The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-08-13
Cheated by the World
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down 10 the rescue But after awhile
the clock Of night in Bethlehem strikes
twelve, and the silver pendulum OF a
star swings across the sky, and / see the
king Of heaven rising up, and he de
soends, and steps down from star to
star, and from cloud 10 cloud, lower
and lower, until he touches the sheep
covered hills, and then OH to another
hill. this last skull shaped. and there,
at the sharp stroke of persecution, rill
lncarnadine trickles down, and we who
could not be redeemed by money are
redeemed by precious and imperial
blood
NO BLOOD, 40 ADJOURNMENT
We have In this day professed Chris
tians who are 50 rareiled and ethereal
of blood. What do you wantl You
seem to want a religion of brains. The
Bible says, In the blood is the life. F"
No atonement without blood. Ought
not the apostle to know' What did he
sayi Eye are redeemed not with cor
ruptible things, such as silver and gold.
but by tho precious blood of Christ. "
You put your lancet into the arm OF
our holy religion and withdraw the
blood, and you leave it a mere corpse,
at only for tie grave. Why did God
command the priests of old to strike
the knife into the kid, and the goat,
and the pigeon, md the bullock, and
the lamb2 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 carnage of the Son
Of God No blood, DO atonement
think that God intended to impress
Us with vividness of that color. The
green of the grass, the blue of the sky,
would not have startled and aroused III
like 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 wine. II
Is blood. It is the blood of my own Son
1t is the blood Of the immaculate Iii.
the blood of God" Without the shed
ding of blood is no remission. There
has been many q man who in courts o.
law has pleaded mot guilty" wht
nevertheless has been condemned be
cause there was blood found on hi
hands, or blood found in bis room
And what shall we do In the last day i
it be found that we have recruclfiet
the Lord of Glory and have never ne
pented of itl You must believe In tn
blood or die No escape Unless 20,
let the sacrifice Of Jesus go in you
stead you yourself must suffer. 1t /
either Christ's blood or your blood.
"Oh," says some one, Thought o
blood sickens me-" Good. God in
tended it to sicken you with your sin
Do not act as though you had nothin
to do with that Calvarian massacre
You had. Your sins were the imple
ments of torture. Those implement
were not made of steel and iron an
wood, 80 much as out of your sins
Guilty of this homicide, and this reg
eide, and this decide, confess you
guilt today. Ten thousand voices {
heaven bring in the verdict against 20
of guilty, guilty. Prepare to die, c
believe in that blood. Stretch you
self ont for the sacrifice, or accept til
Saviours sacrifice. DO not ming ava
your one chance.
1t seems to me as if all heaven wei
trying to bid in your SOUL The fir
bid it makes is the tears of Christ ,
the tomb of Lazarus; but that is not
high enough price The next b
heaven makes is the sweat OF Get
semane; but it is too cheap a pric
The next bid heaven makes seems to
l the whipped back of Pilates hall; b.
a it is not high enough price Can
be possible that heaven cannot buy-yt
inG Heaven tries once more. 1t say
' II bid this time for that mans soul Il
: fortunes of Christ's martyrdom, Il
blood ON his temple, the blood on |
cheek, the blood on his chin, the blo<
\ on bis hand, the blood on his side, d
X blood on his knee, the blood on /
# foot-the blood in drops, the blood
+ rills, the blood in pools coagulated /
meath the cross; the blood that wet &
tips of the soldiers spears, the bio,
= that FLASHED warm in the faeea OF
" enemies"
q Glory to God, that bid wins it'll T
:. highest price that was ever paid
" anything was paid for your soul. Not
= ing could buy it but blood. The
r. tranged property is bought back. To
o It, "Ye have sold yourselves for naugf
and ye shall be redeemed witho
money" O atoninR blood, cleansi
blood, life giving blood, sanctifyi
blood, clarifying blood of Jeeusl W
not burst into tears at the thought tt
ia for thee he shed it-for thee the ha
3 hearted, for thee the loete
" HIS BLOOD BIZ ON US.
rs NO" says some one; II will la
N nothing to do with it except that, Il
-. the enemies of Christ, put both =,
hands into that carnage and scoop
l. both palms full. and throw it on
ie head and cry, His blood be on us a
Us on our childrenr" Can you do So
III shocking thing as that3 Just =
n your handkerchief across your b1
er and look at it. 1t is the blood of
70 Son OF God whom you have despil
a and driven back all these years.
20. do not do that any longerl Come
~ IDLY and frankly and honestly, o
ha vi CirI< you are sorry. You canl
y, .NTd TO 30 roughly treat him ur
be -ii"n everything depends
ON 40 not know how you will get av
eI rom this subject. You zee that J
no are sold cat, and that Christ wants
M buy you back. There are three r
ise sons who come after you today-G
to the Father, God the Son, and God
en- Holy Ghost. They unite their til
ri omnipotences In one movement
it your salvation. You will not take
on arms against the triune God, will y
est Is there enough muscle In your arm
of such combat BY the highest thr