Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-20
SERMON
of Substitution Forc,,
bly, Presented,

,,c tho Place Held by vicarious snc
Is inthe Education of the World
r,e Heroism of Sacrificing Self
for Others Good.
allowing is a recent sermon preached
tooklyn Tabernacle by Rev. 7. De
Image on the subject of "Blood.n
lied to vicarious sacrifice. His text
ant shedding of blood is no remission.
cws,i w., o.
nreacner said: John G. Whittier.
|, of the great school Of American
mat made the last quarter of q cen.
brilliant, asked me in the White
aims one morning after prayers, in
had given out Cowper's famous
about the ''The fountain filed with
J, "Do you really believe there is a
application Of the blood OF Christ to
M" My negative reply then is nv
Ee reply now. The Bible statement
with all physicians and all physi.
5 and all scientists in saying that
cd is the life, and in the Christian
it means simply that Christ's life
Ken for our life. Hence all this talk
who say the Bible story Of blood is
ing, and that they don't want what
all a "slaughter-house religion"
ows their incapacity or unwilling.
look through the figure of speech
the thing signified. The blood that
darkest Friday the world ever saw
or trickled. or poured from the brow
/ side and hands and tbs feet of the
Gus sufferer, back of Jerusalem, in
ours coagulated and dried up and
disappeared; and if man had de.
on the application of the literal
t Christ, there would not have been
saved for the last eighteen centu,
der to understand this red word of
t, we only have to exercise as much
n sense in religion as we do in
hing else. Pang for pang, hunger
niger, fatigue for fatigue, tear for
lood for blood, life for life, we see
day illustrated. The acs of substi.
is no novelty, although / hear men
though the idea of Christ's suffer.
Instituted for our suffering were
ling abnormal, something distress.
odd, something wildly eccentric, a
" episode in the worlds history;
/ could take you into this city and
smdown point to You five hundred
ct substitution and voluntary suffer.
one III behalf OF another.
NO o'clock tomorrow afternoon 90
the places of business or toll. 1t
no difficult thing for you to find
Fho, by their looks, show you that
re overworked. They are prema.
old. They are Fastening rapidly
4 their decease. They have gene
I'll crises i'll business that shattered
nervous system and pulled on the
They have a shortness of breath
Jain in the lack of the head, and at
an insomnia that alarms them. Why
icy drudging at business early and
For fun! No; it would bs difficult to
1t any amusement out of that ex-
Fon. Because they + avaricious1
buy cases no. Because Their own
pal expenses are lavish? No: a
Fndred dollars would meet all their
. The fact is, the man is enduring
bat fat que and exhaustion and
Pnd tear to keep his home prosper
There is an invisible line reaching
that store, from that bank, from
shop, from that scaffolding, to a
scene q few blocks, a few miles
and there is the secret of that busi-
.(ndurance. He is simply the cham
bf a homestead for which he wins
and wardrobe and education and
Esity, and in such bait g 10000 men
OF ten business men whom l bury
die of overwork for others. Some
n disease finds them with no power
stance, and they are gone. Life for
blood for blood. Substitution.
fne o'clock tomorrow morning, the
when slumber is most uninterrupted
ost profound, walk amid the dwell.
buses of the city. Here and there
pill find a dim light, because it is
Fusehold custom to keep a subdued
burning, but most of the houses,
base to top, are as dark as though
Pabited. A merciful God has sent
the archangel of sleep, and he puts
|inss over the city. But yonder is a
LIGHT burning, and outside on the
fw easement G glass or pitcher
lining food for q sick child,
food set in the fresh air.
is the sixth night that mother
sat up with the sufferer. She
the last point obeyed the physi-
Prescriptions, no5 giving a drop too
- w AlVVlC, oi q l1Oil1Cito lOO oOotA Va
fte. She is very anxious, for she has
three children with the same dis
and she prays and weeps, each
F. and sob ending with u kiss Of the
Eheek. By dint of kindness she gets
ttle n through the ordeal. After
all over the mother is taken down.
Or nervous fever sets in, and one
NE leaves the convalescent child with
ser's blessing and goes up to join
pee in the kingdom of Heaven. Life
'us twenty.four years ago there went
from our homes hundreds of thou
OF men to do battle for their coun-
And the poetry of war soon van
anu left them nothing bu, the ter
lrose. They waded knee.deep in
They sleps in snow banks. They
aea till their cut feet tracked the
They We're swindled out of their
rat n and lived on meat not tit
Jog, They had jaw all fractured,
yes extinguished, and limbs shot
y. A-~