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PRESBYTERIAN PULPIT.
The Rev. DIR. Grasty's Sermons
ON Last Sabbath.

On Sunday morning, Rev. DIR.
delivered a discourse on IRE 1
preparatory to one on "Sanc- {
at night. In commencing,
the Doctor said that revivals We're /
in the popular mind with {
excitements; but eloquent appeals
cannot produce true revivals. That
had been often tried, and as often
failure had been the significant result.
1t is only the church that can expert
ence a scriptural revival. True
revivals were connected with self-ex-
aminations. The soul aroused, re-
penis of sin and concludes hereafter
to do what is right. Then the Lord
hears and answers, and takes q
soul and plants it upon a rock. This
comes through preaching of the Cos
pei. "Sanctify them through thy
truth; thy word is truth'-was the
prayer of Christ. Many think that
Presbyterians L formalists-desti-
tute of faith in revivals. This is not
so; but this church does not care for
a revival that wastes itself in singing
and shouting, and leaves important
work untouched. What it desires
as the result of revival is more at
tentioL to personal duty, and more
display of individual piety; 0
prayer privately and socially; more
attention to the suffering; more love
to brethren; more growth in grace,
and conservation to God.
AT night, the Rev. Doctor in com-
mencing his sermon on
sANCTIFICATIoN
said: Let it be understood hat in the
argument of tonight, there will not
be a word of bitterness or derision.
The speaker can say of q truth that
he entertains malice towards none
ea,.moreover, that he. is conscious OF
charity for all. He has nothing to do
in this discussion with persons; his
only concern is for principles and for
truth. Upon two points at least, all
protested christians are agreed. The
whole church teaches that justifica-
ton is i~ndispensably necessary in or
der to soul peace with God, and that
every believer must grow in grace;
and that each child of God should use
all the means provided by the Holy
Spirit to the end that he may become
holy. Presbyterians teach the doc
trine of sanctification through its
ministers ana by authority of Script
ure, and urge all after they DC jss:i-
fed to 20 on to perfection. The COM
mand to grow spiritually is as old as
christianity. The soul is to add to
its faith virtue, and to virtue knOwl-
enge; and both the C and meth
dds for both justification and sanctifi-
cation were laid down just as I'M
eduivocaliy in the old testament as
in the new.
The doctor then went on to say
that no one could fully comprehend
the new testament without dilligent
and ~prayerful study of the old. The
two are one in purpose and one In
spirit, and they are in perfect accord
in every vital part thereof. The faith
that justified Abel is identical in es-
sence with that which justified Saul,
that iustifies you and me this day.
And not only were Abel and Paul JUS
titled through the same faith, but the
, m]eritorious ground of naturalization
= was the same. The blood of Christ
! prevailed for both.
The gospel practically began in the
: garden of Eden, and the plan for
mans recovery was too large a mat
= ter for the world in its infancy
n fully to comprehend. SO God
determined to put his rebelliou'
creatures to school to educate then
step by step ; to understand the mys
terry of goodness; to get ready to be
hold and to depend on God manifest
e ed in the flesh.
e The covenant was, that the seed o
v the woman should bruise the ser
y pent's head. 1t was to this seed AM
> not to himself that fallen man was u
. look. 1t was God and not man tina
u provided the remedy. Now, it wa
8 for the purpose of Introducing tn
h idea of a coming Savior, and for fa
d miliarizing the people with til
n tn ought of a great world-victim,
once-ofiuring whose blOed SHOULD
cleanse from all sin, and with the de
rs sign of flooding light OH the atone
l. mcnt of cavalry, aud that God in tn
Is old testament days set up the abe
IN nacle and gave the pattern of ever
h. Jewish sacrifice, every bird and beas
of which with the burden of ever
prophecy, nj every type and shado'
" of the old testament pointed to n lily
p ing, loving, dying, omnipotent Chris
victim under the new.
u The blood on Jewish affairs ws
at newer designed to justify, much lei
in sanctify the offerer. True. there WI
exemption secured through thel
= from certain temporal penalties, bl
III i'm those sacrifices there was a remen
10 berance again made of sins evel
he wear. "For it is not possible that Il
r. blood of bullg and goats can tai
lin away SIM" The blood when it poin
NV ed to the sacrifice and offering.
Jesus Christ once for all. accomplls
" ed its highest work. Paul in h
Epistle to the Hebrews reasons tn
- point out. He shows to his kindrt
according to the flesh, scatter
= abroad, and in danger OF apostatisil
~, from christianity back into Judaisi
Ell that what he urges them to hold Ia
and not abandon is the old, old stor
and that there never was a time Wh'
II. the blood of bulls and goats could
itself purify, so as to take away 81
but that in order to be purged SO u
the consciousness of sin would
by gone, there was ever demanded Tn
seed of the woman whose once-offe
dc ing forever had been symboiized
every smoking altar of the pa
Or. There is not now, there peVer W
the but one name given under heav
among men whereby we must
he saved. The braZen serpent mig
lcutfdl1EB poisoh Ia sno PHSoH
veins, if the careless even looked to
"o but there were no spiritual fruits fro
il for him who did not look from Il
which was lifted up in the wilderne
to him who was lifted up on the Gro
OFT The offering of a lamb on Jewish
la tars might avert wrath from the boz
IL butif the soul did notlook from I
ho' type to the antelope, the worship
was not purged; his consciousness
sin remained. Every spiritual
minded Jew understood this. No
- the eigth person, q preacher of rig
;. e~ousness, proclaimed this doctripe
law. the womap's seed, set forth In sae
fees before them, and the old wo
was not spared because they refui
to believe. This same doctrine is
old, old doctrine preached by Je
to the spirits in prison.
rtin For generations God dealt with
,rn- people as with children. He tau
ain. them fundamental life, giving. tn
through visible signs-the lamb,
e.. bullock, the goat, the turtle dove,
'sis' young pigeon-these all pointed a
t Is o distinctly visible finger to ealv
rag and its victim. Faith saw the CT
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