Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-16

burial Ill d. RAUL Catu6urdI, LIS olu
time friend took out of tin box 10, 900
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 aud
morbid. Whatever he may do that he
ought not to do and whatever he may
say that he ought not to say between
now and his death, he will leave this
world insolvent as far as it has any Ca
pacity to pay this authors pen for its
chivalric and Christian defense of a
poor painters pencil. John Ruskin for
William Turnerl Blood for blood! Sub
stitution
Suffering For Another.
What an exalting principle this
which leads one to suffer for another
Nothing SO kindles enthusiasm or 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 it was old
as human nature. but now on grander,
wider, higher, deeper and more world
resounding SCALE The shepherd boy as
champion for Israel with a 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 III time bad provided
ram of the thicket as 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
verso shivers, and quakos, 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, evangelistic, prophetic,
apostolic and human, falls short, for
Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam a
type of Christ, because he came direct
ly from God; Noah type of Christ,
because he delivered his own family
from deluge; Melchisedec type of
Christ, because he had no predecessor
or successor; Joseph type Of Christ,
because be was cast out by his brethren;
Moses a type of Christ, because be was
doliyerer from bondage; Joshua
type of Christ, because he was a con-
queror; Samson type Of Christ. be-
cause of his strength to Stay the lions
and carry off the iron gates of impossi-
bility; Solomon type of Christ, in the
at1luence of his dominion; Jonah type
of Christ, because of the stormy sea in
which he threw himself for the rescue
of others, but put together Adam, and
Noah and Melchisedec, and Joseph,
and Noses and Joshua, ,1and Samson,
and Solomon, aud Jonah, and they
would not make q fragment of Christ,
quarter of Christ, the half of a
Christ, or the millionth part of Christ.
He forsook throne and sat down on
his own footstool. He came from the
top Of glory to the bottom of humilia-
ton and changed a circumference Sc
raphic for circumference diabolic.
Once waited OH by angels, now Missed
at by brigands. From afar and high up
he came down; past meteors swifter
than they; by starry thrones, himself
more lustrous; past larger worlds to
smaller worlds; down stairs of firma-
ments, and from cloud to cloud, and
through tree tops and into the camel's
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 laundering 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 Substitute!
T,,a pr;ca of Freedom