I hive found out
He was an exile. But the world had
plenty Of exiles Abraham, an exile from
Hnran; John, an exile from Ephesus; Kos
ciuslo, an exile from Poland; Mazzini, an
exile from Rome; Emmett, an exile from
Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exile from
Franco; Kossuth, an exile from Hungary.
But this one Of whom l speak today had
such resounding farewell and came into
such chilling reception-for not oven
hostler went out with his lantern to light
him in-tha5 he is moro to he celebrated
than any other expatriated exile of earth
or heaven.
An Imperial Exile.
First, remark that Christ was an i'm
perial exile. He got down of n throne.
He took off tiara. He closed palace
gate behind him. His family were princes
ga r,rcos.os Vosbti w,s +urnod o,,t 90
,I,o thronaroo,,, bv Ahosrorrs Dnyid ,yos
dethroned by Absalom's infamy. The five
kings were hurled into a cavern by
Joshuas courage. Some Of tho Henrys Of
England and some of the Louis Of
France were jostled on their thrones by
discontented subjects. But Christ was
never moro honored, or moro popular or
Exi,os boyo orfTorod sovorolv hu, Cbrist
turned bimself out from throneroom into
shoon non and down from tho ton IN tho
hot,p,r No ryas not rusLod Of Ho wns
NJ. ,ran,oi,d Gov sora,,n transnortot,cn
~ Voc Not MT ont bacauso thor no ,,,oro
w,rtod hin, in celestial domain hnt by
cho,co dorort,n, .rd doscord,n, into IN
oxi,o {, Co t,r,as ne lone no That Of Nanoleon
e, rIo,o,a nrd nno ti,,os ,rorso. ,hn
ona oriIo suf,arIna Sor That bo bad 40
strovod not,ons tho otber eri,o sufrorip,
hocansa h. cano IN sove n world An in,'
neri.i erile King etorpal "RIessing md
bonor and ,Iorv and newer bo INTO him
that sitteth npon tho throne.
Bnt 90 farther and tell Won hc was an
exuo on a barren island. This world Is
one of tho smallest islands OF LIGHT in the
ocean Of immepsity. other stailnr King.
dome thousand times lurppr than
this. Christ came 20 this small pntmos of
a world. When exiles ara sent ont they
are generally sent to regions that arc sandy
or cold or bot-some Dry Tortucas OF dis
arreeabIepess. Christ came as an exile to
world soorohed with heat and bitten
with cold. 10 deserts simeon swept To n
boulino wildornoss II wos tho bacl. door.
vard seom,nplv, of tho un,vorso Won
Christ came 70 the noorost mart Of this
barren Island Of n yorId-Asia Minor
with tie intense snrnmo mat Tor tho
residence NJ n fore,pner and in the rainy
season unfit for the residence of n nntive
Christ CANA not 10 sncb n lond ma Amer.
ioa. or England. or Franco. or Germnnv
but IN n land ono.tbird Of tho ve,r dro,yneI
another third Of the veor burned nm and
only one.tbird of tho vea- lust toIerablo
Obi II ,vos tho borran island NJ n world
Rnrren enough for Christ for II ravo suc,,
small Worship ara sucb inndeo,,ote affec.
tion and suc,, uttla gratitnda Imnaria,
eyile nm tina borreo island of n world
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