The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-03-31

xiGce-The BIeod OF Christ-Cases of SUP
e.itueion-Llfe for Life-Erequerce OF
Suffering tor Others
WAsEINGToNs March 2l.-From
many conditions OF life DR.. Taimage,
in this sermon, draws graphic liius!ra-
tons of one Of the sUollnest theories
of relieion-namely, vicarlouS sacrI-
fee. His text was Hebrews lN, y,
Without shedding OF blood Is no re
mission
great school Of American poets insU
msde the last Quarter Of century
brilliant. asked me in tae White noun.
tains, one morning, n Whlca hso
given out Cowper's famous hymn
Shout the fountain filed with blood,
s'Do you really believe there IS liter
al application Of the blood Of Christ
to the soul2' My negative reply tnen
IS my negative reply now. The Bloje
statement agrees with sll physicians,
and all physiologists, and all scientists;
in saying that the blood IS the lie, ano
in the Christian religion It means SIM
ply that Christ's life was given Tor
our lie. Hence all this talk OF men
who say the Bible story Of blood IS
disgusting and they don't want What
they call slaughter house religion,
only shows their incapacity or UnW1I.
lngness to look through the figure OF
speech toward the thing slgnlaeo.
The blood that on the darkest Friday
the world ever saw, coed or trlckled
or poured from the brow, and the SIDE,
and the hands and the feet OF the IL
lustrious suff arer, back OF Jerusalem;
in a few hours coagulated and drlec
up and forever disappeared, ana Il
man had depended on the app!lcatlon
of the literal blood Of Cnrlst taefe
would not have been soul saved Tor
the last Is centuries.
In order to understand this red word
of my text we only have to exercise as
much common sense IN religion as we
do in everything else. Pang for pang,
hunger for hunger, fatigue for fatlg,3e,
tear for tear, blood for blood, LIE 5or
: life, we see every day illustrated. The
act of substitution is no novelty, al
though hear men talk SIS though the
idea of Christ's suffering substituted
for our suffering were something ao-
normal, .omething distressingiy odd,
something wildly eccentric, a solitary
episode in the worlds history, When
could take you out into this city, and
before shutdown point you to 500 cases
ofsubstitution and voluntary suffering
OF one in behalf Of another.
A2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon 60
a mong the places of business and toll.
It will be no difficult thing for you TO
find men who, by their looks, show
you that they are overwerked. They
are prematurely old. They are hast
ening rapidly toward their decease.
They have gone through crises IN bus
iness that shattered their nervous sys.
tenn and pulled on the brain. They
have q shortness of breath and PAIN
in the back of the head, and ct night
an insomnia that alarms them. Why
are they drudging at business early
and late2 For fun? No; it would be
difficult to extract any amusement out
of that exhaustion. Because they are
avaricious2 In many cases no. BE
Cause their, own personal expenses are
lavish2 No; q few hundred dollars
would meet all their wants. The sim
pie factis the man is enduring all that
fatigue and evaporation and wear and
fesrIto keep his home prosperous.
There IS an invisible line reaching
from that store, from that bank, from
that shop, from that scafolding, to q
quiet scene q few btocsS aw@y, = lew
miles away, and there Is the secret OF
that business endurance. he Is SIM
ply the champion of a homestead, for
which he wins bread and wardrobe
and education and prosperity, and IN
such battle 10000 men fsll. VI 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. Lille
for life, blood for blood. Substltu'
ton!
At l o'clock tomorrow morning, the
hour when slumber is most unlnter.
rupted and most profound, walk amid
the dwelling houses of the city. Here
and there you will find o dim Light
because it is the household custom to
keep a subdued light burning, but
most of the houses from base to TOP
are as dark as though uninha5ited. a
nerciful God has sent forth the arch
angel of sleep, and ne puts his wings
over the city. But yonder is a clear
light burning, and outside on the win
dow easement is glass or pitcher
containing food for a sick child. The
food is set in the fresh air. This is
the sixth night that mother has sat up
with that sufferer. She has to the las:
point obeyed the physicians prescrlp
ton, not giving drop too much OF
too little, or moment too soon or toe
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 a kiss OF
the pale cheek. By dint OF kindness
she gets the little one through the or
deal. After it is all over the mother
is taken down. Brain ornervous fever
sets in, and one day she leaves the con
valescent child with 8 mothers bless
ing and goes up to join the three in
the kingdom of heaven. Life for
life. Substitution! The fact IS thai
there are an uncounted number OF
mothers who, after they have 1avigat
ed large family of children through
all the diseases Of infancy and got
them fairly started up the Towering
slope Of boyhood and girlhood, have
only strength enough LETT to die
They fade away. Some call 1t con
sumption, some call It nervous pros
tration, some call it intermittent o.
malarial indisposition, but I call i
martyrdom of the domestic circle
Life for life. Blood for blood. Sub
stitution!
Or perhaps the mother fingers long
oro,1oh ~ soo Son cet on the wrOnc