The Penn's Grove record., 1901-04-05
DR., TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Sacrifices Made by Christi
What the Saving of All the Nations
Cost the Messiah - Paying For the
Clearance of Our souls.

Subject: The Sacrifices Mad by Christ
What the Saving of All the Nations
Cost the Messiah - Paying For the
Clearance of Our Souls.
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WASHINGTON. D. Gin this discourse
DR.. Talmage shows the Messianic sacri'
speaks Of Gethsemane as it appeared to
him, text, l Corinthians Vi, 20, aye are
bought with a price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the arches,
the f%rescoes, the grass plots, the fish
ponds, the conserratories, the parks OF
deer, and you say within yourself or YOU
say aloud. "What did all this eost?" You
see a costly diamond flashing in an ear
ring, or you hear a costly dress r~ustling
across the drawing room, or you see a
high mettled span OF horses harnessed
with silver and gold. and you begin to
make an estimate of the value.
The man who owns a large estate can
not instantly tell you all it is worth. He
says, q 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 making
this aggregate.
Well, my friends. I hear so much about
our mansion in heaven, about its furni.
ture and the grand surroundings, that
l want to know how much it is all worth
and what has actually been paid for it.. l
magnificent calculation, but before l get
through to-day l hope to give you the
figures. rye are bought with a price"
With some friends / went to the Tower
Of London to look at the crow jewels,
We walked around. caught one glimpse Of
them, and, being in the procession, were
compelled to pass out. ] wish that l
could take this audience into the tower
of Gods mercy aud strength, that yon
might walk around Just once at least and
see the crown jewels Of eternity, behold
their brilliance and estimate their value,
"Ye are bought with a price"
Now, if you have a large amount of
money to pay, you do not paw 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 0~ctober-until the en-.
tire amount is paid, and l have to tell
this audience that you have been bought
with a price" and that that 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 after
y M pAA NV ~ IL WIN 10 hhN
fully guarded. We come into the world
amid kindly attentions. Privacy and
silence are afforded when God launches
an immortal soul into the world. Even
the toughest OF men know enough to
stand back. But I have to tell YOU
that in the village on the side of the hill
there was a very bedlam Of uproar when
Jesus was born. In a village capable Of
accommodating only a few hundred peo-
pie many thousand people were crowded,
and amid hostlers and muleteers and
camel drivers yelling at stupid beasts OF
burden the Messiah appeared. No 81.
lence. No privacy. A better adapted
place hath the eaglet in the eyrie. hath
the, whelp in the lions lair. The exile
first night out from the palace of heaven
spent in an outhousel One hou- after
laying aside the robes of heaven, dressed
in a 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 a merchants castle in Galilee.
then to a private home in Bethany, then
to a fisherman's hut and last Of all to a
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. Press on through the group of
idlers and loungers. What, o Mary! No
light? mo light" she says, Save that
which comes in through the door What,
only that which was brought in 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 kneel. Let all voices be hushed. Son
Of Mary! Son of God! Child of a day!
Monarch of eternity! In that eye the
glance Of a 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
manager 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.
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 Lordi"
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
a~ntania, a mountainous region, full of
EdNGlHS, WnGIt are - lllS uhN DdilLIBIS
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 prowled
in that country-Satan himself met
Christ.
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that
Publius Lentullus in his letter to the
Roman epnafp ascribed To Tnsus-fh1t pnsa
had scattered its petals. Abstinence
from food had thrown Him into emacia'
ton.
A long abstinence from food recorded in
profane history is that of the crew Of
the ship Juno, For twenty-three days
they had 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 o.
death. The thought Of a morsel of bread
or meat must have thrilled the body with
something like ferocity.
Turn out a pack of men hungry a:
Christ was ~a-hungered. and If they haC
strength with one yell they would de
o you as a kid. 1t was in that pans
of hunger that Jesus was accosted an6
Satan said, Now change these stones
which look like bread into an actua
supply of bread" Had the temptation
come to you and me under those circum
stances we would have cried, Bread il
shall bel" and been almost impatient a
the time taken for mastication. Blu
Christ with one hand beat back the hun
ger and with the other hand beat bacl
the monarch Of darkness. Oh, ye tempted
onesi Christ was tempted.
We are told that Napoleon ordered
coat of mail made, but was not quite Ger
tain that it was impenetrable, so he saiC
to the manufacturer of the coat of mail
Put it on now yourself and let us try it,
And with shot after shot from his owl
pistol the emperor found out that it wa
just what it pretended to be-a good Goa
OF mail. Then the man received a larg
reward.
/ bless God that the same coat of mai
that struck back the weapons of tempta
ton from the head OF Christ we ma.
now all wear, for Jesus comes and says
- have been tempted, and | know wha
it is to be tempted. Take this robe tina
defended Me and wear it for yourselves
! shall see you through all trials, and
shall see you through all temptations"
But" says Satan still further to Jesus
Come, and I will show you somethin
worth looking at, and after a half day
journey they came to Jerusalem and t
the top of the temple, just as one nigh
go up in the tower of Antwerp and loo
off upon Belgium, SO Satan brough
Christ to the top OF the temple. Som
paonIa az n o,,aaf haioht feel dizzv and