St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-02
Christ's Suffering That His Blood
Might Atone for the Sins
OF the World.
He Wished For No Substitute, But
Offered Himself That Others
Might be Saved.
Let All Take Advantage of This Great Boon
and be Cleansed Of All Their
Sins.
Text of the Sermon Preached in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle by the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage.
Special to the Globe.

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ninety new member stood up in the aisles
from DR.. Talmage, and to each one an ap-
propriate word of counsel or congratuation
was addressed. This makes the communion
mem bership of this church 1921. The open
ing hymn was:
''Alas, and did my Savior bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?''
The subject of the sermon was The
Blood, aud the text was from John. i, Z.
''The blood Of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleans
eth US from all SIM DR.. Talmage said:
Eighteen centuries ago there lived one
Jesus. Publius Lentulus, in letter to the
Roman senate described him 'sas man of
stature somewhat tall, his hair the color of a
chestnut fully ripe, plain to the ears, whence
downward it is more orient, curling and
waving about the 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, a lovely red; his
nose and mouth so forked as nothing can
be represented; his beard thick, in color like
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 Zorobabel, 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 was against him. From
a. In. till p III. Jesus hung a-dying. 1t
was scene of blood. We are so constitu-
ted that nothing is so 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 pastering, you cry,
"What terrible deed has been done here?"
Looking upon the suspended victim of the
cross we thrill with the sight of blood-bood
dripping from thorn and nail, blood rushing
upon his cheek, blood saturating his gar
ments, 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 liveliest
interest is aroused. If king of an island,
| however insignificant, visit this land what
throngs turn out 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 Hapsburg.
Is it nothing when l point you to the out
pouring blood of the King of the Universe?
In England the name of Henry was so great
that its honors were divided among
DIFFERENT REIGNs.
1t was Henry the First and Henry the Sec
ond and Henry the Third and Henry the
Fourth 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 this 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, I'm mortal"
| Through the indulgences of the royal family
| the physical life dcgencrated and some of the
| kings have been almost imbecile and their
| bodies weak and their blood thin and watery.
But the crimson life that flowed upon calvary
had in it the health of the immortal God
A king dying! You remember when one of
the cZars of Russia was in his fatal sickness
that bulletins were every hour dispatched from
the palace, saying: ''The king is bctter;'' or
''the king is worse;'' or, ''the king is delir-
ious;'' or, s'the king rested easier through
the night" or, ''the king is dying,n and
''the king is dead" The bells tolled it, the
flags signaled it, the telegraph flashed it.
Tell it now to all the earth, 10 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 last groan; through
! his body quivers the last anguish ;the king is
diving; the king is dead Ye who come
round about the cross, look out how you
! tread in what you see beneath.
| 1t is royal blood. 1t Is said that the Unfair
ians make too much of the humanity Of
Christ. / respond that we make too little.
If some Roman surgeon standing under the
cross mad caught one drop of the blood on
his hand aud analysed IL 1t would have been
| found to have the same plasma, the same
| disk, the same fibrin, the same albumen. It
was Enthusiastically human blood. It's man
that hangs there. His bones are of the same
material as ours. His nerves are sensitive
like ours. If it were an angel being de-
spoiled would not feel it so much, for it be-
longs to a different order of beings. But
my Savior Is man, and my whole sympathy
is aroused. ! can imagine how the spikes
| felt; how hot the temples burned; what
! deatbly sickness seized his heart; how noun
=, tain 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 1! my God why
hast thou forssken me!''
1t was substitutionary blood. Our sins
| cried to heaven for vengeance. Some one
must die. Shall it be Us or Christi 'sLet it
| be me- said Jesus. You were drafted for
the last war and some one took your place.
/ You were In debt, not being able TO meet the
| obligation, some one paid it. You can easily
| understand bow Christ went in to fight our
battles aud to pay our debts. The debt is
cancelled; the captives are released; the
shackles are broken; the prison is opened.
| Blood paid the price; blood washed away the
| pollution: blood sealed the agreement. The
blood Of Paul that soaked the dust Of the
| guillotine: the blood Of Hugh Latimer that
simmered in the fire: the blood of the high
| souled martyrs that REDEEMED the mouth of
| the lions in the coliseum have just as much
! worth 70 your soul as the blood Of Christ,
unless you take this last as expiatory and feel
the truth that ''the blood Of Jesus Christ
| cleanseth from all SIM
! Come then and get your sins pardoned. i
| do not ask you TO come to q private confes-
sional or TO whisper into my ears your
ofenses, but sitting where Tou are TO accept
| this moment the bIood-cleansiDg. First, for
that old sin. Do you ask ''what sin do you
| meant" / mean that old sin that you
/ COMMITTED YEA.s AGO.
| II may have been tzo years, ten years or