The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-04-04
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE AGONY or oETHsEMANE
THE subject LAST SUNDAY.
.Ys Are BouEhs with price, rrr.s hook
Of Corinthians. Chapter VI. Verse 90
The Temptation Of the sav.o. -Di-
vine sympathy.

/ Copyright, 1901, by Louis klopsch. p. 1J
Washington. March 3l.-ln this dis
course Dr. Talmage shows the Messi-
anic sacrifices for the saving Of all
nations and speaks Of Gethsemane as
it appeared to him; text, Corinthians
vi, 20, ''Ye are bought with a price.
Your friend takes you through his
valuable house You examine the
arches. the freseoes. the grass plots
the fish ponds. the conseryatories. the
parks OF deer and you say within
yourself Or you say aloud. what did
all this costg You see a costly dia-
mond flashing IN an earring. or you
hear a costly dress rustling across the
drawing room. or you see a high met
tied span Of horses harnessed with si.-
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 II Is
worth. He says. Il will estimate 50
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 an making this
aggregate.
Well my friends. hear SO much
about our mansion IN heaven, about
its furniture and the grand surround
lngs that I want 10 know how much
Il is all worth aud what has actually
been paid for II. ] cannot complete Ia
month nor a year the magnificent
calculation. but before get through
today / hope to give you the figures.
'Ye are bought with a price,
bringing Clad T.d'ngs
Let as open the door Of the earavaL-
sary in Bethlehem and drive away the
camels. Pass on through the group OF
idlers and loungers. what, 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 Bethle-
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 ali
voices be hushed. Son OF Mary Son OF
God Child Of a day! Monarch Of eter-
nityl 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. Hosannal Ho-
sanna Glory to God that Jesus came
from throne to manger that we might
rise from manger to throne. and that
an the gates are open. and that the
door OF heaven that once swung this
way to let Jesus out now swings the
other way % let us in. Let all the
beilmen OF heaven lay hold the rope
and ring out the news, Behold, 4
bring you glad tidings Of great JOY.
which shall be to an 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. mountainous region,
fun OF caverns, where are today pan
theirs and wild beasts OF all sorts. 50
that you must now 90 there armed
with knife or gun or pistol. 1t was
there that Jesus went TO think and
pray, and IL was there that this mon
ster OF hell-more sly. more terrible,
than anything that prowled In that
eountry-satan himself, met Christ
Jesus 70 Roman senate.
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that
Publius Lentulius, in his letter to the
Roman senate. ascribed to Jesus-that
rose had scattered its petals. Absti-
nence from food had thrown him into
emaeiation. 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 anq gnawed on
the stomach with teeth Of death. me
thought Of a morsel OF bread OF meat
must have thrilled the body With
something like feroclty. Turn out a
pack OF men hungry as Christ was
a-hungered. and 1t they had strength
with one yell they would devour yoa
as a kid. It was in that pang or 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 aud me under those circum-
stances we would have cried. Bread it
shall bel" and been almost impatient
at the time taken for mastication. but
Christ with one hand beat back the
hunger and with the other hand beat
back the monarch of darkness. D ye
tempted onesl Christ was tempted
We are told that Napoleon ordered a
coat OF mail made. but he was not
quite certain that It was impenetrable.
so he said TO the manufacturer of tha
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 IL was Just
what Il pretended to be. a good coat
Of mall Then the man received a
large reward.