Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30

without the shedding OF blood tier
| Is no remission" Of SINS
Our hymnology 10 suffering from thu
refined aestheticism. Many OF III
hymns setting forth the atonement D
Christ have been banished from tn
! books, while of those left-nany in ,
| mangled state and which would bleet
If hymn could bleed-few are used.
Take that mighty hymn Of Johl
Newton's-
In evil long 1 took delight.
Unawed by shame or fear.
Till new object struck my sight
And stopp'd my wild career.
This was the experience Of his owl
life. A midshipman on q British ship
he deserted, was captured. stripped
fiogged and reduced to situation be.
fore the mast. Exchanged into the slave
trade, he went from bad to worse. un.
til God met him with that picture
picture as surely presented to him a
it was to Paul when he wrote Gala
tians. ILL, /, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ hath been evidently set forth
crucified among you," q picture which
was henceforth stamped In everlasting
colors upon the tablet Of Newton'a
memory.
I saw one hanging on tree
In agony and blood;
He fixed his languid eyes on me
AS near his cross I stood.
Oh, never till my latest breath
Shall forget that look;
1t seem'd to charge one with his death
Though not word he spoke.
A second look he gave. which said:
4 freely all forgive;
This blood is for thy ransom paid,
1 die that thou mayst live"
The night before John Huss was
burned at the stake. 500 years ago. he
saw the picture Of Christ painted upon
the wall of his cell by an unknown
hand Then someone seemed to rub 1t
all out, but Immediately came group
of angels covering walls and ceiling
with the picture the last departing
saying: There: all the powers Of
darkness cannot obliterate that pic
ture"
With more or less vividness the great
picture of Christ bearing "the sin OF
many must be impressed upon the
soul Of every one gathered into the
kingdo Of God. They sung new
song. saying. Thou vast slain and
hast redeemed US to God by thy blood
out of every kindred and tongue and
people and nation..' Revelations ". 8.
There is the old HYMN
When 1 survey the wond'rous cross
On which the Prince OF Glory died
Ny richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride.
W. T. Stead says: This hymn is
Watts finest. and Is one Of the four
hymns which stand at the head Of all
those in the English language. Mrs.
Evans, the original OF George Elliott's
in Adam Bede.' quoted this
hymn upon her dying bed" He then
tells an incident which shows how Zip
PANTY we sing the most solemn hymns.
Father Ignatius preached a missionary
sermon at the church Of St. Edmond
the King. Lombard street London.
when this was the closing hymn. The
last verse was sung with much gusto.
and as 1t ended the preacher said: Il
for, do you know that the whole collec-
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing. SO divine.
Demands my life, my soul. my all.
The same authority In his "Hymns
That Have Helped" speaking OF Cow
pers splendid hymn
There Is fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuers veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains
says: REV James Spurgeon writes
ne: This hymn has spoken to my
heart as no other hymn has done. Sir
Edwin Arnold (whose Light Of Asia
does not qualify him espe-
tally for passing judgment upon the
7alue Of Christian hymns) says: This
hymn is absolutely shocking to my
mind but Mr.. Price Hughes writes: II
t has been much criticised. it has been
much blessed" And Mr.. Stead himself
adds: ..All the animadversions are as
he highest dust of the balance COM
pared with tho fact OF the marvellous
influence which the singing OF this
1ymn has had In softening the heart
1pon occasions Of great spiritual quick
,ning. 1t has been the means Of chang
ng the lives OF more men than all
hose who ever have heard the name
II it's criticize. E Lewis In Sioux
City Journal.
A sound philosophy and sane re-
igion both expect a man to unbend
he bow at times, and experience
caches us that the man reveals him
self at play more quickly and more
than in service. One Of
our great publishing houses has re-
.ently put out the biography Of man
who in the middle ages was a control
ing factor In European affairs. That
ruler was called a Solomon in his IL
,rary or his cabinet, but when he con-
sorted with buffoons, al he did freely
when of duty, men knew him to b.
'ool. To his fine. artistic taste the
modern world owes some Of its finest
works. for he encouraged with lavish
painting and sculpture. But
when he summoned the actor to amuse
him in his private theater he applaud
ID scenes and words which cansed hts
courtiers TO hang the head In shame and
made even mis- stable boys lcethe him.
A man may be honored at the meet
ngs of the Association for the Adj
Of Science In New York. but
( when in Paris his taste In play leads
him to seek recreation at the Moulin
Rouge or the Vache Enragee. his va
,ation reveals him to US more than do
his lectures.