Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-04-03

text, i. Corinthians GEO: aye are
bought with Il 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 with
in yourself or you say aloud: What
did all this cost?" You see a costly
diamond flashing in an earring, or
you hear a costly dress rustling
across the drawing-room, or you see
n high mettled span of horses har-
messed with silver and gold, and you
begin to make an estimate Of the
value.
The man who owns n large estate
cannot instantly tell you all it is
worth. He says: II 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, 1 hear so much
about our mansion in Heaven, about
its furniture and the grand surround
ings. that / want to know how much
1t is all worth and what has actually
been paid for it. / cannot complete
in month nor "a year the magnif-
cent calculation, but before / get
through to-day 1 hope to give You
the figures. SYe are bought with n
price"
The first installment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the igno-
minious birth of Christ in Bethle-
hem. Though we may never be care
| fully looked after afterward, our adj
vent into the world is carefully guard
ed. We came into the world amid
kindly attentions. Privacy and ST.
lence are afforded when God launches
Even the toughest 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 bed
lam of uprOar when Jesus was born.
In village capable of accommodate
ing only a few hundred people many
thousand people were crowded, and
amid hostlers and muleteers and cam
el drivers yelling at stupid beasts of
burden the Messiah appeared. No ST.
| ience. No privacy. A better adapted
| place hath the eaglet in the eyrie.
hath the whelp in the lions lair. The
exile OF Heaven licth down upon
straw. The first night ont from the
palace of Heaven spent in an out
house. One hour after laying aside
the robes of Heaven dressed in a
wrapper of coarse linen. One would
ha va 4
made a more gradual descent. com
ing from Heaven first TO a halfway
world of great magnitude. then to
| Caesars palace, then to n merchants
| palace in Galilee, then to a private
home in Bethany, then to a fisher
mans hut and last of all to a stable.
| No! 1t was one leap from the ton
| to the bottom.
Let MS 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? mo light" she says, save that
which comes through the door" What.
Mary, no food? None" she saws,
"only that which was brought in the
sack on the journey" Let the Bethle.
| kindly attentions put back the cover.
ing from the babe shat we may look
| upon it. Look! Look! Uncover your
| head. Let MS kneel. Let all voices be
hushed. Son OF Mary! Son Of God.
| Child OF a day! Monarch of eternity,
In that eye the glance OF n God. ON
impotence sheathed in that Babes
arm. That voice 10 be changed from
the feeble plant to the tone that shall
wake the dead. Hosannai Hosanna,
| Glory 20 God that Jesus came from
| throne 20 manger that we might rise
from manager TO throne. and that all
the gates are open. and that the door
OF Heaven that once swung this wav
TO let Jesus out now swings the other
way 20 let us in. Let all the beiImen
of Heaven lay hold the rope and ring
ont the news: Behold. ! bring Won
glad tidings of great JOY. which shah
he 20 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 i'm Omar.
! nutania, mountainous region. full oI
! Caverns. where are to-day panther
and wild beasts OF all sorts. so that
Won must now go there armed with
knife or gun or pistol II was there
that Jesus went TO thinl, and to pray
and it. was there that this monster OF
hell moro sly, more terrible. than
anything that provided in that country
| Satan himself. met Christ
The rose in the cheek 81 Christ
that Publius Lcntullus. in his letter 70
the Roman senate. ascribcd 20 Jesus
that rose had scattered IFS petals. Alb
| siinence from food had thrown him
| into cmaciation. a long abstippuce
from food recorded in profane his.
tory is that Of the crew Of the
ship Juno. For 23 days they had moth.
ing 90 cat But this sufferer had tasted
a month and ten days before me broke
fast. Hunger must have agouizcd every
/ fiber 81 the body and gnnvyed an tbc