Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-28

sties and appetites. So soon as it is discov-
cred that the Bible forbids all carnal pleas
ure, and enjoins holiness, the cry is raised
that the Bible is not true. Then, and never
before, is the discovery made that the Bible
and the records of creation, us contained III
the material world, do not agree
lor-lnal
"COME TO ME-"
Jesus said, "If any man thirst, let him come
unto unto me- and drink" John Z: 81.
What was said by the Saviour on the last
day Of the feast of tabernacles, he still says,
and will continue to say until the work OF the
militant church is finished The language is
6gurative but beautiful, and easily under
stood Christ, in the passage Of Scripture
quoted, represents himself as a fountain. In
many other portions Of the Scriptures, he is
referred to under the same expressive figure
The prophet calls him fountain opened for
the washing away of sin and uncleanness.
The language Of the prophet throws light on
the invitation of the Saviour proclaimed
aloud on the last and great day of the feast Of
tabernacles 1t informs us, in express terms,
for what we are to 60 to Jesus For sin and
uncleanness. This fountain does what was
only typi6ed by the blood of bulls and goats.
1t ceanses from sin in its double aspect.
Sin renders the perpetrator both guilty and
polluted. The scriptural meaning of the
word guilty is liable to punishment. The
reason that any one is liable to punishment is
because he is a voator of the law of God.
All the human family have, in some way or
other, broken the commands Of God. By
nature, we are volators of the law of God,
and 80 soon as we become capable of moral
action, we commence course Of transgression
It matters not how much individuals may
differ about the connection we sustain to
Adam, and the loss that we incurred by his
trausgression, the Bible plainly teaches, and
facts clearly demonstrate, that sin reigns unto
death, even over them who do not sin after
the smilitude of Adams transgresson. The
wages of sin is and always has been visited
upon those who are not actual transgressors.
The conclusion to which we arrive is that all
the human family are guilty, that is, liable
to punishment. There is no way provided by
which this guilt can be removed but by going
to Jesus. His blood takes away the guilt of
sin. 1t meets the penal demands Of Gods
law. The justice of God affixes death as the
penalty to the divine law. The wages Of sin
is death. The soul that sinneth must die.
Christ died to take away the guilt of sin, and
all that would escape the infiction Of the
penalty must 60 to Jesus. They must accept
the atonement made by him or die, resting
under the curse of violated law.
The other idea that is included in the word
sin, is that which is conveyed to the mind by
the word pollution. God made Adam in his
own image but none of his descendants ever
possessed, by nature, that image. When
Adam became guilty, he lost his likeness to
his Maker, and became morally corrupt. All
his offspring are like him in his fallen state.
Not one of the human family resemble their
progenitor when he came from the hand Of
his Maker. Adam, by eating the forbidden
fruit, became both guilty and polluted, and
his offspring became guilty and polluted with
him. The blood of the Lamb of God not
only frees from the guilt of sin, but from its
moral filth and pollution. When, therefore,
Jesus says, "Come to me" he means come to
me that your sins may be pardoned, your
natures, renewed and the image of God, in
which man was originally created, be restored.
No one can enter heaven unless his nature is
renewed No one can renew our natures but
Jesus. No one can cleanse us from the dread
full stain of sin but the Lamb of God.
No wonder Jesus is so precious to his peo-
ple. No wonder he is the chiefest among ten
thousand, the one altogether lovely. He
saves from the guilt of sin by becoming
in-ofering. He saves from the pollution of
sin by making those who 60 to him new crea-
lures He gives them new hearts and assimi-
lates them to himself: Coming to Jesus and
believing in him are the same thing. To be-
leve in Jesus is for the sinner to arise like
the prodigal son, and 60 to him, feeling that
he is sinner, lost and ruined, but that there
is forgiveness with God through the blood of
Jesus.
BRILLIANT BUT UsEFUL.-Astley Cooper,
on visiting Paris, was asked by the surgeon
en- chef of the empire how many times he per-
formed certain wonderful feat of surgery.
He replied that he had performed the opera
ton thirteen times. "Ah but, monsieur, |
have done him one hundred and sixty time.
How many times did you save his life"
continued the curious Frenchman, after he
had looked into the blank amazement of Sir
Astley's face. a." said the Englishman,