The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-02-14
The BLOOD
ON The Intel
Typical Of the crueifixion Of Jesus
Christ.
Strong Sermon by DR.. Collins Denny
at the First Presbyterian
Church.

DIR. Collins Denny of Nashville. oc
-cupied the pulpit at the Flrat Presby
terrain church Sunday morning anC
evening. and preached two eloquent
soul-stirring sermons. Good-sizeC
congregations were in attendance al
both services. notwithstanding the un
pleasant weather.
Morning Sermon.
Dr. Denny took for his text clause
of the 18th verse of the 18th chapter
of Exodus-''When / see the blood,
will pass over You. The condition of
the children of Israel at this time, he
said, was very sad. They had been in
Egypt a great many years-for several
centuries, perhaps they had been
reduced to the miseries of serfdom.
Some time previous to the incident
related in the text. Moses had been
born, and we all know of the manner
in which he was providentially cared
for ard brought up. Doubtless the
children of Israel expected some good to
come from the fact that he, one of
their own kindred, stood so high in
the palace of the pharaoh. Moses was
an extraordinary man an ordinary man
who rises above the level of his birth,
will forget those with whom he was
associated and ever forbear mention
of his lowly parentage but Moses was
not of that nature. Most men, as
Carlyle says. ''are anvils; very few are
hammers. Blows we must take, but
not so often as we should give them
we must push ourselves into the fight,
and bear the brunt of the battle. 1t
is not those who seek the easy places
in life who make this world all it is
for glory and honor. Moses chose
rather to suffer affection with the
people OF God, than pleasures with
the people of sin. Moses was the
man on whom the children of Israel
founded their hope; but hope founded
on anything human is not safe. And
so it is we find Moses exiled from
the land, and the children of Israel,
their hopes blasted, wandering for
forty years in the wilderness But
Moses returns to deliver them from
bondage, and brings not only mes
sage to them, but also to Pharaoh
but PharOah hearkened not unto him,
and his heart was hardened. And |
now nine plaques have fallen on the |
land, and the tenth is about to wiring |
anguish from the hearts of the people I
OF Egypt The proclamat ion has gone
forth thar all the first born of the land |
shall be slain; but the Lord promises
that while the angel of destruction is
passing through, wherever he sees the
blood sprinkled on the Intel over the
door posts, he would pass that house
by.
The doctrine of blood is not 80 popu-
lar now as it was in the days past, but
nevertheless 1T runs through the whole
II God revelation from the opening
pages to the last. We find that this
incident in Egypt is but type of the
of Christ. The merit is
in the blood. and in the blood alone;
not in something else in connection
With it. There was great wealth in
he land of Egypt, but God was not
ooking for wealth on the night of that ,
errible visitation there was also great j
beauty, men of great culture, and {
olallty, but the Almighty was not {
ooking for any of these; He was {
ooking only for blood. And he is look
ng for blood today. We live in day {
When the tastes Of the people run in t
arge degree to aesthetics; great deal c
> counted on display, and we ofstime {
DISC sight of the simplicity of religion. t
The speaker felt u sympathy for the I
Id Chinaman he had read about who c
ound stray leaf from Bible and
cad thel con of baptism by water. He
vanted to be baptised and become
christian, but he knew not how to
roceed. So one day while it was rain
1g, he went out and looked up and
aid, 80, God, this is thy rain; bap- !,
se me. If that story represented !,
he true feeling of that soul, it was o
aptism of which no man need be "
shamed. 1t was the only step he knew n
ow to take. v
DR.. Denny said he did not under n
and the philosophy of the atone "
ent but it is within the power of all o. o.
us to realize its effect. How many +,
yes who know not it's explanation,
I've been lifted by it from the mlre of ri
n into purity and honesty and godli
sss George Newman, who engaged
the nefarious traffic of slave trading,
1t heard the preaching of q, orge
hiteman and was converted to Christ, T.
lew not what it meant, yet he could ~
ustrate it's power, and he was the =,
an who wrote Amazing grace =; =,
W sweet the sound, that saved a.
reich like me- 1t is not within a..
r power to understand it all; we VI VI
mot grasp all of the threads of p,
18th, yet we can at least catch hold -,
enough to hold in safety to the ~
)ss. ~.
No matter how much any of the chill VI