Connecticut western news., 1897-03-25
SAVED BY THE BLOOD
RAY. pa. TALMAGE EXPLAINS THE 5aanoRX lOF vlcAatOuS SACRIFICE.

sh2v. DR. TALMAGE EXPLAINS THE TsanoRx poF NcAaiouS SACRIFICE. Hs aays TAaE In Order to Understand It
 Ws HAvs Oaly eo Uss ths sams Com
 asa ss.ss yes Religion That We Do Fer EvssUaAAna Else.
 WAsnHaToN. March 21.-From many conditions of life Dr. Talmage, in this sermon. draws graphic illustrations of one of the sublimest theories of religion --nAmely, vicarious sacrifice. His text ~as Hebrews ix, a, Without shedding 0 blood is no remission.
 John G. Whittier, the last of the great school of American poets that made the last quarter of 8 century brilliant, asked me in the White mountains one morning after prayers, in which had given out Oowper's famous hymn about the fountain filled with blood, Do you really believe there Is literal applioa- ton of the blood of Christ to the soulf" Ny negative reply then is my negative reply now. The Bible statement agrees with all physicians and all physiologists and all scientists in saying that the Alood is the life, and in the Christian religion 1t 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 slaughter house religion" only shows their inca pacity or unwillingness to look through the figure of speech toward the thing dQniAed. The blood that on the darkest YfidAy the world ever saw oozed or GaOkled or poured from the brow, and tho side, and the hands, and the feet of the Alustrious sufferer, back of Jerusa- lem. In a few hours coagulated and dz4sd up and forever disappeared. and if man had depended on the application of the literal blood of Christ there would noe have been soul saved for the last 10 centuries.
 In order to understand this red word q my text we only have to exercise n much common sense in religion as we Ao h everything else. Pang for pang, hungsr for hunger, fatigue for fatigue, ter for tear, blood for blood, life for life. ws see every day illustrated. The cot of substitution b no novelty, al- thoueh hear men talk as though the Idea of Ohrist's suffering substituted for our suffering were something abnormal. something distressingly odd, something wildly eccentric, solitary episode in tho worlds history-when I could take you out into this city and before sun down point you to five hundred cases of substitution and voluntary suffering of one in behalf of another.
 Ovsrwerk.
 At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon go among the places of business or toll. It will be no difficult thing for you to find men who by their looks show you that thsy arc overworked. They are prema- tnrely old. They are hastening 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 end . pain in the back of the head and at night an insomnia that alarms them. Why arc they drudging at business early and latef For funf No. It would be diHacult to extract any amusement out ok that exhaustion. Because they are avarioiouss In many cases no. Because tAetr own personal expenses are lavish? No A few hundred dollars would meet all their wants. The simple fact is the man is enduring all that fatigue and ex- aspezation and wear and tear to keep his homo prosperous. There is an invis- ihle line reaching from that store, from that bank, from that shop, from that soalfolding, to quiet scene few blocks away, . few miles away. And there Is tho secret of that business endurance. He h simply the champion of . home stead fW which he wins bread and ward robe and education and prosperity, and h such battle 10, 900 men fall. Of ten business men whom bury nine die of ovsrwork for others. Some sudden dis sase finds them with no power of resist anoe. and they are gone. Life for life. Blood for blood. Substitutionl
 At o'clock tomorrow morning, the hour when slumber is most uninter- rupked and most profound, walk amid the dwelling houses of the city. Here and there you will find a dim light be- cause it is the household custom to keep . subdued light burning, but most of the houses from base to top are as dark as though uninhabited. A merciful God hos sent forth the archangel of sleep, and he puts his wings over the city. But yonder is . clear light burning, and glaas or pitcher containing food for g sick child. The food is set in the fresh air. This Is the sixth night that mother has rat up with that sufferer. She has to the last point obeyed the physician's ( prescription, not giving drop too much oe too little or 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 p9ayer and sob ending with kiss of the pale cheek. By dint of kindness she getz the little one through the ordeal. After it b all over the mother Is taken down. Brain or nervous feyer sets in, and one day she leaves the convalescent child with mothers blessing and goes up te 3oin the three in the kingdom of heaven. 1ife for life! Substitution The fact fl : that there are an uncounted number o. mothers who, after they have navigatei large family of children through al the diseases of infancy and got then fairly started mp the towering slope o. boyhood and girlhood have only strength enough left to die. They fade away Some call 1t consumption. Some call i
 nervous prostration. Some call it in tssmiftsnt or malarial indisposition But call it martyrdom of the domesti' nlrcls. Life for life Blood for blood Ouhstitutton!
 Substitution.
 Or perhaps the mother fingers lonl enough to see . son get on the wronl road, and his former kindness become gonQh reply when she expresses anxiet. about him. But she goes right on, look Ing carefully after his apparel, remem