SACRIFICES BY CHRIST. Dr. Talmage Tells What the Saving oi the Nations Cost the Messiah. Paying for the Clearance of Our Souls Save that Light Which Comes in Through the Door. [Copyright 11.1} WasninaToN, D. C.—~In this discourse Talmage shows the Messianic sacri fices for the saving of all nations and speaks of Gethsemane as it appeared to Him; text, I Corinthians vi, 20, “Ye are bought with a price.” our friend takes you through his valuable house. You examine the arches, the frescoes, the grass plots, the fish ponds, the conservatories, the parks of deer, and you say within vourself or vou say aloud, “What did all this cost?’ You see a vostly diamond flashing in an ear ring, or you hear a costly dress rustling across the drawing réom, or you see a high mettled span of horses “harnessed with silver and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of the value, e man who owns a large estate can- not instantly tell you sll it is worth. He says, “I 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 making this aggregate. Well, my friends, I hear so much about our mansion in heaven, about its furni- ture and the grand surroundings, that I want to know how much it is all worth and what has actually been paid for it. I cannot complete in a month or a year the magnificent calculation, but before I get through to-day I hope to give you the gures. “Ye are bought with a price.” Vith some friends Pet 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. wish that I could take this audience into the tower of God's mercy and strength, that yon might walk around just once at least and see the crown jewels of eternity. behold their brilliance and estimate their value. “Ye are bought with a price.” Now, if you have a hi amount of money to pay, you do not pay it all at once, but you pay it by installments—so | much the first of January, so much the t of April, so much the first of July, so much the first of October—until the en- tire amount is paid, and I hate to tell this audience that “yon have been bought with a price” and that that price was paid in different installments The first installment paid for the clear ance of our souls was the ignominious birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Th ugh 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 silence are afforded when God Is an immortal soul into the world. Ever the roughest of men know enough to stand back. But I have to 1 that in the village on the side of the there was a very bedlam of uproar Jesus was born. In a village capable of accommodating only a few hundred peo ple many thousand people were crowded and amid hostlers and mul camel drivers velling at stupid burden the Messiah appeared No si 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 in a wrapper of coarse linen. One would bave supposed that Christ would have made a more gradual descent, coming from heaven first to a half way world of great magnitude, then to Caesar's pal then to a merchant's -~astle in G then to a private home in Bethany. then | to a fisherman's hut and last of all to a | stable. No; it was one leap from the | top to the bottom. Let us open the the caravan sary in Bethlehem and drive away the eamels. Press on through the group of idlers and loungers. What, O Mary! No light? “No light,” she says, “save that which eomes in through the door.” What, Mary, no food? “None,” says, “only that which was brought in the sack on the journey.” Let the Bethle hen 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 all voices be hushed. Som of Mary! Son of God! Child of a day! Monarch of eternity! In that eve tl glance of a God. Omnipotence sheathed in that Babe's arm. That voice to be changed from the feeble plaint 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 manger to throne and that all the gates are open and that the door of heaven, that once swung this way to let Jesus ont, now ewings the other way to let us in let all the bellmen of heaven lay hold the rope and ring out the mews: ‘Be. hold, I 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 soul's clearance was the scene in Quar antamia, a mountainous region, full of caverns, where are to this day panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, =o that you must now go there armed with knife or gun or pistol. It was there that Jesus went to think and to pray, and it was there that his monster of hell—more sly pore terrific than anything that srowled in that country—Satan himself met rst. 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. Abstinence from food had thrown Him into emacia- tion. A long abstinence from food recorded in rofane history is that of the crew of he ship Juno. For twenty-three days Shey had nothing to eat. But this suffer er had fasted a month and ten days be fore He broke fast. Hunger must have agonized every fiber of the body and gaawed on the stomach with teeth of eath. The thought of a morsel of bread or meat must have thrilled the body with something like ferocity. urn out a pack of men hungry es Christ was a-hungered, and if they had strength with one yell they would de your you as a kid. It was in that pan of hunger that Jesus was accosted an fatan said, “Now change these stones which look like bread into an .actusl supply of bread.” Had the temptation come to you and me under those circum stances we would have cried, “Bread it ahall be!” and been almost impatient at tho time for mastication. But Christ with one hand beat back the hun- and with the other hand beat back monarch of darkness. Oh, fe tempted ones! Christ was tempted. We are told that Napoleon ordered a coat of mail made, but was not quite cer. tain that it was § , 80 he to the manufacturer of the coat of m “Put it on now yourself and let us and | tell leteers beasts of door of she worth looking at, and after a half day's journey they came to Jerusalem and to the top of the temple. Just as one might go up in the tower of Antwerp and look off upon Belgium, se Satan brought Christ to the top of the temple. Some people at a great height feel dizzy and a strange disposition to jump, so Satan comes to Christ in that very crisis. Stand- ing there at the top of the temple, they look off. A magnificent reach of country. Grainfields, vineyards, olive groves, for. ests and streams, cattle in the valley, flocks on the hills and villages and cities and realms. “Now,” says Satan, “I'll make a bargain. Just jump off. I know it is a great way from the top of the tem- ple