Connecticut western news., 1897-03-25
EcrsaklDg a Throne.

like, and every comparison, inspired and uninspired, evangelistic, prophetic, apostolic and human falls short, for Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam a type of Christ, because he came directly from God; Noah type of Christ, be- cause he delivered his own family from Christ, because be 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 a type of Christ, because of his strength to slay the lions and carry off the iron gates of impossibility; Solomon 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 a Christ, quarter of a Christ, the half of Christ or the millionth part of Christ. -.-
 He forsook throne and sat down on his own footstool. He came from the top of glory to the bottom of humilia- tion and changed circumference se- raphic for 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 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 decks of 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 croup, az 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 find it hard to un- 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; "I 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 me with all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow!" 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 in presence of heaven and earth and he'll 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 I mean; that is what all those who have ever had their heart changed mean by blood" glory in this reli- zion of blood. I am thrilled as see the suggestive color in sacramental cup, ! whether it be of furnished silver set on lokh laka IL hewn from wood set on table in log hut meeting house of the wilderness. Now am thrilled as see the altars 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 Egpyt in the night spared all those houses that had blood sprinkled on their doorposts. Now I know what Isaiah means when he speaks of lone in red apparel coming with dyed garments from Bosrah.' and who the Apoca- lypse means when it describes heaven ly chieftain whose "vesture was dipped I in blood" and what Peter the apostle means when he speaks of the precious blood that cleanseth from all sin, and what the old, wornout, decrepit mis- sionary Paul means when in my text he cries, Without shedding of blood is no remission. By that blood you and I | will be saved-or never saved at all
 Glory be to God that the hill back of Jerusalem was the battlefield on which 1 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 on that famous spot. A son of one who was in the battle and who had heard from
 his father thousand times the whole scene recited 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 300 dying and dead were 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.
 Wonder were the 160 guns of the Eng
 fish and the 260 guns of the French.
 Wonder the Hanoverian hussars fled fo,
 the woods. Wonder was the ravine ot
 Chain, where the French cavalry, not
 knowing there was hollow in the
 ground, rolled over and down, trooI
 after troop, tumbling into one awfu.
 mass of suffering, hoof of kicking horse,
 against brow and breast of captains ant
 colonels and private soldiers, the human
 and the beastly groan kept up until tho
 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 facei , waiting for tha rnffment tn snrinu l1nnr