St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-02
Christ's Suffering That His Blood
Might Atone for the Sins
of the World.
He Wished For No Substitute, But
Offered Himself That Others
Might be Saved.
Let ALI Take Advantage of This Great Boon
and be Cleansed Of ALI Their
Sins
Text of the Sermon Preached in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle by the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage.
Special to the Globe.

| BROOKLYN, n. Y, March /, 1SS5.-There
was great "harvest homen in the Brooklyn
tabernacle this morning. One hundred and
ninety new members stood up in the aisles
and received the right hand of fellowship
from Dr. Talmage, and to each one an ap-
propriate word of counsel or congratulation
was addressed. This makes the communion
mem bership Of this church 1921. The open
ing hymn was:
''Alas, and did my Savior bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?'
The subject of the sermon was The
Blood, aud the text was from John, i, z.
''The blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleans
eth US from all SIM DR.. Talmage said:
| Eighteen centuries ago there lived one
Jesus. Publius Lentulus, in letter to the
Roman senate, described him ''as man Of
stature somewhat tall, his hair the color of a
chestnut fully ripe, plain to the ears, whence
downward it is 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 forked 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 armv
in Italy found brass plate on which was a
copy of
| HIS DEATH WARRANT,
signed by John Zorobabel, Raphael Robani,
Daniel Robani and Capet. Sometimes men
on the scaffold have been rescued by the
| m No of rt do in ia
case, for the mob was against him. From 9
a. IN. till 3 p. m. Jesus hung a-dying. 1t
was a scene of blood. We are so constitu-
ted that nothing is so exciting as blood. 1t
is not the child's cry in the street that
so arouses you as the crimson dripping from
its lip. In the dark hall, seeing the finger
marks of blood on the plastering, you cry,
''What terrible deed has been done heres"
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 saturatng his gar
ments, blood gathered in a pool beneath.
There is one crimson word in the text that
rouses up our attention and calls back that
scene: ''The blood Of Jesus Christ, His Son,
cleanseth us from all SIM
The blood of the cross was royal blood.
Through our Democratic preferences we may
in theory disregard royal pretensions. Yet
when we see the son of a king our liveliest
interest is aroused If king of an island,
however insignificant, 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 Hapsburg.
L it nothing when l point you to the out
In England the name of Henry was SO great
that its honors were divided among
DIFFERENT REIGNs.
1t was Henry the First and Henry the Sec
ond and Henry the Third and Henry the
Fourth and Henry the Fifth, In France the
name of Louis was so favorably regarded
that it was Louis the First, Louis the Second,
Louis the Third and SO on. But this king of
whom l speak was Christ the First, Christ the
Last and Christ the Only. He reigncd
before the cZar mounted the
throne of Russia or the throne of
Austria was lifted"King Eternal, Immortal -
Through the indulgences of the roval family
the physical life degenerated and some of the
kings have been almost imbecile and their
bodies weak and their blood thin and watery.
But the crimson life that flowed upon calvary
had in it the health of the immortal God.
A king dying! You remember when one Of
the czars of Russia was in his fatal sickness
that bulletins were every hour dispatched from
the palace, saying: "The king is BETTER" or
"the king is worse;;" or, "the king is delir-
ious;'' or, ''the king rested easier through
the night" or, ''the king is dying" aud
'the king is dead" The bells tolled it, the
flags sigualed it, the telegraph flashed it.
Tell 1t now to all the earth, to all the
heavens.
JESUS, OUR KING
is sick with his last sickness. Let couriers
carry the swift dispatch. His pains are
worse; he is breathing last groan; through
his body quivers the last anguish ;the king is
dying; the king is deadl Ye who come
round about the cross, look out how you
tread in what you see beneath.
1t is royal blood. 1t is said that the Unitar-
ians make too much of the humanity Of