St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-07-02

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anguish came up to the arch
Of His feet--came mp to His
knee-foated to His waist-rose to His
chin-swept to his temples-yet none
to help! Ten thousand times ten thou.
sand angels in the sky, ready at com.
mand to plunge into the bloody at.
fray, and strike back the hosts Of dark
ness, yet none to help, none to help!
Oh, this dove of the text, in this last
moment, clutched not with angry tai
ons 1t plunged not a savage beak. It
was = dove-helpless, defenselesS
None to help! none to help!
As, after severe storm in the morn
ing you go out and find birds dead on
the ground. SO this dead bird OF the
tex makes me think Of that awful
storm that swept the earth on cruel
ixion day, when the wrath of God.
and the malice OF man, and the fury of
devils wrestled beneath the three
crosses As we sang just now
well might the sun in .rkness hide
And shut his gsories in.
When Christ the mighty Maker. died
For man, the creatures sim"
But come now to speak of this sec
ond bird Of the text. We must not let
that fly away until we have examined
it The priest took the second bird,
tied it to the hyssop branch,
and then plunged it in the blood
Of the first bird. All! that is my
soul, plunged for cleansing in the
Savior blood. There is not enough wa
ter in the AtlaEtic and Pacific oceans
to wash away our smallest sin. Sin is
such an outrage on Gods universe
that nothing bus blood can atone for
it. You know that life is in the blood,
and as the life had been forfeited,
nothing could buy it back but blood.
What was 1t that was sprinkled on the
doorposts when the destroying angel
went through the land? Blood. What
was it that went streaming from the
altar Of ancient sacrifice? Blood. What
was it that the priest carried into the
holy of holes, making intercession for
the people? Blood. What was it that
Jesus sweat in the Garden OF Geth-
semane? Great drops Of blood. What
does the wine in the sacramental cup
signify? Blood, What makes the
robes of the righteous in Heaven so
fair? They are washed in the blood
of the Lamb. What is it that cleanses
all our pollutionp The blood Of Jesus
Christ, that cleanseth from all sin.
hear somebody saying: II do not
like such a sanguinary religion as
that" Do you think it is very wise
for the patient to tell the doctor, Il
do not like the medicine you have
given me!' If he wants to be cured he
had better take the medicine. My
Lord God has offered us balm, and
it is very foolish for us to say, u
don't like that balm" We had bet
ter take it, and be saved. But you do
not oppose the: shedding Of blood
in other directions and for other
ends If hundred thousand men go
ont to battle for their country, and
have to lay down their lives for free
institutions. is there anything ignoble
about that? Nc, you say; glorious
rather.s And is there any
thing ignoble in the idea that the Lord
Jesus Christ, by the shedding of His
blood, delivered not only one land, but
all lands and all ages, from bondages.
men by millions and mil
lions into the liberty of the sons of
God? Is there anything ignoblc about
that?
As this second bird of the text was
plunged in the blood of the first bird.
SO we must be washed in the blood of
Christ, or go polluted forever.
Let the water and the blood
From thy side q healing flood.
BE Of sin the double cure.
Save from wrath, and make me pure"
notice now that as soon as this Sec
ond bird was dipped in the blood Of
the first bird the priest unloosened it
and it was free-free of wing and free |
Of foot. 1t could whet its beak on any |
tree branch it chose. It could peck |
the grapes Of any vineyard it chose. 1t
have washed in the blood of the Lamb.
We can 60 where we will and do what |
we will. You say: Had you not bet |
ter qualify that?" No; for remem-
Der that in conversation the will is
changed, and the man will not will |
that which is wrong. There is no
in orr religion. A state
Of sin is state OF slavery. A state Of |
pardon is a state of emancipation. |
The hammer of Gods grace knocks the
topples from the wrist, opens the door
into landscape all ashimmer with
fountains and abloom with gardens
It is freedom.
If man has become Christian he
S no more afraid of Sinai. The thun-.
lers of Sinai do not brighten him.
You have, on some August day, seen
TWO thunder showers meet One cloud
rom this mountain, and another from
hat mountain, coming nearer and
nearer together, and, responding to
ZACH other, crash to crash, thunder
o thunder, boom! boom! And then
he clouds break and the tor
'ents pour, and they are emptied
perhaps into the very same stream
hat comes down SO red at your feet,
hat it seems as If all the carnage of
he storm battle has been emptied into
t So in this Bible 1 see two storms
,ather. one above Sinai. the other
Ibove Calvary, and they respond one
~ oAAS oSuCA HASH W HASH, IuuAuCI W |
hunder, boom! boom! Sinai thunders.
The soul that sinneth, it shall dies"
'alvary responds, save them from
DING down to the pit for have found
ransom
Sinai says. "Woe! Woer' Calvary an
wers, "Mercy! Mercy. and then the
LIQUIDS burst. and empty their treas
res into one torrent. and it comes
owing to our feet, red with the car
age OF our Lord--in which. If thy soul
e plunged, like the bird in the text.
shall go forth free-freei Oh, wish
II people to understand this: that
then man becomes q Christian
e does not become slave, but
nat he lecoMes free man;
hat he has larger liberty after he be- :
ONES . child of God than before he
ecame = child of God. Gen. Fisk said :
hat he once stood at slave block {
here an old Christian minister was
cling sold. The auctioneer said OF him:
What bid do hear for this man? He .
very good kind of q man; he is
Somebody said, Twenty
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