Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-26

/ fury of the popnlace and the lCathSome
I imbecile. Substitution.
I RrsKIN FOR TURNER.
I In the realm OF the lne arts there was
/ as remarkable an Instance brilliant
1 but hyperrltlciScd painter, Joseph WI.
I liam Turner, was met by vollcy Of
I abuse from all the art galleries OF Europe,
I His paintings, which have since won the
I applause OF all Civilized nations, "Thc
I fifth Plague of Egypt" "EiShermen on q
I Lee shore IN Squally Weather. "Calais
/ picr,N "rhc sun Rising Through MIST
and Hlldo Building Carthage were
then targets for critics to shoot at. 10
Z defense OF this outragcously abused man
a young author Of twonty-lour years, Just
one wear ont OF college, came forth with
I his pen and wrote the ahlest and most
I famous essays on art that the world ever
4 saw, or ever viii sce--John Ruskln's
I Modern Painters For seventeen years
this author fought the battles of the mall
I treated artist, and after IN poverty and
4 observation-disclosures the painter had died
and the public tried TO undo their crucl-
/ ties toward him by giving him big IA.
neral and burial 40 St paul's cathedral,
! his old-timc friend took out of tin hos
nineteen thousand pieces OF paper con
/ tanning drawings hy the old painter, and
through many weary and uucompensate0
months, assorted aud arranged them for
public observation, People say John
/ Ruskin m his old days is cross, misan-
( thropc and morbid whatever he may
| do that he ought not to do, aud whatever
he may say that he ought not TO say be.
tween now and his death, he will leave
/ this world iusolyent as lar rs II has any
capacity TO pay this authors pen for its
chlvalric and Christian defense OF poor
/ painters pencil. John Ruskin for VII.
liam Turner. Blood Tor blood. Subsu-
tuition.
AN ON pHrNCuIr,
What an eNaltlug principle this which
/ leads one TO suffer for another
( Nothing SO klndles enthusiasm
! or aWakuns cloGuruce, or chimes poetic
canto, or moves nations. That principle
I is the dominant one In our religion
/ Christ the martyr, Christ the celestial
hero, Christ the defender, Christ the sub
stitute. No new principle, for it was as
old rs human natures but NOW on a
grandcr, WIDER higher deeper aud more
understanding scale. The shepherd
/ boy, ms champion for Israel With a sling
toppled the giant OF rhlllstine braggu-
docO in the dust, but here is another
David who, for an the armies of churches
militant and triumphant, hnrls Tie CO.
Hath of he'll into defeat, Tho crash uf his
brazcn armor like an explosion 40 Hen
Gate. Abraham had at Gods command
agreed TO sacrifice his son Isaac, ana the
same God just in time had provided %
ram OF the thicSct ass substitute; but
here Is another Isaac bound TO the altar,
and no hand arrests the sharp cdgrs of
decoration aud death, and
TINS rNIvfGsE sutVEBs,
and qunkcs, aud recolls, and grnans no
the horror An good men have for CEN
turtles been trying to tell who this subsu-
tute was Ike, and every comparison, In
spircd and uninsprcd, cyangcllstic, pros
phetic, apostolic and human, falls short,
Tor Christ was the Great Unlike Adm,
type OF Christ, because he came directly
from God; NOAH type of Christ, be-.
cause he delivered his own family from
dclugc; Mclchscdccl, type of Christ,
because he had no predecessor or sue
cossor; Joseph, type OF Christ, because
he was put 10 death by II, brethren
J Moses, u type ol Christ, because he war
deliycrer from bondage; Joshua, n type
+ of Christ, because he was cOnqueror;
/ sampson, a type OF Christ, because OF bis
strength 10 sluy the lions and carry OF
the iron gates OF impossbilty; Solomon
+ a type of Christ, IN the lumess OF his do
: minion Jonah, n type Of Christ, because
5 of the stormy sea In which he throw bm-
self Tor the rescue of Others; but put to.
= gethor Adam, aud NOnh and Mel
chsedeCk and Joseph and Moses unC
Joshua and Samson aud Solomon and
+ Jonah, and they would not make u irag.
ment of Christ, quarter of "a Christ,
9 the half OF Il Christ or the mllllonth parl
of Il Christ. He forsook throne ano
/ sat down on his own foolstool. He came
. from the top OF glory to the bottom OF
3 humiliation, and changed a circum
( ference seraphic for
7 4 CIRCUMFERENCE DiNBoIIC.
F.. Once waited upon by angels, now hisseC
! at by bricands. From afar and high NJ
} he came down apast meteors, swiite
G than they; by starry thrones, himself
G more lustrousi past larger worlds tC
@ smaller worlds, down stairs of hrma
S monts, and from cloud 10 cloud anC
g through the tree tops and into til,
, camcls stall. 10 thrust his shouldc
under our burdens and take the lances o
pain through his vltals, he wrapped him
l self in all the agonies which we aescry,
@ for our msdoings, aud stood on tn,
e splitting decks OF wrcckng ship, ami,
| the drenching surf OF the sea, and passeC
4 miduights on the mountains amid wild
beasts Of prey and stood Mt the poin
J where all earthly aud Internal hostililie'
charged on him ut once with their kcol
, sabcrs,
{ Our SUBSTITUTE
! When did attorney ever endure Sc
) much for pauper client or physician ioi
the patient In the lalaretto or mother
! Tor the child in membrauous Group, as
= Christ for US, and Christ for you, and
Christ for me; Shallany man or woman
or child in this audience who has over
, suffered for another ind IL hard 90 under.
, stand this Christly suffering for usE Shall
, those whose sympathlcs have been Wrung
I In behalf OF the unfortunate have no ap.