Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-26
APPLICATION OF CHElsT's BLOOD,
Life For LIFE sBIoOd-fOr Blood, Substi-
tutiOn---Tbe NObleuess Of
Self Sacrifice.
4 GLOWING RELIGION OF BLOOD
SpAcLul b ths Raalsa,.


pounded the chapter in Lsviicus about
ancient sacrifices. The hymn sung vas:
salvation, oths joyful sound!
A. '9lSpleasuFe . our sarsi
sovereign balm for every wound,
cordial for cur fears.
The subject of the sermon was BLOOD,
and the text was from Hebrew *, 22:
"Withoot shedding Of blood is no remis'
sion" The preacher said:
John G. Whittier, the last OF the great
school Of American poets that made the
| last quarter of century brilliant, asked
me in the White Mountains one morning
sfter prayers. in which l had given out
/ CoWpers famous hymn about The foam
tain filed with blood" DO you really
believe there is q
LITERAL APPLICATION
of the blood Of Christ to the soulT Ny
negative reply then, is my negative reply
now. The Bible statement agrees With all
physicians aud oil Psychologists and all
scientists in saving that the blood is the
life, and in the Christian religion It means
simply that Christs hte was given for our
life. Hence all this talk of men who say
the Bible story Of blood is disgusting, and
that they don't want what they call o
"slaughter-house religion" only shows
their ineapacity or unWilliDgness to
look through the figure of speech to.
ward the thing signiGed. The blood that
on the darkest Friday the world ever saw,
oozed or trickled or poured from the brow
and the side and the hands and the feet OF
the illustrious sufferer, back Of Jerusalem,
| in q few hours coagulsted and dried up
and forever disappeared; and ii man had
depended on the application Of the literal
blood OF Christ, there would not have been
a soul saved for the last eighteen ceutu.
ries. =,
In order TO understand this red word Of
my text, we only have to have to exercise
as much
COMMON SENSE IN RELIGIoS
ss we do in everything elEe. Pang for
psng, hunger for hunger, fatigue tor ID
tigas, tear for tear, blood Tor blood,
life for life, we see every day illustrates
The act of substitution is no novelty al
though hear men talk as though the idea
of C6rist's suffering substituted for our sat
ienpg were something abnormal, some
thing distressing odd, something wildly
eccentric, solitary episode in the worlds
history, when could take you ont into
this city and before sundoWn polnt you
TO Eve hundred cases of substitution and
voluntary saGerips OF cne IN behalf Of
another.
AZ two o'clock to morrow afternoon 60
among the places Of business or toll. II
will be no difficult thing for you to find
men who by their looks show you that
they are overworked. They are prsma-
turely old. They are Fastening rapidly
towaid their decease They have gone
through crises in business that shattered
their nervous system and pulled on the
brain. They have shortness OF breath
and pain in the back Of the head, and at
night an insomnia that alarms them.
Why are they dTudgIDg at business early
aud late2 For funH No. it would be dit.
fcult to extract any amusement out ofthst
exhaustion. Because they are avsriciousY
In many cases no. Because their own
personal expenses are lavishH No; lev
hundred dollars would meet all their
wants. The simple fact is the man is en-.
during ell that fatigue and exasperauon
and wear and tesr, to keep his home pros
perors, There is an invisible lice reach
| ipp fom that stpre, from that bank, from
that shop, from that scaGoldiDg, to quiet
scene Q few blocks, q few mile9 away, and
there is the secret Of that business ehdpr-
apce. He is simply the champion CT q
homestead fer which he wins bread and
wardrobe and education and prosperity,
and in such battle ten thousand men tall.
| OF ten business men whom bury, nine die
, of ovsrgork for others. Some sudden dis
ease finds them WITH no power Of resist
ance and they are gone. Life Tor hte,
Blood for blood.
SUBSTITUTION.
At one o'clock to. morrow morning, the
bonr when slumber IL most uninterrupted
and most profound, walk amid the dwell
inc hoases of the city. Here and there
yoa will find dim light, because 1t is the
household custom to keep subdued light
burnipR; bat 2osl Of the houses from
base TO cap are ss dark sS though unin'
hsb;ted. A merciful God has sent forth
the archsngel of sleep. and he puts his
wings over the city. But yonder is clear
| light burning, and outside on the window
easement a glass or PitGhsr eontsinipg
food for g sick child, tt.s food set in the
,resb air This Ia the sixth night that
mother has sat up with that sufferer. shs
has TO the las, point obeyed the physician 9
nrescription, not giving q drop too much
or too Ettls, Of q momeps too soon or TOO
! late. sSS y very ANXIOUS, tor she has
buried three children 5iia he same aus
ease. aud she praJs snd weeps, each
nrsyer and sob ending with
/ k;Is .. ths pale theek By
Sint of kindnsis sks EstD tie little ore
through the ordeal Afer it is ali oyer the
notber ia taken down. Brain or nervous
fever sets in and one day she leaves the
convalescent child With its mothers bless
iprs and goes up to join the three IN tho
ki9odom of heaven. Life for life. Suos'i
tuition. The fast is tlst there are an unac
sau2tsd number Of mothers Who after the!
have nayigsted c ,asgc tsmily Of ehi!dreE
, tbrough an the diseases ofintaney anu Se
: them fairly started up'ths Towering slOP,,
Of boyhsod or girlhood, have only strength
.. enough left to die. Tiey fade away. Som
cali s consumption; some esll i nerves
8 n-ostratisn; soEs csll il Intermittent Q
malarial disposiieni bot esll i party
3 dom of the dcmsstic circle Life tor ~
;. BLOOD FOR BLOOD.
Substitution. Or perhaps she fingers Ion
enough 70 sSs con get on the wrong roa
and his former kindness SseoEep rough II
f Div when she expresses anxiety aboat aiu
o Bat she goes right on, looking CAREFUL
Z after his appeared, remembering his eyeI
o. birthday vita soue memento, and Wht
he il brought home worn CT yith dissip
ton, nurses him till he gets vel and star
him again, and hopes and expects 81
a prays and ooupsels apd suffers, until b
.: strength gives out and she tsiis. She