The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26

when the everlasting JehoVan expires! va,
my brother, what possessed you that you
should part with your soul so cheap? "ie
have sold yourselves for naught."
But have some good news to tell you.
want to engage In litigation for the recoV-
cry Of that soul of yours l want 70 snow
that YOU have been cheated out OF 1t. l want
to prove, as 1 will, that you were crazy on
that subject, and that the world, under sucn
circumstances, had no right to take the tltls
deed from you; and if you will join me shan
get decree from the High Chancery Court
Of Heaven reinstating you IN the possession
of your soul. ''Oh," you say, Il am afraid
Of lawsuits; they are so expensive, and can
not pay the cost" Then have you forgotten
the last half Of my text? ''Ye have sold
yourselves for naught; and ye shall be re-
deemed without money"
Money is good for a great many things.
but it cannot do anything in the matter OF
the soul. You cannot buy your way through.
Dollars and pounds sterling mean notninSa at
the gate Of mercy. If you could ouy your
ton. an extension Of Wall street. Bad men
would 90 up and buy out the place, AMI
leave us to shift for ourselves. But as money
is not a lawful tender, what IS? Will
answer BlocdI Whose? Are we to 20
through the slaughter? Oh, no; it wants
richer blood than ours. 1t wants kings
blood. It must be poured from royal arterieS.
1t must be q sinless torrent. But "nere Is
the king9
many occupants, yet mona seam to be COM
ing down to tn rescue. Bat after awhile tho
clock Of night in Bethlehem strikss II, AMI
the silver pendulum OF a star swings across
thesSy, and sss thu King Of Heaven rising
UP, and He descsnds and steps down from
star to star, and from cloud to cloud, lower
and lower, until He touches the sheep COW
cred hills, aud then on to another hill, this
last skull Shapsd, and thera at thu sharp
stroke Of persecution, rill incaraaiins
tricxles down, ami we who could not os
redeemed by money are redesnsi by precious
and imperial blood.
We have in this day professsl Christians
who are so rareis1 AMI eth erealizs1 that
they do not want religion Of blool. What
do you want9 You seem to want religion
ofbraius. The Bible says, "Ia thu bloo is
the life" No atolsnsnt witholt bloot:
Ought not the apostle to kaoR? What did
he say? "Ye are reles n,i not with CDR.
rupt;5le things, such as silver an l gold. but
by the precious b.oo1 of Carist." You put
your lancslet into the arm OF our holy relig-
ion and withdraw tae blooi, all YOU leava
it a mere corpse, fit only for the grave. Why
did God command thu priests Of old to striko
the knife into tue kid, al thu goat, AMI the
pigeon, and the bullock, AMI the lamo? 1t
was 50 that when the bio II rushed out from
these animals on the floor Of the ancient
tabernacle the people should be conpelle to
think Of the coming carnage OF the Son OF
God. No blood. no atonemsnt.
think that Col intsn lei to impress us
with vividness of that color. The greea Of
thu grass, thu blue Of the SKY, would not
have startled an arous,i us like this deep
crimson. 1t is as il God hal said: Now,
sinner, wake up anil sea what thu Saviour
endured for you. This is MT water. This
is not wine. This is blood. 1t is thu blood
of My Son. 1t is the blooi of thu imnacu-
late. 1t is the bloc of Col" Without the
shedding of blood is no remission. There
has been many man who, in courts OF law,
has pleaded mot guilty" woo nsver5h eles5
has been condenuei because there was blool
found on his hands or blood found in his
room, and what SHALL We DO in the last day il
it it be found that va have recrucillei the
Lord Of Glory aa1 have never Tepented OF
it, You must believe in the blood or die:
No escape. Unless you let tn. sacrifice OF
Jesus 60 in your stead you yourself must
suffer. 1t is either Christ'S blood or your
blood.
''Oh," says some one ''ths thought Of
blood sickens me-" Good. God inten1sd it
to sicken you with your sin. Do not act as
though you had nothing to do with that CAL
varian massacre. You had. Your sins were
the implements of torture Those i'm
plements were not made Of steel aud iron
and wood so much as out Of your sins.
Guilty of this honici le, aud this reglcide,
and this decide, confess your guilt to-day.
Ten thousand voices Of heaven bring in the
verdict against you of guilty. guilty! Pre-
pare to die or believe in that blood. Stretch
yourself out for the sacrifice or accept the
Saviour's sacrifice. Do not fling away your
one chance.
1t seams to me as if all heaven were tr->
ing to bid in your soul. Ths first bill it maEes
is the tears of C'.rist at the tomb Of L1za-
rus, but that is not high enough Srice
The next bid heaven makes is the sweat Of
Gethsemane, butit Is too caesp pFice. The
next bid heaven makes s5s1n5 to be the
whipped back of Pilates hall, but it is not a
high enough price. Can it bs possible that
heaven cannot buy you in? Heaven tries
once moro. 1t says: 81 bid this time for
that mans soul the tortures OF ChrlsSs mar
tyrdom, the blood on His temple. thu blood
on His cheek, thu blood on His chin, the
blood on His hand, the blood on His side, the
blood on His knee the blood on His fooS-the
blood in drops, the blool in rills, the blood in
pools coagulated beneath the cross; the blood
that wet the tips Of the sol1iers' spears, tn,
blood that plashs1 warm in the face OF His
enemies"
Glory to God, that bid wins it! The high.
est price that was ever paid for anything
was paid for your soul. Nothing could buy
it but bloodl The estrangsi property is
brought back. Take it. you have sold
yourself for nausht; and ye shall be re-
cleansing blood, life giving blool, sauctify-
ing blood, glorifying blooi of Jesus! Why
not burst into tears at the thou yht that for
thee He she it-for thee thu hard hearted,
for thee the lost9
"No," says some one; 81 will have moth
ing to do with it except that. like the eae-
mics Of Christ, pat bota my hands into
that carnage aud scoop up both palms full,
and throw it on my head and cry, "His
blood be on us and on our children1" Can
you do such shocking thing as thatS Just
rub your handkerchief across your brow
and look at it. 1t is the blood of ths Son Of
back all these years. Oh, do not do that any
longer! Come out boldly and frankly and
honestly, and tell Christ you are sorry. You
cannot afford TO so roughly treat Him upon
whom everything depends.
do not know how you will get away from
this subject. You see that you are sold out,
an that Christ wants to buy you back.
There ara three persons who come after you
to- lay-God the Father. God the Son and
God ths Holy Ghost. They unite their three
oAnipotencss in one movement for your SAL
walton. You will not take up arms against
the triuns God, will you: Is there enough
muscle in your arm for such a combat? BY
the highest throne in heaven, and by the
deepest chasm in hell, 1 beg you look out.
Unless you allow Christ to carry away your
sins, they will carry you away. Unless you
allow Christ to lift you up, they will drag
you down. Thsre is only oas hope for you,
and that is the bloo1. Christ. the sin offer.