IN LONDON.
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pr. TALMA DOE SOW- Ir'I.IViIl
HIS SEIiMOSS.
ITc .Pattg of the Cost of Giving ttn
, nunity a Chance cf 'Salvation
And Tending up the Iurth of Our Suvior
ttelt-mi) ntloiilc the YIldi-iiP4ti tho
V Ciucifl.xou An liilenstini: Stsiiuuu.
. to tliu Multitudes. :".'.
Lospon, June 2G. An enormo'ii nil
dienee greeted. Dr. Tahmidgo iu this
city today, composed of people who had
' come from all parts of. the. British me
1 tropolis to hour thb famous American
E readier. ." Ilia reception in . England
aa been most enthusiastic. Many let
ters are awaiting .him from different
cities eagerly pleading for a visit. Tho
doctor .will havo to preach five, or
tix times a week if he accepts even r
small percentage of; the urgent' invito.-
' tions already sent bim. lie is very
iratifed by the extreme coidiality o.'
lis redeption.', Dr. Talmadgo entitles
bia sermon i "Thet Imtnense Cost,"
Irom tho text, I Cor. vi, 20, "Ye are
bought with a price."
Your Iriend takes you through his
valuable bouse. You examine the
arches, the frescoes, the grassplots. the
fishponds, the conservatories, the parks
ot deer, and you say within yourself oi
you say aloud, "What did all this cost?'
You see a costly diamond Hushing in an
earring, or you hear a costly dress rust
ling across the drawing room, or you sc
a high mettled span ot horses harnesses
with sivler and gold, and you begin t
make an estimate of thetvalue.'
. The man who owns a largo estate can
not instantly tell you all it is worth. H
- eays. . "I: will estimate so much lor th
house, so much for the furniture, so
much for laying out tho grounds, so
nruoh for the stock, so much for the.
1 barn, so much for tho equipnge adding
up in all making this aggregate."
Well, my friends, 1 hear so, much
about our mansion' in heaven about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that I want to know how much it is al)
worth, and what has actually been paid
for it. I cannot complete in a month,
nor ft year, the magnificent calculation
but before I get through to-day,.-I hop?
to give you the figures.. "Ye are bought
with a price."
THE CROWN' JEWELS. .... ?
With some friends I went to youi
... Tower to look at the crown jewels. We
walked around, caught one glimpse o!
them, and being in the procession were
compelled to pass out I wish that 1
could take this audience into the towei
. df God's mercy and strength that yoi!
might walk around just once, at least.
, - p.na see the crown jewels of eternity, be
hold their brilliance and estimate theii
value. "Ye are bought with a price."
Now if you have a large amount oi
money to pay, you do not pay it all a
pnee, but you pny it by installments so
much the "first of January, so much the
first of April, so much the first ot July,
fo much the, first ot October, until tin
entire amount is paid,, and I have tc
tell this audience that "you have been
. bought .with, a price." and that that pric
was paid in different installments.
The first installment paid for tht
clearing of our souls was the ignomi
pious birth of Christ in Bethlehem
Though wo may never be carcfullj
looked after after ward,' our advent int
the world is , carefully guarded. W
come, into the world amid kindly atten
tions. Privacy and silence are afforded
when God launches an immortal sou!
:Y info the world. Even the roughest o'
men know enough, to stand back. Bui
. I have to tell you that in the village or
the hill there was a very bedlam of up
roar when Jesus was born. .
; ' ' In a village capable of' accommodating
' enly a few, hundred people, many thot
sand people , ware crowded, and amid
t hostlers and muleteers and camel driven
jCyelling at stupid beasts of burden, tb
V Messiah appeared. No silence; no pr
, vacv. A better adapted place has th
eaglet in the eyrie hath the whelp it
the lion's lair. The exile ot heaver
. lieth down upon straw. The first night
out trom the palace of heaven spent it
an outhouse I One hour after laying
aside the robes of heaven, dressed in i
wrapper of coarse linen. One would
have supposed that Christ would hav
. made a more gradual descent, cominr
from heaven first to a half way world ci
great magnitude; then to Caeser's palace
. then to a merchant's castle in Galilee
then to a private home in Bethany, the
to a fisherman's hut, and last of all to i
stable. No! It was one leap from tcj
to bottom. .
