Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-27

ought not TO do aud whatever he may
say that he ought not to say between
now and his death he will leave this
world insolycnt as far as it has any Ca
pacity to pay this authors pen for IFS
chiyalric and Christian defense Of a
poor painters pencil. John Ruskin for
William Turner. Blood for blood. Sub
stitution!
What an cxalting principle this which
leads one to suffer for anOtherl Nothing
so kindles enthusiasm OF awakcns elo-
quoncc or chimes poetic canto or moves
nations. The principle is the dominant
one i'll our religion-Christ the martyr,
Christ the celestial hero, Christ tho
defender, Christ the substitute. No
new principle, for it was us old as hu-
man nature, but HOW on grander,
wider, higher, deeper and more world
resounding scale. The shepherd boy as
champion for Israel with sling top
pied the giant Of Philistino brnggadooio
in the dust, but here is another David,
who, for all the armies of churches mil
liant and triumphant, hurls the Goliath
of pcrdition into defeat, the crash OF
his brazen armor like al explosion at
He'll Gate. Abraham had at God S COM
mand agreed to sacrifice his son Isaac
and the same God just in time had pro-
vidcd ram of the thickct rs q subHti-
tuto But hero is another Isaac bound to
the altar, and no hand arrests the sharp
edges of laceration and dcuth and the
universe shivors and quakes and recoils
and groans ut tho horror.
Forsalsng Throne.
All good men have for centuries boon
trying to tell whom this substitute WAS
like, and every comparison, inspired
and uninspircd, evangelistic, prophetic,
apostolic and human falls short, for
Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam a
type of Christ, because he came directly
from God; Nouh type Of Christ, be-
cause he delivered his OWL family from
the deluge; Melchiscdcc type of
Christ, because he had no predecessor or
successor; Joseph type of Christ, be-
cause he was cast out by his brethren;
Moses type of Christ, because he was
deliverer from bondage; Samson q
type OF Christ, because of his strength
to slay the lions and carry eff the iron
gates of impossibility; Solomon type
of Christ III the ahiuence of his domin-
ion; Jonah type of Christ, because of
the stormy sea in which he threw him
self for the rescue of others. But PIT to-
gether Adam and Noah and Melchisedec
and Joseph and Moses and Joshua and
Samson and Solomon and Jonah, and
they would not make a fragment of Il
Christ, quarter of a Christ, the half Of
a Christ or the millionth part of Il
Christ
He forsook throne and sat down on
his own footstool. He came from the
top of glory to the bottom of humilia-
ton and changed circumference Sc
raphic for a circumference diabolic.
Once waited on by angels, now Missed
at by brigands. From affair and high up
he came down; past meteors swifter
than they; by starry thrones, himself
more lustrous; past larger worlds to
smaller worlds; down stairs of firma-
ments, and from cloud to cloud and
through tree tops and into the camel's
stall, to thrust his shoulder under our
burdens and take the lances of pain
through his vitals, and wrapped himself
in all the agonies which we deserve for
our misdoings and stood on the splitting
Gecks of a laundering vessel amid the
drenching surf of the sea and passed
midnights OH the mountains amid wild
beasts of prey and stood at the point
where all earthly and internal hostilities
charged OH him at once with their keen
sabers-our substituted
When did attorney ever endure so
much for a pauper client or physician
for the patient i'll the lazaretto or mother
for the child in membrmous Group. as
Christ for us, rs Christ for you, as
Christ for me? Shall any man or woman
or child in this audience who has ever
suffered for another find it hard to un-
derstand this Christly suffering for us?
Shall those whose sympathics 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
NIL his sorrows under his other arm and
said: ~ will atone for these under my
right arm end will heal all those under
my left arm. Strike me with all thy
glittering shafts, o eternal justice
Roll over Inc with all thy surges, ye
oceans of sorrowl" And the thunder
bolts struck him from above, and the
seas of trouble rolled up from beneath,
hurricane after hurricane and cyclone
after cyclone, and then and there i'll
presence of heaven and earth and hell
yea, all worlds witnessing-the price,
the bitter price, the transccndent price,
the awful price, the glorious price, the
infinite price, the eternal price, was paid
that sets us free.
Light on the Question.
That is what Paul means; that IS
what 1 mean; that is what all those
Tho have ever had their heart changed
mean by "blood 1 glory i'll this rel1-
gion of blood. lam thrilled as see the
suggestive color in sacramcntal cup,
whether it be of FURNISHED silver set on
cloth Immediately white or rough
hewn from wood set Oh table i'll log hut
meeting house of the wilderness. Now
am thrilled as see the affairs of ancient
sacrifice crimson with the blood OF the
slain lamb, and Leyiticus is to me not
so much the Old Testament as the New.
Now I see why the destroying angel
passing over Egypt in the night spared
all those houses that had blood sprinkled
on their doorposts. Now 1 know what
Isaiah means when he speaks Of lone in
red apparel csn.ing with dyed garments
from Bosrah," and who the Apoca-
lypse means when it describes heaven