Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-10

selves. But as money Is not lawf'
! tender. what ISL | will answer, Blood
Whosef Are we to go through th
sIaughteri oh. no; II wants richie
blood than ours. II wants a king
blood. II must be poured from roys
arteries. It must be a sinless torrent
Bat where is the kingi | see grea
many thrones and a great many occu
pants. yet none seem TO be comm
down to the rescue But after awhil
the clock OF night in Bethlehem strike
twelve, and the silver pendulum Of
star swings across the sky, and see tn
king OF heaven rising up, and he de
scends. and steps down from star e
star, and from cloud to cloud, lowe
and lower. until he touches the sheer
covered hills. and then on TO another
hill. this last skull shaped and there
at the sharp stroke Of persecution, ril
incarnadine triclxles down, and we who
could not be redeemed by money are
redeemed by precious and imperial
blood.
NO BLOOD. so AToNEMENr
We have In this day professed Chris
tians who are so rarefed and ethereal
lied that they do not want a religion
Of blood. What do you wantf You
seem to want religion of brains The
Bible says. I'm the blood is the life. "
No atonement without blood. Ought
not the apostle TO knowl What did he
say2 "Ye are redeemed not with cor
ruptible things, such as silver and gold,
but by the precious blood of Christ. "
You put your lancet into the arm Of
our holy religion and withdraw the
blood, and you leave it a mere corpse,
fit only for the grave. Why did God
command the priests of old to strike
the knife into the kid, and the goat,
and the pigeon. and the bullock, and
the lamb2 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 God intended to impress
us with a vividness of that 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 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
s blood. 1t is the blood of my own Son.
Il is the blood of the Immaculate. 1t is
he blood of God" Without the she'd
ling of blood is no remission. There
las been many a man who in courts of
aw has pleaded mot guilty" who
nevertheless has been condemned be-
ause there was blood found on his
lands, or blood found in his ROOM
And what shall we do in the last day if |
t be found that we have recrucified |
he Lord of Glory and have never re-
,ented of itl You must believe in the
blood or die. No escape. Unless you
ct the sacrifice of Jesus go in your
tead you yourself must suffer. 1t is
,ither Christ's blood or your blood.
"Oh," says some one, Thought of |
,lood sickens me-" Good God in
ended it to sicken you with your sin.
Do not act as though you had nothing |
o do with that Calvarian massacre.
1ou had. Your sins were the imple-
nents of torture. Those implements |
we're not made of steel and iron and !
4 IF Gin
iuilty of this homicide, and this regi-
de, and this decide, confess your
,uilt today. Ten thousand voices of
heaven bring in the verdict against you
# guilty, guilty, Prepare to die, or
believe in that blood. Stretch your
ielf out for the sacrifice, or accept the
Saviour's sacrifice. Do not fling away
your one chance.
IL seems to me as If all heaven were
trying to bid in your soul. The first
bid it makes is the tears of Christ Mt
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 price.
The next bid heaven makes seems to be
the whipped back OF Pilates hall; but
Il is not high enough price. Can it
be possible that heaven cannot buy you
int Heaven tries once more. 1t says;
II 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 on 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 be
meath the cross; the blood that wet the
tips of the soldiers spears, the blood
that FLASHED warm in the faces of his
enemies.
Glory TO God, that bid wins it Tn,
highest price that was ever paid fol
anything was paid for your soul. Moth
ing could buy it but blood The es
tranged property is bought back. TAX,
il. "le have sold yourselves for naught
and We shall be redeemed without
money! O atoning blood, cleansing
blood, life giving blood, sanctiiyins
blood, gloriiying blood of Jesusl VIII.
not burst into tears at the thought thai
for thee lac shed it--for thee che har(
hearted, for thee the lost
HIS BLOOD BR ON Us
mo" says some one; II win hav'
nothing 60 do with II except that lik'
tho enemies OF Christ, put both m.
hands into that carnage and scoop al
both palms full, and throw il ON m,
head and cry, His blood be ON ms AM
ON our childrenr" Can you do sucl
a shocking thing as thatl just RAJ