THE MANGER AT BETHLEHEM.'
Let us open the door of the cornvnn
sory in Bethlehem and drive away th
camels. Press on through the group o
idlers and loungers. .What, 0 Mary
no light? "No light," she Ffiys, "eav.
that which comes - through the door.
What, Mary! no food? "None," sh.
eays, "only that which was brought ii
the sack on the journey." Let th
Bethlehem woman who has come ii
here with kindly attentions put bacl
, tho covering from the babe that we ma;
look upon it. Look! Look! Uncovu
your' head. Let us kneel. Let al
' -voices be hushed. Son of Mary! Soi
. of Cod! Child of a day monarch o
: eternity! ... In that eye the glance of i
: God. Omnipotence sheathed in tha
babo's arm. That voice to be chnnge
irom the feeble plaint to the tone tha
"shall wake the dead. Ilosanna! lie
panna!
' . Glory be to God that Jesus cnnn
from throne to manger, that we miglv
rise from manger to throne, and that id
. the gajtes are open, and that the door o
: heaven that once swung this way to le
Jesus out, now swings the other "way i
. let ns in. Let all the bellmen of heavei
lay hold the rope and ring out tho now
"liehold, I bring you glad tiding o
p-eat joy. which shall be to all people
lor tod:y is bom in the city .of David i
Savior, which is Christ the Lard!"
, The second installment paid for on:
ti'iiii s clearance was tho w-ne in Qua
n :.mii. a ninunt-uwiiis jegion, fui) c
i.iiti.v whoie there mo to this thn
iiif-rs and wild bounty cf all worts,
t L:it you must, now go th re armed witl
:' vt i-'i'i or pistol It wa then
l) ; 7. - v-fi.t to th;?!'-: uid to
, i' .i ll:.'t t:ii.; i::ci '.'r c-
hell niofe sly, more terrific than any
thing that prowled in that country-
latan himself, met Christ.
The rose in the cheek of Christ that
Publius Lentullus in ' his letter to the
Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus that
jos had scattered its petals. Absti
nence from food had thrown him into
emaciation. ' A Jong abFtinenco from
food recorded in profane history is tlmt
Cf the crew ot tho ehip.Tuno; lor twenty
three days they had nothing to eat. Iiut
this sufferer had fasted a month and ten
Jays before ho broke 'fast. Hunger
must have agonized every fiber of the
body and gnawed on the stomach with
teeth of death. The thought of ft mor-
i jel of bread or meat must have ' thrill od
Iho body with something like ferocity.
Turn out a pack of men hungry a?
Christ was hungered, and if they had
strength, with one yell they would de
vour you as a lion a kid.
It was in that pang of hunger that
Jesus was accosted, and Patau said,
'Now change these 6tones, which look
like bread, into an actual supply o!
, bread." Had the temptation come to
you and me tinder theso circumsttiiices,
we would have cried, "Bread it tdirdl
be!" and been almost impatient at tha
time for mastication. . But VhtUi witJt
one hand boat back the hunger, and
with the other hand boat back tho
monarch of darkness... Oh, ye tempted
5nes! Christ was' tempted. "We are
told that Napoleon ordered a cost of
mail mado, but he is not quite certain
that it was impenetrable' so he said to
the manufacturer of the' coat of nuni,"
'Put it on now yourself, and lot 113 try
11 it" and with shot after shot from his
wn pistol the emperor found out that
it was just what it pretended to be a
jsood coat of mail. Then the man ro
:eived a large reward.
I i THE RUARD AGAINST TEMPTATIOX.
