The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-11-26

short. Tor Christ was the great unlike.
Adam type of Christ, because he came
directly from God; Noah type of Christ,
because he delivered his own family from
deluge; Mslchisedeck a type OF Christ,
because he had no predecessor or sue.
cessor; Joseph type of Chris, because
he was put to death by his brethren;
Moses type of Christ, because he was
deliverer from bondage; Joshua type of
Christ, because he was conquerer; Sam.
/ son type of Christ, because of
his strength to Stay the lions
and carry off the iron gates
of impossibility; Solomon type
of Christ, in the fullness of his dominion;
Jonah type of Christ, because of the
stormy sea in which he threw himself for
the rescue of others; but put together
Adam and Noah and Melchse leck and Jo-
seph and Moses and Joshua and Sampson
and Solomon and Jonah, and they would
no. make a fragment of a Carist, quar-
ter of Christ, the ha of a Christ, or the
millionth part of a Christ. He forsook a
throne and sat down on his own footsbool.
He came fr, m the top of glory to the bot
tom of hun.i' iation, and changed a circum-
ference seraphic for a Gil cumference dia.
bolic. Once wal ed on by angels, now
Kissed at by brigands. From afar and
high up, he came down; apast me eors,
swifter thap they; by starry thrones, HIM
self more lustrous; past larger worlds to
smaller worlds, down stairs of firma.
ments, and from cloud to cloud, and
through the treetops and into the cam Ps
stall. To thrust his shoulder under cur
burdens and take the lances of pain
through his vitals, he wrap; ed himself in
all The sagoRies which we deserve for our
misdoidgs, and stool on the spilling
decks of wr>cking ship, amid tbs
drenching surf of the sea, an
pa SD midnights on TIE noun aims anil
wild beasts of Trey, and stood at the point
where ali earthly and internal host iities
cl arged on him at once, with their keen
sabers-our sub I'll u e.
When did attorney ever endure so much
for pauper oaisnt, or physic an for the
patient IN the laz lrette, or mother for the
child N membranous Group, as Chris for
us, and Christ for you, and CGris5 for mes
Shall any man or woman or child in this
audience who has ever suffered for an.
other find it harl to understand this
Christly suffering for US? Shall those
whose sympathies have been wrung in be-
halfofthel IN tunate: ave no Apr alton
of that enc m man, which was If ell oaJ
of all the ages OF eternity as most conspic-
uous, when Christ ga hered up all the sins
| o. those to be redeemed under his one arm
and all their sorrows und -r tie other arm
and said: II will a one for these under
my right arm and will heal all those under
! 1off StriI ill H.
term, shafts, oh, eternal justice. Roll
over wi all thy surges, ye
oceans of sorrow!" And tfunderbolts
struck him from a ove, aid The
seas of trouble rolled up from b nea b,
hurricane after hurricane and cyclone
after c,clone; and then and there, in
pres nee of heaven and tn and hell
yea, all worlds witne ssing, the price, the
bitter price, tie teanscendsnt price, the
awful price, the glorious price, the in-
fin tie price, the eternal price, was paid
4 that s is US free. That is what Paul means,
that IS what / mean, that is what all these
who have ever had their lea, is changed
| mean by ''bIood." l glory in this religion
of blood. l am thrilled as | see the sug.
gestive color in the sacrament al cup,
whether it be of FURNISHED silver on cloth
Immediately white, or rough-hewn from
wood set on table in log-hut netting
I house of the Wilderness. Now, [ am
thrilled as | see The affairs of ancien: sac
rifice crimson with tie h'o0d of the slain
lamb, and Leviticus is to me not so much
the Old Testament as the New Now l see
why the destroying angel, passing over
! Egypt in the nigh spared all those houses
| hot EoI iyTEl lad fhoi do
pos S. Now know what Isaiah means
when he speaks of s'ons in red APP, a~el
coming with dyed garments f. ON z
rah;" and whom John means when
he describes a heavenly chic thin whose
sves ure was dipped in blood;" and what
| Peter, the Apostle, means when he speaks
of the ''prec Gus blood" and what John
means whel he refers to tie "blooi that
cleanselh from all SIM" and what the old,
wo n out, decrepit missionary, Paul,
means, when, in my text, b. crie,: "With-
out shedding OF blood is no remission"
By that Hood you and / will be savei or
never saved at all. In all the ages of the
world God has not once pardoned single
sin exert through the Saw or's exp a.
tion, and he never will. Glory b, 10 God
that the hill back of Jerusalem was the
battlefield on which Christ has achieved
our liberty.
The most exciting and overpowering
day of las summer was the day on the
ba' tie field of Waterloo. Starting out
with the morning train from Brussels,
Belgium, we arrived in about an hour on
4 that famous spot. A son of one who was
in the battle, and who had heard from h s
father thousand times the whole scene
recited, accompanied us over he field.
Therestood the old Hougomont cha eau,
the walls dented and searched AMI brok-
en- and shattered by grape hot an cam
non ball. There is the well in which so
dying and dead were pitched. There is he
4 chapel with the head of the infant Chr st
shot off. There are ga.es at which, for
many hours, English and French arm es
wrestle1. Yonder were the 100 guns of ihe
English and the 250 guns of the French.
Yonder the Hanoverian Hussars fed for
the woods. Yonder was the ravine of
Ohaine. where the French cavalry, not
knowing there was a hollow in the ground,
rolled over and down, trt op after TT op,
| 1000 horses and LOO men tumblinp Into