The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-08

can not help. The blood rushes from the
victim and there he hangs-your dead
brother. What is more-ehall | tell it,
you slew himl i charge 1t first upon myself
and then upon all ye who hear me to-day
the awful crime OF frssricide. His blood Is
on Our hands Bring me laver, quick, that
may wssh it of. Show me the pool where
I may be clsansed OF the terrible stain. Here
il Is have found it 1t is the fountain
opened for all sin; and though sin were as
scarlet Ii shall be as snow.
1t was substitu donary blood Oar Gins
cried to Heaven for vengeance. Some one
must die. Shall Ii be us or Christ? LET 1t
be me-" said Jesus. You were drafted for
the last var aud some one took your place.
You were I'm debt. not being able to meet
the obligation, some one paid IL. You can
easily understand how Christ went IN TO
fight our battles and pay our debts. The
debt IL cancelled; the capttves are relea'ed; ;
the shackels are broken; the pris IN is
opened. Blood paid the price; blood washed
away the pollution; blood sealed the agree
ment. The blood Of Paul that soaked the
dust of the guillotine; the blood Of Hugh
Latiuer that simmefed Ia the 6re; the blood
OF the high-souled AIar y rs that reddsL ed the
mouths of the lions in the Coliseum, have
just ss much worth to your soul as the blood
OF Christ unless y on take this last AS expia.
tory, and fe o. the truth that 1.-The blood Of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all SIM"
Come, then, and get your sins pardoptd
l d, not ask you 10 come TO private comics
seasonal or to whisper into my ears your
O lenses but sitting where you are to accept
tnis moment the blood cleansing First for
that old sin. Do you ask, What sin do you
mssp? mean that old sin that you COM
mitted years ago. 1t may have been two
Year,, ten years or twenty years. You know
when it was. 1 think that old things are
like other debts-they increase by having
the interest added on. They are tenfold
greater now, and have been multiplied by
all of your opportunities of having them
pa ID med. Does that old sin present its dun
at the door of your soul today Can you
not pay it2 Does Ii threaten to carry
you to iailP Does 1t propose to sell
you out. Better get toge her all your bonds
and mortgages and certificates of stocks and
United Sa.es securities. Come, let me count
them Not enough Bring all the clever
things you have ever done. Let me count
them2 Not enough. BRING all that you
possess You say: II have brought every
thinev' Alss! that you can not meet the
oSlig alton You must die moi mo- sol
Jesus Christ, the royal blood. the human
hood, the expistory blood, cleanseth from
all sin. What is that old sin gomez" Yes,
heard ii topple over and plash into the
depths of the sea. 1t sinks like lead. There
il no condemnation in them who are in
Christ Jesus.
CIRCUMSTANCES AGoRAvATE SIN.
If child does Wreng, not willingly, you
excu,e it; bat when We do wrong We know
| it. Every time q Elm Is committed sonscien ce
tolls funeral bell. We may laugh and pre-
Our sins are against warnings and reproofs
and doubiy aggravated. This mans sins are
more heinous than the transgressions of that
man. because he had q better bringing up
Here is man who twenty years ago kneeled
at Methodist alter. He went awhile on the
road to heaven, but then got tired and put
off in another direction. Where he has been
since ne began to backs'ide he and his God
only know. This do know, he Is wretchedly
unhsppy There is no such nest of scorpions
this side OF hell as the heart OF the back.
slider. He is the last man that ever returns.
The publicans and the harlots come in be.
fore him. Where, o man. Is that family
alter that you once lifted2 Where is the
closet of prayer that you once fire
quep ted2 Are you as happy now as you used
| to be2 Your common sense teaches you that
the nan who came to Christ and heard the
i full the expression of Gods love, and then
vent away TO bstrsy the Lord, must drink
ihs bitterest gall. and the thuDders that at
/ last drive him away will roll and crash with
ell the accumulated wrath Of God omnipo-
tent; and yet to day my text sweeps circle
OF ps rdon around all these accumulated sins.
We may not be able 10 burn them out;
hoofs may not he able to trample them out
| ham spers may not be able TO pound them
| out; but here Is blood that will wash them
out Comet Come! l take you with my
right hand while with my left each the
warm blood that gushes from the heart OF
Christ and pour it over your soul and To- the
| backness of your sin 10 gone forever Oh
that the red hand OF Christ to day would rub
all our sins away
pirate to me- fo- sm q moral man" How
alb out your thoughts? You see my right
hand and you see my left hand, and one
just as plainly as the other. So with the sin
of the heart and the sin of the hfe-one il
Just as plain in Gods sight as the other.
You have not been guilty OF murder, you
say. Are you sure about thatr Have you
ever hated any body Then you are murderer
l. John iii, 10: Whose hateth his brother
is murderer" You say you have never
been guilty of theft Are you syre about
thst2 l scknow edge you have never taken
snyt hing fro n your felsow-man, but have
You not taken DAYS and hours that belonged
to God for your own purposes? It Is wrong
to ST cal from man; IL IL more wicked te
rob God.
i If could marshal before you all the sins
of the best man in this house TO day, this
whole a1dlen &c would
n SHREK OUT WITH HORROR
'lSins against God and man sins agsinst Sab
baths snd sacrsments; sins sgaiDst body at
soul; sins against light and knowledge; sin.
against Sinai and Calvary sins against the
grave at the resurrection; sins agsirs, ths
ljude ment: sins against the throne of Goo
and the mansions OF glory. blow the trum
pet and call up al the ems of your rast life
: wave them here from the past l STAMP
them up from benesth-gather them int.
com oanies of hundreds: into regiments 81
Thousands; into orieades OF ten thousands
We have q host larger than that OF Xerxss
Let the largest Of the hundred sins be Cap
tain over the company. Let the Target o
the thousand iniquities be Colonel over the
regiment Eet the swarthiest transgressior
: o: your lifetime be General of all the host
T. gether let them wheel and march snt
6re How the couriers of death dash up anc
down the line How the great batteries o
woe belch forth the sulphurous smoke o
hell and boom with the cam onsding OF eter
nal destruction The host Of Thy sins innu
4 mer able. marching on to capture thy soul
, One man against million armed iniquities