1 ' I bless God that tho same coat of mail
that struck back the weapons of temp
tation from tho head of Christ we may
. now all wear; for Jesus comes and says:
"I have been tempted, and I know what
it is to be tempted. Take this robo that
iciended mo, arid wear it for yourselves.
, -shall see through all trials and I shall
eo you through all temptations." ,
"But," says satan still further to Jesus.
! "Come and I will show you something
worth looking at;" and altera half a
day's journey they came to Jerusalem,
and to the top of the temple. Just us
Mie might go up into the tower at Ant
werp and look off upon Belgium, so
satan brought Christ to the top of the
templet. Some people at a great bight
. feel dizzyi and a strange disposition to
: jump; so i satan comes to Christ at
that very crisis. Standing there at the
top of the temple they looked oft A
magnificent reach of country.. Grain
fields, vineyards, olive groves, f orests and
r.trcams, cattle in the valley, flocks on
the hills, And villages arid cities and
realms.
'"Now," says satan, "I'll make a bar
gain. Just jump oft I know it is a
trreat 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 willi 'catch you- ' Your
Father will holdjyou. Besides, I'll make
you a large present if you will. .-Til give
you Asia Minor, I'll give you China. I'll
give you Ethiopia, I'll give you Italy,
I'll give you Spain, I'll give you, Geiv
: many, f H give you Britain. I'll give you'
i all the world." What a temptation this
' must have been ! ; .
Go tomorrow morning and get in an
' ltercafion with some wretch crawling
' up from a gin cellar in the, lowfest part,
of your city. "No," you soy, "I . would
: not bemean myself by getting into such
& contest." Then think what the king
of heaven and earth endured ' wlfen ho
; iame down and fought the great wretch'
of hell, and fought him in the wilder
f o ess and on top of tho temple. , But 3
I oless God that in the triumph over
I temptation Christ gives us the assurance
j that we shall also triumph. Having
himself been tempted, he is able to suo
; ;or all those who are tempted,
j In a violent storm, at sea tho mate
; told a boy for the rigging had become
; tntangled at the mast to go up and
' right it A gentleman standing on the
deck said, "Don't send that boy up; he'
' will be dashed to death." The mate
said, '"I know what I am about." The
j boy raised his hat in -recognition ot the
: rder, and then rose hand over hand
; md went to work; and as he swung in
che storm tho passengers wrung their
hands and expected to see him fali.
' The work done he came downin safety,
! and a Christian man said to him, "Why.
did you go down into the torecastla bo
i '.oro you went up?", "Ah!" said the
; boy : "I went down to pray. My mothei
: always taught me before I undertook
anything great to pray.'" "What is that
you have in your vest , ?" said the man.
"Oil 1 that is the JNew 'lestament, no
iaid, "I thought I would carry it with
ne if I reallv did co overboard." How
j well the boy was protected !
I 1 care not how great the height or
how vaft the depth, with Christ within
I us and Christ bpneath us and Christ
; u-bovo us and Christ oil around us no
j rhing can befall us in the way of harm.
Jhrist himself having been.in the tern
; pest will deliver all those who put their
j trust in him. Blessed be his glorious
name forever. ' ' ;
HOW CJIUIST WAS MOCKED.
The third installment paid for our ro
lemption was the Savior's sham trial.
j 1 call it a sham trial tliere has never
l t.ieen anything so indecent or - unfair in
j ,iny criminal "court, as was witnessed at
i he trial of Christ. .Why, they hurtled
aim into tne court-room at 2 o'clock in
; 'he morning. : They gave him no time
i (or counsel. They gave him no oppor
tunity for subprenaing witnesses. , The
j ruflia'ns who were wandering around
! through tho midnight, of course they
! i aw the arrest and went irito-the court
! room. But Jesus' friends'" were sober
! men, were respectable men, and at that
I hour, 2 o'clock in tho morning, of course
. shev were at home asleep." "Consequent
' 'v Chrift entered the court-room with
the ruftians. . '
Oh, look at him! . No one., to speak o
vord for him- I lift the lantern until J
an look into his face, and, as my heart
l.eaN in sympathy for this, tho bot
friend the world ever .had. himself new
utterly iriendh-ss, nn officer of tho court
room ronies up and smites Jdni in the
mouth, and I see the blood Btealintr from
.rum and- lip. Ob! it- wa a farco of a
trial l....-tinff tmlv perhaps 'fin hour, and
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:tv;nee. Vtp'
: th, law to
IiM ' Weu-i
of court between eondemnation an.
