The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-04-13


Messing, the price, tie bitter price, the
trauscendent price, the awful price, the
glorious price, tho infinite pIicc, tie
eternal price, WAS paid that sets Us free.
That is what Paul lHeanS, that Is
what mean, tina. Is what all those who
have ever rad their heart changed mean
by "blcGd glcry III this religion CT
blOCd! an thrilled &S see TIE sCg-
gestive color in "a 'ramcntal cup whrth'
or it be CT FURNISHED silver set Ga c!@.h
immaculately white or rough he5E from
wood set on table il log hut meeting
house CT the wilderness. Now | all
thrilled az see the altars Of ancient
sacrifice crimson with the blood Ct the
slain lamb, ard Leviticus IS TO Eie net
80 much the Old Testament a. the New.
Now | see why the destroying angel
passing over Egypt in the night spared
all those houses that had blood sPrlnk!ed
OH their doorposts Now | know what
Isaiah means when hc speaks Of one III
rcd apparel coming with dyed garments
from BoZrah, and whom the AECca-
Iyusc means when it describes a Ecav-
eEly chieftain whose 'vcsture was dip
ped in blood" and what John, the
apostle, means wien he speaks OF tie
'precious blood that cl2anscth from all
sin" and what the old, wornort, de-
crepit missionary Paul means when, III
nv text, be cries, 'Without shedding
of blood is 10 remisSicn. BY that El0cd
Won and will be saved-cr never saved
at alE In all the ages Cf the world God
has not once pariloncd single sin cX-
cept through tho Saviour's expiation,
and be never will Glory be to God that
the hill back of Jerusalem was the bat
tlefeld on which Christ achieved our
liberty!
Palestine's Waterloo.
1t was most exciting day spent on
the battlefield cf Waterloo. Starting
out with the morning train from
Brussels, we arrived in about an
hour Gu that famous spct. \ sen CT cno
who was in the battle and who had
heard from bis father thousand times
the whole scene recited accompanied MS
over the field. There stood the old
Hougomont chateau, the walls dentGd
and scratched and broken and shattered
by grapeshot and cannon kali. Iheerre-l = IS
the we'll in whichl.~SSCO dying and dead
were- p tttcilIed. 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. Yonder were the 100 guns Of the
| English and the $50 guns of the French.
Youder the Hanoverian hISsars fed fer
the woods.
Ycrder was tho ravipe Of OhaIr,
where the French cavalry, not know
ing there was a hollow in the ground,
rolled over and dcwn, troop after troop,
tumbling into one awful mass Of suffer
| ing, koof of kicking horses against brow
and breast of captains and colonels and
| private soldiers: the human and the
beastly groan kept up until the day after
| all was shovelcd Under because CT the
,nalodor arising i'll that hot month CT
| 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 2, 500 men were
cut to pieces. Here stood Wellington
with white lips, aid up that knoll rode
Marshal Ney on his sixth horse, five
having been sEot under him. Here the
ranks of the French broke, and Marshal
| New, with his boot slashed CT sword,
| and his hat eff, and his face covered
with powder and blood, tried to rally
his troops as he cried, Come and see
how a marshal OF French dies on the
battlefield. From yonder direction
Grouchy was expected for the French
reinforcement, but he came not
Around those woods Blucher was looked
for to re-enforce the English, and just
in time he came up. Yonder is the field
where Napoleon stood, his arms through
the reins Of the borse's bride, dazet
and insane, trying to go back " Scene
| cf battle that went on from % min
utes to ~ o'clock CT the 18th Of june
until O'Clock, when the Euglist
seemed defeated, and their commando!
cried out "Boys, you can't think o.
giving way: Remember old England. !.
and the tides turned, and at S O'Clock
in the evening the man Of destiny, who
was called by his troops Cid Two Hun
dred Thousand, turned away with bro
ken heart. And the fate Of centuries wa:
decided
No wonder great mound has beer
reared there, hundreds Of feet hich-;
mound at the expense Of millions CT del
lars and many years in rising, and CT
the top is the great Belgian lion O.
bronze, and a grand cid lien it is. Bu
our great Waterloo was in Palestine
There came Gay when all hell RODE
up, led by Apollyon, and the Captain c
our salvation confronted them alone
the Rider On the white horse Ct tn
Apocalypse going out against the blacl
horse cavalry Of death and the bat
talions of the delroniac and the myrmi
dons CT darkness. From 12 o'clock a
noon to 3 o'clock III tie afternoon tp
greatest battle of the universe went cn
Eternal destiries were being decided
All the arrows CT hell pierced cur Chief
tain and the battleaxcs struck him III
til brow and cheek and shoulder ant
hand and foot were incarnadined Will
oozing life, but be fought On until b.
gave a final stroke with sword from
Jehorah's bucAler, aud the commando
in chief of bell and all his forces fel
back in everlasting ruin, and the vic
tory is ours. And Oh the mound tha
celebrates tie triumph we plant thi
day two figures, not in Ercnze or irol
or sculptured marble, but two figures O
living light, tho lion of Judah's trib
and tho Lamb that was slain.