Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-03-25
SUFFERED FOR OTHERS.
Graphic Lessons Drawn From the Life
of Jesus Christ.
His Substitution tn Save the sous Of Men
The Mother aud Patriot who Die for
othrrs-"Nithu the shedding of
Iilood H. No Rem ssinn''- sermon
ny Rev. Dr. lAImngc.

nr. Talmawr'S text sunday was lie
brcw> i\, -. Without shedding of
blood Is no rem ssiun."
/ John q. Whittier. the last of the
| great school of American poets that
made the last quarter of a century
brilliant. asked me in the White
mountains, one morning after prayers,
| famous hymn about The Fountain
FILLED With Hood"
'nn You really believe there is lit
/ cral application of the blood of Christ
! To the soul
My nrEativ" reply then is my mega
! tiv, reply now. The Bible statement
| agrees with all physicians, aud all
/ psychologists, and all scientists. in say
/ ing that the blood is the life. and in
! the Christian religion il means simply
| that ChrtSts life WAS given for our life
! Hence ali this talk of men who say
the Bible story of blood is disgusting.
and that they don't want what they
| call slaughter house religion, only
shows their incaplcitv or unwilling
| ness Ia look through the figure
of speech toward the thing signi-
| fled The blood that, on the darkest
| Friday the world ever saw, oozcd, or
tricklrd, or poured from the brow, and
the sides and the hands. and the feet
of the illustriuuS sufferer, back of Jc-
rusalcm, i'll "A few hours cuagulatcd and
dried up, and forever Disappeared; and
il man had depended on the applica-
ton of the literal blood of Christ there
would not have been soul saved for
the last Il centuries.
In order to understand this red word
of my text, we have only to exercise
Is much common sense in religion as
we do in everything else Fang for
pang, hunger for hunger, fatigue for
fatigue. tear for tear, blood for blood,
life for lie, 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 old, something wildly &C.
centric, solitary episode in the
worlds history, when | could take YOU
ont into this city and before shutdown
and voluntary suffering of one in be-
half of another.
At o'clock tomorrow afternoon go
among the places of business or toll
1t will he no difficult thing for you to
find men who, by their looks, show YOU
that they are oyerwOrked. They are
prematurely old. They are fastening
rapidly toward their dccease They
have gone through crises in business
and shattered their nervous sys-
TEN and polluted the brain. They
have shortnesS of breath and
pain in the back of the head,
and at night an insomnia that
alarms them. Why are they drudginT
at business early and late For fun?
No; it would be difficult to extract any
amusement out of that exhaustion.
Because they are avaricious? In many
cases no. Because their own personal
expenses are lavish? No; 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 keep dis
home prosperous. There is an invis-
ible line reaching from that store,
from that bank, from that shop, from
tina. scaffolAing. to a quiet acne
few blocks away, n few miles away
and there is the secret of that business
endurance. He is simply the cham
pion of homestead, for which he W Is
bread, and wardrobe, and educatio,4,
and prosperity, and in such battle ten
thousand men fall. OF ten business
men whom bury. nine die of over
work for others Some sudden disease
finds them with no power of resist
ance. and they are gone. Life for life.
Blood for blood. Substitution,
At l o'clock tomorrow morning, the
hour when slum Der is most uninter-
rupted and profound, walk amid the
dwelling houses of the city. Here and
there you will find dim light, be-
cause it is the household custom to
keep a subdued light burning; but
most of the houses from base tot top are
as dark as though uninhabited. A
merciful God has sent forth the arch
angel of sleep, and he puts his wings
over the city. But yonder is "A clear
light burning. and outside on the win
dow easement is glass or pitcher con-
tanning food for sick child; the food is
set in the fresh air. This is the sixth
light that mother has sat up with that
sufferer. She has to the last point
obeyed the physicians prescription,
not giving n drop too much or too little,
or a moment too soon or too late. She
is very anxious, for she has buried
three children with the same disease,
and she prays and weeps, each prayer
and sob ending with kiss of the
pale cheek. BY diut of kindness she
gets the little one through the ordeal.
After it is all over, the mother is taken
down. Brain or nervous fever sets in,
and one day she leaves tue GONZALES
cent child with a mothers blessing and
goes up to join the three in the king
dom of Heaven. Life for life Sub
stitution The fact is that there are
an uncounted number of moth
ers who, after they have navigated
large family of children through all
the diseases of infancy, and got them
fairly started up the fowery slope of
boyhood and girlhood, have only
strength left to die. They fade away.
Some call it consumption; some call it
nervous prostration; some call it inter-
mittent of malarial indisposition; but
call it martyrdom of the domestic cir
Gle Life for life. Blood for blood.
Substitution
Or perhaps the mother fingers long
enough to see son get on the wrong
road, and his former kindness becomes
rough reply when she expresses anx-
iety about him. But she goes right on,
looking carefully after his apparel, re-
Numbering his every birthday with
some memento, and when he is
brought home worn out with
dissipation, nurses him till he gets
well and starts him again, and
hopes, and expects, and prays, and
counsels, and suffers, until her
strength gives out and she fails She
is going, and attendants, bending over
her pillow, ask her il she has any
message to leave, and she makes great
effort to say something, but of three
or four minutes of indiStinct utter