sn fence; but what cares tho judge fo
the hiw? i'TIiq man has no friends le
him die," says the judge; and the rul
flans outside the rail cry: I'Alia! ahi
that's what wo want. Pass him ou
here to us. Away with him! A wa."
with him!" . 1
; Oh! I bless God that ' amid all the in
justice that may have been inflictet
upon us in this world we have a diviiv.
sympathizer. The world cannot lit
about you nor abuse you as much at
they did Christ, and Jesus stands toda;
in every court room, in cverv house, ii
i rvery store, and says: "Courage! By al
my nouvs ot nmllatment and abuse, .
will protect thono who are tramplet
uponV And when Christ forgets tha
two o'clock morning scene, and th
stroke of the ruffian on tho mouth, an
the howling of the unwashed crowd
then he will forgot you and me in th
injustice of life that may be inflictcf
upon us. i
.Further, I remark: The last great ir
stallment paid for our redempiion wai
the demise of Christ. The world ha.
seen many dark days. Many summer!
ogo there was a very dark day when th
sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noonday
went to their-perch, and we felt d glooti
as wo looked at the astronomical wor
der. It was a dark day in London whei
the plague was at its height, and tL i
dead whh uncovered faces were taken h
open carts ani dumped in tho trenches.
"It was a dark day when the earth
.opened and Lisbon sank, but the dark
est day since tho creation of the world
was when the carnage of Calvary wo.
enacted. :
CRUELTY OF . THB JEWS.
It was about noon when the curtail
, began to be drawn. It was not th
. coming on of a night that soothes anc
" refreshes; it was tho swinging ot a greai
gloom all around the heavens. Goc
hung it. As when there is a dead on
in tho house you bow the shutters oi
turn the lattice, bo God in the afternooi
shut the windows ot the world.. As i'
is appropriate to throw a black pal
j upon the coffin as it passes along, so iv
was appropriate that everything shoulc
be somber that day, as the great hearst
of the earth rolled on, bearing th
corpse of the king. .
A man's last hours are ordinarily kep"
sacred. Ilowever you may have hatef
or caricatured a man, when you hear h
is dying, silence puts its hand on you:
iips, and you would have a loathing lo:
the man who could stand by a deathbet
making faces and scoffing. - But Chris1
I in his dast- hour cannot be left alone
1 What!' pursuing bim yet after so long i
t pursuit? You have been drinking hi:
j tears. Do you want to drink his blood'
Iheycomeup closely, eo that notwith
standing the darkness, they "can glui
their revenge with 'the contortions o'
his countenance. They examine hit
feet. They want to feel for themselves
whether those feet aro really spiked
They put out their hands and touch th'
spikes, and bring them back wet with
blood and wipe them on their 'garment;?
"Women stand there and weep, but car.
do no good. It is no place for the ten:
der-hearted women. It wants a hears
that crimo has turned into granite,
The waves of man's hatred and o'
hell's vengeance dash up against the
mangled feet, and the hands of sin and
pain and torture oluteh for his holj
heart. Had ho not been '. thoroughly
fastened to the cross, they would have
torn him down and trampled him with
both leet. How tho cavalry horses
arched their necks and champed theii
bits, and - reared ' and snuffed at th
blood! Had a Roman officer called ouf
for a light his voice would not have
been heard in the tumult;, but loudei
than the clash of spears, and the wailing
of womanhood, and the neighing o
the chargers, and the bellowing ot the
crucifiers there comes a voice crashing
through loud, clear, : overwhelming,
terrific. It is the groaning ot the dying
son of God! Look! what a scene! Look,
world, at what you have done! . .
