Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — IN LONDON. [ARTICLE]

IN LONDON.

' The great American trotter will soon be nowhere. Zimmerman, ihe bicyclist, has made a quarter of a , mile in thirty seconds. . If honesty and purely patriotic motives prevailed in politics, there tronld be very few men in the roll of professional politicians. A new and dangerous counterfeit Is reported from Washington There Is consolation in the fact that the bill is of the SSO denomination. One of the German weather pro that there will-be another deluge in the year 6400. A good many people would be glad to know whether it has not just begun. One John P. Quinn Jias entered the ranks of reformers as a reformed gambler, and will enter the lecture field-reformed—gambler’s lecture held. By the way, what has become of Mason Long? In the midst and in spite of the great excitement at Minneapolis last, week, the Indianapolis ball club won a game. They have seven victories 60 far this year. We wonder that iu this case, the named event did not create excitement almost equal to the National convention. - ■“ “The President was annoyed,” • lays dispatches from Rochester on the occasion of his recent visit therq, ‘Vhen he 'discovered that two detectives were shadowing him to prevent his harm by eranks,” and intimated very strongly that he deemed this surveilancc unnecessary. • When we consider the patriotism and loyalty of the people we agree with the* President, but when we remember that this country has many irresponsible beings who might take it into their heads that they were “called to remove him”. we agree that there was wisdom in the foresight prompted extreme care that another martyr to crank ism shall notbe permitted.

Rudolf Falb, a German weather prophet, lectured in Meiningen recently, says the New York Sun, on “The Deluge and the Ice Age.” He says the phenomena occur about every 10,000 years. It is known that our earth has passed through two ages of ice. Only one deluge is known to have taken place, and that -was about 406&_1i C. As records have proven," the climate improved until 1000 D. From that date; fie says, the climatic records begin to show a chknge for the worse aud disastrous disturbances are chronicled. According to Mr. Falb, the next deluge will occur in the year 6400. That leaves our present gen eration and many more to -follow sufficient time to settle their tem poral and spiritual affairs.

' The dispatches received here from various Asiatic countries during the month of May, says the N. Y. Sun have given ua-tfae information that cholera is epidemic this year in northern India, in eastern China, in parts of Persia, in Arabia, and in the southern provinces of Asiatic „ Russia, all of which countries see contiguous to each other. The plague has not yet, so far a 9 we know, crossed the Caspian Sea, or the Mediterranean in its westward course; but the apprehensions that ordinarily exist in Europe when it gets as far west; as Syria have re cently found expression in the medical journals. The experience of the _past furnishes ample evidence that when it becomes epidemic in Asia Minor, there is always danger of its appearance on the European shore o; the Mediterranean. Its ravages in the Indian province of Cashmere and the Persian province of Khorassar. do not appear to be as baleful as they are on the southern coasts of t( the Red Sea, from whieh region Ike danger to Europe is the greatest this year. It is fortunate that the en | forcemeat of sanitary laws in Egypt is under the direction of British sanitarians in the service of the Egyptian Government; for these functuaries gave evidence last yea: when cholera raged in AJecca, that they were able to stay its advance. We are assured by the British med ■ leal journals that they are even iQorc energetic in making preparations for it at tb,is time than they v*ere las: pear, and that they can now act more authoritivcly than they could when they last cealt with it. In a! parte of southern Europe, also, the safeguard of the quarantine will be

