The New York herald., 1874-10-19
SEVENTH AVEBuE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
Co.'s Supreme Love for Sinners

Co.'s Supreme Love for Sinners.
The Brooklyn Seventh avenue Methodist Episco-
pal church was well filed yesterday morning
The pastor, DR.. Wild, took his text from Romans
", 7:-"For scarcely for righteous man will one
die yet peradventure, for good man some would
even dare to dle." amu I.t
The speaker held that II sin had not entered the
world it would be very difficult to define what our
prtmeval condition would have been. But what
ever the difference might be between sinless and
sinful inheritance in Adam, he was inclined to
believe we suffered no loss, Christ, our second
Adam, was our compensation and qualification.
"As in Adam all die, even in Christ shall all be
made alive" From this passage he understood
thar as Adam was condemned on his own
personal responsibility, and that though the
sequences OF his guilt touched all his
descendants, and corrupted and deprived them
OF some superior conditions yet, through the life
and death OF Christ, no one was condemned ex-
cept Tor that for which they were personally &C.
countable. 1t was true that many might be lost.
not simply because Adam slnned. but because we
were free moral agents. In such a primevaf trial
as Adams one sin brought instant condemnation,
but in our present relation, through the mercy OF
God in Christ, we might sin many times and live,
thus saving more than would have been saved by
a primeval trial. He'll was the home and goal Of
the slaves Of sin, for ere one could get To sucn
place H6 luuSL IOll duu Suu6C III IeSlStAuB tue
spirit OF grace ana goodness OF God. which were
designs TO lead him to repentance. They
bartered their freedom, exchanged good for EVIL
and learned to glory in their shame, taking
pleasure in unrighteousness ana rolling sin under
the tongue as a sweet morsel. 1t was utterly I'M
possible that such people could enjoy heaven, and
his (the speaker's) theory made God even more
merclul than the Universasts did, 1nasmuch as
he did not pelleve God would reN
FORCE A MAN INTO HEAVEN
who did not want TO 60 there. sinner would
not be happy there unless you could change his
disposition and affections But some argued
'.Wny did God permit men to be born II He knew
they would be damned?' Did He know IT and might
He not withhold His knowledge OF eventss II
not, then, HIS power 10 do whatsoever He
willed was dlsprOved. In summing up this dis
course the Doctor said that there were three mo-
tives elected for actions. some rendered evil for
evil others assumed 8 neutral attitude ana par
dOned an offence, while those on higher and more
GOdilKe motive plane rendered good for evil. None
would think OF dying tor sinner, scarcely Tor the
neutraliy righteous man, but for good man one
might dare to dIe There was an irresistible eo-
quence attached to goodness that took hold OF
sinners quicker than anything else. " was this
motive which governed Gods disposition, and
hence His love was sure, unchangeabe ana I'M
partial. AS Christians we should strive to emu.
late HIS example to be more than righteous: to
work toward the higher plane oil forgiveness and
love toward our fellow men and to love God be-
cause He first loved US.