Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-08-15
1 see . great many thrones and rres,

stroke of persecution, rill incarnadiue
trickles down, and we who could not be-
| redeemed by money are redeemed by precious
and imperial blood.
/ We have in this day profeSsel Christians
/ who are SO rarefied and etherealized that
they do not want a religion of blood What
/ do you want? You seem to want religion
Of brains. This Bible says 'sIu the blood is
/ the life" M atolemsnt without bloo1
/ Ought not the apostle to know What did
4 hs say2 ''Ie are redes ned not with cor
i ruptIole things, such as silver and gold, but
/ by the precious BOIL of Christ" You put
/ your Iancset into ths arm of our holy relig-
/ ion and withdraw the blood, and you leave
It mere corpse, fit only for the grave. Why
4 did tod command the priests of old to strike
+ the knife into the kid, aul the goat. and the
/ pigeon, and the bullock, and the lamb? 1t
/ was so that when the bio ID rushed out from
/ these animals on the floor of the ancient
+ tabernacle the people should be compelled to
/ THINK OF the co Mug carnage of the Son of
! God. No blood, no atonemsat.
think that Col inteu lei to impress us
with "a vividness OF that coior The green Of
+ tae grass the blue of the SKY, would not
/ have startled ain arolssl us like this deep
crimson. II is as il God hal saiJ: Nov,
sinner, wake up AMI sac what the Saviour
endure Tor vol This Is not water This
/ is no. wine. ras is blool. It is the blood
Of My Sou. 1t is the bloli of the im nacu-
late. 1t is the blool of God" Without ths
4 shedding of blood is no remission There
+ has been many a man who, in courts of law,
has plea led mot guilty. WAC nevertheless
has been condemned because there was bloc
found on his hands or blool found in his
room, and what shall we do in the last day if
/ Il it be found that we have recrucifsi the
Lord OF Glory and have never repeIted of
it2 You must believe in the blool OF die.
! No escape. Unless you let the sacrifice of
Jesus go in your stead you yourself must
suffer. 1t is either Christs blood or your
blood
''Oh," says some one, ''the thought of
blood sicxens me-" Good. God INTENDED it
to sicken you with your sin. Do not act as
though you had nothing TO do with that Cat
varian massacre. You had. Your sins were
the implements of torture. Those i'm
plenents were not made of steel AMI iron
and wood SO much as out of your sins.
/ Guilty of this homicide an1 this regicide,
AMI this decide, confess your guilt today.
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
I Saviour's sacrifice. Do not fling away your
one chance.
1t seems to me as if all heaven were try
ing to bid in your soul. The first bid it m axes
( is the tears of Christ at the tomb of Laza-
rus, but that is not high enough price.
The next bid heaven makes is the sweat of
Gethsemane. but it is too cheap price. The
next bid hsaven makes seems to be the
whipped back of Pilates hail. but it is not
high enough price. Can it be possible that
heaven cannot buy you in, Heaven tries
{ once more. It saws: II bid this time for
that mans soul the fortunes of Christs mar
tyrdom, the blood on His temple, the blood
on His cheek, the 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 bloc / in rills the blood in
pools coagulated beneath the cross; the blood
that wet the tips of the soldiers spears, the
blood that plashsd warm in the face of His
enemies"
Glory to God, that bid wins it The high
est price that ever paid for anything
was paid for your soul Nothing could buy
it but bloodl The estranged property is
brought back Take it. "You have sold
yourself for naught; and ye shall be re-
deemed without money" o atoning blood,
cleansing blood, life giving blood, sanctify-
ing blood, gloritying blood Of Jesus! Why
not burst into tears at the thought that for
thee He shed it-for thee the hard hearted,
for thee the lost?
NO" says some one; Il will have moth
ing to do with it except that, like the ene-
mics of Christ, | put both my hands into
that carnage and scoop up both palms full,
aud throw it on my head aud cry, 'Bis
blood be on us and on our childreno Can
you do such a shocking thing as thatg just
rub your handkerchief across your brow
aud look at it, 1t is the blood of the Son of
God whom you have despised aud driven
back all these years Oh, do not do that any
longerl 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
and tn
There are three persons who come after YOU
to- lay-God the Father. God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost. They unite their three
omnipoteacss in Que move nent for your sal
Tation. You will not take up arms against
tle triuGe God, will yous Is there enough
muscle in your arm for such a combat By
the highest throne in heaveu and by the
deepest chasn 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,
an that is the bloo1. Christ, the sin Offer,
ing, bearing your tra1sgressioas. Gin rist,
the divine Cyrus, ioosening yoar Babylonish
captivity.
Would you no. like to be free? Here is
the price Of your libaration--lot money, but
blood | trenble from hea to foot, nos be-
cause fear your presence but because |
fear that You will miss your chance for i'm
mortal rescue. This is the alterna tive
dvineiy put, He that bslieveth on the Son
shall have everlasting life; aud he that be-
leveth not on the Son SHALL not see life, but
the wrath of God abideth on him" In the
last dav, if you now reject Christ every
drop of thlt sacriici1l blool instead of
pleading for your release as it would have
PLEADED if you hal rspants1 win pleal
against you.
Lord God of tde judgment day avert
that calamity Let Us see the quick flash of
1ata -la 80,
sinner. Strike, omuipoten5 God, for the
sours deliverance Beat, o eternal sea
with all thy waves against the barren beach
of that ROCKY soul AMI make it tremble. Oh,
the oppressive1ess of the hour, the minute,
the secoa1 on which the souls destiny
quvers, AMI this is thlt hour, that minute,
that second!
Some years ago there came down a fierce
storm on the seacoast, and vessel got in
the breakers AMI was going to pieces. They
threw up soma signal of distress and the peo-
pie on shJrA saw then. Thcy put out in a
lifeboat. They come on, and they saw the
poor sailors, almost exhausted clinginI to a
raft; and so afraid were ths boatmen that
the men wo1l1 give " bsfore they got to
them they gave the N thres rounds of cheers,
and cried; ''ttnl on, there! hold on! Wen
save your After awhile the boat came up.
One man was saved by having the boathook
put in the collar o. his coat ani sonsln one
way an sona in another but they all got
into tle boat Now" says the captain, FOR
the shore Pull away now pallp
The people on the land vera afraid the
lifeboat had gone down. They said: How
long the boat stays. Why, it must have
been swampsi an they have all persisted
together" Aud there were men and wo-
men on the pier head sand on the beach wiring
Ing their han Is; and waile they waitel and
watched they saw so netting looming u
through the mist, and it turned out to be the
lifebolt, As soon as it cane within speak
ing distance the people on the shore cried
out. did you I've any of tdem9 Did You
save auy of tham?' And as tho boat swept
through the boiling surf AMI came tt the
pier head the captain waved his h1n1 over
the exhausted sailors that lay fat Oh the bot
tom OF thu boat AM cried: IAN savef!
Thank God All s4velm
So it may be to-day. The waves of your
sin run high, the storm is on you, but cheer
you with this Gospel hope. God grant that
within the mex ten minutes we may row
with you into tia hlrbor OF Gods mercy.
And when these Christian men gather around
to see the result of this service, and the
glorifie1 gathering on the pier heads of
heaven to watch and to listen, may we be
able to report all saved, Young and old,
good and bad All save1l Saved for time
Saved for eternity. And so it came to pass
that they all escaped safe to land"
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