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. We have the }
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borough and school
the property. Judge Swarts
a decision against the boro
were
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The stockholders of the newly orgun-
ized Second National Bank of Mevers
elected the following officers:
President. C. W. Truxal; vice-president,
N. E. Miller; cashier, EM Beach]
The ban
will open ts doors for busines: abant
Harris C. Fahnestock, of the Fiss
National Bank, New York, a native of
Harrisburg, has offered the Hargisburg
Young Men's Christian Association
begin the work when $60.000 is
having $45.000 already on
will
and
The Schuylkill County Homeopathic
Medical Society held a convention ir
Potsville which was attended ny doc
Papers
L. Straub, of Min:
The first Town Council of the new
borough of Northampton Heights has
been organized by the election of Wil
liam P. Baker as president; J. Davis
Brodhead, solicitor; engineer, R.
Neumeyer, and Harvey Frederick, town
clerk.
Nine weeks ago the boy was playing
with his 88-year-old sister, Jennie, ves
their home, when a mad dog bit him on
his nose and also bit the girl's leit
hand. She is being closely watched ton
fear she too will fall a victitn to (he
disease,
The old oil plant at Front and Fulton
streets, Chester, was destroyed by hre.
Three hundred bales of rags stored in
the building by J. J. Hayes were alse
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a
hy
The iron and steel works at Crum
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for some time.
A mortgage for the sum of $500.000
was filed at Media by the Suburban Gas
Company in favor of the Reai Estate
Trust Company of Philadelphia,
Twenty-five duates of the Lock
Haven Normal School have applied for
Government positions as teachers in the
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