Connecticut western news., 1901-04-04

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I WASHINGTON, March 31.-In this dis
course DIR. Talmage shows the Mes
sianic sacrifices for the saving of all
nations and speaks of Gethsemane as
1t appeared to him; text, l Corinthians
vi, 20, I'VE are bought with price"
Your friend takes you through his
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 costp
You see q costly diamond flashing In
an earring, or you hear costly dress
rustling across the drawing room, or
you see q 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,
30 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, l hear so much
about our mansion in heaven, about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that l want to know how much 1t Is all
worth and what has actually been paid
for it. cannot complete in a month or
a year the magnificent calculation, but
before 1 get through today 1 hope to
give you the figures. Eye are bought
with 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
lust 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 Installment.
Now, If you have large amount of
money to pay, you do not pay 1T all at
once, but you pay it by installments-
80 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 l have
to tell this audience that you have
been bought with price" and that
that price was paid in different install
ments.
The first installment 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 af-
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
lage 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
Of burden the Messiah appeared. No
silence. No privacy. A better adapted
place hath the eaglet in the eyre, hath
the whelp in the lions lair. The exile
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 mer-
chants castle in Galilee, then to a pri-
vate home In Bethany, then to a fisher
mans hut and last of all to a stable.
No; 1t 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? 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! On
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 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
HOsannal Hosanna! Glory be to God
that Jesus came from throne to man
ger, 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 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
day is born in the city of David 8
Saviour, which is Christ the Lordr'
Christ's Temptation
The second installment paid for oul
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania, a mountainous region, full OF
caverns, where are to this day pan
theirs and wild beasts of all sorts, 81
that you must now go there armed
with knife or gun or pistol. 1t wa!
there that Jesus went to think and t,
pray, and it was there that this mon
ster of hell-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 ascribed to Jesus-that
rose had scattered its petals. Absti-
hence from food had thrown him into
emaciation. A long abstinence from
food recorded In profane history is that
of the crew of the ship Juno. For %
days they had nothing to eat. But this
sufferer had tasted a month and ten
days before he broke fast. Hunger