speaking of His blood: "For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for the remission of sins." This blood was "shed for the remission of sins." Then in Hebrews ninth and twenty-second, where it says, "Without the shedding of blood is no remission of sins." Men don't realize that this is God's plan of salvation. Said a man to me last night after the meeting: "Why, God has got a plan to save us. Certainly He has. You must be saved by God's plan. It was love that prompted God to send His Son to save us and shed His blood. That was the plan. And without the blood what hope have you? There is not a sin from your childhood-from your cradle-up till now that can be forgiven, unless by the blood. Let us take God at His word: "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins," without the blood no remission whatever. I don't see how a man can fail to comprehend this. That's what Christ died for; that's what Christ died on Calvary for. If a man makes light of that blood what hope has he? How are you going to get into the kingdom of God? You cannot join in the song of the saints if you don't go into heaven that way. You cannot sing the song of redemption. If you did I suppose you would be off in some corner with a harp of your own, and singing, "I saved myself; I saved myself." You can't get in that way. You must accept the plan of redemption and come in through it. "He that climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."

Then, in the tenth chapter of Hebrews, we find Paul, if he wrote this, just taking up the very thought: "He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses." You know when a man made light of the law under the Mosaic dispensation, whenever two witnesses came into court and swore that he hadn't kept the law, they just took him out and stoned him to death. Take up the next verse: "Of how much surer punishment suppose ye shall be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith He was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace." My friends, what hope is there if a man tramples the blood of Christ under his foot, if he says, "I will have nothing to do with that blood ?" I ask in all candor what mercy is there? What hope has he if he "hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith He was sanctified an unholy thing?" This is the only way to get to heaven, no other way. Turn again to the eleventh verse of the same chapter and we see: "But the Man after He had offered one sacrifice for sin "—mark that, He had settled the question of sin-"forever, sat down on the right hand of God. The high priests could

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never sit down. Their work was never done; but our High Priest hath put sin away by one sacrifice and then ascended to God. And in this same chapter of Hebrews we see again : "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us through the vail, that is to say, flesh, and having a High Priest over the home of God, let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for He is faithful that promised." I want to call your attention to the twentieth verse more particularly-" by a new and living way." Now Christ has opened a new and a living way. cannot get to heaven by our own deeds now. He has opened a new and a living way." We don't need a high priest to go once a year and pray God. Thank God we are all kings and all priests. We can go straight to the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. When Christ died that temple was rent from the top to the bottom-not from the bottom to the top-and every poor son of Adam can walk right in and worship-right into the presence of God, if he only comes by the way of the blood. Yes, thank God, He has opened a new and a living way whereby we can come to Him. Let us thank God for the new and the living way. We don't need any bishop, we don't need any pope, we don't need any priests or prophet now; but every one can be made kings and priests, and we can come through this living way to His presence and ask Him to take away our sins. There's not a man in this assemblage but can come to Him tonight.

There's a good deal about the blood in Hebrews that I would like to bring up; time passes, and I have just to fly through the subject. Now I don't know any doctrine I have preached that has been talked about more than the doctrine of blood. Why, the moment Satan gets a man to leave out this doctrine of blood, he has gained all he wants. It is the most pernicious idea to leave it out. A man may be a brilliant preacher, may have a brilliant intellect, and may have large crowds of people, but if he leaves this out, no one will be blest under his ministry, no one will be born in God's kingdom. If a man leaves out this blood he may as well go and whistle in the streets, and try to convert people that way, for all the good he will do in saving souls. It is said that old Dr. Alexander, of Princeton College, when a young student used to start out to preach, always gave him a piece of advice. The old man would stand with his gray locks and his venerable face and say: "Young man, make much of the blood in your ministry." Now, I have travelled

considerable during the past few years, and never met a minister who made much of the blood and much of the atonement but God had blessed his ministry, and souls were born in the light by it. But a man who leaves it out the moment he goes, his church falls to pieces like a rope of sand, and his preaching has been barren of good result. And so if you find a man preaching who has covered up this doctrine of blood, don't sit under his ministry, I don't care what denomination he belongs to, get out of it. Fly from it as those who flew from Sodom. Never mind how you get out of it-leave it. It is a whitened sepulchre. There is no life if they don't preach the blood. It is the only way we've got to conquer Satan; the only way we can enter heaven, and we cannot get there unless we have washed our robes in the blood of the Lamb. If we expect to conquer we must be first washed by that blood. A man who has not realized what the blood has done for him has not the token of salvation. It is told of Julian the apostate, that while he was fighting he received an arrow in his side. He pulled it out, and taking a handful of blood threw it into the air, and cried, “Galilean, Galilean, thou hast conquered!" Yes, the Galilean is going to conquer, and you must bear in mind if you don't accept the blood-don't submit to it and let it cleanse you the rock will fall on you, because the decree of Heaven is that every knee will bow to the will of Heaven. The blood is a call of mercy now. He wants you to come-He beseeches you to accept and be saved.

