Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-20

son, inspired and uninspired, svan9 ellis.
TIC, prophetic, apostolic and human, falls
snort, for Christ was the great unlike.
Adam a type of Christ, because he came
directly from God; Noah a typo of Christ,
because he delivered his own family from
aeiuge; M.lchisedeck a type OF Christ,
because he had no predecessor or sue.
%cessor; Joseph a type of Chris, because
ne was put to death by his brethren:
moses a type OF Christ, because he was
aei1verer from bondage; Joshua a type of
onrist, because be was aconquerer; Sam.
soh a typs of Christ, because Of
MS strength to slay the lions
ana carry off the iron gates
o! impossibility; Solomon a type
OF Christ, in the ~fullness Of his dominion:
Jonah a type of Christ, because of the
stormy sea in which he threw himself for
ene rescue of others; but put together
Aoam and Noah and Melchisedeck and Jo.
sepn n Moses and Joshua and Sampson
anu solomon and Jonah, and they would
hoS make a fragment of a Christ, a quar-.
ser Oh q Christ, the ha'f of a Christ, or the
mllllonth part of a Christ. He forsook a
tnrone and sat down on his own footstool.
ne came from the top of glory to the bot
.om OF humiliation, and changed a circum.
ference seraphic for a circumference din.
oollc. Once waited on by angels, now
missed at by brigands. From afar and
nigh up, he came down; apast me.eors.
swifser than they; by starry thrones, him.
seil more lustrous; past larger worlds to
sma,ler worlds, down stairs of Hrma.
menus, n from cloud to cloud. and
through the treetops and into the camel,s
stall. To thrust his shoulder under our
burdens and take the lances of pain
through his vitals, he wrapped himself in
all he.agonies which we deserve for our
misdoings, and stood on the splitting
decks of a wrecking ship, amid the
drenching surf Of the sea, and
passed midnights on the mountains amid
Wild beasts OF Frey, and stood at the point
where all earthly and Internal hostilities
charged on him at once, with their Keen
sabers-our substitute.
When did attorney ever endure so much
Tor a pauper client. or physician for the
patient in the lazaretto, or mother for the
child in membranous Group, as Christ for
US, and Christ for you, and Christ for me?
ohall any man or woman or child in this
audience who has ever suffered for an.
other find it hard to understand this
Christly suffering for us? Shall those
whose sympathies have been wrung in be.
half Of thel info tulateshave no appreciation
OF that one moment, which was lifted out
OF all the ages of eternity as most conspic.
uous, when Christ gathered up all the sins
of those to be redeemed under his one arm
and all their sorrows under the 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 all thy gilt.
tering shafts, oh, eternal justice. Roll
over with all thy surges, ye
oceans of sorroww And thunderboits
struck him from above, and the
seas of trouble rolled up from beneath,
hurricane after hurricane and cyclone
after cyclone; and then and there, in
presence of heaven and earth and hell
yea, all worlds witne ssing, the price, the
bitter price, the transcendent price, the
awful price, the glorious price, the in.
finite price, the eternal price, was paid
that sets us free. That is what Paul means,
that is what l mean, that is what all those
who have ever had their hearts changed
mean by "blood." Iglory in this religion
of blood. I am thrilled as 1 see the sug
geetive color in the sacramental cup
whether it be Of FURNISHED silver on cloth
Immediately white, or rough-hewn from
wood set on table in log-hut meeting
house Of the wilderness. Now, I am
thrilled as / see the affairs of ancient sac
rifice crimson with the blood of the slain
lamb, and Leviticus is to me not so much
the Old Testament as the New. Now I see
why the destroying angel, passing over
Egypt in the night, spared all those houses
that had blood sprinkled on their door.
posts. Now I know what Isaiah means
when he speaks of tone in red APPAREL
coming with dyed garments from Boz
rah;" and whom John means wher
he describes a heavenly chieftain whose
ives ure was dipped in blood;" and wha'
Peter, the Apostle, means when he speaks
of the ''prec Gus blood ;" and what Johr
means when he refers to the ''blood that
cleanseth from all sin;" and what the old
worn out, decrepit missionary, Paul
means, when, in my text, he cries: "With
out shedding Of blood is no remission
BY Shat blood you and I will be saved o.
never saved at all. In all the ages of thu
world God has not once pardoned a singh
sin except through the Savior's expia
ton, and he never will. Glory be to Coz
that the hill back of Jerusalem was thu
battlefield on which Christ has achieved
our liberty.
The most exciting and overpowerinl
day of last summer was the day On thu
battlefield Of Waterloo. Starting OH
with the morning train from Brussels
Belgium, we arrived in about an hour OIL
that famous spot. A son of one who wa
in the battle, and who had heard from hi
father a thousand times the whole seen
recited, accompanied us owe the field
There stood the old Hougomont chateau
the walls denied and scratched and brok
en- and shattered by grapeshot and can
non ball. There is the we'll in which 30
dying and dead were pitched. There is tn
chapel with the head of the infant Chris
shot off. There are gaves at which, TO
many hours, English and French arm:e
wrestled. Yonder were the 100 guns of tn
English and the $50 guns of the French
Yonder the H%anoverian Hussars fed 70
the woods. Yonder was the ravine q
Ohaine, where the French cavalry, nc
knowing there was a hollowin the ground
rolled over and down, troop after trooT
1000 horses and 1,5C0 men tumbling int
one awful mass Of suffering, hoof Of kick
ing horses against brow n breast of car
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