Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-04-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE AGONY OF CETHSEMANE
THE SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY.
''Ye Are Bought with Price'-First Book
of Corinthians, Chapter vi, Verse 20
The Temptation of the savior-Di-
vine Sympathy.

anic sacrifices for the saving Of all
nations and speaks of Gethsemane as
it appeared to him; text, l Corinthians
vi, 20, "Ye are bought with price
Your friend takes you through his
valuable 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 a costly dia-
mond flashing in an earring, or you
hear costly dress rustling across the
drawing room. or you see high met
tied span of horses harnessed with sill
yer and gold, and you begin to make
an estimate of the value.
The man who owns a large estate
cannot 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 in all making this
aggregate.
wen, LILY i uCdl oO lluNh
about our mansion in heaven, about
its furniture and the grand surround
ings, that l want 70 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 l get through
today l hope to give you the figures.
Eye are bought with a price,"
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
idlers and loungers. What, q Mary, no
| light? mo light" she says. save that
which comes through the door," What
Mary, no food? None" she says,
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. LookI Look. Uncover
your head. Let us kneel. Let all
voices be hushed. Son of Mary, Son Of
oOu' OhlAu VI q Noy I'll vi CbCl
nifty. 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, Ho-
sauna. 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 people, for today
is born in the city of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in
Quarantania. a mountainous region.
full of caverns where are today pan
theirs 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
pray, and it was there that this mon
ster of hell-more sly, more terrible,
than anything that prowled in that
country-satan himself, met Christ.
Jesus to Roman Senate.
The rose in the cheek OF Christ-that
Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the
Roman senate ascribed to Jesus-that
rose had scattered its petals. Absti-
nence from food had thrown him into
eniaciation. 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 sufferer had tasted a
month and ten days before he broke
fast. Hunger must have agOnized
every fibre of the body and gnawed on
the stomach with teeth OF 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 as Christ was
a-hungered, and If they had strength
with one yell they would devOur you
as a kid. 1t was in that pang OF hun
ger that Jesus was accOSted, and satan
said. Now, change these stones, 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, Bread 1t
shall be-" and been almost impatient
at the time taken for mastication, but
Christ with one hand beat back the
hunger and with the other hand be at
back the monarch of darkness. o We
tempted oneS Christ was tempted
We are told that Napoleon ordered
coat of mail made, but he was not
quite certain that it was impenetrable
so he said 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 own pistol the
emperor found out that II as just
what it pretended to be, good coat
of mail. Then the man received a
large reward.
/ bless God that the same coat or
mail that struck back the weapons OF
temptation from the head OF Christ we
may now all wear, for Jesus comes
and says: IL have been tempted, and
l know what it Is to be tempted. Take
this robe that defended me and wear 1t
for yourselves. shall see you through
all trials. and shall see you through
all temptation"
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