Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-06-08
IFor the Herald
Answer to $ A Dream by a Physi-
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OllCAliIS VI dNOnGuIOIl aLhSiN illN OlA GN
the shedding of blood. There WAS no
atonement without it, as life was in
the blood" Rude and barbarous as
it may appear to us now, in the noon
day of Christianity, 1t was, no doubt,
appropriately chosen, and suited mans
condition, at that period of his history
A new covenant seems in perfect har-
mony with Gods wisdom, to those
who have studied his economy, in the
management of perverse. rebellious
man. The new covenant was given
to Abraham and his descendants, in
promise, and until the time when it
WAS to he presented, they were placed
under form of government, which
our Book recognizes as the Law of
Moses. The law given to Moses 10y
Jehovah, himself, was designed, no
doubt, to gradually progress mans
condition, or as q kind of educating
process, morally and intellectually.
whereby he might be better prepared
to enter into the new covenant, which,
in due time, was to be presented for
their acceptance Notwithstanding the
wisdom and benevolenee OF that law,
as we peruse the. Jewish record OF
events, we often find them deviating
far from its precepts practicing idoi
airy; warning with each other, and
numerous other vices. And as years
and centuries rolled on, there appeared
upon the great drama, doctors of the
law, just as we have doctors OF divin,
ity, to-day; and the doctors of the
law instructed the people wrongly, or
perverted the law, just as many of our
doctors of divinity pervert the pure
i Gospel Herein originated another
difficulty. 1t was retrograde step ;
hence, it became necessary to send a
law restoler, and John the Baptist
mission was to induce them to repent
of their deviation from and restore
them to their alliance to the law. Christ
says, in the beginning of his admins
tratiou, Il came not to destroy the
law but to fulfill" By which he means
he is the end Of that law and thC
beginning of the new; and we of the
nineteenth century have no more te
do with Moses law, nor are we un
der any more obligations to that, thar
the people of the United States are tc
the sovereign of England; except sucl
parts as have been promulgated by
our new king. Now, hear John in th'
Wilderness. He says: Repent fo
the kingdom of heaven is at hand
And as lie stands IN the Jordan ad
ministering the baptism of repentance
to the multitudes around him, Jesu
came unto him to be baptised. join
forbade him. Jesus answering, sait
/ unto him, "Suffer it to so now, fC
thus it becomes us to fulfill all right
ousness" Every item of the law wa
TO be fulfilled before the new covenan
: was establish d, or the new kingdom
+ set up. When Jesus Christ entered ol
his mission, he repeated the old cove
nant in few words, when he said
Except a man be born again he ca
not enter the kingdom of God" ]
will be understood that all under tn
old covenant were heirs according t
) the flesh-born under it. Skeptic
may ask with Nicodemus, Chow ca
a man be born again z" In the frs
covenant, by birth of the flesh, i
the second, by a birth of the spiri
q a We will now turn to that part of on
Book which we call the Testament c
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Il
physician has no objections. and care
fully pcruse the four Evangelist!
But" says skeptic, II don't believ
word of what they say That is til
Al very reason we ask your careful after
n ton; for how any one cah peruse, III
derstandingly, those four witnesses {
that pure and holy life, and then den
the divinity of Christ, is past compr,
10 / uSHSlOlI- } SICldus hO OOuOlS lHinF
there are many things we cannot con
prehend). The Apostle says, go
was in Christ reconciling the worl
unto himself" Assuming our human
ity ard bearing our transgression. Ul
der the old covenant, God had only il
~ structed man by precept, now, He Civ,
an example so grandly beautiful in i
\ purity, goodness, wisdom and huma
ity, that we are moved with wond
and awe as we contemplate it healir
the sick and the lame opening the ey
.. of the blind; casting out demons; /
mt buking the winds; raising the dea'
: land many other things truly did J
sus in the presence of his discipl
which are not written; but these a
~ written that ye may believe that Jes
to is the Chri,t the Son of God, and til
he believing ye might have life throu
3; his name" Christ says: 81 am t
on way, the truth, the life. No man CO.
;ob eth unto the father but by me-"
me We have now approached that poi
old old in the physicians dream where he W
so perplexed to find the way to
HOLY CITY. Though he found