The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-03-26


some morning finds him in u delirium, In
which he talks OF home, and then rises and
says he must go and look after those patti
ents. He is told to lie down, but he fights
weaker and weaker, and dies for people with
whom he had no kinshjp, aud far away from
his own family, aud Is r. lily put away In n
strangers tomb and only the fifth part OF a
newspaper limo tells us of his sacriflce-his
name just mentioned among five. Yet he
has touched the farthest height OF sublimity
in that three weeks OF humanitarian service
He goes straight as an arrow to the bosom
OF Him who said, II was sick, and ye vis-
tied Me-" Life for life. Blood for blood.
Substitution!
In the legal profession SOC tho Same prin-
oiple Of self sacrifice In 1916 William Free
man, a pauperiZel and tdiotic negro, was at
Auburn, N. Y, on trial for murder. he had
slain the entire Van Nest family. The foam.
ing wrath Of the community could be kept
of him only by armed constables. Who
would volunteer TO be his counsel2 No
attorney wanted to sacrifice his popularity
by such an ungratefui task. All were silent
save one-a young lawyer with feeble voics
that could hardly be heard outside tho bar,
pale aud thin and awkward. 1t was William
III. Seward, who saw that the prisoner was
idtotic and irresponsible and ought to be put
In au asylum rather than put to death,
tho heroic counsel utterlng these beautiful
words:
'I speak now in tho hearing OF a people
who have prejudged prisoner and con-
demned me for pleading In his behalf. He
lect, sense or emotion. My child with an
affectionate smile disarms my careworn face
Of its frown whenever cross my threshold.
The beggar In the street obliges me to give
because he says, God bless you! as pass.
My dog caresses me- with fondness II I will
but smile on him. My horse recognizes mo
when all his manGer. What reward, what
gratitude, what sympathy and afec-
tion can I expect here? There the pris-
oner sits. Look at him. Look at the assem-
pressed censures aud their excited fears aud
tell me where among my neighbors or my
fellow men, where even in his heart can
expect to find q sentiment, q thought, not to
even OF recognition? Gentlemen, you may
think OF this evidence what you please,
bring In what verdict you can, but I assev-
crate before heaven and you that. to the
best OF my knowledge aud belief, the pris-
oner at the bar does not ut this moment
know why it is that my shadow falls on you
instead OF his own"
Tho gallows got its victim, but the post
mortem examination OF the poor creature
showed to all the surgeons and to all the
world that the public was wrong, that Will
lam Fl. Seward was right and that hard,
| stony step Of obloquy in the Auburn court
| room was the first step OF the stairs OF fame
| up which he went to the top, or to within
through the trea chery Of American politics.
Nothing sublimer was ever seen in an Amer
lean courtroom than William II. Seward,
without reward, standing between the fury
OF the populace and ths loathsorae imbccile.
Substitution!
In the realm Of the Gns arts there was rs
| remarkable an Instance. A brilliant but
| hypercriticisei painter. Joseph William
Turner, was met by Il volley of abusa from
all the art galleries OF Europe. His paint
in,rl i,I d
all civilized nations-"The Fifth Plague OF
Egypt" "Fishermnn on Le, Shore In
Squally Weather" "C,lais Pier ''rhe Sun
Rising Through Mist" AMI "Dido Buildin,
Carthage" then targets for critics
10 shoot ut. In defense of this out.
rageous!y abuse man 4 young author OF
twenty-tour wears, Just ono year out OF
college. came forth with his pen AMI
| wrote the ablest aud most famous essays
on art that thu world ever saw or ever
will see-Johu Rrskin's Modern Pain
| ters." For seventeen years this author
fou ght the battles OF tho maltreatei artist,
and after, in poverty and broken hearted
ness, the painter had died ami tho public
tried to undo their crueties toward him. 81.
t'u' cati:urhi. frrs"ra nnts friend foot
our OF tin box 1900 pieces Of paper con.
raining drawings by tho old painter. and
| through many weary and uncompens,ted
months assorted and arranged them for pub
lie observation. People saw John Rust,in
in his old days is cross. msn,tbronic AMI
morbid; Whatever he may do that he ouYbt
not to do. and whatever hn NAV saw that ha
ought not to say between now and his death
ne VIII leave this world inso.vent rs far n
Tor its chivalrc and Christian defense ~ y
poor painters poncl. John Ruskin for viii.
lam Iurner. Blood for blood Subs,ituiion,
All good men have for centuries b,en trv.
ing TO tell whom this substitute was like.
and every comparison, inspired an unin,
IL GyaNOnliaftp Il
human falls short, for Christ was tho Great
Unlike. Adam II type Of Christ, bscaus, he
came directly from Col; Noah a typo or
CHRIST, because he delivere his own family
h rom .ne ueiuge; Melchisedeca type Of Christ,
because he had no pre- ie.essor or successor,
Joseph n type OF Christ, because he was
cast out by his brethren; Moses a tyos Of
Christ, because he was n deliverer from bond
age; samson typo OF Christ. because OF his
strength to clay tie lions ami carry off the
iron gates Of impos ossibillty; solomon n tvne
OF Christ In the affluence OF his dominion.
Jonah type Of Christ. be e.ausa Of the stormy
sea In which he threw himself for the rescne
OF Others But put together Adam and Noah
Joshua and Samson and solomon and Jonab
ana they would not make n fragment of a
Christ, a quarter of n Christ, the half of n |
Christ or the millionth part of Christ.
ne Ior5ooX throne and sat down on His |
own foots.ool. He came from the ton Of
glory to tho bottom OF humiliation and
chanSei cirtumference seraphic for A
circumference dihbolic. On.e waite on bv
angels, now hissei at by the brigands.
From a'ar and high up H, came down; past
neteors swifter than they; by starry thrones.
Himself mere lustrous past larger worl Is to
smaller worlds; down stairs OF Iirmaments.
lnl from clou to cloud an through tree
op' ana into the clners stall, 10 thrust His
houlder under our bur lens an | taso tho
"nces OF piin throIgh His vitals, AMI
wrapped Himselfin all the agonies which we
leserve Tor our misdoings AMI stoo on the
ne dr-sching surf of the sci and passeI |
nidnights on tho m ountains amid will
casts OF prey AM stoo at tho point where
III earthly and infernli hostllities charc od |