Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-22
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WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST.
Every Sabbath morning hundreds of thou
sands of people assemble together for, at least,
the ostensible purpose of worshiping God,
through the days-man, Jesus Christ. TO him
thanks are rendered, petitions offered up, and
songs of praise sung. For near six thousand
years, Jesus Christ has absorbed the devotion
al services of the best citizens of this world.
Adam, the father of us all, worshiped him. So
did Enoch and Noah. Abraham, prospective
ly, saw the day when the Messiah would come,
and he was glad. Jacob, the grandson OF
Abraham, devortly worshiped Jesus Christ.
Moses and Aaron and all the Aaronic priests
typifed Jesus All the prophets of Old Testa-
ment times prophesied by him and of him.
Of Jesus David and Asaph sung in accents
which never can be equaled.
No parsonage has ever appeared on thisearth
who has attracted 80 much attention as Jesus
Christ. y countless number Of the human
family have fOrsaken all and followed him.
For him, Abraham left his native land and
his fathers house, and for him Moses refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter and
scorned to accept Pharaoh's crown and sway
Pharaoh's sceptre. From the days of Abra-
ham down to the present moment, period of
more than three thousand seven hundred years,
Jesus has been the recognized head of the or
ganization which we call the Church. Like
the prophets cloud, this organization was once
small, embracing only a single family. Like
the prophets cloud, it has increased and to.
day it reaches from the rivers to the ends of the
earth. The banner of Jesus floats in triumph
over lands once full Of horrid cruelty, and he
whom Jewish priests and Roman soldiers,
eighteen hundred years ago, condemned and
crucifed is, to-day, respected, loved, honored,
adored and worshiped by young men and
maidens; by hoary-headed sires and matrons.
fral with years; by humble peasants and the
possessors of princely incomes; by the litter
ate sons of toll the merchant at his desk
the banker at his counter, and the devotee OF
art in his studio.
''What think ye of Christ ?" is propounded
to us all. What is the character of the Christ
we worship? Is he the Christ promised by
God in the Scriptures, rejoiced in by Abraham
worshiped by Jacob and sung of by David, OF
is he creature of our own invention :? In
whom are we, who claim to be Christians,
trusting? We expect to be saved by Jesus
Christ. This much our profession declares.
But are our expectations based upon proper
foundation ? Have we accepted the Christ
which God offers us in his word, or have we
taken the name of the Saviour God reveals to
us in the Scriptures and affixed it to crea-
ture?
These grave inquiries should incite us to
graver reflections We accept the Bible as the
word of the living God. All it's utterances are
infallible truth. Heaven and earth may pass
away, the most impossible thing may become
possible, but the teachings Of the Bible are as
true as the being of God. Whatever it prom
ises will be fulfilled, and whatever it threatens
will be executed. One of the leading truths
enunciated in the Bible is that no one of Ad.
ANS race who does not believe in Jesus Christ
can be saved, and all that do believe in him
shall be saved. The Jesus Christ offered to us
as Saviour is the Jesus Christ revealed in the
Scriptures God does not engage to save us if
we believe in creature Of our own invention,
even should we give to that creature the name
of Jesus Christ. He pledges himself to save
all who will accept of the Saviour whom he
reveals in the Bible. But the Saviour in whom
we trust must be the Identical Saviour offered.
He must be every thing the Bible reveals him
to be and nothing more. We must think OF
him as he is revealed to us. We must accept
of him in all his offices and for all things for
which he is offered to us. We must take him
as our prophet to instruct us, as our priest to
atone for our sins and as our king to reign in
and over US. We may think well enough of
Jesus as priest. With delight wholly car.
nal, we may delight to think of Jesus as ia.
king away the sins Of the world, by the sacri.
flee of himself, but we may, in our carnal pride,
scorn to be taught by him, who is meek and
lowly, and refuse to be governed by him who
died for sin, in the room of sinners. Wemust,
in order to be saved, think Scripturally of Jesus
as phrophet and king. 1t is manifest that a
mistake with regard to Jesus must terminate
fatally.
DWELLING IN GoD.-We may dwell in God
in the midst of the busiest scenes of life. A
gentleman returning from Wall street a few
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