The morning news., 1897-03-22
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH p, 1897

and the universe shivers and quakes and
recoils and groans at the horror
All good men have for centuries been
trying to tell whom this Substitute was
like. and every comparison, inspired and
uninspired eVangelistic, prophetic, apoS-
tolic aid human, falls short for CHRIST
was the Great Unlike. Adam a type OF
Christ, because he came directly from
God Noah type of Christ, because he
delivered his own family from the deluge
Melchisedec a type of Christ because he
had no predecessor or successor; Joseph
a type of Christ, because he was cast out
by his brethren; 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 of the
iron gates of impossiblity; Solomon
type of Christ, in the affluence of his
dominion Jonah 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 Melchsedec
and Joseph and Moses and Joshua and
Samson and Solomon and Jonah, and
they would not make a fragment or
Christ, a quarter of a Christ, the half OF
Christ or the millionth part of a Christ.
He foorsoOk a throne and sat down on
his own footstool. He came from the top
of glory to the bottom of humiliation, and
changed a circumference seraphic for
circumference diabohc. once waited on
by angels, now hissed at by brigands.
From afar and high up he came down;
past meteors swifter than they; by starry
thrones, himself more lustrous; past larg-
er worlds to smaller worlds down stairs
of ornaments, and from cloud to cloud,
and through tree-tops and into the cam
els stall, to thrust his shoulder under our
burdens and take the lanceS of pain
through his vtals, and wrapped himself
in all the agonies which we deserve for
our misdoings, and stood on the splitting
decks of a laundering vessel, amid the
drenchng surf of the sea, and passed mid
nights on the mountains amid wild beasts
of prey, and stood at the point where all
earthly and Internal hostilties charged
on him at once with their keen sabers-
our Substitute!
When did attorney ever endure so much
for 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 ever suffered for an
other find il hard to understand this
Chrstly suffering for us? Shall those
whose sympathies have been wrung in be-
half of the unfortunate have no apprecla-
ton 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 arm.
Strike me with all thy glitter
ing shafts, o Eternal Justice! Roll
over me with all thy surges We
| oceans of sorrow?" And the thunder
bolts struck him from above, and the seas
of trouble rolled up from beneath, hurri-
| cane 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.
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" l glory in this religion of bloodl
| I am thrilled as l see the suggestive color
| in sacramental cup, whether 1t be of burn
| ished silver set on cloth Immediately
/ white, or rough-hewn from wood set on
| table in log-hut meeting house of the will
| derness. Now, l am thrilled as 1 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 1 see why the destroy
ing angel passed over Egypt in the night
1
| sprnkled on their door-postS. Now
| know what Isaiah means when he speaks
| of zone in red apparel coming with dyed
| garments from Bozrah;' and whom the
Apocalypse means when it describes g
| heavenly chieftain whose "vesture was
dipped in blood" and what Peter, the
| apostle, means when he speaks of The
precious blood that cleanseth from al
| SIM" and what the old, worn-out, de
| crept missionary Paul means when, II
my text, he cries: without shedding o.
blood is no remission" BY that blood
you and l will be saved-or never saved
at ALL Glory be to God that the hill bach
of Jerusalem was the battlefield on which
Christ achieved our liberty!
The most exciting and overpowerins
day of one summer was the day | spen
on the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting
out with the morning train from Brussels
Belgium, we arrived in about an hour or
that famous spot. A son of one who wa!
in the battle, and who had heard from
his father a thousand times the who'll
| scene rected, accompanied us over thi
field. There stood the old Hougomon
Chateau, the walls dented, and scratched
and broken, and shattered by grape-sho
and cannon ball. There is the well IL
which three hundred dying and dead wer
pitched There is the chapel with tn,
head of the infant Christ shot off. Their,
| are the gates at which, for many hours
English and French armies wrestled
Yonder were the one hundred and sixtl
guns of the English and the two hundred
and fifty guns of the French. Yonder th
Hanoverian Hussars fled for the woods
Yonder was the ravine of Ohain ,wher
the French cavalry not knowing Their
was a hollow in the ground, rolled owe
and down, troop after troop, tumbling int,
one awful mass of suffering hoof o
kicking horses against brow and breas
Of captains and colonels and private sol
diers. the human and the beastly groai
kept up until the day after. all was shov
eled under because of the malodor arisinj
in that hot month of June.
"There," said our guide 1.-THE HIGHLAND
regiments lay down on their faces wait
ing for the moment to spring upon th,
foe. In that orchard 900 men were Gu
to pieces. Here stood Wellington will
white lips, and up that knoll rode Mar
) shal Ney on his sixth horse, five havins
been shot under him. Here the ranks
of the French broke, and Marshal Ney
with his boot slashed of a sword, and hi
hat Off. and his face covered with powder
and blood tried to rally his troops as h,
cried: Come and see how a marshal O
| Franco dies on the hatfledald Iron