The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-06
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Doctrine OF Substitution Forci-
bly, Presented,
Showing tho Place Held BY vicarious See
rifice In the Education Of the World
The Heroism OF Sacrificing Self
for Others Good.

| Eifice In tho Education OF the World
The Heroism OF Sacrificing Self
| for Others Good.
/ The following Is recent sermon preached
! in Brooklyn Tabernacle by Rev. 7. De
Witt ial'nage ON the subject Of "Blood."
as applied to vlc-rious sacrifice. His text
was:
Without shedding OF blood is no re.aission.
| Hebrews, w., p.
The preacher said: John g. Whittier,
the last Of the great school OF American
| poets that made the last quarter of q cen.
tnry brilliant, asked me in the White
Mountai one morning after prayers, in
which had given out Cowper's famous
hymn about the ''The fountain filled with
bood:" ''Do you really believe there is .
literal application OF the blood of Christ to
the soulf' My negative reply then Is my
negative reply now. The Bible statement
agrees, with all physics and all physi.
oiog SITS and oil scientists in saying that
the blood is tho life, and in the Christian
religion it means simply that Chris,'s life
was given for our life. Hence all this talk
of mon who say the Bible story Of blood is
disgusting, aud that they don't want what
they call q ''slaughter.houss religion"
only shows their incapaci,y or unwilling.
ness 10 look through the figure of speech
toward the thing signified. The blood that
on the darkest F, iday the world ever saw
ocs,d, or trickled. or poured from the brow
and the side and hands and tn. feet of the
| 3llustrious sufferer, ba, K of Jerusalem, in
! few hours coagulated and dried up and
forever disappeared; and II man had de.
pended on the application of the literal
a soul saved for the last eighteen centu.
ries.
in order to understand this red word OF
my text, we only have to exercise as much
common sense in religion as we do in
every hing else. Pang for pang, hunger
for hunger, fatigue for fatigue, tear for
tea, blood for bio ID. Ii Q for life. We see
every day illustrated. The &C. Of substi-
tuition is no novelty, although hear men
talk as though the idea Of Christ's suffer.
ing subs ituted for our suffering were
some: hing abnormal, something distress.
incly odd, something willy eccentric, q
solitary episode in the WORLDS history;
when could take you into this city and
before shutdown point to you five hundred
cases of substitution and voluntary suffer-
Ing of one in behalf o another.
At two o'clock tomorrow afternoon 30
among the places of business or toll. It
will be no difli ut thing for you to end
men who, by their looks, show you that
they are overworkrd. They are prema.
turely old. They. are Fastening rapidly
toward their decease. They have gone
through crises in business that shattered
their nervous system and pulled on the
brain. They have shortncss of breath
ard ~" in the tack of the head, and at
night an insomnia tina: alarms them. Why
= they drudging as business early and
la Q? For fun! MOI it would b. difficult to
extract any amusement out of that ex-
Eaustion. Because they are avariciOusl
in naay cases no. LIE. au,c ..et own
personal expenses ire Lavish! No: a
lew hundred dollars would meet all their
wants. The fact is, the man is enduring
ali that fat Cue and exhaustion and
wear and tear to keep his home prosper.
Gus. There is an invis idle line reaching
from that store, from that bank, from
that shop. from that scaffolding, to q
quiet scene few blocks, a few miles
away, and there is the secret Of that bust.
ness endurance. He is simply the cham.
pion of homestead for which he wins
bread and wardrobe and edu alton and
prosperity, and in such bat 10000 men
fall. OF ten business men whom l bury
nine die of overwork for others. Some
4; G,,l..
Of resis ance, and they are gone. Life for
ll.e; blood for blood. Substitution.
at one o'clock tomorrow morning, the
hour when sluElbsr is most unin; err upted
and m ost profound, walk amid the dwell.
ing houses of the city. Here and there
y will find a dim light, because it is
the household custom to keep a subdued
light burning, but most of the houses,
from base to top, are as dark as though
u Inhabited. A merciful God has sent
forth the archangel Of sleep, and lie puts
his wings over The city. But yonder is a
clear Ii hit burning, and outside on the
window easement glass or pitcher
c II aiming food for sick child,
Til s il the sixth night that mother
has sat up with the sufferer. She
has to the last point obeyed the physi-
clans prescriptions, not giving drop too
much or to little, or q moment too soon or
too late. She is very anxious, for she has
buried three children with the same dis.
ease, and she prays and weeps, each
prayer and sob ending with kiss of the
pale cheek. By dint of kindness she gets
t little one through the ordeal. After
j ~ all over the mother is taken down.
Bran or nervous fever sets in. and one
day she leaves the convale scent child with
a mot, er's blessing and goes up to join
tn. three in the kingdom of Heaven. Life
fer life.
About twenty-fou years ago there went
for b from cur homes hundreds Of thou
sands Of men to do battle for their coun-
try. And tho poetry Of war soon van.
i>h ii aud left them nothing bu the ter
rible prose. They waded knee-deep in
mud. They slep. in snow banks. They
MIA ciied till their cut feet tracked the
ca II. They were swindled out of their
honest rat ons and lived Oh meat not fit
for dog. They had jaw oil fractured,
and eyes extinguished, aud limbs shot
away. Thousands Of them cried for water
as they lay dying on the field the
n gilt after the battle, and got it MOI. They
we e Eom sick and received no message
from tn, ir loved ones. They died in barns,
in bushes, in di ches, the buzzards of the
summer heat the only attendants on their
obs .quies. No one but the infinite God
VINO knows everything, knows the ten
81 onsandth part of the length and breadth
and depth aud height of anguish OF
Northern and Southern battiefields.
Why did these fathers leave their chit
dren and go to tho front, and why
d.I these young man. postponng the mar.