Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-14

the gate of mercy. II you could buy your
salvation. heaven would be a great specula-
ton. an extension OF Walt street. Bad men
would go up and buy out the place, AMI
leave us to shift for ourselves. But as money
is not lawful tender, Whist is! wiz
answer Bioodi Whose? Are we To go
through the slaughter? oh, no; 1t wants
richer blood than ours. 1t wants kings
blood. 1t must be poured from royal arteries
IL must be a sinless torrent. But where Is
the kinef
see a great many thrones and great
many occupants, yet none seem to be COM
ing down to the rescue. But after awhile the
clock of night in Bethlehem strikes IL, 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 Gov
cred hiKs AMI then on to another hill, this
last skull shaped, and there at the sharp
stroke of persecution, a rill incarnadlne
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 rare6ed AMI etherealized that
they do not want religion Of blood. What
do you wanty You seem to want religion
OF brains. The Bible says, ''In the blool is
the life" No atonemsnt without bloc
Ought not the apostle to know? What dill
he say? "Ys are redesned not with cor
ruptibls things, such as silver and gold, but
by the precious b!o)i of Clrist." You put
your lanceet into the arm OF our holy relig-
ion and Withdraw the blood, and you leave
it a mere corpse, fit only for t1e grave. why
did God command tbs priests OF old to strike
the knife into the kid, and the goat. and the
pigeon and the bullock, and the lamoy 1t
was so 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 intsnie1 to impress us
with viyidneSs of that color The green OF
the grass, the blue of the SKY, would not
have startled an aroused us like this deep
crimson. Ii is as il God had said: NOW,
sinner, wake up and see what the Saviour
endured for you. This is not water. This
is not wine. This is blood. 1t is the blood
Of NY Sou. 1t is the blood of the immacu-
late. 1t is the blood of God" Without the
shedding of blood is no remission. There
has been many a man who, in courts OF law,
has pleaded mot guilty" who nevertheless
has been condemned because there was bloo1
found on his hands or blood found in his
room. and what shall we do in the last dayit
it it be found that We have recruciiei the
it? You must believe in the blood Oh die:
No escape Unless you let the sacrifice OF
Jesus 60 in your stead you yourself must
suffer. 1t is either Christ'S blood or your
blood
"Oh." says some one. "the thought of
blood sicSens me-" Good. God intent31 1t
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 wera
A. = Thn.O H.
Elements were not made of steel AMI iron
and wood SO much as out OF your sins.
Guilty of this homicide. AMI this regicldA,
and this decide, confess your guilt to-1ay.
Ten thousand voices OF heaven bring i'll the
verdict against you Of guilty, guilty. Pre-
pare to die or believe in that blood Stretcn
Yourself out for the sacrifice or accept the
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 makes
is the tears of Christ at the tomb or Inn
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 heaven makes seems to be tho
whipped back of Pilates hall, but it is not
high enough price Can it be possible that
heaven cannot buy you in: Heaven tries
once more. It says: II bid this time for
that mans soul the fortunes OF Chrlsts mar
tyrdon, the blood on His temple, tina blood
on His cheek. ths blood on His chin the
blood on His hand, the blood on His side, the
blood on His knee, the blood on His foo:--She
blood in drops, the blool in rills, the bioo1 in
i pools coaguated beneath the cross; the blood
that wet the tips OF the soldiers spears, the
blood that plashsd warm in the face OF Ills
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 blooi The estranged property Is
brought back Take it. "You have sold
yourself for naught; and ye shall be re-
deemed without money" o atoning bloot,
cleansing blood, life giving blood, sanctity-
ing blood, gloritying blood OF Jesus! Why
not burst into tears at the thought that for
thee He shell it-for thee the hard hearted,
for thee the lost;
mo" says some one: 81 will have moth
ing TO do with it except that like the enc
mics of Christ put both my hands into
that carnage and scoop up both palms full,
and throw it on my head aud cry, Ills
blood be on us and on our children" eau
/ you do such a shocking thing as that? just
rub your handkerchief across your brow
and look at it, Il is the blood Of the Son OF
God whom you have despised aud driven
/ back all these years. Oh do not do that any
longer Come out boldly aud frankly and
honestly, ami 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 ouf,
and that Christ wants to buy you back
There are thres persons who come after you
to- iay-Go d the Father. God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost. They unite their three
omnipotences in One move nent for your sal
walton. You will not take up arms against
the triuno 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.
1 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 bloo] Carist. the sin offer
/ Ing bearing your trals5rsssions Ca rist,
the dlvine Cyrus loosening your Babylonish
captivity.
| Would You not like to be free? Here is
the price OF your liberation-lot money, but
blood. | tremble from hea to foot, not be.
cause l fear your presence. but because L
fear that you will miss your chance for i'm
mortal rescue. This is the alternative
divinely put HE that,bslieveth on the Son
shall have everlasting life; and he that be-
lieveth not on the Son shall not see life but
/ toe WRATH OF God abldeth on him." In the
last day, if you now reject Christ, every
drop OF that sacridcial blooi, instead Of
/ pleading for your release as it would have
/ PLEADED il you had repente1, will plead
against you.
! . Lord God of the Judgment day avert
} that calamity Let US sea the quick fash OF
/ the scimeter that slays the sin but saves the
/ sinner. Strike. omnipotent God, for the
souls deliverancel Beat o eternal seal
/ with all thy waves against the barren beach
J of that rocky soul and make it tremble. On,
/ the oppressive1ess OF the hour, the minute,
/ toe seconi on which the souls destiny
. quivers, and this is tlst hour, that minute,
: that second
; Some years ago there came down a fierce
storm on the se9cOsst, aud vessel got in
the breakers AMI was going to pieces. They
threw up some signal OF distress and the peo-
pc on shore saw them. They put out in a
ifeboat. They come on, and they saw the
poor sailors, almost exhausted, cliuging to a
raft; and 50 afraid werO the boatmen that
the men would give u before they got to
them they gave them three rounds Of cheers
and cried "Hold on, therel hold on Wen
save your After awhile the boat came up.
Ona man vvaa sava1 nv having the hOathOOk