Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-08-21


which you have been engaged the auction
GERS mallet has come down upon body. mind
and soul-soingi gonel "Ye have sold
yourselves for naught."
How could you do sol Did you think that
your soul was a mere trinket which for few
pennies you could buy in a toy shopi Did
hhiIgnt De FOUND agai1 II you went out with
torches and lanterns, Did you think that
your soul was. short lived, and that painting.
you would soon lie down for extinction or
had you no idea what your soul was WORTH
Did you ever put your forednzers on its
eternal pulsest Have you not felt the culver
OF its peerless wing' Have you not known
that after leaving tn , body, tue first step of
your soul reaches to ths stars, anl the next
step to the farthest outposts Of Gods uni
verse, and that 1t will not die until the day
when the everlasting Jehovah expires' Oh,
my brother, what possessed you that you
should part with your soul SO cheapi "Ye
have sold yourselves for nauSht"
But have some good news to tell you. L
want to engage in a litigation for the recov-
cry of that soul of yours. | want TO show
that you have been cheated out Of it. | 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
deed from you; and II you will join me shall
get decree from the High Chancery Court
|
OF YOUR soul "Oh," you say, 81 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 1t cannot do anything in the matter OF
the soul. You cannot buy your way through
| Dollars and pounds sterling inean nothing at
| ba IN oR CDuI
salvation, heaven would BE- great specula-
tion an extension of Wall street. Bal men
would go up and buy out the place, AMI
| leave US TO shift for ourselves But as money
Is not n lawful tender, what Is? l Will
answer Blood Whose2 Are We to go
through the slaughter? OF, no; 1t wants
richer blood than ours 1t wants kings
blood 1t must be poured from royal arteries.
1t must be sinless torrent. But where is
the kinGi
see a great many thrones and a great
many occupants, yet mona seem 10 he COM
ing down to tn rescue. But after awhile the
clock of night in Bethlehem strikes II, and
the silver pendulum Of a star swings across
the SKY, and sac the King OF Heaven rising
up, and He descenis aud steps down from
star to star. and from cloud to cloud lower
and lower, until He touches the sh,ep cov-
cred hills AMI then on ID another hill, this
last skul! SHAPED, AMI thara at the sharp
stroke OF persecution, a rill incarnaiine
trickles dowh, an1 we who could not be
redeemed by monev are redeemed by precious
| and imperial blood
We have in this day proteSsei Christians
who are SO rareicd an etherealizel that
they do not want a religion Of blood What
do you want? EO1 sem to want a religion
OF brains The Bible says, "ln tle blool is
the life No atoaen,nt without blooi.
Ought not the apostle to knoS' What did
he say? "Hs are re- les nsl not with cor
ruptiOle things such "a silver and gold, but
by the precious boDl of Clrlst." You put
your laucalet into the arm OF our holy relig-
ion and withdraw the blooi, AMI you leave
tamere corpse, fit only for the grave. Why
did Got command thu priests Of oil TO strike
the knife into the kid and the goat, and the
pigeon, and the bullock, and tho lambI 1t
was 80 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. no atonement.
| think that Col inten lie 70 Impress US
with vividness Of that color. The green OF
the grass the blue OF the sky, would not
have startled AMI aroused us like this deep
crimson. 1t is as il God had said: Now,
sinner, wake up an1 see what the Saviour
endured for you. This IS not water. This
is not wine. This is blood. 1t is the blood
Of My Son. 1t is the blood Of the imnacu.
late. 1t is the booi of God" Without the
shedding of blool is no remission. There
has been many man who, in courts Of law,
has pleaded mot guilty" who nevertheless
has been condemuei because there was blood
found on his hands or blood found in his
room, and what shall we do in the last day II
it it be found that we have recrucifel the
Lord Of Glory aud have never repented OF
1t? You must believe in the blood or die
No escape. Unless you let the sacrifice OF
Jesus go in your stead you yourself must
suffer. 1t is either Christ's blood or your
, blood
"Oh," SAYS some one 'the thought OF
blood sickens me" Good. God INTENDED it
to scken 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 ani iron
{ and wood so much as out OF your sins.
I Guilty of this ho niciie and this regicide
, | aud this decide confess your guilt to-day.
I Ten thousand voices of heaven bring i'll the
verdict against you OF guilty. guilty Pre-
[ | pare 10 die or believe In that blood. Stretch
I | yourself out for the sacrifice or accept the
] Saviour's sacrifice Do not fling away your
one chance.
4 1t seems to me as il all heaven were try
I ing to bid in your soul. The first bid it makes
is the tears OF Christ at tho tomb of LaZl-
v
1 The next bid heaven makes is the sweat of
. Gethsemane but it is too cheap price. The
| next bid heav III makes seems to be thl
, whipped back OF Pilates hall, but it is not a
n high enough prica. Can it be possible that
/ heaven cannot buy you inf Heaven tries
;, once more. 1t says: IL bid this time for
n that mans soul the tOrtures of Christs mar
a tyrdom, the blood on His temple, the blooi
y on His cheek, the bod on His chin, tht
% blood on His hand, the blood on His side, tht
4 blood on His knee the blood on His foo.--th,
A blood in drops, ths bloc in rills, the blooi il
/, pools coagulated beEclu the cross the bloc
ia that wet the tips OF the soldiers spears tn,
r blood that plashel warm in tho face OF Hi
!, enemies"
l. Glory to God, that bid wins it! The high
y est price that was ever paid for anytime
!. was paid for your soul. Nothing could bu
n it but blood! The estrange1 property i,
a brought back Take it. You have sol,
@ yourself for nauSht; and ye shall DO re
d deemed without money atoning bloc
d cleansing blood, lie giving blo)1, sancttty
ing blood, gloriiying blooi OF Je5usl VIII
It not burst into tears at the thought that 10
|, thee He shell it-for thee the hard hearter
d for thee the lost?
y "No," says some one; ~ will have notl
z ing to do with it except that like the en-
d mics OF Christ | put both my hands int
Is that carnage aud scoop up both palms full
10 and throw 1t on my head and cry, "H
a blood be on us and ON our childrenn" Ca
It you do such a shocking thing as thatY Ju
d rub your handkerchief across your bro
d aud lool; ut it. 1t is the blood OF the Son
is God whom you have despised and drive
l. back all these years, Oh, do not do that AT
5, longer! Come out boldly and frankly au
a honestly, and tell Christ you are sorry. Yc
1t cannot afford TO so roughly treat Him upC
whom everything depends.
is l do not know how you Will get away FRO
,t this subject You see that you are sold ou
Or and that Christ wants to buy you bac
or There are three persons who come after y,
20 to-1ay-God tho Father God the Son al
it God the Holy Ghost. They unite their thr
is omnipotences in one movement for your 81