Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-04-21

In Lhe IOlIOWlHB dlo'ouISc NV i
Dewitt 1alnage sets forth the radical
theory OF Christianity, vicarious sacri'
fee, and remarkable cases are set forth
The text Is:
without shedding 0, blood * no REMISSION
Hebrews tx, 3! '
John u. Whittier, the last of the
great school of American poets thai
made the last quarter OF this century
brilliant, asked me in the White noun
tains, one morning after prayers, IL
which had given ont towpers tamou'
hymn about the Fountain Fillee
with Blood do you really believe
there Is a literal application of tn,
blood of Christ to the soul?' My mega
tive reply then is my negative now
The Bible statement agrees with al
physicians, and all psychologists, and
oil scientists, in saying that the blood
IN the life, and in the Christian re-
ligion ii means simply that Christ =
life was given for our life. Hence
oil this talk of men who say the Bible
story OF blood ~ disgusting, and that
they don't want what they call a
''slaughtcr house religion, only shows
their incapacity or nwillingncss To
look through the figure Of speech to-
ward the thing signiticd, The blood
ti,at on the darkest Friday the world
ever saw, oozrd, or tricItled. or poured
from the brow, and the side and the
hands, and the feet of the lllustrious
Sufferer, back of Jerusalem, in few
hours coagulatcd and dried up, and
forever disappeared; aud " man had
depended on the application Of the lit
erHl blood Of Christ, there would not
have been u soul saved for the lust lS
centuries
La order 10 understand this red word
OF my text, we only have to exercise ~
much common senss in religion as we
do IN everything elst. Pang for pan &
hunger tor hunger, fatigue for fatigue,
tenr 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 thrists suffering substituted
for our suffering were something alb
normal, something distreSsingly odd,
something wildly eccentric, IA solitary
episode IN the worlds history, when
could take you out into this city and
before shutdown point you to 500 cases
OF Substitution aud voluntary suffering
OF one Ia behalf OF another.
AT two o'clock tomorrow afternoon
20 among the places of business or toll.
II will br no difficult thing for you to
hud iurn who, by their looks, show you
that they are overworkcd. They are
prc,naturely old, They are Fastening
rapidly toward their dccease. They
have S"uc thronp crisiscs IN business
that shattered their nervous system
aud pulled on the brain. They have
stiortucsN ot breath and pain in the
back ul the head, and ut night an in
sonn,n that alarms them, Why are
lntcr For fun" No: II would be- diih-
cult 10 extract any amusement
out Of that exhaustion. because
they are avarieious2 1t many
cascs no Because their own
personal expenses arc lavish? No; IL
few hundred dollars would meet all
their wants. The simple fact is, the
man il enduring all that fatigue and
evaporation, aud wear and tear, to
keep his home prosperous. There il
III invisible line reaching from the
Htorn, froM that bank. from that shop,
from that soaifolding, to quiet scene
fsw bloclss, IL few miles away, aud
"a IlA mat .f l,,.p,.
endurancc. lie is simply the champion
OF a homestead, for which he wins
bread, and wardrobe, and education,
aud prosperity, and in such battle ten
thousand men fall, OF ten business
men Whom bury, nine die OF over
work for others, Some sudden disease
hnds them with no power OF resistance
and they ARE gone Life for life.
Blood for blood. Substitution.
At one o'clock tomorrow morning,
the hour when slumbcr is most unin
tcrruptod aud profound, walk amid the
dwelling houses Of the city, Here and
there You will lind u dim light, because
" il the household custom to keep a
auhdued tight burning, but most of the
houses trou base to top are rs dark MS
though unuhahited A mcrciful God
has sent forth the urchaugrl of steep
aud ho puts hi. wings over the city.
But yondor il IA clear light burning,
aud outside On u window easement a
glass or pitcher containing food for II
siok child; the food is set in the frcsl,
air. This is the sixth night tina,
mother has sat up with that sufferer
She has to the last point obcycd tn,
physictan's prescription, not giving II
drop too much or too littlr, or u mo
menL too soon or too late, She Ii
very anxious, for she has burie,
three children with the same dis
case, aud she prays and wccps
each prayer aud sob ending with
kiss of the pale check by dint o
Kindness she gets the little on,
through the ordeal After ii is all owe
the mother is taken down, Brain o
nervous fever sets in, aud one day sh
leaves the convalescent child with
mothers blessing aud goes up to ioil
the three departed ones in the kingdom
Of Heaven Life for life. Substitution
The fact is that there are an uncountc,
number Of mothers who, after the
haya nnyiuntai a iurpa family ~ N, Il