. .
CALL TO TOE UNCONVERTED.
I lift the covering from the maltreated
.Christ to let you count the xvounda and
estimate tho cost. Oh, when the nail
went through Christ's right hand
and through Christ's left hand, tha
bought both your hands with all theii
power to work and? lift and write:
When the. nails went through Christ'
right foot and Christ'sleft foot, that
bought your feet, with"; all 'their powf i
to walk or run or climb. When the
thorn went into Christ's temple, thai
bought your brain, with all its power to
think and plan. When the spear clef;
Christ's side," that .bought your heart,
with all its power to love and repent
and pray. .
Oh, sinner, come back! If a man in
in no pain, if ha is prospered, it he ia
well, and ho asks you to come, you take
your time and you say: "1 can't come
now. I'll come after awhile.' There is
no haste." 1 But it he is in want and
trouble you say: "I must go right away.
I must go now." Today Jesus strotche
out before you two wounded hands
and he begs of you to come. Go and
you live. Stay away and you die. Oh.
that to ' him who bought us wo might
give all our ?ime, and all our prayers,
and all our successes. I would" we
could think of nothing else, but come
to ChristJ He is so fair. He is so lov-,
ine. He is so sympathizing. He is so
good. I wish' we could put our " arms
around his neck and say, "Thine, Lord,
will I bo forever." Oh, that, you would
begin to love him. Would that I could
take this audience and , wreathe it
around v th heart of my Lord Jesus
Christ,
When the Atlantic cable was lost, in
1805. do you remember that the Great
Eastern and the Medway, - and th
Albany went to find it? Thirty tinio:'
they sank the grapnel two and a hal
miles, deep in water. After awhile they
bund the cable and brought it to the
surface. No sooner had it been brought
to the surface' than thev lifted a shout
of exultation, but the cable slipped back
egain mto tne water ana was lost, lhet
or two weeks more they swept tho sec
with the grappling hooks, and at las'
they found tho cable, and they brought
It up in. silence. They, fastened it thii
time. Then, with great excitement, they
?ook one end of the cable to the electric
ian's room to see if there were really any
iife in it, and when they.!iw a spark and
knew that a message could be sent, then
ivery hat w:is lifted, and the rockets and
;!:': I J (ill 'tht- ,;(!
;)' in-r Vi)--p kn.j'- the o-l.. ",v.v
i done and the continents wore lashed to
gether. : - '.'
, Well, my triends, Sabbath after Sab
bath Gospel messengers havo com
enrobing down for your .souls, We
bavo swept tho sea with the grappling
ook of Christ's1 Gospel. Again and
gain wo have thought that you were at
the eurtace, and we began to rejoice
over your redemption; but at tho mo
ment of our gladness you sank back
again into the world and back again
Into sin. Today w come with this Gos
pel searching for your souL We apply
the cross of Christ first, to see whethet
there is any Jit left in you, while' all
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it rou n a in people siana, looking to see
whether tho work will be done and the
anuels of God bond down and witness
una oh I it how we could see only one
fpark of Jove and hope and faith, we
would Bend up a shout that would bo
heard on the battlements ot beaver,
and two worlds would keep jubilee be-
?auso communication is open between
Christ and th souL and your nature
that has been sunken in Bin lias been
ii'tdd into tho light and the joy of the
ucspL
WOMAN'S WORK AND AIMS.
Eliza A. Graham, of Mobile, Alabama,
has received a patent for a machine for
'aauginjr wall paper.
Three hundred women in the United
States own establishments for the raising;
Df flowers and plants.
Twenty young women, skilled in tho
ase of the microscope, are. employed by
the government as pork inspectors at
Kansas city. -
Oue-third of the women of Germany
nnd Austria are said to support them
selves, dud half of those who are muiried
help iu gainful occupations.
