Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-26

bound to the altar, and no hand arrests
! the sharp edges of laceratiOn and death,
and the universe shiYers and quakes and
recoils and groans at the horror. All
/ good men have for centuries been trying
| to tell who this substitute was like, and
every comparison, inspired and unin-
| splred, eVangelistic, prophetic, apostolic,
and human, falls short, for Christ was the
| Great Unlike. Adam type OF Christ, be-
cause he came directly from God; Noah a
! type OF Christ, because he delivered his
own family from deluge; Melchise
deck type Of Christ, be-
cause he mad no predecessor or
successors Joseph type of Christ, be-
cause he was put TO death by his brethren;
Moses a type Of Christ, because he was a
deliVerer from bondage; Joshua type OF
| Christ, because he was a c0nqueror;
sampson type of Christ, because Of his
strength to slay the lions and carry of
the iron gates OF impossibillty; Solomon
| a type Of Christ, in the fullness Of his do
minion; Jonah a type of Christ, because
Of the stormy sea in which he threw him.
self for the rescue Of others: but
| put together Adam, and Noah, and
| Melchisedeck, and Joseph, and Moses, and
Joshua, and Samson, and solomon, and
Jonah, and they would not make frag-
ment of Christ, quarter OF Christ, the
/ half of Christ, or the millionth part Of a
! Christ. He forsook a throne, and sat
down on His own footstool. He came
| from the top Of glory 10 the bottom OF hu-
initiation, and changed circumference
| seraphic for circumference diabolic.
/ Once waited on by angels, now Kissed at
| by brigands. From afar sBd high up He
came down; apast mete0rs, switter than
| they; by starry thrones, himself more
| lustrous past larger worlds
to smaller worlds, down stairs
Of ornaments, and from cloud to cloud,
and through the tree tops, and into the
camePs stall. To thrust His shoulder un-
der our burdens and take the lances of
| pain through His vitals, He wrapped Him
| self in all the agOnies which we deserve
| for our misdoings, and stood on the spill
| ing decks Of wrecking ship, amid the
| drenching surf of the sea, and passed
midnights on the mountains amid wild
| beasts Of prey, and stood at the point
where all earthly and internal hostilities
| charged on Him at once with their keen
sabres-Our substitute.
When did attorney ever endure so much
for pauper client, or physician for the
! patient in the lazarett0, or mother for
the child in membranous Group, as Christ
/ tor us, and Christ for you, and Christ for
mef Shall any man or woman or child
| In this audiences VINO has ever suffered for
another, find it hard TO understand this
Christly suffering for usg Snail those
whose sympathies have been wrung in
behalf Of the unfortunate have no appreci-
alton of that one moment which was
lifted out of all the ages Of eternity as
! most conspicuous. when Christ gathered
up all the sins of those to be redeemed
under His one arm, aud all their sorrows
under His other arm. and said II Will
atone for those under my right arm, and
will heal all those under my left arm.
Strike me with all thy glittering shafts,
0 Eternal Justicel Roll over me with all
thy surges, ye oceans Of sorroww And
the thunderbolts struck Him from above,
and the seas OF trouble rolled up from be-
meath, hurricane after hurricane and
cyclone after cyclone, and then and there,
in presence Of heaven and earth and hell,
yea, all worlds Witnessing, the price, the
bitter price, the transcendent price, the
/ awful price, the glorious price, the inf
mite price, the eternal price, was paid that
sets us free. That IS what Paul means,
that ia what mean, that is what all those
who have ever had their heart
changed mean by "blOOd." |
glory in this religion OF blood.
am thrilled as l see the suggestive color
in sacramental cup, whether 1t be Of
FURNISHED silver set on cloth immacu-
lately white, or rough hewn from wood
set on table In l0g-hut Westinghouse OF
the wilderness. Now / am thrilled as
see the altars of ancient sacrifice crimson
with the blood Of the slain lamb, and
Leviticus is to me not so much the Old
Testament as the New. Now 1 see why
| the destroying angel passing over Egypt
in the night spared all those houses that
had blood sprinkled on their doorposts.
Now know what Isaiah means when he
speaks OF zone in the red apparel coming
with dyed garments fro m BOzrah,0 aud
whom John means when he describes a
heavenly chieftain whose ''yestuIe
was dipped in bloOd;" and
what Peter the apostle means
when he speaks OF the ''preciOus blood I"
and what John means when be refers 10
the blood that cleanseth from all sin, and
what the old worn out, decrepit mission
ary Paul means when, in my text he cries,
"withOut shedding of blood is no remis-
sion." BY that blood you and l will be
saved or never saved at all. In all the
ages Of the world, God has not once par.
doDed single sin except through the
Saviour's expiation, and He never will.
Glory be 10 God that the hill back Of Jeru'
salem was the battle field on which Christ
achieved our liberty
The most exciting and overpowerinR
day OF last summer was the day / spent
on the battlefield Of Waterloo. Starting
out with the morning train from Brussels,
Belgium, we arrived In about an hour on
that famous spot. A son OF one who was
in the battle, and who had heard from his
father a thousand times the whole scene
recited, accompanied us over the field
There stood the old HOu yomOnt chateau,
the walls dented and scratched and
broken and shattered Of grape shot and
cannon ball. There is the well in which
300 dying and dead were pitched. There
Is the chapel with the head OF the infant
Christ shot OF. There are gates az which
for many hours English and French armies
wrestied. YOnder were the 100 guns OF
the English and the $50 guns Of the French
Yonder the HanoYerian Huesars fled for
the woods. Yonder was the ravlne OF
Ohaine, where the French cavalry, not
knowing there was a hollow In the ground,
rolled over and down, troop after troop,
1000 horses and ], 900 men tumbling into
one awful mass OF suffering, hOot OF kick.
ing horses against brow and breast OF
captains and colonels and private sol
dierB, the human ana the beasfly grOau
kent up until. the day after, all was shov-
elled under, because OF the malod0r aris-
ing in that hot month Of June. "There,"
said our guide, 'the Highland regi-
ments lay down on their faces
waiting for the moment 20
spring upon the foe. In that orchard
twenty-five hundred men were cut 10
pieces. Here stood Wellington with white
lips, and by that knoll rode Marshal Ney
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