Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-04-15
CHRISTS SACRIFICE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S EASTER SUNDAY
SERMON.

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copyright, 1895, by American Press Asso-
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WASHINGTON, April l0.-The radical |
theory of Christianity is set forth by |
DIR. Talmage in this discourse, and re-
markable instances of self sacrifice are
brought out for illustration. The text
is Heb. tx, %, "Without shedding of
! blood is no remission.
John &. Whittier, the last Of the
great school of American poets that
made the last quarter of this century |
brilliant, asked me in the White noun |
tains, one morning after prayers, in
which had given out Cowper's famous
HYMN about 1.-THE fountain filled with |
blood, ""Do you really believe there is
a literal application Of the blood OF
Christ to the soul?" My negative reply !
then is my negative reply now The
Bible statement agrees with all physi- !
clans and all Psychologists and all sci
entists in saying that the blood is the
life, and in the Christian religion It !
means simply that Christ's life was
given for our life. Hence all this talk
of men who say the Bible story of blood
is disgusting, and that they don want
what they call a slaughter house re-
ligion, only shows their incapacity or
uuwillingness to look through the figure
of speech toward the thing signified
The blood that on the darkest Friday
the world ever saw oozed or trickled or
poured from the brow, and the side, and
the hands, and the feet Of the illustrious
sufferer back Of Jerusalem in few
hours coagulated and dried up and for
ever disappeared and if man had de-
pended on the application Of the literal
blood of Christ there would not have
been soul saved for the last Is cen
turies.
In order to understand this red word
Of my text we only have to exercise as
much common sense in religion as We
do in everything 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, al
though hear men talk as though the
idea of Christ's suffering substituted f0r
our suffering were something abnormal
something distressingly odd something
wildly eccentric, a solitary episode In
the worlds history, when / could take
you out into this city and before sun
down point you to 500 cases Of substi'
tuition and voluntary suffering Of one in
behalf Of another.
The Invisible Line.
At 2 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon go
among the places Of business or toll. II
will be no difficult thing for you to find
men who, by their looks. show you that
they are overworked. They are prema
turely old. They are Fastening rapidly
toward their decease. They have gone
through crises i'll business that shattered
their nervous system and pulled on the
brain. They have shortness Of breath
and a pain in the back Of the head ana
at night an insomnia that alarms them
Why are they drudging at business early
and late? For fun? No; 1t would be
difficult to extract any amusement out
of that exhaustion Because they are
avariciOus? In many cases no. Because
/ their own personal expenses are lavish:
No; a few hundred dollars would meet
all their wants. The simple fact Is the
man is enduring all that fatigue ana
exasperation and wear and tear TO keep
his home prosperous. There Is an inyis-
ible line reaching from that store from
that bank, from that shop, from that
scaffolding, to quiet scene few
blocks, few miles away, and there Is
the secret of that business endurance
j. He is simply the champion OF a home
Y stead for which be wins bread and
> wardrobe and education aud prosperity
\ and in such battle 10, 600 men fall. OF
X ten business men whom l bury, nine
die of oyerwork for others. Some sud
den disease finds them with no power OF
resistance, and they are gone. Life for
lifel Blood for blood Substitution
At O'Clock tomorrow morning, the
, hour when slumber is most uninterrupt'
= ed and profound, walk amid the dwell
ing houses of the city. Here and there
q Won will find q dim light, because 1t is
the household custom to keepa subdued
light burning, but most Of the houses
from base to top are as dark as though
uninhabited. a merciful God has sent
forth the arcbangel of sleep and he
puts his wings over the city. But y0n'
der is a clear light burning, and outside
ON window easement glass or pitcher
containing food for a sick child. Inc
food is set in the fresh air. This Is the
sixth night that mother has sat up WIN
that sufferer. She has to the last point
obeyed the physician prescription, moi
o giving a drop too much or too little OF
# a moment too soon or too late She Il
"a very anxious, for she has buried three
children with the same disease, and she
u prays and weeps, each prayer and sol
ending with kiss of the pale cheek
BY dint Of kindness she gets the little
. one through the ordeal. After 1t is al
over the mother is taken down. Bran
or nervous fever sets in, and one day
V, she leaves the conyalescent child win
a mothers blessing and goes up to jon
ii the InIco ucpaINtt ohVH ~ Wv '-'-o
of heaven. Life for lifel Substitution
& The fact is that there are an uncounte'
number of mothers who, after the.
have navigated large family Of chil
dren through all the diseases OF infancy
- y and got them fairly started up the how
ering slope of boyhood and eirlhood
~ have only strength enough left to die
r. They fade away Some call it consump
tion, some call it nervous prostration
= some call it intermittent or malarial III
III disposition, but | call it martyrdom o
lx the domestic circle Life for litel Bloo'
for blood Substitution
Blood For Blood.
Or perhaps mother fingers Ion
" enough to see a son get OH the wron
,e road, and his former kindness become
he rough reply when she expresses anxiet
.rs about him. But she goes right on' looi
nd ing carefully after his apparel, remen
"a bering his every birthday with som
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