Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-15
FAIR AS THE Moon
Clear as the Sun and Terrible
as an Army
WITH BANNERS IN the CHURCH
OF cnsist-Tz-mass Tells Of rs Wond=f-
~. March in his Eloqueas sermon
Sos me Week.


Loxsos, Aug. l4-Rey. Or. Talmage's
European preaching tour - drawing to
einse- During the week he has
preached tAxss or foax times in different
cities. following oot the programme
already announced, and everywhere
meeting large and enthusiastic audi
ences. THIS w-ek he speaks at Leeds,
Bradford. shefSsld AMI Derby The
subjecs chosen for today Is Useful
6nfforins." the tsxs taken being Luke
xiv, rs, 1t beloved Christ to suffer.
There have been scholars who have
ventuTod the assertion that the ps1.ns OF
our Lord were unnecessary. Indeed IL
Wa . shocking waste Of tears and blood
and agony. unless scrps great end were
70 Do reached. liz uesI can prove that
no good result comes Of it. then the
character Of 0fod is irnpeached, and the
universe must stand abhorrent and de-
mandatory at the fact that the Father
allowed the butchery Of his only begot-
ten Son.
We all admire the brave six hundred
men described by Tennyson ~ dashing
into the conflict when they knew they
must die. and knew at the same time
that ..some one had blunder'd;s but we
are abhorrent Of the man who made the
biunder and who caused the sacrifice OF
those brave men for no use. But shall
show you. If the Lord viii help me. this
morning that for good reasons Christ
went through the torture. In other
words. 1T beloved Christ to suffer-"
In the first place, l remark that
Christ's decorations were necessary, be-
cause mans rescue was an impossibility
except by the payment of some great
sacrifice. Outraged law had Numbered
against iniquity. Man must die unless
substitute can intercept that death.
Let Gabriel step forth. He refuses. Let
Michael the archangel step forth He
MAN. no Corinthian, no reformer, NO
angel volunteered Christ then barred
his heart to the pang. He paid for our
redemption in tears and blood and
wounded feet and scourged shoulders
and torn brow. 1T is DONE" Heaven
and earth heard the snap Of the prison
bar. Sinai ceased to quake with wrath
the moment that Calvary began to rock
in cruciixion. Christ had suffered.
''Oh,' says some man, Il don't like
that doctrine of substitution; let every
man bear his own burdens, and weep
his own tears. and fight his own battlesr'
Why, my brother, there is vicarious suf-
fering all over the world. Did not your
parents suffer for you? Do you not
sometimes suffer for your children:
Does not the patriot suffer for his coun-
trya Did not Grace Darling suffer for
the drowning sailors? Vicarious suffer
ing on all sides! But how insignificant
compared with this scene Of vicarious
suneringl
Was !s for crimes that i had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity. grace unknown,
And love beyond degree.
Christ must suffer to pay the price OF
our redemption.
THE HEALING SYMPATHY.
But / remark again, the sufferings
of Christ were necessary IN order that
the worlds sympathies might be aroused.
Men are won to the right and good
through their sympathies. The world
must feel Alright before it can act Alright
so the cross was allowed to be lifted
that the worlds sympathies might b.
aroused. Men who have been obdurated
by the cruelties they have enacted, by
the massacres they have inflicted, by tbs
horrors IT which they have been guilty
have become little children in the pres
cnce Of this dying Saviour
What the swords could not do, what
Juggernauts could not subdue, In,
wounded hand of Christ has accom-
plished. There are this moment million:
Of people held under the spell Of thai
one sacrifice. The hammers that strucl
the spikes into the cross have broken ths
rocky heart OF the world Nothing bu
the agonies Of Sayiour's death throt
could rouse the worlds sympathies.
: remark again. at beloved Chris
to suffer" that the strength and persist
encs OF the divine love might be demon
s.rated Was it the applause of tn,
world that induced Christ on that cru
SADIE from heavenf Why, all the uni
verse was at his feet. Could the con
quest Of this Insignificant planet hav'
paid him for his career of pain II It has
been mere matter Of applausef Al
the honors Of heaven surging al mis- feet
Would your queen give up her thron'
that she might rule miserable tribe n
Africa Would the Lord Jesus Chris
ON the throne os The universe come dowr
~ onr planet II il were q mere matte G
applause and acciamation?
Nor was II an expedition undertaken
for the accumulation os vast wealth
What could all the harvests and tb'
diamonds Of our little world do for hin
whose are the glories - hnitnde an,
sternisys Nor was IL an experiment
On attempt 20 show what he could h
with the hard hearted rice. He wh'
wheels the stars in their courses an,
holds the pillars u the universe on th'
tips Of his fingers needed to make IA
experiment. 70 ind what he could do
Oh. Will tell yeu. my friends. whss i
was. It was un1isguised. unlimited
ali csDQuering, al consuming, inf