Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-03
SacEiic6.
ByJ D. Cole IN tie IL E. Church,
Acwch 23rd, 1913.

III ClpGfHaihl, passing aiofg one Oi
the streets, great lauititudes went out
to meet him, some3to CRAFTY an idle
curiosity others desired to be blessed
among the latter was woman who
had been snflering severe bodily iadrm-
| ity for twelve years. She had tried
all the quack nost1ums that time aud
money, and her strength would allow
failing in these she applied to Jesu.
the God-given and aeayen-sent Physi-
clan. Her disease could not be made
public. She Therefore concluded tt
quietly touch the hem Of his outer
garment. Knowing that she would re
ceive benefit by sodoing.
| O that we might by faith, this morn
ing but touch the. garment of Jesus
righteousness, and peace and love, and
JOY, and be filed with health and
life.
The woman's MOST sanguine expecta-
tions were realized joy! she was
healed, but the Sasior was conscious OF
this, he fel5 the healing virtue depart
from him. &
The great lesson we are taught in
this subject is Sacritjce, God has been
teaching this lesson to the race for six
ty centuries, ti@. ,#that there can be nc
real good withoutsthe pain and onguish
and inconveniencesof sacrifce, virtue
must needs go ous.
Not only in the establishment and
diffusion Of religion in the world to
bring about the final in-gathering OF
humanity to God, but in the giving and
spreading Of each aud all good, sacrt-
fce is involved.
Hard study and Imprisonment was
the sacrifice necessary to be made by
the great Italian, calli!oo, to give
birth 20 the science Of astronomy.
Ro5t. Fulton aacrifcel ease. com
fort and fer time reputation: that the
world might reooiYe blessing in the
knowledge Of steam power.
Prof.. 1Iofse saerifced much in in
venting ana @iv;ns to the world the
art Of teIegraphy.f
Think you that thesc men were un-
mindful Of the faos that something had
been done. They fwerc conscious of
out-gone ojrtuc, thes were ~eary. Our
national 1:Jrties, blessings beqecathed
to Us are the product Of sacrifice.
The foundation Of orr national Re
public was laid enid tears, and deep
si2hiogs. and gushings, and break
incs, and fainting4 from hunger and
thirst, and long marches, aud slaeqicss
nights on picket duty, and sa5cr cuts,
and bayonet piercin g and stinsing shot,
and mangIing shell, and dying .groans,
after long and bloody revolution
american fathers, mothers, and sons
and daughters could say virtue hath
gone out Of US.
And th.s same love without warping
or str4in:ue holds good, when applied
to Christ aud his life work.
From the remote beginning Of Chri5ts
remedial work, sacrytce Is at the foun,
dat;on OF every act.
IL the ancient council room when
Christ gave himself. for ransom, there
was sacrifice involved.
Christs advent involved sacrifice.
His whole life wa q sacrifice.
1t is his outgoiag virtue that has
made his stately shpping so fragrant
for six thousand years.
Aud while believe and teach that
Christs sacrifice was ricariotts, was &C.
.piatory, get holdthat it was exem-
plary too, and should ever be regard
ed in this two foldrelation or sense.
It is By sacr:fcs that Christ had so
endcarad himself to the Christian, and
it is by the willingness to sacrifice, on
the part Of Gods 4cLilircn that they
cndear themselyesto Christ.
One cannot make sacrifice for another
without establishing new bond of in
terest between themselves. \ boy is
rescued from death and ever after he
loves to tell That man once saved my
life" The rcscur too feels special
interest in the onelhe had saved.
The difference Between the first born
and the second born life is SO great,
and we are so conformed to the laws o1
.ne latter, that the second born or spir-
itual life involves ''the very idea of sac
riice. There is an iudescribable com
fort growing out Of the ease of doing
nothing that SO Alany prefer not tc