Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-04-15

pieces Of paper containing drawings by
the old painter, and through many
weary and uncompensated months as
sorted and arranged them for public OBJ
servation. People say John Ruskin in
his old day is cross, misanthropic and
morbid. Whatever he may do that hc
ought not to do and whatever ne may
say that he ought not to say between
now ana his death, be will leave this
world insolyent as far as it has any ca
pacity to pay this authors pen for its
chivalrio aud Christian defense Of a
poor painters pencil John Ruskin for
William Turner Blood for blood Sub
stitutionl
Suffering For Another.
What an exalting principle this
which leads one to suffer for anotherl
Nothing so kindles enthusiasm OF awak-
ems eloquence, or chimes poetic canto'
or moves nations The principle is the
dominant one in our religion-Christ
the martyr, Christ the celestial hero,
Christ the defender, Christ the substi-
tute No new principle, for 1t was old
as human nature, but now on grander,
wider, higher deeper and more world
resounding scale The shepherd boy as
a champion fer Israel with sling top
pied the giant Of Philistine braggadocio
in the dust but here is another David,
who for all the armies of churches mill
tant and triumphant hurls the Goliath
Of perdition into defeat, the crash OF his
brazen armor like an explosion at He'll
Gate. Abraham had at Gods command
agreed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and
the same God just in time had provided
a ram Of the thicket as a substitute, but
there is another Isaac bound to the al
tar, and no hand arrests the sharp edges
Of laceration and death, and the uni
verse shiyers, and quakes, and recoils,
and groans at the horror.
All good men have for centuries been
trying to tell whom this substitute was
like, and every comparison, inspired
and uninspired, eyangelistic, prophetic
apostolic and human, falls short, Tor
Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam a
type Of Christ, because he came direct
" from God; Noah a type Of Christ,
because he delivered his own family
from deluge: Melchisedec a type Of
Christ. because he had no predecessor
or successor; Joseph type Of Christ.
because be was cast out by bis brethren
Moses a type Of Christ, because be was
q deliyerer from bondage; Joshua >
tyne of Christ, because he was a COM
oueror; Samson a type of Christ, be-
cause of his strength to slay the lions
and carry of the iron gates Of impossl'
bility; Solomon type Of Christ. in the
affluence Of his dominion; Jonah a type
of Christ. because Of the stormy sea IL
which he threw himself for the rescue
of others, but put together Adam, and
Noah. and Melchisedec, and Joseph,
and Moses, and Joshua, and Samson
and Solomon, and Jonah, and trey
would not make a fragment OF a Christ
a quarter Of a Christ the half Of
Christ, or the milliouth part OF Christ
He forsook a thrCne and sat down On
his own footstool lie came from the
top Of glory to the bottom Of hunhlia-
tiou and changed a circumference se'
rapbic for circumference diabolic.
Once waited on by angels, now hissed
at by brigands. From atar aud high up
he came down; past meteOrs swliier
than they; by starry thrones, himself
more lustrous; past larger worlds -
smaller worlds; down stairs Of firma'
meuts. and from cloud to cloud, and
through tree tops and into the camel 5
stall. TO thrust his shoulder under our
burdens and take the lances OF pain
through his vitals, and wrapped himself
in all the agonies which we deserve for
our misdoings, and stood on the split
ting decks Of foundering vessel, amid
the drenching surf Of the sea, and passed
midnights on the mountains amid wild
beasts of prey, and stood at the point
where all earthly and internal hostili-
ties charged on him at once with their
keen sabers-our Substituted
The Price of Freedom.
When did attorney ever endure so
much for pauper client, or physician
for the patient in the lazaretto, OF
mother for the child in membranous
rroup, as Christ for US, and Christ tor
YOU. and Christ for me? Shall any man
or woman or child in this audience who
has oyer suffered for another find II
hard TO understand this Christly suffer
ing for US? Shall those whose sympa'
thies have been wrung in behalf OF the
unfortunate have no appreciation ol
that one moment which was lifted out
of all the ages Of eternity as most con
spicuous, when Christ gathered up all
the sins of those to be redeemed undei
his one arm. and all their sorrows un
der his other arm, and said; Il viii
atone for these under my right arm and
will heal all those under my left arm,
Strike me with all thy glittering shafts
oh. eternal justicel Roll over me viii
all thy surges, ye oceans OF sorrow:
And the thunderbolts struck HIM iron
above. and the seas Of trouble relied vi
from beneath. hurricane after hurri
cane, and cyclone after cyclone and
then and there in presence OF beaver
and earth and hell-yea, all worlds VIII
Messing. the price, the bitter price, tn
transcendent price, the awful price, IN
glorious price, the infinite price, IN
eternal price, was paid that sets us iree
That is what Paul means, that
what mean, that is what all those WI
have ever had their heart changed mea
by blood. | glory in this religion g
blood / am thrilled as | see the sut
pestive color in sacramental cup, wheth
er il be of FURNISHED silver set on ciot
} Immediately white or rough hewn iroi
wood set on table in log hut mee'in
house of the wilderness. Now l oil
D thrilled as l see the altars OF ancieI
/ sacrifice crimson with the blood oi tn
slain lamb, and Leviticus is to me nc
4 so muoh the Old Testament as the New
s Now | see why the destroying ans'
o passing over Egypt in the night spare
! ALL those houses that had blood sprinkle
, on their doorposts Now | know VIII
= Isaiah means when he speaks OF lone
D red apuarel coming with dyed carmen