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DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Sacrifices Made by Christ
What the Saving of All the Nations
Cost the Messiah - Paying For the
Clearance of Our Souls.
Copyright 1861.

DR.. Taimage shows the Messianic sacri.
fees for the saving Of all nations and
speaks OF Gethsemanc as it appeared to
him: text, l Corinthians vi, 20, eye are
bought with price"
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house. You examine the arches,
the fFeseoes, the grass plots, the; fish
ponds, the conservatories, the parks OF
say aloud, "Nhat did all this COST" You
see a costly diamond flashing in an ear
ring, or you hear a costly dress rustling
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, 81 will estimate so much for the
house, so much for the furniture, so much
for laying out the grounds, 80 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 furnl-
ture and the grand surroundings, that
I want to know how much it is all worth
cannot complete in a month or a year the
magnificent calculation, but before l get
through to-day I hope to give you the
figures. "Ye are bought with a price"
With some friends I 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. l wish that l
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, behold
their brilliance and estimate their value.
aye are bought with a price"
Now, if you have large amount of
money to pay, you do not paw it all at
once, but you pay it by installments-so
much the first of January. so much the
first of April, so much the first of July, so
much the first of 0ctober-until the en-.
tire amount is paid, and I have to tell
this audience that you have been bought
with price" and that that price was paid
in different installments.
The first installmcnt 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
ward, our advent into the world is care
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 roughest of men know enough to
stand back. But / 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 village capable of
accommodating only 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
of heaven lieth down upon straw: The
first night out from the palace of heaven
spent in an outhouse One hour after
laying aside the robes of heaven, dressed
have supposed that Christ would have
made a more gradual descent, coming
from heaven first to half way world of
great magnitude, then to Caesars palace,
then to a merchants castle in Galilee,
then to private home in Bethany. then
to fsherman's 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. Press on through the group of
idlers and loungers; What: o Mary! No
light? "No light" she says, Save that
which comes in through! the door" What,
Mary, no food? "None," she says,
"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 covering
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 eve 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! Hosanna!
Glory be to God that Jesus came from
throne to manger, that we might rise from
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: "Be-
hold, l 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 Lord"
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania, mountainous region, full OF
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 heil-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 senate ascribeo to Jesus--that rose
had scattered it's petals. Abstinence
from food had thrown Him into emacia-
tion.
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 of
death. The thought of morsel of bread
or meat must have thrilled the body with
something like ferocitv.
Turn out pack of men hungry. as
Christ was a,'hungered;;, and if they, had
YOUR you as a kid. 1t was in that. pang
of hunger 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 it
shall be-" and been almost impatient at
the time taken for masticat tion. But
Christ with one hand beat back the hun
ger and with the other hand beat back
the monarch of darkness. Oh, ye tempted
ones! Christ was tempted.
We are told that Napoleon ordered a
coat of mail made, but was not quite Ger.
tain 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 it was
just what it pretended to be-a good coat
Of mail. Then the man received large
reward.
I hloss Cod that the same coat of mail