The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-04-03
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
without Shedding Of Blood Is No
Remission"
A Discourse Illustrative of One of the Car
dl aal Doctrines of the Christian
INSTRUMENTATION Sacrifices
In Everyday Life.

Rev. T. DEWITT Talmage took "Vicari-
Gus Sacrifice" as the subject of a recent
sermon, basing it on the text:
Without shedding of blood is no remission
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John G. 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 had
given out Cowper's famous hymn about
"The Fountain Filled with Blood"
"Do you really believe there is literal
application of the blood of Christ to
the soul?" My negative reply then is
my negative reply now. The Bible
statement agrees with all physicians,
and all psychologists, and all scientists,
In saying that the blood is the life, and
In the Christian religion it means
simply that Christ's life was given
for our life. Hence all this talk
of men who say the Bible story
of blood is disgusting, and that they
don't want what they call a slaughter
house religion" only shows their inca
pacity or unwillingness to look through
the figure of speech toward the thing
signified. The blood that, on the dark
est Friday the world ever saw, oozed,
or tricllled, or poured from the brow,
and the side, and the hands, and the
feet of the illustrious sufferer, back of
Jerusalem, in few hours coagulated
and dried up, and forever disappeared;
and if man had depended on the appli-
cation of the literal blood of Christ,
there would not have been soul saved
for the last eighteen centuries.
In order to understand this red word
of my text, we only-haye 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 illustrated. The
act of substitution is no novelty, al
| though l hear men talk as though the
idea of Christ's suffering substituted
| for our suffering were something alb
| normal, something distressingly odd,
something wildly eccentric, 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 behalf OF another.
At two o'clock tomorrow afternoon
GO among the places of business or toll.
1t will be no difficult thing for you tc
find men who, by their looks, show you
that they are overworlled. They are
prcmatrrely old. The are Fastening
rapidly toward their disease. They
have gone through crises in business
that shattered their nervous system
and pulled on the brain. They have {
shortncSs of breath and pain in thI
back of the head, and ut night an in
somnia that alarms them. Why are
they drudging at business early and
late? For fun? 20; it would be difficult
TO extract any amusement out of that
exhaustion. Because they are avari
cious? In many cases no. Because
their own personal expenses are Law
ish? No; 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 il
an invisible line reaching from thai
store. from that bank, from that shop
from that scatfolding, to quiet scene
a few blocks away, few miles away
and there is the secret of that business
endurance. He is simply the champion
of homestead. for which he wins
bread, and wardrobe, and education
and prosperity and in such battle TO-,
600 men fall. OF ten business men
whom l bury nine die of over work foi
others. Some sudden disease finds
them with no power of resistance, and
they are gone. Life for life. Blood
for blood. Substitution! G
At one o'clock tomorrow morning
the hour when slumber is most unin'
terrupted and most profound, walk
amid the dwelling houses of the city,
Here and there you will find dim
light, because it is the household Gus
tom to keep subdued light burning
but most of the houses from base K
top are as dark as though uninhabited
A merciful God has sent forth the
archangel of sleep, and he puts hi:
wings over the city. But yonder is 6
clear light burning, and outside on the
window 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 uI
with that sufferer. She has to the las
point obeyed the physicians prescrip
ton, not giving drop too much Of
too little, or moment too soon or too
late. She is very anxious. for she ha:
buried three children with the same
disease, and she prays and weeps, cacl
PRAYER and sob ending with kiss o
the pale cheek. BY dint of kindness
she gets the little one through the ,r
deal. After it is all over, the mothe
is taken dow Brain or nervous feve
sets in, and one day she leaves the con
valescent child with a mothers bless
ing and goes up to join the three in thu
Kingdom of Heaven. Life for life
Substitution! The fact Is that Their
are an uncounted number of mother
who, after they have navigated larg'
family of children through all the dis
eases of infancy, and got them fairl.
started up the flowery slope OF boy
hood and girlhood, have only strength
enough left to die. They fade away
Some call it consumption, some call 1
nervous prostration; some call 1t inter
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