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the people should be compelled to think
of the coming carnage of the son OF
God. No blood no atonement.
/ think that God intended to impress
us with vividness of that color. The
green of the grass, the blue of the s. 1y,
would not have startled and aroused us
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. 1t is blood. 1t is the blood OF
My own Son. 1t is the blood of the I'M
maculate. 1t is the blood of God"
Without the shedding of blood is no re-
mission. There has been many man
who in courts of law has pleaded mot
guilty" who nevertheless has been con-
demned because 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 recruci-
fed the ord of glory and have never
repented it? You must believe in the
blood or die. No escape. Unless you
let the sacrifice of Jesus go i'll your
stead you must yourself suffer. 1t is
either Christ's blood oryour bleod.
''Oh," says some one, 1.-The thought of
block sicllens me-" Good. God intend
ed it to sicken you with your sin. Do
not act rs though you had nothing to
do with that Calvarian massacre. You
had. Your sins We're the implements
of torture. Those implements were not
made of steel, and iron, and wood, SO
much as out of your sins. Guilty of
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.
Prepare to die, or believe in that blood.
Stretch yourself out for the sacrifice or
accept the SaviouI''s sacrifice. Do not
fling away your one chance.
l do not know how you will get away
from this subject. You see that You
are sold out, and that Christ wants to
buy you back. There are three persons
who come after you to-day: God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Chest. They unite their three omnipo-
tences in one movement for your saliva
ton. You will not take up arms
against the Triune 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, 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. There is only one
hope for you, and that is the blood
Christ, the sin-offering, bearing your
transgressions. Christ, the surety, pay
ing your debts. Christ, the Divine Cy-
rus, loosening your Babylonish captiv-
ity.
Would you like to be free? Here is
the price of your liberation-not money,
but blood. | tremble from head to
foot, not because fear your presence,
but because 1 fear that you will miss
your chance for immortal rescue. This
is the alternative divinelyput: ''He that
believeth on the Son shall have ever
lasting life, and he that believeth not
on the Son shall not see life, but the
wrath of God abideth on him. In the
last day, if you now reject Christ, every
drop of that sacrifcial blood, instead OF
pleading for your release as it would
have pleaded if you had repented, will
plead against you.
o Lord God of the Judgment day
avert that calamity! Let us see the
quick flash of the cimeter that slays
the sin but saves the sinner. Strike
omnipotent God, for the souls deliver
ance! Beat, 0 eternal sea, with all
thy waves against the barren beach OF
that rocky soul and make it tremble
Oh! the Oppressiveness of the hour, the
minute, the second, on which the souls
destiny quivers, and this is that hour
that minute, that second!
Some years ago there came down g
fierce storm on the sea coast, and a
vessel got in the breakers and was go
ing to pieces. They threw up some sig
nal of distress and the people on shore
saw them. They put out in life.
boat. They came on, and they saw the
poor sailors, almost exhausted, cling
ing to a raft, and so afraid were the
DOiIhSn CidG GlG uGn WOulQ give uC
before they got to them, they gave them
three rounds of cheers, and cried
Hold on, there! hold on Wen save
your After awhile the boat came up.
One man was saved by having the boat
hook put in the collar of his coat, and
some in one way and some in another;
but they all got into the boat Now"
says the captain, ''for the shore.
Pull away now, pullT' The peo-
pie on the land were afraid the
lifeboat had gone down. They said:
'How long the boat stays. Why,
it must have been swamped and they
have all perished together" And there
were men and women on the pier-headS
and on the beach wringing their handsI
and while they watched and watched,
they saw something looming up through
the mist, and it turned out to be the
lifeboat, AS soon as it came
within speaking distance the people on
the shore cried out: Ibid you save
any of them? Did you save anv
of them?" And as the boat swept
through the boiling surf and came to
the pier-head, the captain waved his
hand over the exhausted sailors that Law
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