The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-04-12

course DR.. Talmage shows the Messianic
sacrifices for the saving Of all nations
and speaks of Gethsemane as it appeared
to him; text, Corinthians vi, 20, "Ye
are bought with 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 costY'
You see costly diamond flashing in an
earring, or you hear a costly dress rus
Ting 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 large estate can
not 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 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.
the magnificent calculation, but before /
get through today L hope to give you
the figures. "Ye are bought with a
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, be-
hold their brilliance and estimate their
value. "Ye are bought with price"
Now, if you have a large amount of
money to pay you do not pay it all at
once, but you pay it by installments-so
much the 1st of January, so much the
list of April, so much the 1st of July, so
much the 1st 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 instailment 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-
vacy 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 very bedlam of up
roar when Jesus was born. In village
capable of accommodating only few
hundred people many thousand people
were crowded, and amid hostlers and
muleteers and camel drivers yelling at
stupid beasts of burden the Messiah ap-
peared. Ne silence. No privacy. A bet
ter 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 pal
ace OF heaven spent in an clubhouse. 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 a more gradual
descent, coming from heaven first to q
half way world OF great magnitude, then
to Caesars palace, then to q merchants
castle in Galilee, then to a private home
in Bethany, then to a fsherman's hut and
last OF all to a stable Mol 1t was one
leap from the top to the bottom.
Bringing Glad Tidinxs.
Let US open the door Of the caravan
sary in Bethlehem and drive away the
camels. Pass ON through the group of
idlers and loungers. What, o Mary. no
light? 'No light" she says, "save that
which comes through the door," What
Mary, no food? None" 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
tentions 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 day! Monarch Of
eternity! In that eye 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. Hosan-
ma! Glory 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, Behold, l bring you glad tidings
OF great JOY. which shall be to all peo-
pie, for today 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 Quaran-
tania, a mountainous region, full Of cav
erns. where are today panthers and wild
beasts OF all sorts, so that you must now
60 there armed with knife or gun or pis-
toll 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 from food re-
corded in profane history is that of the
crew of the ship Juno. For % days
they had nothing to eat. But this suf-
ferer had tasted a month and ten days
before he broke fast. Hunger must have