Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-02
In the Brooklyn Tabernacle ysstsr-
day Morning.
TWO HUNDRED NEW MEMBERS.
A King Dying on Calvary Brings to
All Earth Life and
Joy.
LOSING LIFE TO SAVE 1T.
Speeidl % Me RediSter.


was great Harvest Home in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle this morning. One hundred
and ninety new members stood up in the
aisles and received the right hand Of fellow
ship from DR.. Talmage, and to each one an
Appropriate word of counsel or congratula=
ton was addressed. This makes the com
munion membership of this church three
thousand, two hundred and ninety-one. The
opening hymn was:
"Alas and did my Savior bleed
And did my sovereign die?n
The subject of the sermon was "The
Blood" and the text was from l John ii:
"The blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleans.
eth US from all sin" DR.. Talmage said:
Eighteen centuries ago there lived one
Jesus. Publius Lentulus. in letter to the
Roman Senate describes him as "a man of
stature somewhat tall his hair the color ofa
chestnut fully ripe, plain to the ears, whence
downward it is more orient curling and wav-
ing about his 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 forkel that nothing can
lie represented; his beard thick, in color
ike 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 Zorobabsl, Raphael Robani
Daniel Robani and Capet Sometimes men
on the scaffold have been rescued by the
mob. No such attempt was made in this
case, for the mob were against him. From
ga. m. to p. m. Jesus hung a-dying. 1t
was scene of blood. We are so consti-
tuted that nothing is 80 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
hereY Looking upon this suspended NC
tim of the cross we thrill with the sight Of
blood-blood dripping from thorn and nail,
blood rushing upon his cheek, blood satu
rating his garments, blood gathered in
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 king our live
hest interest is aroused. IF king of an
island however insignificant visit this land
what throngs turn ont 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 HapsbErg. Is it nothing when
| point you to the outpouring
blood OF the king of the universe? In Eng
land the name Of Henry was 80 great that
its honors were divided among differen
reigns. 1t was Henry the First and Henry
the Second, and Henry the Third, 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 the King of whom
speak was Christ the FIRST Christ the last,
and Christ the only. He reigned before the
Car mounted the throne of Russia or the
throne of Austria was lifted, King Eternal,
Immortal" Through the indulgences of
the royal family, the physical life degener-
ated, and some of the kings have been
almost imbecile, and their bodies weak, and
heir blood thin and wstery; but the Grim.
son life that flowed upon Calvary had in it
the health of
The Immortal God.
A king dying! You remember when one
Of the Cars Of Russia was in his fatal sick
less that bulletins were every hour dis
PATCHED from the palace, saying: The King
is dying" or THE King is worse or THE
King is delirious," or The King rested
easier through the night" or "The King is
dying" and "The King is dead" The bells
tolled it, the flags signalled it, the telegraph
flashed it. Tell it now to all the earth and
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 a last groan; through his
body uuivers the last anguish; tho King is
dying; the King is dead; ye who csme
round about the cross, look out how you
tread in what you see beneath. 1t
is royal blood. 1t is said that
the Unitarians made too much Of
the humanity of Christ respond that we
make too little. If some Roman surgeon
standing under the cross, had caught one
drop of the blood on his hand and analyzed
it, it would have been found to have the
same. plasma, the same disk, the same
fibrin, the same albumen. Ii was unmis-
takably. human blood. 1t is man that
hangs there. His bones are OF the same
material as ours. His nerves are sensitive
ike ours. Ifit were an angel being de,
spoiled / would not feel It so mueh, for it
belongs TO a different order of beings. But
my Savior is a man and my whole sympathy
is aroused. can imagine how the spikes
felt-how hot the temples burned-what
deathly sickness seized bis 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 horror:
my God! Ny God! Why hast thou for
saken meg'
/ 90 still farther and say it was brothers
blood. If you saw an entire stranger NAL
treated and his life ooZing oway on the
pavement, you would feel indignant but il,
coming along the street you saw . company
of Williams beating out the life of your own
brother, the sight of his blood would make
YOU mad. You would bound into the affray.
At the peril Of
Losing Eour Life,
you would rush in, saying: "You vaga-
bonds This is my brother, l dare yoa TO
touch him again" Yo1 would 6ght until
you fell desd beside him. That is your
brother, maltreated on the cross They
spit on him and slapped him in the face.
How do you feel about thAt7 What are
your emotions as Jou hear the falling ofths
blood apon the leaves beneAth-drip. drip,
dnp2 Do you not feel as though. with
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