The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-26
THE BLOOD OF REMISSION.
CHRIST GAME FROM THE TOP.
OF Glory to the bottom of Humilisrlsu
To Save sinners-Talmsge's Mag
nifieent Sermon Yesterday at
the Bookiyn Tabernacle
The Full Text, Etc.


services ia tho Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning with the organ solo, First
Sonata in d Minor, by Ritter. Dr.
Talmsge expouuded The chapter in
Lsviticus about ancient sacrifices. The
hymn sung was:
salvation! ., the joyful sound,
'Tis pleasure to our ears;
sovereign balm for every wound,
n cordial for oar fears"
The subject OF the sermon was
"Bloot,' snd tho text WAS from Ho
brew tx, %: "Without shedding OF
blood is no remission" Tho preacher
said:
John g. Whittier, the last of the
great school OF American poets that
made the lsst quarter OF century
brilliant, asked me-, in the White
mountains one morning AFTER prayers,
IN which had given out Cowpsr's
isiaous hymn about "the fountain
iilied with blood:" "Do You really be.
love ,hero is a literal application OF the
blood of Christ to the soul?n Nv
negative reply thsn is nay negative re-,
ply now. The Bible statement agrees
with all physicians and al physiolo-
kists and all scientists in saying, that
the blood 10 the life, and in tho Chris.
tlan rtliglon 1t means simply that
Chrisps life was given for our life,
Hence, all this talk OF mon who say
The Bible story of blood IL disgusting,
ana that they cont want
what they call q "slaugh.
ter-house religion" only shows
their lncapscity or unwillingness to
look through the figure of speech to-
ward The thing sigritied. Tho blood
that ON the desKest Friday tho world
ever saw, oozed, or tciekled, or poured
from the brow and She side, and the
hands, and the feet of tho ilustrlous
sufferer, back OF Jerpsalem, in y fow
hours coagulated and dried up, and
forever disappeared; and il q man had
;.epended on the application OF tle
literal blood ot Christ, there would not
have boon s. soul saved for the last IS
centuries.
In order to understand this rcd word
or my text, we only have to exercise
40 much common senso in religion ny
We do In everything elae. Pang for
pang, hunger for hunger, fatigue for
fatigue, tear for tear, blood for blood,
ll'o Tor life, we SEQ every day illus,
trate1. Tho act of substitution Ia no
novelty, although L hear men talk AZ
though tho idea of Cbrists suffering
substituted for our suffcrlngs were
something abnormal. something dis.
tressingly odd, something widely &C.
centric, a solitary episode in the
world's history; when 1 could take
you out into this city, and before srln.
down, point you to 800 cases of suhsti-
tuition and voluntary suffering of one
in behalf of another.
At 2 O'Clock TO morrow afternoon 70
AMONG THE PLACES oFs BUSINESS
AND TOLL.
II will bs no difficult thing !or yon to
ma men who, by their looks, show
you that they are overworked. They
are promaiurely old. They are
fastening rapidly towHrd their
decease. They have gone through
crises In business that shat
tored their nervous system and pulled
on the brain. They have shortness
OF breath and pain In the back OF the
heeo, and at nights an insomnia that
alarms them. Why are they drudging
at business early aud late? For iun?
No; 1t would be difficult to extract any
amusement out OF that exhaustion.
Because they are avaricous?
In many cases, no. Because their swn
personal expenses are lavish? No; q
tow hundred dollars would meet all
their wants. Tho simple fact is the
man is enduring all that fatigue and
evaporation, and wear and tear. 10
keep his home prosperous. There ia
an invisible line reaching from that
store, from that bank, from that shop,
from that scaffolding, to quiet scene
rev blocks, few miles away, and
there Ia tho secret OF that business en-
durance. lie Is simply the champion
OF \ homestead for which he wins
bread and wardrobe and education
ana prosperity, and in such battle lO,O 900
mon fall. OF 10 business men whom /
bury, nino die of overwork for Others,
Some sudden disense finds them with
no power OF resistance and they are
gone. Life for life. Blood for blood.
Substitution.
AT o'clock tomorrow morning, the
hour whom slumber Is most uninterrup-
ted and most profound, walk amid the
dwelling houses OF this city. Hero and
there you will find 4 dim light, because
IL ~ Tho household custom TO koop
subduod light burning, but most OF the
houses, rom base to top, are ~ dark as
though uninhabited. A morclful God
has sent forth tho archangol OF sleop,
aud he puts his wings ovor tho city,
But yondor IL u clesr light burning,
and outside on the window casomont
q glass or pitcher containing food for
asick child, tho food act In tho fresh
air, This In tho sixth night that
mother has sat mp with that aulloror.
She hos 30 ihs last point
obElED THE PHYSICIANS pREsCRTr.
rIoN,
not giving q drop too much or too lit
tle, or n moment too soon or too late.
She is very anxious, for sho has bur
leu three children with the sgmo diB-
case and she prays and weeps, each
prayer and 500 onding with l;lss OF
me pal0 check. BY dint OF kindness
sue Rots tho little ono through tho or
ueM. After II Is all oyor tho mother Is
taken down. Brain or nervous fever
sets In, and one day she leaves A con-
vaiescent child with mother's bioss.
inRs and goes upto join tho ,hroe in
tho Kingdom of fheavou. Lifo for life,
Subsitution. Tho fact IA chat tbore Ia
an uncounted number OF mothers who,
after they have navigated large fam.
ny Oh ohildron through all tho diseases
of Infancy ana gos them fairly siarted
up tho towering slope OF boyhood and
eirlhood, have only strength enough
left TO die. They fsdo away. Some
callit consumption; some call it nor
yous prostration some call 1t intermit-
tent.or melarial indispoeition but 1 call
y nlsrtyrdom OF the domestic circle.
Llie for life; blood for blood; substitu.
ton.
Or perhaps sho liugors long or oush Ia
see son got on tho wrong road, and
his former Kindness becon,es a rough
reply when she Expresses anxiety
about him. But she goes right on,
looking carefully after his apparel,
remembering his every birthday with
some mcmento, and whom ho Is
nrought home worn out with dissipa.
tiou, nurses him until he Rots well aud
starto him again, and hopes and OK
ptcts ana preys and counsels and nuf.
fers, until her strength gives out aud
aho iails. She In going, nnd attendants
bending over her pillow, ask hor N she
has any message 10 leave, and she
mnkos great effort 10 say somethinr,