The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-03-26
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Noted Washington Divine's
Sunday Subject.

TEXT: "Without shedding OF blood Is no
remission. Hebrews ix., az.
John G. Whittier, the last Of the great
school OF American poets that made the
last quarter OF a century brilliant, asked me
In the White Mountains one morning after
prayers. in which had given out CowPer's
famous hymn about tho fountain filed
with blood" d,""Do you really believe there IS
the soul2" My negative reply then is my
negative reply now. The Bible statement
agrees with all physicians and all physiol-
ogists and all scientists In saying that the
religion ii means simply that Christ's
life was given for life. Hence all this talk
Of men who say tho Bible story OF blood Is
disgusting, and that they don't want what
they call q slaughter house religion" only
shows their incapacty or unwillingness to
look through the figure of speech toward the
thing signiGed. Tho blood that on the dark
est Friday the world ever saw oozei or
trickled or poured from the brow, and the
side. ana the hands, and the feet OF the
| illustrious sufferer. back OF Jerusalem, In a
| few hours coagulated and dried up and for
ever disappeared, and IL man had depended
on the applic ltion of the literal blood OF
| Christ there would not have bsen u soul
saved for the last eighteen centuries.
In order to understand this rcd word OF
my text we only have to exercise as much
thing else. Pang for pang, hunger for
hunger. fatigue for fatigue, tear for tear
| blood for blood, life for life, we see every
day illustrated. The act Of substitution is
no novelty, although hear men talk as
| though the idea OF Chrlst's suffering sub
sttuted for our suffering were something
abnormal something distressingly odd,
something wildly eccentric, solitary
| episode in the worlds nistory-when could
take you out into this c!ty and before sun
down point you to Ave hundred cases OF sub
stitution and voluntary suffering o. one in
, behalf OF another.
At o'clock tomorrow afternoon 90
among the places of business or toll 1t will
| be no difficult thing for you to find men who
by their looks show you that they are over
| worked. They are prematurely old. They
are Fastening rapidly toward their decease.
| They have gone through crises In business
that shattered their nervous system and
| pulled on the brain. They have u shortness
| OF breath and pain in the back Of the heal
ani ut night an insomnia that alarms them.
Why arc they drudging at business early and
late? For fun? No. 1t would be difficult
to extract any amusement out OF that ex-
hauston. Because they are avaricious? In
many cases no. Because their own personal
expenses are lavishp No. A few hundred
dollars would meet all their wants. Tue
simple fact is the man is enduring oil that
fatigue and evaporation and wear and tear
to keep his home prosperous There Is an
invisible line reaching from that store, from
that bank, from that shop, from that scat
folding, to quiet scene few blocks away,
n few miles away. Aud there is the secret
OF that business endurance. He is simply
the champion of q homeStcai for which hs
wins bread and wardrobe and education and
prosperity, aud in such bit,le 10,0oo men
fall. or ten business men whom bury nine
die Of overwork for others. Some sudden
disease finds them with no power Of resist
ance, and they arc gone. Life for life Blood
for blood. Substitution!
| At o'clock tomorrow morning, the hour
when slum5er is most uninterrupted anI
most profound, walk amid the dwelling
houses OF tho city. Here and there you will
find dim light because it is the household
custom to keep subluci light burning, but
most OF the houses from base to top aro rs
and ne pub" MniIn.h MHnin.haHbted; A merciiul
yonder Is u clear light burning and outsi 10
on thc window easement is a glass or pitcher
containing food for sick child. Tho food
SET IN tho fresh air. This is the sixth
night that mother has sat up with that snf
Ierer; She has to the last point obeyed the
Physlclans prescription, not giving a drop
TOO much or too little or Il moment too soon
pr 700 inte. she IS very anxious, for she has
buried three children with the same disease
anu she prayS an | weeps en.h PRAYER and
SOD onatnS with kiss OF tho pale cheek.
Dy unt OF kindness sho gets the little one
unroush the ordeal After it is all over the
mother Is taken down. Brain or nerv,ns
Iever sets in. aud ono day she leaves the con.
| Nalescent child with n mothers blessing and
| goes up to join the three in the kingdom ~
heaven, Lie for life! Substitution. The
| 1act Is that there arc an uncountej nnnhar
OF mothers who. after thoy hava nuvlgated n
| larSe family OF children through all the dis
eases OF infancy and got them fairy starred nm
hpya hue nowerins over slope Of poyhood and girhood
nive only strength enough left to die. They
1ado away. Some cali It consumntion
Some call 1t nervous prostitution. Somo cali
Il intermittent or malarial indispositlon. But
eau IL martyrdom of tho domestic circle
tion! '"''''a-
or perhaps tho mother fingers long enourb |
20 20 see a son get on the wrong road, and his |
former kindness becomes rough reply
when she expresses anxiety about him |
But she goes right on. looking carefullv aF-
Yer MS appare', remembering his every birth |
gay with sono memento, and, when he is
S DtouSht nome worn out with dissipation,
nurses MIN till he gets we'll and starts him
nS"h nnu hopes and expects and pray5 and
coahseis and suffers until her siren ,th gives
OUT ana she fails. She is going, and atten-
danis, beniing over her pillow. ask her II
sue aroa nus any message to leave, AMI she makes
Erea' eHort TO say something. but out of
,hree or Tour minutes OF indistinct u,terinc,
,shey can eaten but three words, "My poor
roy. Ihe simple fact is she dei for him.
L!ie Tor life. Substitution,
Abont thirty-siX yeaIs ago thera vv,,t fort,
IRON our northern aud southern home, bnn
Hre gre IS OF thousands OF men to do battle for
thcir country. All the poetry OF war soon
rln,'ned .;snl ana LEFT them nothing but the ter
ir, r,pIo prose. They waded knes deep in mud. |
Ihey slept in snow-banks. They marched $
III their cut feet tracked the earth. They t
were swinilei out OF their honest rations I
am iivo on meat not fit for u doy. They
ma Jaws all fractured and eyes extinpuishod Il
an limbs shot away Thousands OF them G
crieu ior water as they lay dying on the field :
inc I night after the battle AMI got II NOT
lhcy were homcsick and received no mes. +
sage from their lOvel ones. They died i'm I
narhs, IN bushes, in ditcics, tho buzzarIs of j
~ .no summer heat tho only atten lauts on I
ln"ir obSeluics. Noono but the infinite Col n
VINO knows everything, knows tho ten-thou. n
,ahdth part OF tho length aad brel ith AMI u
lcptn AMI hUlght OF tho nn.,nir,, of IL. | =