The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-05-28

apostolic and human falls short, for
Christ was the great unlike. Adam, a
type of Christ, because he came di-
rectly from God; Noah a type of Christ,
because he delivered his own family
from deluge; MelchiSedec a type of
Christ, because he had no prede-
cessor or successor; Joseph a type
of Christ, because he was cast out
by his brethren; Moses a type of
Christ, because he was a deliverer from
bondage; Josiah a type of Christ, be-
cause he was a conqueror; Samson a
type of Christ, because of his strength
to STAY the lions and carry off the iron
gates of impossibilitv; Solomon a type
| of Christ. in the affiuence of his do
minion; Jonah a type of Christ, be-
cause 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 Moses,
and Joshua, and Samson and Solomon,
and Jonah, and they would not make
a fragment of a Christ, a quarter of a
Christ. the half of IA Christ, or the mil
lionth part of a Christ.
lie forsook a throne and sat down on
His own footstool. He came from the
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ton, and changed a circumference
| %seraphic for a circumference diabolic.
Once waited on 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 lustrious; past larger
worlds to smaller worlds; down stairs
of armament and from cloud to cloud,
md thrnnnh tIaa TONS and into tho
! cancels 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 splitting decks of a
laundering vessel, amid the drenching
| surf of the sea, and passed midpights
on the mountains amid wild beasts of
prey, and stood at the point where all
earthly and Internal hostilities
charged on Him at once with their
keen sabers-oUr substitute!
When did attorney ever endure SO
much for a pauper client, or physician
for the patient in the lazaretto, or
mother for the child in m~embranous
group, as Christ for us, and Christ for
| you, and Christ for me? Shall any man
vi olAlh vi III III bHAD
who has ever suffered for another find
it hard to understand this Christly suf-
fering for us? Shall those whose SYM
pathieS have been wrung in behalf of
the unfortunate nave no appreciation
of hat one moment which was lifted
out of all the ages of eternity as
most conspicuous, when Christ gath
cred up all the sins of those to be
,a1aaD.aI nnIAF His nna arm and all
their sorrows under His other arm,
and said: Il will atone for these under
my right arm, and will zeal all those
under my left arm. Strike me with all
Thy glittering shafts, o Eternal Jus-
tice! Roll over me with all thy surges,
We oceans Of sorrow!" And the thur
derbolts struck Him FROM above, and
the seas of trouble rolled up from be-
meath, hurricane after hurricane, and
cyclone after cyclone, and then and
there in the presence of Heaven and
earth and hell, yea, all worlds wit
Messing, the price, the bitter price, the
transcendent price, the awful price,
glorious price, the infinite price, the
eternal price, was paid hat sets us
free.
That is what Paul meant, that is
what mean, that is what all WHO
haYe eyer had their heart changed
mean by blood" glory in this res
ligion of blood am thrilled as ! see
the suggestive color in sacramental
cup. whether it be of FURNISHED silver
set on cloth Immediately white, or
r~ough-hewed meeting house OF the
wilderness. Now | am thrilled as |
see the affairs of ancient sacrifice Grim
son with the blood of the slain lamb,
and Leviticus IS to me not so much the
Old Testament as the New. Now |
see why the destroying angel pass
ing over Egypt in the night
spared all those houses hat had blood
Sprinkled on their door posts.
Now l know what Isaiah means
when he speaks of lone in red apparel
coming with dyed garments from Boz
rah;' and whom the apocalypse means
when it describes II heavenly chieftaia
whose ''Vestnre vas dipped ia hlood;"
and what John, the apostle, means
when he speaks of the precious blood
that cleanseth from all SIM" and what
the old, worn-out, decrepit missionary
Paul means when, in my text, he cries,
"Without shedding of blood is no re-
mission" by that blood yOu and l
will be saved-or never saved at all.
In all the ages of the world God has
not once pardoned a single sin except
through the Sayior's e%xpiatiOn, and
He meyer will.
1t was q most exciting day ! spent
an the battlefield of Waterloo. Start
ing out with the morning train from
Brussels, Belgium, we arrived In about
an hour on the famous spot. A son of
one who was in the battle, and who
had heard from his father IA Thousand
times the whole scene recited, accom-
panied Us over the field. There stood
the old Iiougomont Chateau, the walls
denied, and scratched, and broken,
and shattered by grape-shot and can
non-ball. There is the we'll in which
800 dying and dead were pitched.
There is the chapel with the
head of the infant Christ shot
aft, TheGe are the gates at which.
for many hours, English and
French armies wrestled. Ionder were
the 100 guns of the English, and the
$50 guns of the French. Honder the
Hanoverian IIussars fed for the
woods. Yonder was the ravine of
Chain, where the French cavalry, not
knowing there was a hollow in the
ground, rolled over and down, troop
after troop, %tumbling into one awful
mass of suffering, hoof of kicking
horses against brow and breast of
captains and colonels and private sol
dierS, the human and the beastlY
groan kept up until, the day after, all
was shnveled under BECAUSE of the
unalndur arising ia that hot month of
June.
There" said our guide, 1.-The High
land regiments lay down on their faces
waiting for the monent to spring
upon the foe. In that orchard 800
men were cut to pieces. Here stood
Wellington with white lips, and up
that knoll rode Marshal New on his
sixth horse, five having been shot
under him. Here the ranks of the
Frence broke, and Marshal Ney, with