Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-07

remission" In the blood is the atone
ment." But it was not your blood. 1t |
was his own. Not only enough to redden
his garments and to redden his horse, but
enough to wash away the sins of the
world. Oh, the blood on his brow, the
blood on his hands, the blood on his feet,
the blood on his sidel 1t seems as if an
artery must have been cut.
There is fountain filed with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains.
At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon 60
among the places of business or toll. 1t
will be no difficult thing for you to find
men who by their looks show you that
they are overworked. They are prema-
turely old. They are fastening rapidly
toward their decease. They have gone
through crises in business that shattered
their nervous system and pulled on the
brain. They have a shortness of breath,
and pain in the back of the head, and
at night an insomnia that alarms them.
Why are they drudging at business early
and late? For fun? No; it would be diff
cult to extract any amusement out of
that exhaustion. Because they are avari-
cious? In many cases, no. Because their
own personal expenses are lavish? No; a
few hundred dollars would meet all their
wants.
The simple fact is the man is enduring
all that fatigue and evaporation and
wear and tear to keep his home prosper
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from that store, from that bank, from
that shop, from that scaffolding, to a
ouiet scene a few blocks, few miles
away, and there is the secret of that busi-
ness endurance. He is simply the cham
pion of homestead, for which he wins
bread and wardrobe and education and
prosperity, and in such battle 10000 men
fall. OF ten business men whom bury
nine die of overwork for others. Some
sudden disease finds them with no power
of resistance, and they are gone. Life
for life. Blood for blood. Substitution
LIFE FOR LIFE.
At o'clock tomorrow morning, the
hour when slumber is most uninterrupt'
ed and most profound, walk amid the
dwelling houses of the city. Here and
there YOU will find dim light, because
if is the household custom to keep sub
dued light burning, but most of the
houses from base to top are as dark al
though uninhabited. A merciful Goo
has sent forth the archangel of sleep
and he puts his wings over the city. Bu
wonder is a clear light burning, and out
side on the window easement glass o.
pitcher containing food for sick chil(
the food set in the fresh air.
This is the sixth night that mother ha
sat up with that sufferer. She has to tn
last point obeyed the physicians pre-
scription, not giving a drop too much
too little, or a moment too soon or to
late. She is very anxious, for she ha
buried three children with the same dis
ease, and she prays and weeps, each pray
or and sob ending with kiss of the pal
, cheek. By dint of kindness she gets tn
little one through the ordeal.
After it is all over the mother is take
, down. Brain or nervous fever sets IL
, and one day she leaves the convalesce1
| child with mothers blessing and go'
! nm TO ioin the three in the kingdom (
a heaven. Life for life. Substitution
, The fact is that there are an uncounte
a number of mothers who, after they hay
nayigated a large family Of childre
, through all the diseases of infancy al
\ got them fairly started up the floweriI
h slope of boyhood and girlhood, have on
q strength enough left to die. They taf
q away, Some call it consumption; son
a call it nervous prostration; some call
. intermittent or malarial disposition, b'
, I call it martyrdom of the domestic CT
=, c1e. Life for life. Blood for bloc
q Substitution!
THE SACRIFICE OF PATRIOTISM.
Or perhaps the mother fingers lol
4 enough to see son get on the wro1
q road and his former kindness becom
q rough reply when she expresses anxle
a about him. But she goes right on, loo
!. ing carefully after his apparel, remel
a- herring his every birthday with some N
>, mento. and when he is brought hon
o. worn out with dissipation, nurses III
v till he gets we'll and starts him aga
= and hopes and expects and prays al
n counsels and suffers until her streng
~ pives out and she falls. She is goln
-. and attendants bending over her pillC
~ ask her if she has any message to leaN
q. and she makes great effort to say son
a thing. but out of three or four minu1
70 of indistinct utterance they can cat
" but three words, my poor boyV 1
simnle fact is she died for him. Life
Z life. Substitution!
40 About SO years ago there went fol
~ from our homes hundreds OF thousar
~ ~ of men TO do battle for their COUNT
81 81 All the poetry of war soon vanished a
- left them nothing but the terrible pro
% They waded knee deep in mud. II
~ ~ elent in snowbanks. They marched
y their cut feet tracked the earth. II
nv were swindled out of their honest ratlt
- and lived ON meat not fit for adog. II
No. had laws all fractured, and eyes ext
~ puished, and limbs shot away. Th
Az sands of them cried for water as they
od diving on the field the night after
be battle and got it not. They were hol
.as sick and received no message from u
- oves They died in barns,