The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-04-20

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but the infinite God, who knows every
thing, knows the len thousandth part
OF the length ard breadIh and depth
and height of anguish OF the northern
snd southern battle fields. Why did
these fathers leave their children ard
60 to the front, and why did these
young men, postponing the marriage
Day. start Gu: into she probabilities of
never coming back For principle
they died. Life for life. Blood for
blood SubstitutioD2
But We need not GO so far. What is
that monunentin the cemeteryf tits
to the doctors who tel in the south
ern epidemics. Why go? Were there
not enough sick TO be attended IN
these northern lstitpdes2 Oa, yes;
bnt the doctor puts few medical
books in his valise, and some vlals OF
medicine, and leaves his patients here
N the hands Of other physicians and
takes the rail train. Before he gets TO
the infected regions he passes crowded
rail trains, regular and extrs, taking
the flying and sffrighted populations.
He arrives in city over which q
great horror is brooding. He goes
from couch to couch, feeling the pulse
and studying symptoms and prescrlo
ing day a,er day, night after night,
until 8 fellow physician says: Doc
tor You had better 60 home and rest.
You look mi, cable" But he cannot
re>t while so many are suffering. On
and on, until some morning finds
him in delirium, in which be talks of
home, then rises and says he must go
look after the patients. He is told to
lie down but ne fights his attendants
until he falls back and is weaker and
dies for people with whom he had no
kinship and far away from his oIn
family and is hastily put swsy in q
strarsec's tomb, and only the fifth
part o. newspaper line tells US Of his
sacriice-his name just mentioned
among FIVE. Yet he has touched the
tarthest height of sublimity in .nat
three weeks of humanitarian services.
He goes straight as an arrow to the
bosom OF him who said. II was sick.
and ye visited me-. Life for Gfel
BsGod for blood! substitution!
All good men have for centuries
been trying to tell whom this suosti
tute vas like, and every comparison,
inspired and uninspiTed, evanselistlc,
prophetic, apostolic and human, falls
Short, for Christ wss the Great Unlike.
Adam a ty pc of Carist, because he
caue directly from God; Noah type
of Christ, because hr delivered his own
family from deluge; Gelchisedeca type
of Chris, because he had no prede
decessor or successor; Joseph type OF
Christ, because he was cast out by his
brethren; Moses type Of Christ, be
cause he was 8 deliverer from bond
age; Josbus type of Christ, because
he was concueror; Sampson type
of Christ, becsuse his strength to slsy
the lions aud carry eff the iron gates
of impossibiIitv; Solomon type OF
Christ in the sR lence OF his dominion
Jonah type Of Christ, because OF the
stormy sea in which he threw himself
for the rescue OF others, but Put to
gether Adam and Noah and Melchise
dec and Joseph and Moses and Joshua
and Solomon and Jonah, and they
would not make a fragment of 8
Christ, quarter of Christ. the halt
of a Christ or the millionth part OF
Christ.
He forsook throne and sat down
or his own footstool. BE came from
the top Of glory to the bottom of hu
initiation and changed circ1mfer
ence seraphic for a circumference dia
oolic. Once waited on by angels,
now hissed at by brigands. From
afar and nigh up he came down, past
meteors, swlfEer than they; by starry
thronss himself more lusrious past
larger worlds to smaller worlds, down
stairs OF armament and from cloud to
cloud and through treetops and into
the camel's stall, to thrust his shoul
der under our burdens and take
the lsnces of pain through his vitals,
and wrapped himself in all the ago
MES which we deserve for our misdo-
ings and stood on the splitting decks
of q laundering vessel amid the drench.
ing surf of the sea and passed mid
nights on the mountains amid wild
beasts OF prey and stood st the point
where all earthly and Internal hostlll
ties charged on him at once with their
keen sabers-our substitute!
When did attorney ever endure so
much for pauper client or ply sician
for the patent in the lsZaretto or
mother for the child iu membraoous
Group as Christ for US and Christ for
you and Christ for me2 Shall any
man or woman or child in this au-
dience who has ever suffered for an.
other find it hard to understand this
Christly suffering for uss Shall those
whose sympathies have been wrung in
behalf of the unfortunate have no ap-
probation OF thce.. one moment which
was lifted OUT of all the ages Of eterni.
~ SIS most conspicuous, when Christ
gathered up all the sins of those to be
redeemed under his one arm and all
their sorrows under his other arm and
said: IT will atone for these under
NY SJSAk aIU GsA0 LII ACSAA SA4 tAOoS
under my left arm. Strike ms with
all thy glsttering shafts. oh, eternal
justice! Boil ov1. le with all thy
surges, ye oceans. of sorrow." AID
thunoerbolts struck him above, and
the seas of trouble rolled up from be
meath, hurricane after hurricane and
cyclone after cyclone, and then and
there in presence OF heaven and earth
and hell, yea. sll worlds witnessing,
the price, he bitter prics, the trans
cendent price, the awful price, the
glorious price, the Infinite price, the
eternal price, was paid that sets usfree.
That IS THAT Paul means, that is
what mean, that is what all those
who have ever had their heart changed
mean oy blood" glory in this re
llslon of bloodI am thrilled as see
the suggestive color IN sacranenta
cup, whether It be of burnlsneu silver
SGT on cloth lnnsculately y white or
rough heWn from wood set on tab BILE