The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-04-04
SACRIFICES BY CHRIST.
DR.. Talmage Tells What the Saving Of
the Nations Cost the Messiah.
Paying for the Clearance of Cur SonIs..
Save that Light Which Comes 10
Through the Door.
tCopyright 1901. ]


tne 1reseoes, the grass plots, the fish
ponds, the conservatories, the parks of
deer, and you say within yourself or YOU
say aloud, What did all this cost?" You
see costly diamond flashing in an ear
ring, or you hear a costly dress rustling
across the. drawing room, or YOU see a
nigh mettled span of horses harnessed
with silver and gold, and YOU begin to
make an estimate of the value.
Ihe man who owns a large estate can
not instantly, tell you ali it is worth. He
says, Il will estimate so much for the
house, so much for the furniture, so much
Tor laying out the grounds, so much for
the stock, so much for the barn, so much
Tor the equipage-adding up in all making
this aggregate.
Well, my friends, I hear so much about
our mansion in heaven, about its furni-
Iure and the grand surroundings, that
want to know how much it is all worth
and what has actually been paid for it.
cannot complete in month or year the
magnificent calculation, but before l get
through to-day hope to give you the
hgures. "Ye are bought with price"
OF LONDON to look at the crown Jewels.
we walked around, caught one glimpse of
them, and, being in the procession were
compelled to pass out. l wish that /
could take this audience into the tower
OF Gods mercy and strength, that you
VAIN lubC once at least and
see the crown jewels OF eternity, behold
Their brilliance and estimate their value.
e are bought with price"
Now, If you have large amount of
money to pay, you do not pay it all at
once, but you. pay it by installments-so
first of April, so much the first of July. SO
much the first of October-until the en-.
tire amount is paid, and / have to tell
this audience that you have been bought
with g price" and that that price was paid
In different instalments.
The first installment paid for the clear
aance OF our souls was the ignominious
birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we
may never be carefully looked after after
ward, our advent into the world is care
tully, guarded. We come into the world
amd kindly attentions. Privacy and
an immortal soul into the world. Even
the roughest of men know enough to
stand back. But / have to tell Won
that in the village on the side of the hill
there was very bedlam of uproar when
Jesus was born. In village capable of
pie many thousand people were crowded,
and amid hostlers ard muleteers and
camel 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
OF heaven lieth down upon straw The
hrst night out from the palace of heaven
spent IN an outhouse One hour after
laying aside the robes of heaven, dressed
IN a wrapper of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would have
made more gradual descent, coming
from heaven first to half way world OF
great magnitude, then to Caesars palace,
then to a merchants castle in Galilee
then to private, home in Bethany then
TO a fisherman's hut and last of all to
stable. No; it was one leap from the
top to the bottom.
Let us open the door of the caravan.
sary in Bethlehem and drive away the
csamels. Press on through the group of
,dlers 1!lerss and loqngers; What, o Nary No
light? mo light" she says, Save that
Thlch TInSI comes in through the door" What,
Mary Mary no. no food? None" she says,
sSsf Uaf shfs Se T6Sh was brought h il the
hem woman who has come in here with
kindly attentions put back the covering
from the Babe that we may look upon it.
Look! Look Uncover your head Let
us us k kneel let all voices be hushed. Son
Monarch of eternity In that eve the
glance Of God. Omnipotence sheathed in
that Babes arm. That voice to be Changed
from the feeble plant to the tone that
shall wake the dead. Hosanna! Hosannai
Glory be to God that Jesus came from
throne to manger, that we might rise from
manger to throne and that all the gates
are open and that the door of heaven.
that once swung this way to let Jesus out,
now swings the other way to let us in
Let all the bellmen of heaven lay hold
the rope, and ring out the news: "Be-
hold, | bring you glad tidings of great
Joy, which shall be to all people. For to-
day is born in the city of David a Saviour.
which is Christ the Lord!"
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania, mountainous region, full of
cayerns; where are to this day panthers
and wild beasts OF all sorts, so that YOU
must now go there armed with knife or
gun or pistol. 1t was there that Jesus
went to think and to pray, and it was
there that his monster of hell-more sly,
more terrific than anything that prowed
IN IN that country-Satan himself met
Christ
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that
Pubius Lentullus in his letter to the
Roman senate ascribed to Jesus-that rose
had scattered its petals. Abstinence
rom food had thrown Him into emacia- |
tios.
a long abstinence from food recorded in
protane history is that of the crew of |
the ship Juno. For twenty-three DAYS |
they bad nothing to eat. But this suffer
er had tasted a month and ten days be-
fore He. broke fast. Hunger must have
agonized every fiber of the body and
gnawed on the stomach with teeth of
death. The thought of morsel of bread
or meat must have thrilled the body with
like ferocity.
Turn out pack of men hungry as
Christ was a-hungered, and if they had
strength with one yell they would de-
YOUR you as kid. II was in that panR
OF hunger that Jesus was accosted and
Satan said, Now change these stones,r
which look like bread into an actual
supply of bread" Had the temptation
come to you and me under those circum-
stances we would have cried. Dread il
shall bel" and been almost impatient at
-he sln time taken for, mastication. But
christ with one hand beat back the hun
ger and with the other hand beat back
he monarch OF darkness. Oh, ye tempted
)nes! Christ was tempted.
we are told that Napoleon ordered a
'oat o. mail made, but was not quite GER
am that it was impenetrable, so he said
q the manufacturer of the coat of mail,
Put 1t on now yourself and let us try it,"
And with shot after shot from his own
'istol the emperor found out that it was
ust what u pretended to be--a good coat
eward,
bless God that the same coat of mail
hat struck back the weapons of tempta-
ion from the head of Christ we may
low all wear, for Jesus comes and SAYS:
i have been tempted, and L know what
is to be tempted. Take this robe that,
defended Me and wear il for yourselves.
shall see you through all trials and /
hall see you through all temptations"
But" says Satan still further to Jesus,
come, and / will show You something