The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-26

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REV. TALMAGE. Ny negative reply
then is my negative reply now. The
Bible statement agrees with all physi-
clans, 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 in
capacity or unwillingness to look
through the figure of speech toward
the thing signifed. The blood that,
on the darkest Friday the world ever
saw, oozed. or trickled. or poured from
the brow, and the side, and the hands,
and the feet of the illustrious sufferer,
back of Jerusalem, in a few hours
coagulated and dried up, and forever
disappeared: and if man had depended
on the application of the literal blood
of Christ. there would not have been a
soul saved for 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 fatigue,
tear for tear, blood for blood, life for
life, we see every day illustrated The
act of substitution is no novelty, al
though 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 L
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 to find men who, by their looks,
show you that they are overworked.
They are prematurely old. They are
fastening rapidly toward their decease.
They have gone through crises in bust
ness that shattered their nervous sys-
TEN and pulled on the brain. They
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in the back of the head, and at night
an insomnia that alarms them. Why
are they drudging at business early
and late? For fun? No; it would be
difficult to extract any amusement out
of that exhaustion. Because they are
avaricious? In many cases no. Be
cause their own personal expenses are
lavish? No; a few hundred dollars
would meet all their wants. The SIM
pie fact is, the man is enduring all
that fatigue and evaporation, and
wear and tear, to keep his home pros
porous. There is an invisible line
reaching from that store, from
that bank, from that shop, from
that scaffolding, to a quiet scene
a few blocks away, few miles away,
and there is the secret of that business
endurance. He is simply the cham
pion of homestead, for which he wins
bread, and wardrobe, and education,
and prosperity, and in such battle TO-
900 men fall. OF 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. Life for life. Blood
for blood. Substitution
At one o'clock tomorrow morning,
the hour when slumber is most uninter-
rupted and profound. walk amid the
dwelling-houses of the great city.
Here and there you will find dim
light, because it is the household Gus
tom to keep a subdued light burning;
but most of the houses from base to
top are as dark as though uninhabited.
A merciful God has sent forth his arch
angel of sleep, and he puts his wings
over the city. But yOnder is a clear
light burning, and outside on the win
dow easement is glass or pitcher con-
tanning food for 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 last
point obeyed the physicians prescrIp-
ton, not giving a drop too much or too
little. or moment too soon or too late.
She is very anxious, for she has bur
ried three children with the same dis
ease, and she prays and weeps, each
prayer and sob ending with kiss of
the pale cheek. By dint of kindness
she gets the little one through the
ordeal. After it is all over, the moth
err is taken down. Brain or nervous
fever sets in, and one day she leaves
the conyalescent child with moth
er's blessing and goes up to join the
three in the kingdom of Heaven. Life
for life. Substitution The fact is
that there are an uncounted number of
mothers who, after they have navigated
a large number of children through all
the diseases of infantry, and got them
fairly started up the Towering slope of
boyhood and girlhood, have only
strength enough left to die. They
fade away. Some call it consumption;
some call it nervous prostration; some
call it intermittent or malarial indis-
position; but cal it martyrdom of the