The Penn's Grove record., 1897-03-26
REV. BR. TAI4MAGE.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE
NOTED DIVINE.
Subject, 'vloarlou. sacrifice.

remission. Hebrews TX, az.
John @. Whittier, tho last OF the erea,
school Of American poets that made thu
last quarter OF a century brilliant. asked mi
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 /:
a literal application of the blood OF Christ tc
the soul?' My negative reply then Is MI
negative reply now. The Bible statement
agroes with all physicians and all physiol-
ogtsts and all scientists In saying that the
blood Is the life, AMI In the Christian
religion IL means simply that Christ's
life was given for life. Hence all this tall
Of men who say tho Bible story Of blood Is
disgusting, and that they don't want whai
they call n slaughter house religion" only
shows their incapaclty or unwilIinsness tc
look through the figure Of speech toward the
thing 5igniled. The blood that on the dark.
est Friday the world ever saw oozei OIL
trlckled or poured from the brow, and the
side, and the hands, and the feet OF the
illustrious sufferer. back of Jerusalem, In a
few honrs coagulated and dried up and for
ever disappeared, and II man had depended
on the application of the literal blood OF
Christ there would not have bsen a soul
saved for the Inst eighteen centuries.
In order to understand this red word oil
my text we only have to exercise as much
common sense in religion rs we do In every
thing else. Pang for pang, hunger for
hunger. fatigue for fatigue, tear for tear,
blood for blood, life for life, we see every
day illustrated. The act OF substitution Il
no novelty, although 1 hear men talk as
though the idea OF Christ's suffering SUBJ
stituted for our sun ring were something
abnormal, something distressiug,y odd.
something wildly eccentric, a solitary
episode In the worlds history-when l could
a k you out into this city and before sun
down point you to I've hundred cases Of SUBJ
stitutlon and voluntary suffering o. one in
behalf of another.
At 2 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon 60
among tie places Of business or toll. II will
be no difficult thing for you to find men who
by their looks show you that they are over.
worked. They are ~prematursly 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 a pain Ia the back OF the head
md at night an Insomnia that alarms them.
Why are they drudging ut business early aud
late2 For lump No. 1t woult be difficult
to extract any amusement out OF that ex-
haustion. Because they are avarlcious2 In
many cases no. Because their own personal
expenses. are layishp 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 prosperous. There Is an
invisible line reaching from that store, from
that bank, from that shop, from that scat
folding, TO a quiet scene a few blocks away,
q few miles away. And there is the secret
of that business endurance. He Is simply
The champion OF a homestead for which he
wins bread and wardrobe and education and
prosperity, and In such battle 10000 men
fall. OF ten business men whom l bury nine
die OF oyerwork 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 O'Clock tomorrow morning, the hour
when slumber Is most uninterrupted and
most profound, walk amid the dwelling
houses of the city. Here and there you will
find u dim light because II is the household
custom to keep n subdued light burning, but
most OF the houses from base to top are as
dark as though u~ninhabited. A merciful
God has sent forth the archangel OF sleep,
and he puts his wings over the city. But
yonder is a clear light burning, and outside
on the window easement is a glass or pitcher
containing food for a sick child. The food
is ser in the fresh air. This Is the sixth
night that mother has sat up with that suf.
ferer. She has to the last point obeyed the
physicians prescription, not giving a drop
too much or too little or a moment too soon
UT tOO ldto- Du6 Is very huAsOu5t iOF Suo uus
buried three children with the same disease.
and she prays AMI weeps. each prayer and
sob ending with n kiss OF the pale cheek.
By dint Of kindness sho gets tho little one
through the ordeal. After 1t Is all over the
mother Is taken down. Brain or nervous
fever sets in, and one day she leaves the con.
valescent child with a mothers blessing and
goes up to join the three in tho kingdom OF
heaven. Life for life! Substitution! The
L TACT ia that fhara n ra mr. l~lnrnnnta1 numher
of mothers who, after they have navlgated q
large fumiiy of children through all the dis
eases OF infancy and got them fairly started up
the Towering slopeo of Doyhood and girlhood
have only strength enough left to die. They
fade way. Some call it consumption.
Some call 1t nervous prostration. Some call
It intermittent or malariai indisposition. But
| call 1t martyrdom OF the domestic circle.
Life for life. Bloc! for blood. Substltu-
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|. Or perhaps the mother fingers long enough
to see a SON get on the wrong road. and his
former kindness becomes rough reply
when she expresses anxiety about him.
But she goes right on, looking carefully al
ter his apparel, remembering his every birth
day with some memento, and, when he Is
brought home worn out with dissipation,
nurses him till he gets we'll aud starts him
again and hopes and expects and prayS and
couusels aud suffers until her strength gives
out and she fails. She 10 going, and atten-
danis, bending over her pillow, ask her II
che has any message TO leave, and she makes
great effort TO say something. but out Oh
three or four minutes OF indistinct utterauoe
they can catch but three words, my poor
boy" The simple fact Is she died for him.
Life for life. Substitution! .
About thirty-six yeais ago there went forth
from our northern and southern homes nun
dreds OF thousands OF men to do battle for
their country. Alith poetry OF war soon
vanished and left them nothing but the ter
ribie prose. They waded knee deep In mud;
They slept in snow-banks. They marched
till their cut feet tracked the earth. They
were swindlei out OF their honest rattons
and lived on meat not ut for a dog. Tney
had jaws all fractured and eyes extinguished
and limbs shot away. Thousands OF tnem
cried for water as they lay dying on tne heid
the night after the battle and got IT nor,
They were homesick and received no mes
sage from their loved ones. They died 10
barns. in bushes, In bitches, the buzzards Of
the sumAer hent the only attendants on
their obsequies. No one but the Infinite God,
who knows everything, knows the ten-thou,
sandth part of the length and breadth and
depth and height of the anguish OF nne
northern and southern battlefieids. Why
did these fathers leave their children n &c
to the front, and why did these young men,
postponing the marriage day, start OUT into
The probabilities OF never coming backf For
the country they died. Life for life. BLOOD
for blood. Substitution!
But we need not go 50 far. What " tina,
monument in Greenwood 1t is to thed doc
tors who fell in the southern epideDies
Why go? We're there not enough sick 10 o.
attended in these northern latitudes3 Oh,
yes. But the doctor puts a few medlcal
books in his yalise, and some v!als OF medi'
cine, and leaves his patients hero in tht
hands Of other physicians and takes the raj
train. Before he gets to the infected regions
he passes crowded rail trains, regular anc
extra, takingths flying and affrighted popu'
lations. He ARRIVES In a city over which .
great horror is brooding. He goes from
couch to couch, feeling of the pulse ane
studying symptoms and prescribing day al
ter day, night after night, until a fellow
physician says: doctor. you mad peltel
20 home and rest. You look mis-
cradle" But he cannot rest while s.
many are suffering. On and on unit
some morning finds him In a delirium, II
which he talks OF home, and then rises AN
says he must go and look after those pau
ents. He is told to lie down, but ne nsnii
his attendants until he fails back and 4
weakera and weaker, and dies for people VIII
whom he hal no kinship. and far away IRON
his own family, aud Is hastily put away IN
Akn ANNh NM 0T q