Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-14
A SUBLIME MARTIRDOM.
The Death on the Cross Should be
Accepted by All Mankind.
The sa,iour's blood Was shed for the
World, aud His Life Was Sacrificed That
We Might Live Dr. Iaimagr's
Easter sermon.

in. -: Without shedding of blood
is no remission"
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 Cowpcrs famous
hymn about The Fountain Filled
With Hlnoi," do you really believe
there il a literal application of the
blood of Christ To the soul?' My neg
ativc reply then is my negative reply
now. The Bible statement agrees with
all physicians, and all Psychologists.
and all scientists. in saying that the
hlnod i life, and in the Christian
religion il means simply that
Christ life was given for our life. Hence
that all this talk of men who say the Ill
bile story of blood is disgusting, aud they
lon't want what they call the ''slaugh-
ter house religion" only shows their
incapacity or unwillingncSs To look
through the figure of speech toward
the thing signiiicd The blood that,
IN the darkest Friday the world ever
saw. oozrd. or tricklcd or poured from
the brow, and the side. and the hands,
and the feet of the lllustri"uS sufferer,
back of Jerusalem, in few hours
,oagulatrd and dried M, and
forever disappeared; and il man had
depended on the application of the liter
al blood of Christ. there would not have
been a soul saved for the last Is cen
turtles
In order Ia understand this red word
If my text, we only have To exercise
~ 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 illustrat-
.d. The act of substitution is no nov
,lty, although hear men talk as
though the idea of Chri>ts suffering
substituted for our suffering were
something abnormal, something dis
trcssingly odd. something wildly eccen-
tric. a solitary episode in the world
history: when | could take You out in
Ia this city and before sundown point
To YOU 800 eases of substitution and
voluntary suffering of one in behalf of
another.
At > o'clock tomorrow afternoon go
among the places of business or toll.
II will b. no difficult thing for you to
find men who, 10y their looks, show
YOU that they are ovcrworked. They
are prematurcly old. They are hasten
ing rapidly toward their deceaSe. They
have gone through crisis in business
that shattered their nervous system
and pulled on the brain. They have a
shortness of breath, and a pain in the
back of the head, and at night an in
somnia that alarms them. Why are
they drudging at business early and
late? For fun? No; it would be dif-
iicult to extract any amusement out of
that exhaustion. Because they are
avariciOu>? In many eases, no. Be-
cause their own personal expenses
are lavish? No; n few hundred dol
lars would meet all their wants. The
simple fact is, the man Is enduring all
that fatigue and evaporation, and
wear and tear, to keep his home pros
porous. There is an invisible line
reaching from that store, from that
bank, from that shop. from that seat
| folding. to a quiet scene a few blocks
away, and there is the secret of that
business endurance. lie is simply the
champion of n homestead, for which he
wins bread, and wardrobe, and educa-
ton, and prosperity, and in such battle
| 10. 900 men fall OF ten business men
whom bury nine die of overworll for
others. Some sudden disease ~pds
| /, h., l, ~ 81
they are gone. Life for life. Blood
fol1 blood. Substitution!
At | o'clock tomorrow morning, the
hour when slumber is most uninter-
rupted and profound, walk amid the
dwelling houses of the city. Here and
there you will find a dim light. be-
cause it is the household custom To
keep subdued light burning: but
most of the houses from base to tor
| 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 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
physicians prescription, not giving a
| drop too much or too little, or mo-
ment too soon or too late. She is very
anxious, for she has buried three chill
drcn with the same disease, and she
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 it is
| all over, the mother is taken down
| Brain or nervous fever sets in, and
| one day she leaves the GONZALES
cent child with mothers bless
ing and goes up to join the three
departed ones in the kingdom o.
Heaven. Life for life. Substitution
The fact is that there are an uncountec
number of mothers who. after they
have navigated a large family of chill
dren through all the diseases of infancy
and got them fairly started up the
towering slope of boyhood and girl
hood. have only strength enough left t.
die. They fade away. Some call i
consumption; some call it nervous pros
tration; some call it intermittent ol
malarial indisposition; but | call ..
martyrdom of the domestic circle
Life for life. Blood for blood. Sub
stitution!
Or perhaps mother fingers long
enough to 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 carefully after his apparel, re.
membering his every birthday with
some memento, and when he is brought
home worn out with dissipation
nurses him till he gets well and start
him again. and hopes, and expects, an,
prays. and counsels. and suffers. un
til her strength gives out and sh,
fails. She is going, and attendants
bending over her pillow, ask he
if she has any message to leave, ant
she makes great effort to say some
thing. but out of three or four min
utes of indistinct utterings they cal
catch but three words; MY poor boy.
The simple fact is she died for him
Life for life. Substitution.
About thirty-eight years ago Their