Dr. Taftnage Warmly Received in die English Metropolis. An Al«n< it Breathless Multitude Listen to HlHgcrman on '‘The Immense Sceuos. Dr. Talmage preached by special Invitation of Rev. Joseph Parker, the celebrated English divine, in the City Temple, London, Sunday. Long before the opening heur a dense mass of people besieged the doors of the temple. The crowd was so tightly wedged that women faintejji during the struggle for entrance.' " Dr. Parker introduced Dr. Talmage to the audience and greeted him in loving cordiality. Talmage’s sermon moved the auditory to tears. At the conclusion Parkter took the platform and, addressing the audience with much feeling, said: —is the most solemn, pathetic and impressive appeal l ever listened to. It has kindled the fire t>t enthusiasm in our souls that will burn on forever. It has unfolded the possibilities of the pulpit never before reached. It has stirred all hearts with holiest ambition.” Then, lifting his eyes heavenward, be added, impressively: “I thank God for Dr. Talmage’s life and ministry, and I despise the man who can not appreciate his services to Christianity. [Great applause.] May in this pulpit again.” After the service, and as the congregation was being dismissed, Dr. Parker embraced the American preacher in his study, and fervently invited him to make the City Temple his headquarters. When Dr. Talmage left the church he found that a great audienqe~remained outside, and an almost impassable crowd blocked the street. He was immediately surrounded by the crowd, which was kept back by the police, while the Doctor, guarded by policemen, made a brief address. standing in a carriage when bespoke. Imthe coach were Miss Maude Talmage and Dr. and Mrs. Louis Klopsch, of New York Cit}', who are with the Talmage party. , ■ After his remarks there was a season.of handshaking. At last the police succeeded in clearing a path,and the carriage passed through the multitude, many running after it to get a glimpse of the Tabernacle preacher. Dr. Talmage’s stay in London is uncertain, as he leaves soon for* St. Petersburg to distribute the car go of the Christian Herald Russian relief steamer Leo. Dr. Talmage entitles bis sermon, ’‘lhelmmense Cost,” from the text 1 Cor. vi: 20, “Ye are bought with a price. ’ ’ n !. zzf: Your 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 yourself or you say aloud: “What did all this cost ?” You see a cosily diamond flashing in an ear-ring, or you hear a costly dress rustling -across the drawing-room, or you see a high-mettled span of horses har-TTCSsed-with-aH-fer-and- and yo.u begin to make aa estimate of the Val ue. The man who owns a large estate can not instantly tell you all 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 n v - ? all malting this aggregate. ” Well, my friends, I hear so much about our mansion in heaven, about its furniture and the grand surroundings, that I want to know how much it is all worth, and what has actually been paid fqr.lt. I can not complete in a month, nor in a year, the magnificent calculation, but before I get through to-day I hope to give you the figures. ‘‘Ye are bought with a price.” -j

The first installment paid for the clearance of our souls was the ignominious birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we may never be carefully looked after afterward, our advent iU(to the world is carefully guarded! We come into the world amid kindly attentions. Privacy and silence are afforded when God launches an immortal soul into the word. Even the roughest of men know enough to stand But I have to tell you that in the village on the side of the hill there was a very bedlam cf uproar when Jesus was born. In a village capable of accommodating only a few hundred people, many thousand people were crowded, and, amid hostlers and muleteers and camel-drivers yelling at stupid beasts of burden, the Messiah appeared. No silence. No privacy. A better adapted place hath the eagle in the eyrie—hath the whelp in the lion’s lair. The Exile of heaven lieth down upon straw.< The first night out from the palace of heaven spent in an outhouse! Qne hour after* laving aside the robes of heaven dressed in a wrapper $f eoarse linen. One would have supposed that Christ would have made a more gradual descent. coming from heaven to a halfway world of great magnitude, then to Caesar’s palace, then to a merchant’s castle in Galilee, then toa private home' in Bethany, then to a tkhermans hut, and last of all to,a stable. No!, It was one leap from the top to the bottom. Glory be to that Jesus came from throne to manger, that we might rise from manger to throne, end that all the gates are open, and that the door of heaven, that once swung this way to let Jesus out, now swings tha other way to let us in. Let all the bellmen'of heaven lay hold the rope and ring out the news.

“Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people; for today is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord! B ‘ , ,-T The second installment paid for our soul’s clearance was the scene in Quarantania, a mountainous region, full of caverns, where there are to this day panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so 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 this monster of hell—more sly, more terrific than anything that prowled in that country —satan himself, mgt 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. Abstinence 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 twenty-three days they had nothing to eat. - But this sufferer had fasted a month and ten days before he broke fast. Hunger must have agonized every fiber of the body and gnawed on *the stomach with teeth of death. The thought of a morsel of bread or meat must have thrilled the body withsomething like ferocity. Turn out a pack of men hungry as Christ was a hungered, and if they had strength, with one yell they would devour you as ajion a kid. li,was in that pang of hunger that Jesus was accosted, and acted said. •‘Now change these stones, which look like bread, into an actual supply of bread.” Had the temptation come to you and me under these circumsthnqes, we would have cried, “Bread it shall be!” and been almost impatient at the time taken for mastication, But Christ with one hand beat back the hunger, and with the other hand beat back the monarch of darkness. Oh, ye tempted ones! Christ was tempted. “But,” says satan still further to Jesus, ‘[come, and I will show you something worth looking at;” and '"after a half a day’s journey they came to Jerusalem, and to the top of the temple. Just as one might go up iu the tower of Antwerp and look off upon Belgium, so satan brought Christ to the top of the temple. „ “Now,” says satan, “I’ll make a bargain with.you. just jump off. I Tcnow it is a great way from the top of the temple 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 you Will. I’ll 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 Germany, I’ll give you Britain, I’ll give you all the world.” What a temptatru it must have been! Go to-morrow morning and get in ap altercation with some wretch crawling up from a gin cellar in the lowest part of your city. “No," you I sav, “I would not bemean myself by getting into such, a contest. ” Then think of what the King of heaven and earth endured when he came down and fought the great wretch of hell, on top of the temple. But I bless God that in the triumph over temptation Christ gives us the asurance I that we also shall triumph. Having | himself been tempted, he is able to succor all those who are tempted. I chre 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 befall us in the way of harm. Christ himself having been in the tertipest will deliver all those who put their trust in him. Blessed be his glorious name forever. The third installment* paid for our redemption, was the Saviour’s sham trial. I call it a sham trial—there has never been anything so indecent* or unfair in any criminal court as was witnessed at the trial of Christ. Why they hustled him into the courtroom at 2 l o’clock ini the morning. They gave him no time for counsel. They gave him no opportunity for subpoenaing witnesses. The ruffians who were wandering around through the midnight of course they saw the arrest and went into the courtroom. But Jesus’ friends were sober men, were respectable teen, and at that hour, 2 o’clock in tthe morning, qf coifrse they were at home asleep. Consequently Christ entered the courtroom with the ruffians.

Oh, look %t him ! No one to speak a word for him., 1 lift the lantern until I can look into his face, and as my heart beats in sympathy for this, the best friend the world ever had, "himself now utterly friendless, an officer of the courtroom comes up and smites him in the mouth, and I see the blood stealing from gum and lip. Oh! it was a farce of a trial, lasting, only perhaps an hour, and then the judge rises for sentence. Stop! It is against the law to give sentence unless there has been an adjournment of the court between condemnation and sentence; but what cares the judge for the law? *“The man has no friends—let him die,”savs th£judge; and the ruffians outside the rail cry: “Aha! aha! that’s what we want. Pass him out here to us! Away with him! Away with ium.l” , _ ; Oh! I bless God that amid all the injustice that may have been inflicted upon us in thlg world we have a divine sympathizer. The world cannot lie about you nor abuse you as they did Christ,' and Jesus stands today in every court room, in every house, in every store, and says: “Courage! By-all my hours of maltreatment andabuse, I will protect those who are trampled upon.” And when Christ forgets that two o’clock morning scene, tuad the howling of 1

the unwashed crowd, then he will forget you and me in the injustices of life that may be inflicted upon us. Further,,! remark: The last great installment paid for Pur redemption was the demise of Christ. The world has seen many dark days. Many summers ago there was a very dark day when the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noonday went to their perch, and we felt a gloom as we looked at the astronomical wonder. It was a dark day in London when the plague was at its height, and the dead with uncovered faces were taken in open carts and dumped in the trenches. It was a dark day when the earth opened and Lisbon sank, blit the darkest day since the beginning of the world was when the carnage of Calvary' was enacted. It was about noon when the ctartain began to be drawn. It was not the coming on of a night that soothes and refreshes; it was the swinging of a great gloom all around the heavens. ..God hung it. As when [there is a dead[ one in the house you boW the-shutters or turn the lattice, so God in the afternoon shut the windows of 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 somber that day as the great hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing the corpse of the King. The waves of man’s hatred and of hell’s vengeance dash up against the mangled feet, and the hands of sin and-pain and torture clutch for his holy heart. Had he not been thoroughly fastened to the cross they would have torn him down and trampled hiin with both feet. How the cavalry horses arched their necks and charfTbed their bits, and reared and snuffed at the blood 1 Had a Roman officer called 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 neighing of the chargers, and the bellowing of the crucifiers there comes a voice crashing through —loud, clear, overwhelming; terrific. It is the groaning of the dying son of God ! » Look ! what a scene ! Look, world, 1 at what you have done! I lift the covering from the maltreated Christ to you count the wounds and estimate the cost. Oh, when-the nails went through Christ’s right hand and. through Christ’s left hand, that bought>both your hands with all their povtfer to work and lift and write! When the nails went through Christ’s right foot and Christ's left foot, that both your feet, with all their power to walk or run oi 1 climb. When the thorn went into Christ’s temple, that bought your brain, with all its power to think and .plan. When the spear cleft Christ’s sido, that bought your heart, with all its power to love and repent and pray. Oh, sinners come, come back. '