I heard of an old minister who had preached the Gospel for fifty years faithfully. "Ah!" many here will say, "I wish I was as safe to go to heaven as he." When he was reaching his end he asked that his Bible should be brought to him. His eyes were growing dim in death, and he said to one of those about him, "I wish you would turn to the first epistle of John, i., 7," and when it was found, the old man put his dying finger on the passage where it says: "But if we walk in the light as He is in light we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth from all sin,” and he said, “I die in the hope of that." It was the blood in his ministry that cleansed him. And so it is the only way by which our sins can be washed away. Why, there was a question once asked in heaven when a great crowd were gathering there, "Who are those ?" and the answer was: They are those who have come by great tribulation and have been washed by the blood of the Lamb."

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Now, the question here to-night is, what are you going to do with that blood? We have had it for two nights, and before I close I would like to ask you, what are you going to do about it?

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You must do either of two things-take it or reject it. Trample it under foot or cleanse your sins by it. I heard of a lady who told a servant to cook a lamb. She told him how to do it up and all about it, but she didn't tell him what to do with the blood. So he went to her and asked, "What are you going to do with the blood of the lamb?" She had been under conviction for some time, and such a question went like an arrow to her soul. She went to her room and felt uneasy, and the question kept continually coming to her, "What are you going to do with the blood of the lamb," and before morning she was on her knees asking for the mercy of the blood of the Lamb.

Now the most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing He left down here is His blood. His body and bones He took away, but He left His blood on Calvary. There is either of two things we must do. One is to send back the message to heaven that we don't want the blood of Christ to cleanse us of our sin, or else accept it. Why, when we come to our dying hour the blood will be worth more than all the kingdoms of the world to us. Can you afford to turn your back upon it and make light of it? Dr. King, when the war was going on, went down to the field with the Christian Commission. He used to go among the soldiers, and during one of his visits he heard a man cry, "Blood! blood! blood!" He thought that, as the man had just been taken off the battle-field, the scene of carnage and blood was still upon his mind. The Doctor went to him, and tried to talk to the man about Christ, and to divert his mind from the scenes of the field. "Ah, Doctor," said the man, feebly; "I was not thinking of the battle field, but of the blood of Christ;" and he whispered the word "blood" once more and was gone.

Dear friends, do you want all your sins washed away from you? It was shed for the remission of sins, and without the shedding of blood there would be no remission. There is blood on the mercy-seat to-night. "I am not looking to your sins now," God says, "but come and press in, press in and receive remission." Thank God, the blood is still on the mercy-seat. It is there, and He beseeches you to accept it. What more can He do for your salvation? Now, my friends, don't go out of this Tabernacle laughing and scoffing at the precious offering made to you, but just bow your head now and lift up your voice, "O God of heaven, may the blood of Thy Son cleanse me from all sin." The blood is sufficient.

Some years ago I was journeying to the Pacific coast, and nearly every stage-driver I met was talking about a prominent stage-driver who had just died. You know that in driving over

these rocky roads they depend a good deal upon the brake. This poor man, when he was dying, was heard to say: "I am on the down grade and cannot keep the brake." Just about that time one of the most faithful men of God, Alfred Coopman, passed away. His wife and friends gathered around his deathbed, and when his last moments arrived, it seemed as if heaven had opened before him, as with a shout he cried, "I am sweeping through the gates washed by the blood of the Lamb." What a comfort this must have been to his friends: what a comfort it must have been to him, the blood of the atonement in his last hours.

My friends, if you want a glorious end like the end of that sainted man you must come to the blood of Christ. Let us bow our heads in prayer: let us have a few moments of silent prayer, and let us ask the Lord to let us see this great truth.

"Peace through the blood of His cross."-Col. i. 23.

JESUS, keep me near the cross,
There a precious fountain,
Free to all, a healing stream,
Flows from Calvary's mountain.

In the Cross, in the Cross
Be my glory ever,

Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.

Near the cross, a trembling soul,
Love and mercy found me;
There the bright and morning star
Shed its beams around me.

Near the Cross! oh, lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day,
With its shadow o'er me.

Near the cross I'll watch and wait,

Hoping, trusting ever,

Till I reach the golden strand,
Just beyond the river.