Lady Randolph ' Churchill 'is the only
American woman who has ever been
oouoied by the Queen Of England with
the order of the Crown of India,
The wife of John Delane, of the Lon
don Times, suggested the- obituary col
amn of which her husband playfully al
lowed her the iucome that tuially grew
co ru enormous sum.
Mrs. Amelia Rives-Chanler has gone to
Washington to make some special studies
for a literary production on .which hIib is
engaged, which will deal with Washing
ton social life and public characters. .
Boston bonsts o a woman cabinet
maker, who has a studio iu the Pierce
Building, on Copley square, and plies
hammer, saw and chisel for back By
patrons.! She has alno several classes of
fashionable girl pupils. '
This is the way the ex-Empress Eiu
genie recently gave her personality to it
census agent: Marie Eugenie, Count9s?
of Pierrefond, sixty-four years of age,
born in Granada, Spain ; naturalized in
France; a widow; a traveller.
Oue of the prominent preachers of
North Dakota is Miss Carrie J Bartlett,
;i young woman who stepped from a
newspaper office into a pulpit She is
said to be successful in her new field, and
is popular with her congregation. .
Police matrons are now employed iu
Boston, New York, Chicago, Phihidel
phia,;aud other large cities. The appoint
ment of the matrons lias generally been
secured by the efforts of the women, and
in spite of the opposition of the police,
Miss Amy B iker, a gifted youug elo
cutionist, has a parlor class of New York
women who spend a profitable hour lis
tening to her admirable selection of edi
torials and articles on current topics and
events, clipped from both American and
foreign journals of the time,
A Swedish lady has for years been tha
nugraver of medals at the Royal Mint at
Stockholm, and . many of her couutry
women are celebrated engravers on xvood
and glass. In wood carving, lithography,
modelling, designing of various descrip
tions, decorative painting ai d art em
broideries of tho finest and rarest kind,
the women of Sweden can not be excelled.
Several have gained fame asmusica?
composers.
In Iceland men and women are in
every respect political equals. The na
tion, which is about seventy-three thou
saud people, is governed by representa
tives elected by men and women to
gether. The work of education is iu the
hands of the women and in the whole
island not a surgle illiterate is to be
found. These voting mothers, who edu
cate their chfldren.Vhavo produced a na
tion in which there are no prisons, nc
police, no thieves and no army.
A celebrated banker in New York has
four " beautiful daughters. Two are
trained school teachers, one is an artist,
the other a pianist. He obliges them to
work at their professions, and become
not only theoretically but practically
successful. Upon being asked the reason
of this rather unnecessary treatment,
when he possessed such immense wealth,
he replied: Money . is fleeting in my
business, and I am determined that all
my family shall, know how to earn
money if anything happens to me.
There are hundreds, of gentlewomen
coming into my. office every day whinjnp
from poverty and lack of industry. They
don't know, how to work, and that i
why they are so backward in getting ti
living. ' It is a sad sight, and I am deter
mined my family shall be above it, and
after all, labor is above wealth.
SUBJECTS OF THOUGHT.
The fountain of the only beauty that
fasts is the heart.
He who labors with his mind govern?
others; ho who labors with hia body ie
governed by others.
Few men have ever earnestly striker
after a competence, after health, home,
happiness, lovi of relatives, respect auc
confidence o? fello w men,' and not at
tained it. I'Yv men that have so lived
hare had occasion to part from old asso
ciations with dread and to greet new
ones with fears. '
The habit of strict and careful accur
acy iu spejilung, or saying, neither moi
nor lews tl an is felt or thought or known
of recording facts, events aud scenes as
eorrectly'as possible, will form the bes1,
iafegimrd HLMinst the utterance of aeon
eii-.M3 w.itruth, however strong may, be
L!i- Mofivo 1,'i.li may :vi it.
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