The Penn's Grove record., 1897-03-26

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gratitude, what sympathy and aztec.
tion can l expect here2 There the prIs-
oner sits. Look at him. Look at the assem-
blage around you. Listen to their Ill sup.
pressed censures aud their excited fears aud
tell me where among my neighbors or my
fellow men, where oven In bis heart l can
expect to find a sentiment, q thought, not to
say OF reward or OF acknowledgment, or
even of recognition? Gentlemen, you maJ
think OF this evidence what you please,
bring 10 what verdict you can, but 1 assev-
crate before heaven and you that. to the
best OF my knowledge aud belief, the pris-
oner at the bar does not at this moment
know why It Is that my shadow falls on you
instead OF his own"
The gallows got its victim, but the post
norton examination OF the poor creature
showed to all the surgeons and to all the
world that the public was wrong, that viii.
inmH FL. Seward vas right and that hard,
stony step Of obloquy In the Auburn court-
room was the first step oil the stairs OF fame
up which he went to the top, or to within
one step OF the top, that last denied him
through the treachery Of American politics.
Nothing sublimer was ever seen In an Amer
lean courtroom than William d. Seward,
without reward, standing between the fury
OF tine populace and the loathson1e fmbeclie'
S~ubstitutlori
In the realm of the Ane arts there was as
remarkable IN instance. A brip'sat hut
unprecedented painter, Joseph William
Turner, was met by a wiley OF abuse from
all tho art galleries of Europe. His paint
ings. which have since won the applause OF
all civilized nations-'The Fifth Plague OF
Egypt" Fishermen on a LIE, Shore In
saually Weather" .'Oalais Pier" t'The Sun
Rising Through Mist" AMI "Dldo Building
Carthage"-were then targets for critics
TO shoot ut. IN defense OF this out
rageously abusel man a young author OF
twenty-four years, Just one year out OF
college, came forth with his pen and
wrote the ablest aud most famous essays
on art that the world ever saw or ever
| will see-John Ruskin's Modern Palm
ters." For seventeen years this author
fought the battles OF the maltreated artist,
and after, in poverty and broken hearted
ness, the painter had died and the public
tried to undo their c~rueltles toward him by
| giving him u big funeral and burial IN st.
Paul's cathedral, his old-time friend took
out OF a tin box 10, 900 pieces Of paper con-
tanning drawings by the old painter, and
through many weary aud u-ncompensated
months assorted and ~nrrangedthem for pub
lilo observation. People say John Ruskin
in his old days Is cross, misa1thropic n
morbid. Whatever he may do that he ought
not to do. and whatever he may say that he
ought not to say between now n his death,
he will leave this world lnso.vent as far as
Ii has any capacity to pay this authors pen
for its chivalric and Christian defense Of a
poor painters pencil. John Ruskin for WILL
lam Turner. Blood for blood. Substitution!
What an sxalting principle this which
leads one to suffer for anctheri Nothing so
klndle, enthusiasm or awskons eloquence,
or chimes poetic canto or moves nations.
The principle Is the dominant one In our re-
hgion-Ohrist the martyr, Christ the celes-
tial hero, Christ the defender, Christ the sub
stitute. No new principle, for It was as old
as human nature, but now on a grander,
wider, higher, deeper and more world-re-
sounding scale. The shepherd boy rs 8
champion for Israel, with a sling toppled
the giant OF Philistine ~braggadocio in the
dust, but hero Is another David, who, for all
| the armies OF churches militant and triumph-
ant, hurls the Goliath of perdition into de-
feat, the crash OF his brazsn like an
| explosion of He'll Gate. Abraham had at
! Gods command agreed TO sacrifice his son
Isaac, and the same God Just in time had
provided q ram Of the thicket as a substitute.
But here Is another Isaac bound TO the altar,
and no hand arrests the sharp edges OF LAGER
alton and death. and the universe shivers
and quakes and recoils and groans at the
horror.
