Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-26


with q slng bppled the giant Of Philis,ine
brsgesdocioin "a the dust, but here is anoth-
Ter David VII fer all the armies Of churches
militant ahd1 triumphant, hurls the Goliath
as he'll into feat, the crash Of his hrszen
srinor hke "a explosion ct He'll Gate.
Abraham hi at Gods command agreed
to sacrifice is son Isaac, and the came
God Just in fns had provided ram ofthe
lfhichet a6 q hbstitute; but here Is another
Iseac bound 10 the altar. and no hand ar
fes;a the shStp edges of iaeerAtion and
deaeh, and thb universe shivers and quakes,
and recoils ahd groans at the horror. All
good men h3ye for centuries been trying
to tell who his substitute was ike, and
every comps<son, inspired and uninspired,
eFangeEstic. prophetic, apostolic and hu-
man, falls shtrt, for
CHRIST Vas TIE GREAT UNLIKE.
Adam wasIA type CT Christ, because he
came directly from God; Noah was type
of Christ, because he delivered his own
family from feluge; Melchisedeck was q
type Of Chria because be had no prede-
cesscS Or SUCCESSOR; Joseph was type of
Chrizt, becsaie he was put 70 death by bis
HlyethEeh; M8ses q type of Christ. because
he was q dslisefer from bondage; Joshus Q
type oe Chrid because he was q conquer
ser; S9npsoua 3 type of Christ because Of
his streDefA alAy the lions and carry off
the iron gates .ot impossibility; Solomon .
type Of Christ, in the fullness Of bis do
minion; Jonas type Of Christ, because Of
the stormy sea in which be threw
himself for the rescne OF others; but
put together Adam and Noah and Mel.
chisedeck and Joseph and Moses and
Joshua and Sampson and Solomon and
Jonah, and they would not make trag-
ment of q Christ, quarter Of Christ the
half Of Christ, or the millioneth part OF
Christ. he forsook a throne and sat
down on his own footstool. he came
from the top of glory to the bottom of
humiliation, and changed circumference
seraphie for o circumference diRbolic.
Once waited on by angels, now hissed at
by brigands. From atar and high up, he
came down; apast meteors, swifter than
they; by starry thrones, himself more
lustrous; past larger worlds, to smaller
worlds, down stairs Of ornaments and
from cloud to cloud, and through the tree
tops and into the camels stall. To thrust
his shoulder under our burdens and take
the laUees of pain through his vitals, be
wrapped himself in all the sgonies which
we deserve for our doinga, and stood on
the spilliDg decks of Q vrecking ship, amid
the drenchiDg surf Of the sea, and passed
midnights on the mountains amid wild
beasts Of prey, and stood at the point
where all earthly and internal hostilities
charged on him at once, with their keen
sabres,
OUR SUBSTITUTE.
When did attorney ever endure 30 much
for q pauper client or physician for
the patient in the lazretto, or mother for
the child in membrsnous Group. as Christ
for US, and Christ for you, and Christ for
me2 Shall any man or woman or child
in this audience who has ever suffered for
another, find it hard to understand this
Christianly suffering for usf Shall those
whose sympsthies have been wrung IN be.
half of the unfortunate, have no spprecia-
ton of that moment which was lifted out
of all the ages of eternity as most conspic.
uous, when Christ gathered up all sins ct
those to be redeemed under sis one srm,
and all their sorrogs under bis other arm,
and said: Il will atone for these under
my right arm, and will heal
all those under my left arm
Strike me with ell thy glitteriDg shafts o
Eternal Justice. Roll over me with all
thy surges, ye oceans OF sorrow And the
eirpek him from above. aud
the seas 81 tfoablt rolled up from beneath,
hurricanee afseF hurricane and cyclone and
then and there in presence Of heaven and
earth and hell, yea, all worlds Witnessing,
the price, the bitter price, the transcendent
price, the awful price, the glorious price,
the infinite price, the eternal price, was
paid that sets us free. That is what Paul
means, that is what mean, that is what
A)l those who have ever had their hearts
changed meap BY my blood" l glory
in
THIS RELIGION OF BLOOD.
am thrilled as see the suggestive color
in sacramentpl cup, whether it be Of burn
ished silver set on cloth Immediately
white, or rough-hewn from wood set on
table in log.hut meeting-house OF the wilder
ness Now am thrilled as see the sltars
of ancient sacrifice crimson with the biz cd
of the slain lamb and Lsviticus is te me
not so much the Old Testament as
The New. Now see why the
destroying angel passing over Egypt in the
night spared all those houses that had
blood sprinkled on their doorposts. Now
know what Isaiah means when he speaks
Of "oue in red apparel coming with dyed
garments from Bosrah;" and whom John
means when he so eloquently de-
scribes heavenly chiefain whose "vest-
ure was dipped in blood" and what Peter,
the Apostle, means when he speaks Of the
precious blood" and what Joo means
when be refers to tie blood that cleanseth
froIu all Elm, and what the old worn out,
decrepit missionary Paul means when, in |
my text he cries, without shedding OF
blood is no remission" By that blood
You and will be saved or never saved a.
all. In sil thu ages OF the world God has
not once pardoned q single sin except
through the Sayior'B expia,iop, and BE
never will. Glory be to God that the bull
back of Jerusalem wss the battlefield on
which Christ achieved our liberty
The most exciting and overpowering
day of last summer was the day ! spent
on
THE BATTLEFlELp cF WATERLOO.
Starting out With the mornlIg train from
Brussels, Belgium, we arrived in about an
hour on that famous spot 4 son Of ops
Who vas ia. the battle aad vho had heard
from bis father o thousand times the whole
scene recitld, accompanied rs over the
field. There stood the old Hougomont
Chateau, the walls dented and scratched
and broken and shattered Of grape shot
and capnop hall. There is the well in
which three hundred dying aud dead were
pitched. There is the chapel with the
head Of the iEfant Christ shot of. There
are gates st wbIeh for Rspy hours BDglish
and French armies wrestled. YoEder
we're the leo guns OF the English and the
$50 guns Of the French Yonder the Han.
overian Hussars aed for the woods. Yon-
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