The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-10

row, out the departed man appreciated no
the obsequies
/ want to persuade my audience that thi
world is poor Investment; that it does no
pay 80 per cent. of satisfaction nor so De
cent, nor 20 per cent, nor per cent no
!; that it gives no solace when dead bah
lies on your lap; that it gives no peace whe
conscience riggs its alarm; that it gives n
explanation in the day of dire trouble; ant
at the time Of your decease it takes hold o
the pilloW-case and shakes out the feathers
and then jolts down in the place thereo
signs, and groans, and excavations, and the
makes you put your head on it. Oh, We VIII
have tried this world is it satisfactor
portionl Would you advise your friends I
make the investment. No. aye have sol
yourselves for nought." Your conscienc
went. Your hope went. Your Bible went
Your heaven went. Your God went Whel
sheriff, under writ from the courts, sell
a man out, the officer generally leaves few
chairs and a bed, and few cups and knives
but in this awful vendue in which you have
been engaged the auctionesr's mallet ha;
come down upon body, mind aud soul;
Going Gone. "Ye have sold yourselves
for nought"
How could you do so9 Did you think that
your soul was a mere trlnket which, lot
few pennies, youcould buy IN toy shop
Did you think that your soul, II once IosS'
might be found again II you went ouG WIN
torches and lanternss Did you thlnk that
your soul was short-lived, and that, pant
ing. il would soon lie down for extinction!
Or had you no idea what your soul was
worth? Did you ever put your torenngers
on its eternal pulsesl Have you not felt the
culver Of its peerless wingsf Have you not
known that after leaving the body the first
step Of your soul reaches to the stars and
the next step to the farthest outposJs OF
nd n n a
the day when the everlasting Jehovah ex-
priest oh, my brother, what possessed you
that you should part with your soul so
cheap! rye have sold yourselves for
nought"
But have some good news to tell you.
/ want to engage 10 litigation for the re-
covery OF that soul OF yours l want TO
show that you have been cheated out Of 1t.
want to prove, as / will. that you were
crazy on that subject, and that the world,
under such circumstances, had no right to
take the title-dee from you; and If you
will Join me / shall get a decree from the
High Chancery Court Of heaven reinstating
you into the possession Of your soul. "Oh, "
you say, II am afFaid Of lawsuits; they are
30 expensive, and cannot pay the COST. "
Then have you forgotten the last half Of my
texts Eye have sold yourselves for nought
and ye shah be redeemed without money.
Money IS good for great many things,
but it can not do anything in this matter Of
the soul. You can not buy your way
through. Dollars and pounds sterling mean
nothing at the gate OF mercy. IL you could
buy your salvation, heaven would be great
speculation, an extension of Wall street.
Bad men would go up and buy out the
place, and leave us to shift for ourselves.
But as money is not lawful tender, what
fsf I will answer: Blood Whosel Are
we TO 60 through the slaughter oh, no; it
wants richer blood than ours. 1t wants
kings blood. 1t must be poured from royal
AfbeTies. Il must be q sinless torrent
But where is the king see a
great many thrones and q great many &C.
cupants, yet none seem to be coming down
TO the rescue. But after aw bile the clock
Of night ia Bethlehem strikes twelve. and
the silver pendulum of star swings across
che sky, and see the King Of Heaven ris-
ing up, and he descends, and steps down
from star to star, and from cloud TO cloud,
lower and lower, until he touches the sheep
covered hills, and then on to another hill,
this last skull shaped, and there, at the
sharp stroke OF persecution, rill incarna-
dine trickles down, and we who could not
be redeemed by money are redeemed by
precious and imperial blood.
We have in this day professed Christians
who are so rarehsd and aetherialiEed that
they do not want a religion of blood. What
do you want? You seem to want a religion
of brains. The Bible says: "In the blood
is the life" No atonement without blood
Ought not the apostle to knows What did
he sayl "Ye are redeemed not with cor
ruptlble things. such as silver and gold, but
by the precious blood of Christ" You put
your lancet into the arm of our holy re-
ligion and withdraw the blood and you
leave it a mere corpse, fit only for the grave.
Why did God command the priests of old to
strike the knife into the kid, and the goat,
and the pigeon, and the bullock, and the
lambs 1t was so that when the blood
rushed out from these animals on the floor
OF the ancient tabernacle the people should
be compelled to think Of the coming earn
age of the son of God. No blood, no atone
ment.
think that God intended to impress us
with q vividness of that color. The green
of the grass, the blue Of the sky, would not
have startled and aroused us Ike this deep
crimson. 1t is as if God had said: Now,
sinner, wake up and see what the Saviour
endured for you. This is not water This
Is not wfne. Il is blood. II is the blood of
my own Son. 1t is the blood of the
Immaculate. 1t is the blood of God.
Without the shedding Of blood is no re-
mission. There has been many a man who
10 courts of law has pleaded mot guilty )"
cause there was blood found on his hands.
or blood found in his room; and what shall
we do In the last day if it be found that we
have reeruoified the Lord of Glory and have
never repented ita You must believe in the
blood or die. No escape. Unless you let
the sacrifice Of Jesus 60 m your stead you
yourself must suffer. It is either Christ's
blood or your blood.
"Oh," says some one. "the thought of
blood sickens me-" Good. God intended it
90 sicken you with your sin. Do not act as
though you had nothing TO do with that
Calvarian massacre. You had. Your sins
were the implements of torture Those i'm
plements were not made OF steel, and iron,
and wood, so much as out of your sins.
Guilty of this homicide, and this regicide,
and this decide, confess your guilt to-day
Ten thousand voices of heaven bring in the
verdict against you Of guilty. guilty. Pre-
pare 10 die, or believe in that blood
Stretch yourself out for the sacrifice, or ac-
Dept the Saviors sacrifice. Do not fling
away your one chance.
It seems to me as if all heaven were
trying to bid in your soul. The first bid
il makes is the tears of Christ at the tomb
of Lazarus; but that is not a high enough
price. The next bid heaven maKes is the
sweat Of Gethssmane; but it is too cheap a
price. The next bid heaven makes seems
to be the whipped back Of Pilates hall; but
it 10 not high enough price. Can it be
possible that heaven cannot buy you in
Heaven tries once more. II says: 81 bid
this time for that mans soul the tortures
of Christ's martyrdom, the blood on his
temple, the blood on his cheek, the blood on
his chin, the blood on his hand, the blood on
his side, the blood on his knee, the blood on
his foot-the blood in drops, the blood
in rills, the blood in pools coagulated be-
meath the cross; the blood that wet the tip.
Of the soldiers spears, the blood that plashec