to the valley, but if you are divine you can fly. Jump off. It won't hurt you. Angels will catch you. Your Father will hold you. Besides, I'll make you a large present if vou will. I'll give you Asia Minor, I'll give vou China, I'll give you Ethiopia. I'll give vou Italy, T'll give you Spain, Ull give you Germany, I'll give you Britain, I'll give you all the world.” What a temptation it must have been! But I bless God that in the triumph over temptation Christ gives us the ss- ing Himself been tempted, He is able to succor all those who are tempted. In a violent storm at sea the mate told a boy—for the rigging had become entan- gled in the mast—to go up and right it. A gentleman standing on the deck said: “Don’t send that bov up. He will be dashed to death.” The mate said, “I know what I am about.” The bov raised his hat in recognition of the order and then rose hand over hand and went to work. And as he swung in the storm the passengers wrung their and ex- pected to see fall. The work done, down in safety. and a Christian man said to him. “Why did vou go down forecastle before vou went up?’ the bov. “I went down to mother always taught me, be- took anything great to pray.” t vou have in your vest?” ¢ the New Testament.” he thought 1 would carry it with me if 1 really did go overboard.” How well the boy was protected! I care not how great the height or how vast the depth, with Christ within us and Christ beneath us and Christ above us and Christ all around us, nothing can Christ Him having been in the tempest will de- liver all those who put their trust in Him. Blessed be His glorious name forever! Further I remark, the last great install ment paid for our redemption was the de- mise of Christ. The world has seen many dark days Many summers ago there ery dark day when the sun was hands him ne came seit Hews Happenings of Interest Gathered From All Sources, $50,000 DAMAGE BY FIRE AT BEDFORD Two Men Killed and One Injured While Rob- bing Pillars in the Keystone Mine-~Mixer House of the Cambria Powder Works, s¢ Ninevah, Went Up in an Explosion Steady Work Assured for 20,000 Miners. At 3 o'clock in the morning fire was W. A. Morehouse, in the Blymyer Building, Bedford, and before it was gotten under control $50,000 worth of property was in ruins, covering a half block of buildings, from Hartley's Bank Only prompt work on the part of the local fire department saved Jank building, Corles’ Ride- Durb cigar store and o damaged. The store, Harry’ store were al SW Bly : e, $11,000, on and stock 8 inst The total $10,000: my irancc 1s perch, and we felt a gloom as at the astronomical wonder, was a dark day in London when plague was at its height and the dead with uncovered faces were taken in open cars and dumped in the trenches. It was dark dav when the earth opened and yn sank, but the darkest day since » creation of the world was when the carnage ‘al was enacted It was about noon when the curtain be. to be drawn. It was not the coming of a night that soothes and refreshes: was the swi 1g of a great gloom all und the heavens, God hung it As when there i» a dead one in the house you the shutters, or turn the lattice, so in the afternoon shut the windows the world. As it is appropriate to throw a black pall upon the coffin as it passes along, so it was appropriate that everything should be sombre that day as the great hearse of the earth rolled on bearing the corpse of the King. A man's last hours are ordinarily kept sacred. However you may have hated or caricatured a man, when vou hear he is dying silence puts ita hand on your lips, and you would have a loathing for the man who could stand by as deathbed mak ing faces and scoffing. But Christ in His last hour cannot be left alone. What! Pursuing Him yet after so long a pursuit? You have been drinking His tears. De you want to drink His blood? They come up closely. so that notwithstanding the they can glut their revenge with contortions of His countenance They examine His feet; they want to feel for themselves whether those feet are really spiked: they put out their hands and touch the spikes and bring them back wet with blood and wipe them on their garments Women stand there and weep, but ean do ne good It i» no place for the ten- wants a beart The waves of man's hatred and of hell's ven- geance dasa up against the mangled feet, and the hands of sin and pain and torture ciutch for His holy heart. Had He not been thoroughly fastened to the cross they would bave torn Him down and tram- pled Him with both feet. How the eav- alry horses arched their necks champed their bits and reared snuffed at the blood! Had sa Roman officer ecalied out for a light his voice would not have been heard in the tumult but louder than the clash of spears, and the wailing of womanhood, and the neigh- the and the crucifiers t terrihe. is the groaning of the dying Son of God! Look! What a scene! Look world, at what you have done! I lift the covering from the maltreated estimate the cost. Ob, when the nails went through Christ's ight hand and through Christ's left hand, that bought both your hands with all their power to work and hit and write. When the nails went through Christ's right foot and Christ's left foot, that bought your feet, with all their power to walk or run or climb. When the thorn went into Uhrist’s temple, that Dougie your brain, with all ite power to think and plan. When the spear cleft Christ's side, that bought your heart, with all to love and repent and pray. When the Atlantic cable was lost in 1865, do you remember that the Great and the Medway bany went ont to find it? Thirty times they sank the grapnel two and a half miles deep in water, After awhile they found the cable and brought it surface. No sooner had it been brought to the surface than they lifted a shout of exultation, but the cable sli back again into the water and was lost. Then for two weeks more they swept the sea with the grappling hooks, and at last they found the cable, and they brought it up in silence. They fastened it this time. Then with great excitement they took one end of the cable to the electrician’s room to see if there were really any lif in it, and, when they saw a spark knew that a m could be sent, every hat was lif and the rockets and the guns sound i sels on the expedition knew, and the con- tinents were ed together. Well, m friends, Sabbath after bbath gospe messengers have come searching down your souls. 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