The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-23
SHEDDING OF BLOOD.
Christ's Great Sacrifice Typified In
Everyday Life.
Instances of Voluntary Suffering and Death
for the Sake OF Others Constantly
Coming Into Notice, but
Pass UNDECIDED.

hcc, anu rcInurhdDle cases are SET 1OrJn.
The text is:
Without shedding OF blood is no remlsslon.-
Hebrews tx, -
John G. 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 The Fountain Filled
with Blood:" "Do you really believe
there is literal application of the
blood of Christ To the soul?" My mega
tive reply then is my negative now.
The Bible statement az ces with all
physicians, and all Psychologists, and
all scientists, in saying that the blood
is the life, and in the Christian re-
ligion 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't want what they cali u
''slaugh religion, only shows
their incapacity or unwillingness to
lool through the figure of speech to-
ward the thing signfcd. The blood
that, on the darkest Friday the wor I'D
ever saw, oozed, or triclllcd, or poured
from the brow, and the Side, and the
hands, and the feet of the Ilustrious
Sufferer, back of Jerusalem, in few
hours coagulatcd and dried up, and
forever disappeared; and if man had
depended on the application Of the lit
eral blood of Christ, there would not,
have been u soul saved for the last 10,
centuries.
In order to understand this red word
OF my test, we only have to exercise us
much common sense in religion us we
do in everything else. Pang for pan g,
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 l near men talk as though the
idea of Chrst's suffering substituted
for our suffering were something alb
normal, something distrcssinglv odd,
something wildly eccentric, a solitary
episode in the worlds history, when |
could take you out into this city and
before SHUTDOWN point you to 500 cases
of substitution and voluntary suffering
OF one in behalf of another.
At two o'clock tomorrow afternoon
go 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 overworked. They are
prenaturely old. They are fastening
rapidly toward their decease. They
have gone throug,i crisises in business
that shattered their nervous system
and pulled on the brain. They have
shortnesS of breath aud pain in the
back of the head, and at night an in
somnia that alarms them. Why are
they drudging ut business early and
late? For fun? No; it would be dili-
cult to extract any amusement
out of that exhaustion. Because
they are avaricious? 1t many
cases no. Because their own
personal expenses are lavish? No;
few hundred dollars would meet all
their wants. The simple fact is, the
man is enduring all that fatigue and
eXasperation, and wear and tear, to
keep his home prosperous There is
an invisible line reaching from the
store, from that bank, from that shop,
from that scatfolding, to Il quiet scene
few blocks, II few miles away, aud
there is the secret of that business
endurance. He is simply the champion
of II homestead, for which he wins
bread, and wardrobe, and education,
and 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
finds 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 slumber is most unin-
terruptcd and profound, walk amid the
dwelling-houses of the city. Here and
there you will find u dim light, because
1t is the household custom to keep u
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 archangel of sleep,
and he puts his wings over the city.
But yonder is a clear light burning,
and outside on window easement "a
glass or pitcher containing food for a
sick child; the food is set in the fresh
air. This is the sixth night that
mother has sat up with that sufferer.
She has to the last point obeyed the
PhySiCid . pcrocriPIioh, hoO giving a
drop too much or too little, or n mo-
ment too soon or too late. She is
very anxious, for she has buried
three children with the same dis
ease, and she prays and weeps,
each prayer and sob ending with a
kiss of the pale cheek. BY dint of
kindness she gets the little one
through the ordeal. After it is all over
the mother is taken down. Brain or
nervous fever sets in, and one day she
leaves the convalescent child with a
mothers blessing and goes up to join
the three departed ones in the kingdom
of Heaven. Life for life. Substitution
The fact is that there are an uncounted
number of mothers who, after they
have navigated large family of chill.
dren through the diseases of infancy,
ard got them fairly started up the
Towering slope Of boyhood and girl
hood, have only strength enough eft
to die. They fade away. Some call it
consumption; some call 1t nervous
urostration: some call it intermitte Mt