The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-04-06
SAVING OF NATIONS.
Dr.. Ialmage Tells of the Sacrifices
of Our Savior.
re speaks of Gcthsemnue as II Ap-
penrcd TO Him--Sermon from the
Text, aye Are Bought
with . Price,"
fcopyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. ~
Washington,

washington, |
In this discourse DIR. Talmage shows
the Messianic sacrifices for the saw
ing of all nations and speaks OF
Gethsemane as it appeared to him;
text. /. Corinthians $3.50: "Ye are
bought with a price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches. the frescoes, the grass plots,
the fish ponds, the Conservatives,
the parks of deer, and you say with
in Yourself or you say aloud: What
did all this cost?" You sec a costly
diamond flashing in an earring, or
YOU hear a costly dress rustlin9
across the drawing-room, or you see
a high mettled span of horses har-
messed with silver and gold, and you
begin to make an estimate OF the
value.
The man who owns a large estate
cannot instantly tell you all it is
worth. He says: II will estimate
so much for the house so much for
the furniture, so much for laying out
the grounds, so much for the stock,
so much for the barn. so much for
the equipage, adding up in all max
ing this aggregate"
Well, my friends, l hear so much
about our mansion in Heaven, about
its furniture and the grand surround
ings, that l want to know how much
1t is all worth and what has actually
been paid for it. l cannot complete
in a month nor a year the magnifi-
cent calculation, but before / get
through to-day I hope to give you
the figures. aye are bought with a
price"
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the igno-
minious birth of Christ in Bethie-
hem. Though we may never be care
fully looked after afterward, III adj
vent into the world is carefully guard
ed. We came into the world amid
kindly attentions. Privacy and ST.
lence are afforded when God launches
an immortal soul into the world.
Even the toughest of men know
enough to stand back. But l have to
tell you that in the village on the
side of the hill there was a very bed
lam of uproar when Jesus was born.
In a village capable of accommodate
ing only a few hundred people many
thousand people were crowded, and
amid hostlers and Euieteers and cam
ell drivers yelling at stupid beasts of
burden the Messiah appeared. No ST.
lence. No privacy. A better adapted
place hath the eaglet in the eyrie,
hath the whelp in the lions lair. The
exile of Heaven lieth down upon
straw. The first night out from the
palace of Heaven spent in an out
house. One hour after laying aside
the robes of Heaven dressed in Q
wrapper of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would have
made a more gradual descent, com
ing from Heaven first to a halfway
world of great magnitude, then Il
Caesars palace, then to a merchant
palace in Galilee, then to a private
home in Bethany, then to a fisher
mans hut and last of all to a stable
No! 1t was one leap from the to]
to the bottom.
Let us open the door of the raw
sary in Bethlehem and drive away tn
camels. Pass on through the group o
oilers and loungers. What, o Mary. n,
light? "No light" she says 'save tina
which comes through the door" What
Mary, no food? None" she says
"only that which was brought in tn
sack on the journey" Let the Bethle
hem woman who has come in here wit
kindly attentions put back the cover
ing from the babe hat we may loo
upon it. Look! Look! Uncover you
- head. Let us kneel. Let all voices b
hushed. Son of Mary! Son of God
g Child of a day! Monarch of eternity
In that eye the glance of a God. On
e impotence sheathed in that Babe
"a arm. That voice to be changed frol
n the feeble plant to the tone that sha
ID wake the dead. Hosannal Hosanna
lie Glory to God that Jesus came frol
throne to manger that we might ris
i'd from manger to throne, and that a
the gates are open, and that the doc
Dr. of Heaven that once swung this wa
I'd TO let Jesus out now swings the othe
re way to let us in. Let all the bellme
n of Heaven lay hold the rope and riu
ne out the news: Behold, 1 bring VIC
ir glad tidings of great joy, which sha
n be to all people, for to-day is born
IL the city of David a Saviour, which
err Christ the Lord!"
he The second installment paid for o,
souls clearance was the scene in Qua
as ~antania, a mountainous region, full
RS caverns, where are to-day panthe,
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