Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-03-31
SUFFERED FOR OTHERS.
Graphic lessons Drawn From the Life
of Jesus Christ
aHis substit ution to Save the Souls of Men
The Mother aud Pstriot who Die for
Othors-"Without the sh sddiuV of
Blood 10 No Re mission''-sermou
by Rev. DIR. Talmare.

OrewS IN, -: without shedding OF
blood is no mission"
John e. Whittier, the last of the
great school of American poets that
made the last quarter of century
brilliant, asked me in the White
mountains, one morning after prayers.
IN which l had given out Cowper's
famous hymn about The Fountain
Filled With Blood"
DO you really believe there is a lit
eral application of the blood of Christ
20 the soul?'
My negative reply then is my mega
tive reply now. The Bible statement
agrees with all physicians, and all
physiologists, and all scientists. in saw
ing that the blood is the life, and in
the Christian religion it means simply
that Christs life was given for our life
Hence all this talk OF men who saw
the Bible story of blood is disgusting,
and that they don't want what they
call 'Slaughter-house religion, " only
shows their incapacity or unwilling
ness to look through the figure
of speech toward the thing signi-
fled. The blood that, on the darkest
Friday the world ever saw, oozed, or
trickled, or poured from the brow, and
the sides, and the hands, and the feet
OF the Industrious sufferer. back of Je-
rusalem, in a few hours coagulated and
dried up, and forever disappeared; and
If man had depended on the applica-
ton OF the literal blood of Christ there
would not have been a soul saved for
the last Is centuries.
In order To understand this red word
of my text, we have only to exercise
as much common sense in religion as
we DO in everything else Pang for
pang, hunger for hunger, fatigue for
fatigue, tear for tear blood for blood.
life for life, we see every day illus
trated. The act of substitution is no
novelty, although | hear men talk as
though the idea of ChriSt's suffering
substituted for our suffering were
something abnormal, something dis
tressingly odd, something wildly &C.
centric, solitary episode in the
worlds history, when could take You
out into this city and before shutdown
point you. TO 500 cases of substitution
and voluntary suffering OF one in be-
half OF another.
At o'clock to- morrow afternoon go
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 overworkcd. They are
prematurely old. ! hey are Fastening
rapidly toward their decease. They
have gone through crises in business
and shattered their nervous sys-
tenn and polluted the brain. They
have a shortuess of breath and a
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; il would be difficult to extract any
amusement out of that exhaustion.
Because they are avaricious2 In many
cases no. Because their own personal
expenses are lavish? No: "A few hun
dred dollars would meet all their
wants. The simple fact is. the man is
enduring all that fatigue and exasper-
alton, and wear and tear, to keen his
home prosperous. There is an invis-
IDLE line reaching from that store.
from that bank. from that shop. from
that scaffOlding. TO a quiet scene a
few blocks away, a few miles away.
aud there is the secret Of that business
endurance. He is simply the cham
pion Of homestead, for which he wins
bread, and wardrobe, and education.
and prosperity, and in such battle ten
thousand men fail OF ten BUSINESS
men whom | bury, nine die OF over
work Tor others. Some sudden disease
huds them with no power OF resist
ance and they are gone Lie for life
Hood for blood. substitution
AZ j o'clock tomorrow morning. the
hour when slumbcr is most unin.cr.
rupted and profound, walk amid the
dwelling houses Of the citv Here and
there YOU will find dim light. be-
cause IL Is the household custom to
keep a subdued light burning; but
most Of the houses from base tgtoD are
as dark as though uuinhabited. a
merc.tul God has sent forth She arch
angel OF sleep. and be puts his wing,
over the city. But yondcr J., clear
hight burning. and outside ON the vim
dow easement, glass or pitcher cone
tanning 'oOi for ,.o. child. tu. food fs
set 10 the fresh a.r his is tile -.et1
night that mother has sat uu .y.tu that
sufferer She bias to th. last point
o'fFaa the physicians ur.-.r.1t ION.
mot giving drop 700 much or OBJ, .t'.e.
or u1m GOO soon ar too Iu'. ~l.
Us very anN"-t. I1- size has buried
three children wfl fu. same a.-el...
and she pr. and wee1-. each PRAYER
and sob ending with -. 9f tho
pal cheea Bv ai1t of H.nar saa
gets tae .t'.e ono through tHe ordeal.
Alter DO is a.. over fne mother f.. taken
down. H-t.n 2r nervous fever set, iu.