The Red Cloud chief., 1891-08-21

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NO peace whom ccpscjsncs rings IN
alarm; thss Il gives nosexplanstion in
b day Of dire. trouble; and 1t the time
OF your decesse It takes hold Of the
pillow case, and shakes out the feath-
era, and then jolts down In the
place thereof signs, and groanA,
and execrations, and then makes you
put your head on It o. 20 who have
tried this world. is Il . satisfactory Dor.
ton? Would You advise your friends
to make the investment? No. "Ye
have sold yourselves for nought" Your
conscience went Your hope went
Your Bible went Your Heaven went
Your God went When . sheriff under
. writ sells q man out, the officer gen.
orally leaves q few chairs and a bed
and a few cups and knives, but in this
awful vendue in which you have been
engaged the suctioneer's mallet has
come down upon body. mind and soul:
Going! Gone! Eye have sold your
selves for nought."
How could You do so? Did you
think that your soul was . mere trinket
which for q few pennies you could buy
in q toy shop2 Did you think that your
soul, il onc lost might be found again
II you went out with torches and Ian
terms? Did you think that your soul
wal too short lived and that painting,
it would soon lie down for extinction?
Or had you no idea what your soul wa
worth? o. my brother, what possessed
you that you should part with your
soul SO cheap? "Ye have sold your
selves for nought."
But ] have some good news to tell
you want to engage in q litigation
for the recovery Of that soul of yours
I want to show that you have been
cheated out of it. want TO prove. as
I will, that you were crazy on that sub
ject. and that the world, under such
circumstances, had no right to take the
title deed from You; and IL you will
Join me I shall get a decree from the
High Court of Heaven reinstating you
into the possession Of your soul.
Money is good for a good many
things, but it cannot do anything in
this matter Of the soul You cannot
buy your way through. Dollars and
pounds sterling mean nothing at the
gate of mercy. II you could buy your
salvation, Heaven would be a 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, IL money is not the
lawful tender, what is? will answer:
Blood! Whose? Are we to go through
the slaughter? o, no; it was a richer
blood than ours II wants a kings
blood. 1t must be poured from royal
arteries. 1t must be a sinless torrent.
But where is the king? ] see a
great many thrones and a great many
occupants, yet none seem to be coming
down to 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
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 skullshaped, and there at
the sharp stroke of persecution a rill
incarnadine trickles down, and we who
could not be redeemed by money are
redeemed by precious and imperial
blood.
We have in this day professed Chris
tians who are so rarefied and ethereal
lied 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 know? What did he say?
"Yc are redeemed not with corruptible
things, such as silver and gold, but by
the precious blood Of Christ" No
blood. no atonement
/ think that God intends to impress
us with a vividness Of hat color. The
green of the grass, the blue Of the sky.
would not have startled and aroused
us like this deep crimson. 1t is as il
God had said: NOW. sinner, wake up
and sec what the Saviour did for you.
This Is not water. This Is not wine. It Is
blood. 1t is the blood OF My own Son.
Ii is the blood of the immaculate. 1t
| is the blood of God" Without the she'd
| ding Of blood there is no re-
mission. There has been many
a man who in courts OF law
has pleaded mot guilty" who neverthc-
| less has been condemned because there
was blood found on his hands or blood
| found in his room. and what shall we
do in the last day il 1t be found that we
have ~recrucifed the Lord Of Glory and
have never repented of it? 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.
Guilty Of this homicide. and this regi-
eide. 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 be-
lieve in that blood Stretch yourself
out for the sacrifice or accept the Sa-
viour's sacrifice. Do not fling away
your n chance.
1t seems 70 me as II all Heaven were
trying to Did in your soul. The first
bid il makes Is the tears Of Christ and
the tomb Of Lazarus, but that is not a
high enough price. The next bid
Heaven makes Is the sweat of Geth-
semane, but it is too cheap aprice. The
next bid Heaven makes seems to be
the whipped back Of Pilates hall. but
il is not a high enough price. Can
it be possible hat Heaven cannot buy
you in? Heaven tries once more.
IL says: IL bid this time for that
mans soul the fortunes 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 IN 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 beneath the cross: the
blood that wet the tips Of the soldiers
spears, the blood that splashed warm
in the faces Of His enemies" Glory
to God. that bid wins it! The highest
price that was ever paid for anything
was paid for your soul Nothing could
buy Il but blood! The cstranged prop
erty is bought back. Take it. ''You
have sold yourselves for nought; and
We shall be redeemed without money!"