The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-02
CHRISTS CLEANSING BLOOD.
The Crimson Stream that Flowed from
the Cross Was Royal and Brotherly.
II Was Also Substitutienary Blood. and All
Are Invited To Be Partakers in the Sal
yation Purchased ON Calvary.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRooKLYN, n. Y, March There was
great Harvest Home in the Brooklyn Taber
nacle this morning One hundred and ninety
new members stoodHp ia the aisles and received
The right hand of fellowship from Dr.. Talmage,
snd to each one an appropriate word Of counsel
Ir congratuatian was addressed. This makes
he communion membership of this church three
thousand. two hundred and ninety-one. The
apening hymn was:
ALIAS! and did my SAVIOUR bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?'
The subject of the sermon was 1.-THE Blood
and the text was from John, z 1.-THE Blood of
Jesus Christ, His Son, cleaneth US from all SIM
Dr. Tal,nage said
Eighteen centuries ago there lived one Jesus
Publius Lentulus, in lettar to the Roman
Senate, describes Him as ga man of stature
somewhat tail; His hair the color Of a chestnut
fully ripe, plain to the ears whence downward
1t il more orient. curling and waving about the
shoulders; in the midst of His forehead IS .
stream or partition Of His hair; forehead plain
and very delicate; His face without spot or
wrinkle, lovely red; His nose and mouth SO
formed as nothing can be represented; His beard
thick, in color like His hair. not very long; His
eyes gray, quick and clear" He must die. The
French army in Italy found brass plate on
which was copy of His death-warrant, signed by
John Zorobabel, Raphael Roban Daniel Rebani
and Capet Sometimes men on the seaHold have
been rescued by the mob. no such attempt was
made in this case, for the mob were against him
From A. NJ till p. NJ. Jesus hung a.dying. 1t
was scene of blood. We are constituted
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the child's cry in the street that so arouses You
as the crimson dripping from its lip. Ia the
dark hail. seeing the finger marks of blood on
the plastering, you cry: what terrible deed has
been done here99 Looking upon the suspended
victim of the cross we thrill with the sight of
blood-blood dripping from thorn and nail,
blood rushing upon his cheek, blood saturating
his garments, blood gathered in pool beneath.
There is one crimson word in the text that
rouaes up our attention and calls back that
Scene: ''rhe BLOOD of Jesus Christ, His Son,
Cleanseth us from all SIM
ROYAL AND BRoTHERLY BLOOD.
The blood of the cross was royal blood.
Through our democratic preferences we may in
Theory disregard royal pretensions, yet when we
Tee the SON of king our hyeliest interest is
aroused If king of an island, however insig
nifcant, visit this land. what throngs turn out
TO see him 1t is called an honor to have in
ones veins the blood of the house of Stuart or
of the house of Hapsbnrg Is it nothing when /
point you to the outpouring blood of the King of
the Universal In England the name of Henry
was so great that its honoPs were divided among
different reigns. 1t was Henry the First,
and Henry tae Second, and Henry the Third
and Henry the Fourth, and Henry the Fifth, In
france the name of Louis was SO favorably
garded that it was Louis the First, Louis the
sSeeond, Louis the Third, and so on But this
king of when / speak was Christ the first,
Christ the last and Christ the only. He reigned
before the Gear mounted the throne of Russia or
the throne of Austria was lifted. King eternal,
immortal" Through the indulgences of the roy
al family the physical life degenerated, and some
of the kings have been almost imbeeile, and
their bodies weak, and their blood thin and wa
terry; but the crimson life that flowed upon Cal
vary had in it the health Of the immortal God
A king dying! You remember when one of
She Cars of Russia was in his fatal sickness
that bulletins were every hour dispatched from
ythe palace, saying: The King is better or
1.-the King is worse" or 'the King is delirious,"
0r 'Fthe King rested easier through the night"
pr ''the King is dying and "the King is dead
The bells tolled it, the flags sgnaled it, the tel
egraphs flashed it. Tell it now to all the earth
and to ali the heavens-Jesus, our King, is sick
with his last sickness. Let courers carry the
swift dispatch. His pains are worse he is
breathing last groan; through his body quiz
srs the last anguish; this King is dying; the
king is dead: Ye who come round about the cross.
look out how you tread in what yousee beneath
1t is royal blood. 1t is said that the Unitarians
make too much of the humanity of Christ 1
respond that we make toe little. If some Ro-
man surgeon standing under the cross had
caught one drop of the blood on his hand and
analysed it, 1t would have been found to have
the same plasma, the same disk, the same ibrin,
the same albumen. 1t was Enthusiastically hu-
man blood. 1t is man that hangs there. His
homes are Of the same material as ours His
nerves are sensitive like ours. If it were an
angel being despoiled would not feel it so mach,
for it belongs to different order of beings. But
my Savior is a man, and my whole sympathy is
aroused. l imagine how the spikes felt
how hot the temples burned, what deathly sick
ness seized his heart; how mountain and city
and mob swan away from his dying vision.
Something Of the meaning of that cry for help
that makes the blood of all the ages curdle with
thorror-'My God my Goa. why hast thou for
saken mel'
Igo still further, and say it was a brothers
Blood. If you saw al entire stranger maltreated
and bis life oozing away on the pavement you
would feel indignant; but if, coming along the
street, you saw company of villains beating out
blood would make you mad. You would bound
into the ARRAY AT the peril of losing your own
aife, you would rush in, saying 'sYou yaga-
bonds This is my brother; dare you to touch
him again. You would fight until you fell
daad heside him. That is vaur h,o+ho,. ...l