Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-04-01

Why was il requisite that Chris, should actual
ly diei Were no, those sorrows of his, that
wrung his heart all his life long, his terrible an
ger in the garden. bis anguish OF both body and
soul On the cross. enough 10 testify the divine
wrath against US, without this extreme humlis
ton If Enoch and Elijah were taken to Heav
without having 10 pass through the mortal
agony, why might not the father have assumed
his well beloved Son 10 bis glery from the cross.
in the sight of his enemies. as he did afterward
from Bethany from the midst Of bis adorlng
dscplesg Would not the arrest of his passion
by such majesty have indicated The excellence
Of bis atonement more than even his resurrection
after the disgraces of the tombT
Ny brethren, If such thoughts arise 10 our
minds, it is because we forget the penalty which
the Mediator undertook pay in behalf Of his
people The sentence was explicit: The soul
that sinnelh, il shall die" Without The shed
dung Of blood. there i no remission The life
of the sinner was forfeited and therefore the life
of the substitute required He had cove
nantod 10 die that they might live. We must
believe that nothing less, nothing short of this
) could have answered the broken, dshonored law.
All the sacrifices in which the victims were slain
outright. all the prophecies which declared tha,
he should pour out his soul unto death, all his
own testimonies, respecting the decease which hG
should accomplish at jerusalem all the subse
quent teachings of his apostles, show that his
obedience was not complete until death, nor his
expiation, but in death.
All his antecedent sOErows and pains and tor
lures were but precursors Of his death: death
was in them all, but not complete until. as in
our DEATH his spirit was separated from his body
leaving the clay lifeless. and prone to mingle
with the dust out of which il was taken. Ii was
no seeming death, no deep trance nor syncope
Stimulating death, from which he recovered on
the third day; but an entire dissolution. so that
be ceased TO live until at his resurrection, he be
gan to live again. Father" said be. in the
midst of the great darkness as the vail of the
temple was rent in twain. &" Into thy hands
commend my spirit - and having said thus he
gave up the ghost; as il is in the Greek he ex-
PRED the breath went utterly out of his torn ex
hsusted frame; his body vet hung on the cruel
nails, but bis anguish was over: his blessed heart
was still. his holy head dropped. his gentle eyes
were closed: he had lived lite 20 its last pang;
hrs soul had gone up to its Father and Jesus OF
Nazareth was dead
o., beloved Christians, what strength and
sweetness there is in this article OF our faith II
Christ walked ever so closely with Us during all
our previous temptations and Sorrows, but turned
away when the enemy approached. shaking his
fearful dart, how should he shrink back in terror
and cry. in his own exceeding bitter cry, ""My
God, why hast thou forsaken Re?" But now
thas we have seen him dead, we know that he
will not leave nor forsake US, but will be our
guide even unto death: we mark the prints Of his
bleeding feet down every step of the valley, dark
IS darkness itself. and know that he will 20 with
us through the mystery. Then we fear no evil,
because his rod and his staff shall comfort US
Dr. BGIhune's XVIII Lecture on the Heidel-
burg Cstechism.