The Monitor-register., 1897-03-26

Moses a type of Christ, because he was
a deliverer from bondage; Samson a
type of Christ, because of his strength
to slay the lions and carry off the iron
gates of impossibility; Solomon a type
of Christ in the affluence of his domin-
ion; Jonah a type of Christ, because of
the stormy sea in which he threw him.
self for the rescue of others. But put 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 q
Christ, a quarter of a Christ, the half 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 humilia-
ton and changed a circumference Sc
raphic for a circumference diabolic.
Once waited on by angels, now Missed
at by brigands. From afar 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 frma-
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
i'll all the agonies which we deserve for
our misdoings and stood on the splitting
| decks of a laundering vessel amid the
drenching surf of the sea and passed
midnights on the mountains amid wild
beasts of prey and stood at the point
| where all earthly and internal hostilities
charged on him at once with their keen
sabers-our substitute!
When did attorney ever endure SO
much for a pauper client Or physician
for the patient in the lazaretto or mother
for the child in membranous Group, as
Christ for us, as Christ for you, as
Christ for me? Shall any man or woman
or child in this audience who has even
suffered for another find it hard to I'M
derstand this Christly suffering for us?
| 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: II will atone for these under my
right arm and will heal all those under
my left ann. Strike me with all thy
glittering shafts, o eternal justice!
Roll over Inc with all thy surges, ye
| 1ooa,. &c co,rox,B3 And tho fb-,Jo.,
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 in
presence of heaven and earth and hell
yea, all worlds witnessing-the price,
the bitter price, the transcendent 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 l mean; that is what all those
who have v had their heart changed
mean by "blood." I glory in this reli-
gion of blood. I am thrilled as I see the
suggestive color in sacramental cup,
whether it be of FURNISHED silver set on
cloth Immediately white or rough
hewu from wood set on table in log hut
meeting house of the wilderness. Now l
am thrilled as I see the affairs of ancient
sacrifice crimson with the blood of the
slain lamb, and Leviticus 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 I know what
Isaiah means when he speaks of zone in
red apparel coming with dyed garments
from Bosrah," and who the Apoca-
lypse means when it describes a heaven
ly chieftain whose "vesture was dipped
in blood" and what Peter the apostle
means when he speaks of the ''precious
blood that ~cleanseth from all SIM" and
what the old, wornout, decrepit mis-
sionary Paul means when in my text he
cries, without shedding of blood is nc
remission" By that blood you and !
will be saved-or never saved at all.
Glory be to God that the hill back of
Jerusalem vas the battlefield on which
Christ achieved our liberty.
The most exciting and overpowering
day of one summer was the day I spent
on the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting
out with the morning train from Brus-
sells, we arrived in about an hour OIL
that famous spot. A son of one who was
in the battle and who had heard from
his father a thousand times the whole
scene reclted accompanied us over the
field. There stood the old Hougomont
chauteau, the walls dented and scratched
and broken and shattered by grapeshot
and cannon ball. There is the we'll in
which 800 dying and dead We're pitched.
There is the chapel with the head of the
infant Christ shot off. There are the
gates at which for many hours English
and French armies wrestled.
Yonder were the 100 guns of the Eng
lish and the $50 guns of the French.
Yonder the Hanoverian hussars fled fo1
the woods. Yonder was the ravine of
Chain, where the French cavalry, not
knowing there was a hollow in the
ground, rolled over and down, troop
after troop, tumbling into one awful
mass of suffering, hoof of kicking horses
against brow and breast of captains and
colonies and private soldiers, the human
and the beastly groan kept up until the
day after all was shoveled under because
of the malodor arising in that hot month
of June.
The Lion and the Lamb.
"There," said our guide, "the high
land regiments lay down on their faces
waiting for the moment to spring upon
the foe. In that orchard 2, 500 men were
cut to pieces. Here stood Wellington,
with white lips, and up that knoll rode
Marshal Ney on his sixth horse, five
having been shot under him. Here the
ranks of the French broke, and Marshal
Ney, with his boot slashed of a sword,
and his hat off, and his face covered
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