The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-11-12

others but put together Adam and Noaf
and Melchisedeck and Joseph and Moses
and Joshua and Sampson and Solomon ant
Jonah, they would not make a fragment
OF a Christ, a quarter of Christ, the hall
OF Christ, or the millionth part of {
Christ. He forsook throne and sat down
on his own footstool. He came from the
| top OF glory to the bottom of humiliation
and changed circumference seraphie fol-
a circumference diabolic. Once waited or
by angels, now Kissed at by brigands
From afar and high up, he came down
apast meteors, swifter than they F; by starry
thrones, himself more Iustrous past
larger worlds to smaller worlds, down
stairs of ornaments, and from cloud to
cloud, and through the treetops and into
the camel's stall. To thrust his shoulder
under our burdens aud 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 splitting
decks of wrecking ship. amid the dreneh-
ing 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 sabers-our sub
stitute.
When did attorney ever endure SO much
for 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
Shall any man or woman or child in this
audience who has ever suffered for another
find it hard TO understand this Christly
suffering for US Shall those whose SYM
pathies have been wrung in behalf of the
unfortunate have no appreciation 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
and all their sorrows under the other arm
and said 81 will atone for these under my
right arm and will heal all those under my
left arm. Strike me with all thy glittering
shafts, oh, eternal justice. Roll over with
all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrowH And
thunderbolts 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 witnessing, the price, the bitter
price, the transcendent price, the awful
price, the glorious price. the infinite price,
the eternal price, was paid that sets, US
free. That is what Paul means, that is
what all those who have ever had theiI
hearts changed mean by blood. glory
in this religion of blood. am thrilled as
I see the suggestive color in the sacra-
mental 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
| am thrilled as see the affairs 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 | 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
red apparel coming with dyed garments
from Bozrah,'' and whom John means
when he describes heavenly chieftain
whose ''vesture was dipped in blood y and
what Peter, the Apostle. means when he
speaks of the precious blood y and what
John means when he refers to the ''blood
that cleaIseth 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 that blood you and l will be saved or
never saved at all. In all the ages Of the
world God has not once pardoned sin ex-
cept through the Sayiour's expiration, and
he never will. Glory be to God that the
hill back OF Jerusalem was the battlefield
on which Christ has achieved our liberty
The most exciting and overpowering
day of last summer was the day on the bat
tlefield of Waterloo. Starting out with
the morning train from Brussels. Belgium,
we arrived in about an hour on that ia
nous spot. A son of one who was in the
battle, and who had heard from his father
thousand times the whole scene recited,
accompanied us over the field. There
stood the old Hougomont chateau, the walls
dented and scratched and troken and shat
tered by grapeshot 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 off.
There are gates at which, for many hours,
English and French armies wrestled.
Yonder wsre the 100 guns of the English
and the I50 guns of the French. Yonder
the Hanoyerian Hussars fled for the woods.
Yonder was the ravine of Ohaine, where
the French cavalry, not knowing there
was hollow in the ground, rolled over
and down, troop after troop, 1000 horses
and 1880 men tumbling into one awful
mass of suffering, hoof of kicking horses
against brow and breast of captains and
colonies and private soldiers, the human
and the beastly groan kept up until, the
day after, all was shoveled under. because
of the malodor arising in that hot month
of June. There, = said our guide, s'the
Highland regiments lay down on their
faces waiting for the moment to spring
upon the foe. In that orchard $500 men
were cut to pieces. Here stood Yelling
ton, with white lips, and by that knoll rode
Marshal Ney on his sixth horse, five hav.
| ing been shot under him. Here the ranks
of the French broke. and Marshal Ney
with his body slashed of a sword and his
hat off and his face covered with powder
and blood. tried to rally his troops as he
cried Come and see how Marshal Of
France dies on the battlefield.
From yonder direction Crouch was ex
pected for the French reinforcements but
came not Around those woods Butcher
was looked for to reinforce the English
and just in time he came up. Yonder il
the field where Napoleon stood, his arm I
through the feins of the horse bride
dazed and unstrung, trying to go back
Scene of a battle that went on from
| twenty-five minutes to twelve O'Clock or
the 18th of June until four o'clock whe1
| tho EnoIiSh seemed defeated and thpi1