The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-06


and SiXty-one years ago You might as
well talk of Washington as though ne We're
going to achieve our national independence
in 1850, to speak of Christ as though he
were going to achieve salvation in the
future. He did it in the year OF our Lord
80, eighteen hundred and siXty-one years
ago, on the field of Bozrah, the captain of
our salvation fighting unto death Tor your
and my emancipation. All we have to do is
to accept that TACT in our heart of hearts,
and Tree from this world and we
are free for the world to come But lest
might not accept, Christ comes through
here today, "traveling in the greatness Of
his strength" not to tell you that he is
going to hgnt for you some battle in the
future, but TO tell you that the battle is
already fought, and the victory already
won.
You know that when Augustus, and Con-
Stantlne, and Trajan and Titus came back
from the wars what tune there lou
Iney came ON horseback or IN char
lots. and there were trophies before and
there were captives belIinu. and there We're
people shouting on All sides, and there were
SdrlanuS fiunS from the window and over
tne highway u trIumphal arch was sprung.
Inc solid masonry today at Beneventum,
kinni and Rome still tell their admiration
for those heroes. And SHAH we let our
Gonqueror so without lifting any acclaim?
Have we not flowers red enough to depict
the carnage, white enough to celebrate the
victory, fragrant enough to breathe the JOY?
Those men of whom 1 just spoke dragged
their victims at the chariot wheels, put
Christ, our Lord, takes those who once We're
captives and invites them into His chariot
to ride, while He puts around them the arm
of His strength saying: Il have loved thee
with an everlasting love. and the waters
shall not drown it. and the fires shall not
burn it. and eternity shall not exhaust it,
If this be true | cannot see how amy man
can carry his sorrows a great while: III
beat back all your Griefs. why not trust
Him? Oh! do you not feel under this COS
pei your grefs falling bach ana trS your [ of
thousand illustrious promises led on by the
Conqueror from Bozrah, "trayeling t travel "a
on that Friday which the Episcopal
church rightly celebrates, calling it Good
tended for On that day Jesus proved him
self mightier than earth and he'll, and when
the lances struck Him He gatherSed them EN-
grain, and He stacked them Mount
ing the horse Tooe of down the through aRG,
the ages. "travelng in the greatness OF MS
strength" On that day your sin and NINE
persisted, If we will only believe heve Who Ut NAV
say, 81 don't like the color of this conquer
ments We're not only spattered with the
blood of conflict, but also that they, We're
soaked that they were saturated, that t 1eI,
do not like that. Then ] quote to you two
rassases Of scripture: without the shed .e1!
ding of blood there is no REMISSION IN
the blood is the atonement" But it was
not your blood It was His own Not only
enough to rclden his garments ana 70
rndden HIS horse. but enough to wash aV@V
the sins of the world Oh, the hood on his
brow the blood on His hands: the blood on
His feet the blood on His side! 1t seems
as if an artery must have been cut
"0rhere is fountain filed with blood
Drawn from EmmanuePS VEINS,
And sinners plunged beneath that Hood
Lose all their guilty stains.
At2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon so among
the places of business or toll. 1T Will be no
difficult thing for you to find men who, by
their looks show You th.t tney IA arc m M,