Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-06

Cd ing of all nations and speaks of Geth-
semane as it appeared to him; text, |.
Corinthians vi, 20, "Ye are bought With
a price"
Your friend takes you through his val
liable house. You examine the arches.
the frescoes, the grass plots. the fish
ponds, the Conservatives, 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
earring, or you hear a costly dress rus
Ting across the drawing room. or you see
high mettled span OF horses harnessed
with silver and gold, and you begin to
make an estimate of the value.
The man who owns large estate can
not instantly tell you all it is worth. He
says, Il 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 i'll all max
ing this aggregate"
Well. my friends, | hear SO much about
our mansion in heaven. about its furni
ture 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 a month nor a year
the magnificent calculation, but before |
get through to-day | hope to give you
the figures. You are bought with 4
price"
With some friends | went to the Tower
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. | wish that
| could take this audience into the tower
of Gods mercy and strength, that you
might walk around just once at least and
see the crown jewels of eternity, he
hold their brilliance and estimate their
value. "Ye are bought with a 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
much the LIST of January, so much the
LIST of April, so much the LIST of July, so
much the list of October, until the entire
amount is paid, and have to tell this au-
dience that you have been bought with
a price" and that the price was paid
in different installments.
The first installment paid for the clear
ance of our souls was the ignominious
birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though
we may never be carefully looked after
afterward, our advent into the world
is carefully guarded We come into
the world amid kindly attentions. Pri-
yacy and silence 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 n very bedlam of uproar
when Jesus was born. In a village capa-
BILE of accommodating only a few hun
dred people many thousand people were
crowded, and amid hostlers and mule
teers and camel drivers yelling at stupid
beasts of burden the Messiah appeared.
No silence. No privacy, better adapt
ed place hath the eaglet in the eyrie, hath
the wmhelp in the lions lair. The exile
of heaven lieth down upon straw. The
first night out from the palace of heaven
spent in an clubhouse. One hour after
laying aside the robes of heaven dressed
in n wrapper of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would have
made a more gradual descent, coming
from heaven first TO a half way world of
great magnitude, then to Caesars palace,
then to IA merchants castle in Galilee,
then to a private home in Bethany, then
to a fsherman's hut and last of all to a
stable. No! 1t was one leap from the
top to the bottom
Bringing Glad Tidings
Let us open the door of the caravan
sary in Bethlehem and drive away the
camels. Pass on through the group Of
oilers and loungers. What, o Mary, no
light? mo light she says, save that
which comes through the door" What
Mary, no food? "Nonc," she says, "only
that which was brought in the sack on
the journey" Let the Bethlehem woman
who has come in here with kindly at
tenti0ns put back the covering from the
babe that we may look upon it. Look
Look Uncover your head Let us knccl.
Let all voices be hushed. Son Of Mary
Son Of God! Child Of a day. Monarch Ut
eternity, In that eye the glance Of Il
God. Omnipotence sheathcd in that
Babes arm. That voice to be changed
from the feeble plant to the tone that
shall wake the dead Hosanna Hosan-
ma Glory to God that Jesus came from
throne to Inanger that we might rise from
manger 10 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 10 let us in.
Let all the bellmen Of heaven lay hold
the rope and ring out the news Behold,
bring you glod 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 Lordv
The second installment paid for our
SOULS clearance was the scene in Qnaran-
tania, a mountainous region, full OF cav
erns, where are to-day panthers and wild
beasts Of all sorts, so that sou must now
20 there armed with knife or gun or pis-
tol. 1t was there that Jesus went to
think and to pray, and it was there that
this monster Of hell-more sly, more ter
rible, than anything that prowled in that
country-satan himself, met Christ.
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that
Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the Ro-
man senate, ascribed to Jesus-that rose
had scattered its petals. Abstinence
from food had thrown him into emacia-
ton. A long abstinence form food re-
corded in profane history Is that Of the
crew Of the ship Juno. For twenty-three
dnvx they had unfhfu0 ~ ana Raf this