The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-04-04

course Dr. Talmage shows the Mes
sianic sacrifices for the saving OF all
nations and speaks of Gethsemane as
it appeared to him; text, [ Corinthians
vi, 20. eye are bought with price"
Your friend takes you through MS
valuable house. You examine the arch
es, 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 diamond flashing in
an earring, or you hear costly dress
rustIing across the drawing room, or
YOU see a high melted 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
cannot 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-add-
ing up in all making this aggregate"
Well. my friends, [ hear so much
furniture 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 month or
a year the magnificent calculation, but
before [ get through today | hope to
give you the figures. eye are bought
with a price"
With some friends went to the Tow
er of London to look at the crown jew
els. We walked around, caught one
glimpse of them and, being in the pro-
cession, were compelled to pass out
wish that [ could take this audience in
to 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 bril-
lance and estimate their value. Eye
are bought with price"
The First InstaIIment.
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 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 audience that ''you have
been bought with a price" and that
that price was paid in different Install
ments.
The first instaIlment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the ignO-
minious 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 at
tentions. Privacy and silence are ar
forded when God launches an immortal
soul into the world. Even the toughest
of men know enough to stand back
But have to tell you that in the vii
1age on the side of the hill there was
very bedlam Of uproar when Jesus was
born. In a village capable Of accom-
modating only a few hundred people
many thousand people were crowded,
and amid hostlers and muleteers and
camel drivers yelling at stupid beasts
of burden the Messiah appeared. No
silence. No privacy. A better adapted
place hath the eaglet in the eyrie, hath
of heaven lieth down upon straw. The
first night out from the palace of heav-
en- 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 de-
scent, coming from heaven first to a
half way world of great magnitude,
then to Caesars palace, then to a mer-
chants castle in GaIilee, then to a pri-
vate home in Bethany, then to a fisher
mans 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
cary in Bethlehem and drive away the
oamels. 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, 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 attentions put back
the covering from the Babe that we
may look upon it. Look! Look! I'm
cover your head. Let us kneel. Let
all voices be hushed. Son of Mary!
Son of God! Child of a day! Mon
arch of eternity! In that eye the
glance of a God. Omnipotence sheath
ed 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 man
ger, 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,
bring you glad tidings of great JOY,
which shall be to all people. For to-
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