The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-03-31

SniyefS ana GO3heS ana Itcol1S ana
groans at the horror.
All good men have for centuries
been trying to tell who this substitute
was like, and every comparisoo. in
spired and uninspired. evangelistic,
prophetic, apostolic and human falls
short, for Christ was the Great . ol:ke.
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 succ9s 9ss0r, Joseph a
typs. OF Christ because he was cast out
by his brethren, Moses a type Of
Christ because ne was deiiver3r from
bondage, Samson type Of Christ be-
cause oi'his strength to slay the lions
and carry off the IRON gates OF ialQos-
ibilitE~ Solomon type OF Christ IN
Che affiuence Of his dominion, Jonah a
tygetof Christ because cfthe stormy sea
in which he tarew himsslf. Tor the res
cue Of others, but put together Adam
and Noah and Melchisdec and Joseph
and Moses and Joshua and Samson and
Solomon aud Jonah, and they would
make fH&s sment ofa Christ, quar-
ter OF a Christ, the half OF Christ or
the rBifiionth part OF a Christ.
He forsook throne aud sat down
on his own footstool. He came from
the.top ofglery 10 the bottom OF hu-
initiation and changed circumference
seraphic for e circumference diabolic.
Once waited on by angels, now hissed
at by brigands. From afar and high
up he cames 6eWn; past !mae9rs
swifter than they; BY starry thrones,
himssN maoree t:lustrous; past Larger
worlds to smaller worlds; down stairs
Of &7haeaenis, and from cloud to
cloud: apd through tree tops and into
csue.;s~stall, to- thrust bis shoulder
under our burdens and Ia Ike ths lane
es Of pain through his Vitals, and
wrapped himself in all the agonies
which we deserve for oar misdoings,
and stood on ths Splitting decks of
laundering vessel amid drenching
surf Of she sea, and passed midnights
on the mou otains amid wild beasts of
prey; and stood q. the point where all
earthly and Internal hostiles charged
on him at o1ce with their keen sabers
our substitute!
When did attorney ever endure SO
much for pauper client, or physician
for the patient N the lazaretto, or
or mother for the child in membran
Gus Group, as Christ for US, as Christ
for Fou, as Christ for me? Shall any
man Or woman oc child in this audi.
ence who has ever suffered for anoth
er,Gnd II hard to understand this
Christly suffering for US? Shall
those whose sympathies have been
.Wrung in behalf Of the unfortunate
have no appreciation Of that one mo-
ment which was lifted out of al 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: Il will atone for these
under my right arm and will heal all
those under my left arm. Strike me
with all thy glittering shafts, 0 eter-
nal justice! Roll over me with all
thy surges, ye oceans Of sorrow!"
| And the thunderDolts struck him from
above, and the seas of trouble rolled
up from beneath, hurricane after hur.
ricane, and cyclone after cyclone, and
then and there n the presence Of
heaven and earth and hell-yea, all
worlds witnesslng-the price, the bit
! ter price, the transcendent price, the
| awful price, the glorious price, the il
finite price, the eternal price, was paid
that sets US free.
That is what Paul means, that is
what mean, that is what al those
who have ever had their heart chang.
ed mean By blood" I glory in this
religion of blood I am thrilled as I
see the suggestive color in sacrament
al cup, whether it be of FURNISHED
silver set on cloth Immediately white
or rough hewn from wood set on
table in log hut meeting house of the
wilderness. Now I am thrilled as I
see the altars Of ancient sacrifice Grim
son with the blood of the slain lamb,
snd Leviticus is, to me not so much
Efhe Old Testament as the New. Now
I see why the destroying angel, pass
ing over Egypt in the night, spared
all those houses that had blood sprin-
lkled on their dcorposts. Now I know
what Isaiah means when he speaks of
zone in red apparel coming with dyed
garments from Bosrah," and whom
the Apocalypse means when it des-
crbes a heavenly chieftain whose
"vesture was dipped in blood" and
what Peter, the apostle, means when
he speaks OF the precious blood that
cleanseth from all sin," and what the
old, worn out, decrepit missionary
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 meyer saved at all.
Glory be to God that the hill back Of
Jerusalem was the battlefield on
which Christ achieved our liberty.
The most exciting and overpower-
; ing day Of one summer was the day I
spent on the battlefield of Waterloo.
| Starting out with the morning train
from Brussels, 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 a thousand
times the whole scene recited, accom-
panied US over the field. There stood
the old Hougomont chateau, the walls
dented and scratched and broken and
shattered by grapeshot and cannon
ball. There is the well in which 800
dying and dead were pitched. There
is the chapel, with the head of the in
fant Christ shot off. There are the
gates at which for many hours Eng
hsh and French armies wrestIed
Yonder were the 100 guns Of the Eng
lish and the $50 guns CT the French
Yonder the Hanoverian hussars fed
for the woods. Yonder was the raw
inc of Ohain, where the French cav
airy, not knowing there was hollow
| in The ground, rolled over and down,