Connecticut western news., 1898-04-14

| Sae same God just in time had provided
 a ram of the thioket 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
 verse shivers, 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, 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 a 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 he was cast out by his brethren;
 Moses a type of Christ, because he was
 a deliverer from bondage; Joshua a | type of Christ, because be was con- ] queror; Samson type of Christ. be- cause of his strength to slay the lions
 and carry off the iron gates of impossi-
 bility; Solomon type of Christ. in the
 affluence of his dominion; Jonah type |
 which he threw himself for the rescue of others, but put together Adam, and | Moab, and Melchisedec, and Joseph,
 and Moses, and Joshua, and Samson,
 and Solomon, and Jonah, and they
 would not make a fragment of Christi
 quarter of a Christ, the half of | Christ, or the millionth part of Christ He forsook a throne and sat down on | his own footstool. He came from the
 top of glory to the bottom of humilia- | ton and changed circumference se- i raphic for a circumference diabolic
 Once waited on by angels, now hissed
 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 a laundering vessel, amid |
 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 a pauper client, or physician | for the patient in the laZaretto, or
 mother for the child in membranous croup, as Christ for us, and Christ for you, and Christ for me? Shall any man
 or woman or child in this audience who | has ever suffered for another find it | hard to understand this Christly suffer- | ing for us? Shall those whose sympa-
 thies have been wrung i'll behalf of the
 unfortunate have no appreciation of | 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 under bis one arm, and all their sorrows un- | der his other arm, and said: "I will 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 with | all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow?" | And the thunderb bolts struck him from | above, and the seas of trouble rolled up from beneath, hurricane after hurri- cane, and cyclone after cyclone, and | then and there in presence Of heaven
 and earth and hell-yea, all worlds wit messing, the price, the bitter price, the | transcendent price, the awful price, the glorious price, the infinite price, the
 eternal price, was paid that sets us free. That is what Paul means, that is | what mean. that is what all those who | have ever had their heart changed mean | by "blood." l glory in this religion of | blood 1 am thrilled as 1 see the sr2 gestive color ill sacramental cup, wheth-
 CT it be of furnished silver set on cloth | immediately white or rough hewn from wood set on table in log hut meeting ! house of the wilderness. Now 1 am | thrilled as 1 see the altars of ancient | sacrifice crimson with the hood of the l slain lamb, and Leviticus is to me not so much the Old Testament as the New. | Now I see why the destroying angel passing over Egypt ill the night spared 1 all those houses that had blood sprinkled | on their doorposts. Now I know what
 Isaiah means when he speaks of ''one ill
 red apparel coming with dyed garments
 from Bozrah, and whom the Apoca- | lypse means when it describes heav-
 enly chieftain whose "vesture was dip
 ped in blood,'' and what John, the
 apostle, means when he speaks of the
 "precious blood that cleanseth from all | sin," and what the old, wornout, de-
 crepit missionary Paul means when, in
 my text, he cries, "Without shedding | of blood is no remission. By that blood | you and I will be saved-or never saved at all. In all the ages of the world God
 has not once pardoned single sin ex-
 oept through the Saviour's expiation,
 and he never will. Glory be to God that | the hill back of Jerusalem was the bat
 tlefeld on which Christ achieved our l liberty!
 | Palestine's Waterloo.
 It was a most exciting day spent on
 the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting
 out with the morning train from | Brussels, we arrived in about an
 hour on that famous spot. A son of one
 who was in the battle and who had
 heard from his father thousand times
 the whole scene reoited accompanied us
 over the field. There stood the old
 Hougomont chateau, the walls dented
 and scratched and broken and shattered
 by grapeshot and cannon ball. There is
 the well in which 300 dying and dead
 were pitched. There is the chapel with
 the head of the infant Christ shot off.
 There are the gates at which, for many
 hours, English and French armies wres-
 tied. Wonder were the 160 guns of the
 English and the 250 guns of the French.
 Wonder the Hanoverian hussars fled for
 the woods.
 | Wonder was the ravine of Chain, | where tha French capnlrv nnt know