All good men have for centuries been try
ing to tell whom this substitute WINS like,
and every comparison, inspired and min
spired, evangellstlc, prophetic, apostolic AMI
human falls short, for Christ was the Great
Unlike. Adam a type Of Christ, because he
came directly from God; Noah II type OF
Christ, because he delivered his own family
from the deluge; Melchisedec a type Of Christ,
because he had no predecessor or successor;
Joseph a type Of Christ, because he was
cast out by his brethren; Moses o type OF
Christ, because he was a deltverer from bond
age; Samson q type ofChrlst, because OF his
| strength to Stay the lions and carry of the
iron gates of impossibility; Solomon q type
| OF Christ in the afiuenee OF his dominioni
Jonah a type OF Christ, because OF the stormy
sea In which he threw himself for the rescue
OF others. But put together Adam and Noah
and Melchisedec AMI Joseph and Moses and
| Joshua and Samson and solomon and Jonah,
and they would not make a fragment OF a
Christ or the millionth part OF a Christ.
He forsook a throne and sat down on His
own footstool. He came from the top OF
glory to the bottom OF humiliation and
changed a circumference seraphic for a
circumference diabolic. Once waited on by
angels, now Kissed at by the brigands.
From afar and high up He came down; past
meteors swifter than they; by starry thrones,
Himself mere lustrous; past larger worlds to
smaller worlds; down stairs of ornaments.
and from cloud to cloud and through tree
tops and into the camers stall. to thrust His
shoulder under our burdens and take the
lances of pain through His vitais, and
wrapped Himselfin all the agonles which we
deserve for our misdoings and stood on the
splitting decks Of q laundering vessel amid
the drenching surf of the sea aud passed.
midnights on The mountains amid wild
beasts Of prey and stood at the point where
all earthly and internal hostllities charged
on Him at once with their keen sabres-our
Substituted
When did attorney ever endure SO much
for a pauper client or physician for the pa
tient in the lazaretto or mother for the child
in membranous Group, as Christ for us, as
Christ for you, as Christ for me2 Shall any
man or woman or child In this audience who
| has ever suffered for another ind 1t hard to
understand this Christly suffering for us2
Shall those whose sympathies have been
wrung In behalf Of the unfortunate have no
| appreciation of that one moment which was
lifted out of all the ages OF eternity as most
| conspicuous, when Christ gathered up all
| the sins OF those to be redeemed under His
one arm, and all his sorrows under His
| other arm and said: ~ will atone for these
under My right arm and will heal all those
under My left arm. Strike Me with all thy
glittering shafts, o eternal ~justicel Roll
over Ne with all thy surges, ye oceans OF
sorrow" AMI the thunIerbolts struck Him
from above, and the seas OF trouble rolled
up from beneath, hurricane after hurricane,
md cyclone after cyclone, and then and
there in the presence OF heaven and earth
and hell-yea, nil worlds witnessing-the
price, the bitter price, thettanscendent price,
tho awful price, the glorious price, the in
finite price, the eternal price, was paid that
sets US free.
That Is what Paul means; that is what l
mean; iha is what all those who nave ever
had their hearts changed mean by 'blood."
/ glory In this religion o fb.ood. am thrilled
as I see the suggestive color in
cup, whether 1t be OF FURNISHED silver set
on cloth Immediately white or rough hewn
from wood set on table in log hut meeting
house of the wilderness. Now / am thrilled
as Isee the affairs of ancient sacrifice crimson
with the blood Of the slain lamb, and LEVITT
Gus is to me not SO much the Old Testament
as the New. Now see why the destroying
angel passing over Egypt In the night spared
all those houses that had blood s~prinkled
on their doorposts. Now / know what
Isaiah means when he speaks OF zone in red
apparel coming with dyed garments from
Bosrah," and who the Apocalypse means
when 1t describes q heavenly chieftain whose
vesture was dipped in blood," and what
Peter the apostle means when he speaks of
the 'sprecious blood that cleanseth all sin.
and what the old WORKOUT, decreplt, mis-
sionary Paul means when In my text he
cries, 1Without shedding Of blood Is no re-
mission" By that blood you and l wilt be