The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-04-05
SAVING OF NATIONS.
DR.. Talmage Tells of the Sacrifices
of Our Savior.
We Speaks of Gethsemnnc ms IL APP
peared to Him-sermon from the
Text aye Are bought
with a Price"
copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopseh N. VI
Washington, March 81.

In this discourse DIR. Talmage shows
the Messianic sacrifices for the saw
eng of all nations and speaks of
Gethsemane as it appeared to him;
text, l. Corinthians 6:20: "Ie are
bought with n price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grass plots,
the fish ponds, the conservatories,
the parks of deer, and you say with
in yourself or you say aloud: What
did all this cost?" You see n costly
diamond flashing in an earring, or
you hear a costly dress rustling
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 large estate
cannot instantly tell you all it is
worth. He says: 81 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 maxi
ing this aggregate"
Well, my friends, I hear so much
about our mansion in Heaven, about
its furniture and the grand surround
ings, that / want to know how much
IL 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 l hope to give you
the figures. "Ye are bought with a
price"
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the igno-
minious birth of Christ in Bethle-
hem. Though we may never be care
fully looked after afterward, our 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 ! have to
tell you that in the village on the
side of the hill there was 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 muleteers 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 i'm 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 i'm n
wrapper of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would have
made a more gradual descent, com
ing from Heaven first to halfway
world of great magnitude, then to
Caesars palace, then to merchants
palace in Galilee, then to private
home in Bethany, then to a fisher
mans 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
camels. Pass on through the group of
anu lpuliEflH - w iluls " hdTNs no
light? "No light" she says, "save that
which comes through the door" What,
Mary, no food? None" she saws,
"only that which was brought in the
sack on the journey" Let the Bethle.
hem woman who has come in here with
kindly attentions put back the cover
ing from the babe that we may look
upon it. Lookl Look! Uncover your
head. Let us kneel. Let all voices he
hushed. Son of Maryl Son of God!
Child of a dayl Monarch of eternityl
In that eye the glance of God ON.
impotence sheathed in that Babes
arm. That voice TO be changed from
the feeble plant to the tone that shall
wake the dead, Hosanna Hosanna!
Glory to God that Jesus came from
throne to manager that we might rise
from manger to throne. and that al
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 bellmer
of Heaven lay hold the rope and ring
out the news: Behold, | bring you
glad tidings of great joy, which shall
be to all people, for to-day is born in
the city of David Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord"
The second installment paid for ouI
souls clearance was the scene i'm Quar-
Sntania, mountainous region, full OF
eaverns, where are to-day panther.
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 this monster o.
hell-more sly, more terrible, thar
anything that prowled in that country
Satan himself, met Christ.
The rose in the cheek of Christ
that Publius Lentullus, in his letter &c
the Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus
that rose had scattered its petals. Alb
stinence from food had thrown hin
into emaciation. A long abstinenc,
from food recorded in profane his
tory is that of the crew of tn,
ship Juno. For 20 days they had moth