Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-04-14


wrote tho5ablest and most famous oSsay
on art that the world over saw or eyer
Will aee-ttt:90ha Rnalsin'ait NJ Paint.
tats,' Flatss I 2 sake ksheie e.atshcs gcrek5
! the battles OF The ma!trsaspd ar..!!sss ana
after, In poverty and bIokon hearted-
moss, tho painter had died and tho pub
Ito tried to undo their crnelHes toward
him by giving him u big funeral and
bufsa. III So PEaul's cathedral, his old
stnle friend took ont &c 9 t:i 5ox 20, 900
pieces of paper containing drawings by
the old painter, and through many
weary and incorporated months as.
sorted and arranged them for public OBJ.
~seryation. People say John Ruskin In
MS old day 10 GROSS, misanthropio and
morbid. Whatever no may do that he
ought not to do and whatever he may
say that he ought not to soy between
now and his death, he will leave this
world insolyont az far as it has any co.
paoity to pay this authors pen Cor it's
chivalrto and Christian defenso of q
poor paintor's ponoil. John Ruskin for
William Turnerl Blood for bloodl Sub
stitutioni ~
'.N WA <huothCTs
What on oxalting principle this
which leads II to suffer for anotherl
Nothing so kindles enthusiasm or awak-
Il eloquenoo, or chimes poetic onnto,
or moves nations. The principle Is tho
dominant one in our religion-Ohrist
tho martyr, Christ tho celestial hero,
Christ tho defender, Christ tho substi-
tute. Mo now principle, for it Was old
as human nature. but now on q grander,
wider, higher, dooper and moro world
reaonnding scale. Tho shepherd hoy rs
g champion for Israel with q cling top
pled tho giant Of Philistine b%raggadooio
in the dust, but horo is another David,
who for all tho armies Of churches mill
tant and triumphant hurls tho Goliath
Of nerdition into defeat, the crash Of his
brazen armor like on explosion at He'll
Cato. Abraham had nc Gods command
agreed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and
tho Same God just In timo had provided
q ram of the thioket as Il substitute, but
thero is another Isaac bound to tho al
tar, II no hand arrests tho sharp odges
OF laoeration and death, and tho uni
verso shiyors, and q~uakos, and ~rocoils,
and groans at tho horror.
All good mon have for centuries boon
trying to toll whom this substitute was
like, and ovory comparison, inspired
and u%ninspirod, evangolistio, prophetic,
apostolic and human, falls short, for
Christ was tho Groat Unlike. Adam q
typo Of Christ, because no oamo direct
ly from God; Noah q typo of Christ,
because no delivered his OWE family
from dolugo; Molchisodoo q typo of
Christ, because he had no predecessor
or successor; Joseph q typo Of Christ,
beoauso no was cast out by his brothron;
Moses n typo Of Christ, because no was
n doliverer from hondugo; Joshua q
type or Christ, because no was q con-
quoror; samson n typo Of Christ, bo-
cause of his strength to Stay tho lions
and carry Off tho iron gatus Of impossi-
btlityl Solomon q typo Of Christ, in tho
nffuonco OF his dominion; Jonah q type
OF Christ, because Of tho stormy son In
whioh inc throw himself for tho rescue
OF others, but put together Adam, and
Noah, and Melehisedoc, and Joseph,
and Moses, IL Joshua, and Samson,
and Solomon, and Jonah, and thoy
would not mako a fragment of q Christ,
a quarter Of a Christ, tho half Of q
Christ, or the millionth part Of q Christ.
Flo forsook n throno and sat down on
his WI footstool. He camo from tho
top OF glory to tho bottom Of humilia-
ton and changed Il circumference So
raphio for II circumference diabolio.
Onco waited on by angels, now hissod
at by bri8ands. From afar and high up
no oamo down; past moteors swiftor
than they; by starry Thrones, himself
moro lustrous; past lnrgor worlds to
smaller worldsi down stairs of 1rmu-
monts. and from cloud to cloud, and
through trco tops and into tho camol's
stall, to thrust his shoulder undor our
burdens and take tho lanccs of pain
through his vitals, and wrapped himself
IN all tho agonios which wo deserve for
our misdoings, and stood on tho split
ting decks Of a laundering vessel, amid
tho dronching surf Of tho sea, and passed
midnights on tho mountains amid wild
beasts Of prey, and stood at tho point
whore all earthly and informal hostili-
ties charged on him ut once with thoir
keen sabors-our Substituted
The Prico of Freedom.
When did attorn' ovcr endure 80
much for n paupor ca MT, or physician
for tho patient in tho lazarctto, or
mother for tho child in mountainous
Group, as Christ for us, and Christ for
you, and Christ for mo? Shall any man
or " oman or child in this audience who
has ever suffered for another find 1t
hard to understand this Christly suffer-
ing for us? Shall those whose sympa-
thics have boon wrung III behalf of tho
unfortunate havo no appreciation Of
that ono moment which WAS lifted out
Of all tho ngos Of otornity az most con-
spic"o"a, when Christ gathered up all
the sins of those to be redeemed under
his ono arm, and all their sorrows un-
der his other arm, and said II will
atone for these undor my right arm and
will heal all those under my left arm.
Strike mo with all thy glittorin8 shafts,
oh, otornal justice! Roll oven mo with
all I'll y surgcs, ye oceans of sorrow2"
And the thunderbolts struck him from
Nbovo, and the seas Of trouble rolled up
from beneath, hurricane after hurri-
cano, and CYCLONE after cyclone, and
then and there in presence Of heaven
and Garth and holl-yca, all worlds wit
Messing, tho price, tho bitter prioo, tho
transcondont price, tho awful price, tho
glorious price, tho infinite price, tho
otornal price, was paid hat sots us free.
That il what Paul means, that is
what moan that 10 what oil tbocn who