The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22

give satls1acuon II was probably her OWL
fault After being unable to get any other
employment she ended her life by suicide
Upon investigation il was found that out OF
her small earnings she had supported
father eighty years OF age and was support
ing brother in college. For that reason shs
wore the shabby dress and had gone withoQ
blankets on her bed and without any fire il
her room all winter. When this was founC
out, the people who had scorned her gath
cred at one of the largest funerals ever held
in that place and gazed with interest upoI
the face OF the martyr, but ii was too late
Vicarious sacrificed
Any body who has heart is
THRILLED WITH SUCH A STORY
as that; but, they tell us, it is dry and alb
surd doctrine when Christ pats forth Hi:
poverty to purchase our eternal riches, anC
His self -abnegation to secure our eDthrone
ment, and He kneels on the sharp edge Of
humiliation to let Us climb over His lacerateC
shoulder into life and Heaven. Men admire
Emperor Trsjan, because, when mounted
for battle, he got off his horse to do Justice
to poor woman by the wayside, bat can
not see any beauty in the fact that the con
queror of earth and Heaven dismountsd
from the white horse of heavenly triumph
to appsase our spiritual beggary. They art
thrilled at the valor of the Horatii and the
Curatii, who went out, three cha mpions fol-
the Romans and three champions for the
Adams, TO decide the fate of nation, bu,
have no qutckened pulse they see OH
Champion, Jesus 90 out alone sgainst all the
allied forces of earth and hell to battle for
the emancipation o. tie human race. They
can even appreciate the spirit Of Buceehslus
Alexander's war horse, which, after being
gashed and fatally wounded, until all his
arteries seemed opened, kept staggering on
unit he got his imperial rider clear out oil
peril, and then with one groan expired.
More appreciation for the bravery of byu tie
in behalf of his master than for Him. the
divinely- who flung Himself from
the highest Heaven into the raging seas oil
death to save all those who would lay hold
of HIS right arm of deliyeTance. BE il Ours
to admire and adore those magnificent doc
tripes of Christ, while others scott and jeer
For all those who on infdel Platform OF
in unconverted pulpits deride evangelism,
have nothing bat prayer for their recovery.
When during the last century the plague
was Ia sing in London there was a hotel near
the cemetery which excited much com ment
The Nation was in an agony OF fright and
bereavement; wagons were driven through
the streets, aud the bell rang and the people
brought out their dead; twenty or thirty
grave, but in great pits or trenches, they
were buried; Lila were buried In one pit
churches were open day ald night for
prayers, and all England was in woe. But
at the wsyside inn, near by the creates
burial place, q writer saws a group of hard
ened men sat disappearing ana initiating til,
grief of the sad PROFESSIONS that went by anc
when q man utterly demented bv the death
of his entire family stopped at this hotel OIL
his way from the grave-trench they ridieule(
him and tainted him with want of courae,
in not leaping into the pit into which tn,
(cRrt had tossed the bodies of his household
There they sat day after day and night sfte
night SOOTHING At men and scoffiDg at womel
and SOOTHING at God. After awhile the plagu
struck one of them, and within two week
all had fallen under it and they had beef
dropped into the trench. near the mouth o
which they had INDUCED their ribaldry. Nj,
frieh DIS, the plague OF sin has ravaged on
world. Millions have died under its power
While consecrated men and women al
through Christendom are attempting TO sta
the plague, there are those who have moth
ing but derisiOn for the attempt, and the
scott ut evangelism and scoff at the churc
aud scott at God. Let them remember tn
fate of those who sat at the waysde in
when the London plague spread out its tw
! black wings of destruction. BLESSED is tn
man that walketh not in the counsel of til
ungodly nor stsndeth in the way of sinner
nor stitch in the seat OF the scernfnl."