West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-02-07

Gus sacrifice ! Let every man suffer for him.
self. Why do / want Christ 10 suffer for me ?
III suffer Tor myself and carry my own bur
dens" They scoR at the idea OF vicarious
sacrifice, while they admire IL everywhere
when a mother suffers for her child. People
500 lie beauty when a patriot suffers for his
country. People see its beauty when q man
denies himself for a friend. They can sss
the beauty OF vicarious sacrifice In every one
A young lady In one OF the literary insti-
tutions was a teacher. She was very reti-
cent and retired In her habits, aud she formed
no companionships In the new position she
occupied, and her dress was very plain
sometimes tt was very shabby. After a
while she was discharged from the place for
that reason, but no reason was given. In
ans 70 the letter di~scharging her from
failed 20 please, l suppose il il my own
fault" She went here and there for employ
ment. ana found none, and in desperation
anu IN qemenua she ended her life by suicide.
investigation was made and IL was found
that out OF her small means she had supported
her father. eighty years OF age, and was paw
Ing the way for her brother in Yale College
on ms way TO the ministry. 1t
was found that she had no blanket on
the e that winter. and she had no fire
on the very coolest day of all the
season. People found it out, and there was
\ large gathering at the funeral, the largest
over NJ any luncrai IN JnaL place.. ana the
very people who had scoffod came and looked
upon the pale face OF the martyr. and all
honor was done her; but IL was too late.
Vicarious sccrifice. All are thrilled with
such instan les as that. But many are not
moved by the fact that Christ paid His Dow.
erty for our riches, His ss~lf-abnegation for
our enthronement, and knelt on the sharp
edges OF humiliation that we might climb
over dis lacerated shoulder into peace and
heaven
Be it ours 20 admire and adore these doc
trines at which Others jeer. Oh the depths
OF the riches both OF tho wisdom and knowl-
edge OF Cod How unsearchable Is His wis
dom. and His ways are past finding outi Oh
the height, the depth, the length, the breadth,
the infnitY, the immensely, the eternity OF
that Lowell Let our earnest prayers go out
in behalf OF all those who scof at these doc
trines of grace. When the London plague was
raging in the year 1865, there was a hotel
near the chief burial Place that excited much
comment. England was in fright and be-
reavement. The dead carts went through
tho streets day and night. and the cry:
Bring out your dead" was answered by
the bringing out of the forms of the
loved ones, and they were put twenty
or thirty in a cart, and the wagons went
on TO the cemetery; and these lead were
not buried in graves, but IN great trenches,
IN great pits; in one pit eleven hundred and
fourteen burialsi The carts would come up
with their great burden of twenty or thirty
to the mouth of the pit. and the front OF the
cart was ltJeu ana tine dead shot into the Dit.
All the churches in London were open for
prayer day and night. aud England was in
great anguish. AT that very time at a
hotel, ct a wayside inn near the chief
b~urial-places, there was a group of
hardened men, who sat day after
day and night after night Disappearing God
and initiating the grief. struck who went by
TO the burial place. These men sat theredaY
alter day and night after night, and they
scoHed at mon, am they scoHe1 at women,
and they scoffed at Col. But after a while
one OF thcm was struck with the plague, and
in two weeks all OF the group were down in
the trench from the margin of which they had
uttered their ribaldry. Ny friends. a greater
plague is abroad in the world. Millions have
died OF It. Millions are smitten with it now.
Plague of sin, plague OF sorrow. plague OF
Indebtedness. plague OF woe. And conse-
Grated women and men from all C~hristendom
are going out trying TO stay the plague aud
alleviate the anguish, and there is a
group OF men In this country base
enough to sit and deride the work.
They GsoR at the Bible. and they scott
at evangelism, AMI they scott at Jesus
Christ, and they scof at God. IL these
words shall reach them, either while they are
sitting here to-day, or through the printing
OF that group in the wayside inn while the
plague spreads its two black wings over the
doomed city of London. oh, instead OF be-
ing scoTers let us be disciples! Blessed is
the man that waIkoth not in the counsel Of
the ungodly, nor staudeth in tho way OF sins
ners. nor sitted in the seat OF the scornful."