The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-06
Our Young People
REDEMPTION MADE PLAIN.
An Interesting Sketch for Sunday
Schools.

An Interesting Sketch Tor Sunday
Schools.
Believs on the Lord Jesus and hSu
shall Be saved.
| am going TO preach tn you this
morning. You must pay attention.
If lou will listen CLOSELY and not be
thinking of something at home, you
will be sure to understand me
think can preach To you on the
great theme OF your salvation and
be so simple and So plain that even
the little folks in the infant class
will be able t. understand this ser
mon. / want to show YOU what
I Christ is TO YOU, and then | want to
show you what YOU must be 10
/ Christ, in order to be saved. Christ
is yoGr Savior. Let me make this
plain to you.
/ Once in g certain school the law
was that if a scholar disobeyed the
master he was to stand i'll the cor
Ler of the school room for one half
/ hour. His face was 10 be TO the
wall, and he was not to speak q
word for the whole time. A boy
dIsobeyed. He was a weakly, sickly
lad, and was hardly able to stand
still SO long a time. But the law
must be obeyed. In the school
there was a strong, healthy boy who
was as generous as he was strong.
He looked upon the poor, pale boy
who had done wrong, and he pitied
him. He said, Master, | will stand
for John. Let me 60 to the corner
and put my face to the wall. L will
be glad to do 1T But the master
said, You dad not disobey me; it
was John" Il know that; but
please let me stand in Johns
place" Then all the scholars spoke
up and said, "Let Henry take the
place OF John. He is able, he is
willing. We will not charge you
with injustice. Let the strong boy
stand for the weak one" So the
master said, well, Henry, go in the
corner and put your face to the wall
and stand until j tell you to sit
down." So Henry went and stood
in the corner until the master said,
"It is enough; sit down, Henry"
Now" said the master, John, go
and stand in the corner" No,
no." said the school; "Hepry has
saved him from that: it " i'll not be
right for John to stand, for you
agreed to let Henry take his place.
So the master consented to it;
ard then he said, MY dear chill
dren, Henry has done a noble act;
he must love John very much He
stood il. the corner in his stead be-
fore the whole school. Let me tell |
you that in that conduct he has been !
like-whom has he been like? Tell |
me-" "He has been like Jesus; he |
stood in the corner for US ALL"
"That is it" said the master. "When |
Jesus died on the cross for sinners |
He took our place. He stood Tor |
u.s."
Suppose it had been still worse
than that. Suppose the law had
been for John to receive a severe |
for his disobedience, and |
suppose that Henry had come for
ward and said, Master, l will take
that whipping. l can bear the
blows. You may trike so as to
draw blood, will bear it," and the
master had given him the punish
nent, and had actually striped his
back aud drawn out his blood b.
ms heavy blows, do you not see
hat Henry would have been Johns
savior, because he took his place
md bore his punishment? Now,
ust so Jesus took our place and
for US. The Apostle says,
He tasted death for every man."
Maybe l can explain this. When
he Apostle Paul used that Ian
mage at had been the custom to put I
TO death by making them
rink poison. You may have heard
II the great and good Socrates. He {
vas made to drink cup of hem
ock-a deadly poison. Hence, be
vas said to taste of death; and all 4
Fno were put to death in this man
Ter were said to taste death. If /
here we're many criminals, they
Eere all placed in a long row. The :
Eorst man was placed at the head
nd made to drink first. Then the
up was passed along down until
II had taken a cup of poison. Now
D this language Of the Apostle
'aul, all men are represented as
inners, deserving death. The SEN
ence has been pronounced. They
re made to stand in one long row. :
he executiOner comes with s great
up of poison of death. Christ
lands at the head of the row, first
i the list, as though He were the
hief of sinners The execntiOner
auds Him the cup, and says,
Drink" He drinks; he drains the
up; he drinks every drop; He
1stes death for all the rest; the cup 1
oes not lass down, for it is empty. I
esus IN the garden, Jesus on the
ross, tasted death for US all. Then 1
lie is our Savior; we need not suffer
Drever; We need not die eternally. n
is easy for US To be saved. The K
.xt says, believe and thou shalt D
e saved" 1t means, as Jesus is
our Savior, you must trust Him, Il
an on Him, and He will save you. %
ow | want to make you under le
amt what you must be To Christ p
order to be saved =
A little BOY was passing by dark St
slIar. He looked down but he z
ould see nothing. He heard q II
Oise; be looked again, but ali was "
ark He said, Papa, i that you" re
Us nv Snn, said the we'll known "
.icc 81 ms father; ~come down
r. oh papa" said the boy. +,
am afraid. Il is So dark, | can ?,
y see YOU al all" "Bat," said the ?,
ther, nothing shall hurt you. L Z
IN see YOU plainly. just come +,
ght along, will catch you in my p
ms" After another moment the Z,
N leaped into the arms Of love.
( was glad, for he was with his
ther, snd felt that he could always
ust him in the dark or In the pa