Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-03-26

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William Turner. Blood for blood Sub
stitutionl
What an exalting principle this which
leads one TO suffer for another Nothing
so kindles enthusiasm or awakens elO-
quence or chimes poetic canto or moves
nations. The principle is the dominant
one in our religion-Christ the martyr,
Christ the celestial hero, Christ the
defender Christ the substitute. No
new principle, for it was as old as hu-
man nature, but now on grander,
wider, higher deeper and more world
resounding scale The shepherd boy as
a champion for Israel with a sling top
pied the giant of Philistine braggadoci0
in the dust, but here is another David,
who, for all the armies Of churches mil
liant and triumphant, hurls the Goliath
of perdition into defeat, the crash Of
He'll Gate. Abraham had at Gods COM
mand agreed TO sacrifice his son Isaac,
and the same God Just in time had pro-
vided "a ram Of the thicket as a substi-
tute. But here is another Isaac bound 10
the altar, and no hand arrests the sharp
edges Cf laceration and death, and the
universe shivers and quakes and recoils
and groans at the horror
Forsaking a Throne.
All good men have for centuries been
trying to tell whom this substitute was
like, ard every comparison, inspired
and uninspired, eyangelistic, prophetic,
apostolic and human falls short, for
Christ was the Great Unlike Adam
type Of Christ, because he came directly
from God; Noah a type Of Chlist, be-
cause be delivered his own family from
the deluge; Melchisedec typ q
Christ, because he had no predecessor or
successor; Joseph type Of Christ, be-
cause he was cast out by his brethren;
Moses a type Of Christ, because he was
a deliyerer from bondage; Samson
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 afiluence Of his domln-
ion; 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 Melchi,edec
and Joseph and Moses and Joshua and
Samson and Solomon and Jonah and
they would not make a fragment Of
Christ, a quarter Of a Christ, the half Of
a Christ or the millionth part Of
Christ.
He forsook a throne and sat down on
bis own footstool he came from the
top Of glory to the bottom Of humilia-
ton and changed a circumference se-
raphic for a circumference dialolic.
Once waited on by angels, now hissod
at by brigands From afar and high mp
he came down; past metoors sWltt'r
than they; by starry thrones, himself
more lustrous; past larger worlds TO
smaller worlds; down stairs of firma-
ments. and from cloud 70 cloud and
through tree tops and into the camcls
stall. 10 thrust his shoulder under our
burdens and take the lancos Of pain
through his vtals, and wrapped himself
in all the agonies which We deserve for
our misdoiucs and stood on the splitting
decks Of "a laundering vessel amid the
drenching suIf 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 OF 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 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 II
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 ann. Strike me with all thy
glittering shafts, O eternal justicel
Roll over Inc 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,
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 transcondent 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 -
what ] mean; that is what all those
who have ever had their heart changed
mean by blood" glory in this rell-
gion OF blood. am thrilled as | SET the
suggestive color in sacramental cup
whether il 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
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 see why the destroying angel
passing over Egypt in the night spared
all those houses that had blood sprinkled
on their doorposts. Now ! 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 a heaven.
" chieftain whose "ycsture was dipped