The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-11

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Universe shtveTs. and quakes. and recoils.
and groans al the horror
Al good men have for centuries been
trying 70 tell whom Ihss substitute was
Ike AMI every comparison. Inspired and
unilspired, evang=lisIic. prop1=Ebc. apos-
tolls, and human. fails short for C1rtst
vas the Great Unlike Adam type o.
Christ because he cane directly from
God; Noah a type q Chris because ne
delivered his own family from dsluge;
Me-caise-dec q type OF Cnrisg. because ne
1aG no predecessor or successor. Joseph
a type Of Christ. becaus he vas cast out
by MS brethren Moss type OF Christ.
because he vas de-ive-er from bondage;
Joshua a type OF Christ. because ne was
couqueror. Samson a type Of Chris-. BE-
cause o. ais strength % slay the Ions and
carry of The iron gates OF imDosslol.ity;
solomon type OF C1rist. an the af5iueucs
Of MS dominion; Jonah a typ= Of Christ
o-scsuse o. the stormy sea ~ when he
threw himself for the rescue OF Others,
but put together Adam. and Noah. and
Aelc1isedec, and Joseph. and Moss. and
Joshua. and Samson. and So-ouou. and
Jonah. and they would not make frag-
ment of a Christ a quarter o. Christ.
toe nalf OF Christ. or the niIlignIn part
o. a Christ
he 1orsoosz a throne and sat down on
his own footst0oL He came from the top
changed q circumference seraPhic for a
circumference diaDoIic- once waited On
~ angels. now hissed at by brigauds
From afar and high Up he came down;
past meteOrs sWifter than they: BY starry
tnroRes, himself more lustrouS; past
larger worlds to smaller worlds; down
stairs OF Ornaments. and from cloud 70
cloud. and through treetOps and into the
cameIs stall. 10 thrust his shoulder under
our burdens and take the lances Of pain
through bis vifals. and wrapped himself in
all the sgonies which We deserve for our
misdoings. and stood on the splitting decks
Of a laundering vessel amid the drench--
ing surf OF the sea, and passed midnights
on the mountains. amid viii beasts Of
prey. and stood al 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 lszarettO. or mother for the
child in membranous Group. 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
suffering for us7 Shall those whose SYM
pathies have been wrung in behalf Of the
unfortunate have no appreciation OF that
che moment which was lifted out Of all
when Christ gathered up all the sins OF
those 10 be redeemed under his one arm,
and all their sorrows under His other arm,
and said: I viii atone for these under ny
right arm and viii heal all those under
my left arm Strike me with all thy glitter
ing shafts. . Eternal Justicei Roll over
me with all thy surges, We oceans Of sor-
row" And the thunderboIts struck him
from above. and the seas OF trouble rolled
Up from beneath, hurricane after hurrf-
cane, and cyclone after cyclone, and then
and there in presence of heaven and earth
and hell, yea, all worlds Witnessing, 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
I mean. that is what all those who have
ever had their heart changed mean by
blood" I glory In this religion OF blood!
am thrilled see the suggestive color
In sacramental cup. whether it be of bur
nished silver set on cloth Immediately
white, or rough-hewn from wood set on ia
bic in log-hut Westinghouse Of the wilder
Tess. Now am thrilled as I see the affairs
Of ancient sacrifice crimson with the blood
OF the 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 in the night spared all
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their door posts. Now know what Isaiah
means when he speaks of ''one in red ap-
parel coming with dyed garments from
Bozrah;' and whom the Apocalypse means
when it describes a heavenly chieftain
whose ''vesture was dipped In blood" and
what John, the apostle, means when he
| speaks OF the precious blood that clean
seth from all SIM" and what the old. worn
out. decrepit missionary Paul means when.
I IN my text, he cries, Without shedding of
/ blood is no remission" BY that blood you
| and Will be saved-or never saved at all
| In all the ages Of the world God has not
! once pardoned single sin except through
/ the Savior's expiatiOn. and he never will.
/ Glory be to God that the hill back of Jeru-
! salem was the battlefield on which Christ
/ achieved our liberty,
1t was a most exciting day I spent on
the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting out
/ with the morning train from Brussels, Bel
/ GUM. we arrived in about an hour on that
/ famous SPOT. son of one who was in
the battle, and who had heard from his
/ father thousand times the whole scene
| recited. accompanied us over the field.
| There stood the old Hougomont Chateau
the walls deuted, and scratched. and brok-
| en- and shattered by grape-shot and can
| non-ball. There is the well in which three
| hundred dying and dead were pitched.
| There is the chapel with the head of the
infant Christ shot of. There are the gates
| at which. for many hours. English and
| French armies wrestled. Yonder were the
one hundred and sixty guns Of the English,
and the two hundred and fifty guns of the
| French. Yonder the Hanoverian Hussars
| fed for the woods.
Yonder was the ravine OF Chain. where
the French cavalry. not knowing there
was hollow an the ground, rolled over
and down, troop after troop. tumbling into
one awful mass of suffering. hoof of kick
ing horses against brow and breast Of cap
tains and colonies, and private soldiers, the
human and the beastly groan kept I'D until
the day after, all was shoveled under be-
cause of the malodor arising in that hot
month of June
There" said our guide, "the High
land regiments lay down on their faces
waiting for the moment to spring upon the
foe. In that orchard twenty five hundred
men were cut 10 pieces. Here stood We'll
lington with white lips. and up that knoll
rode Marshal Ney on his sixth horse. five
having been shot under him. Here the
ranks OF the French broke, and Marshal