Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24


of great joy which shall be to all people
Luke ii; 10.
Eighteen hundred and eighty-two years
ago in the town of Bethlehem was born a
ineal desoendent of David. The birth of
this child was foretold ages before by the
prophets of God. Said Isaiah: ''The Lord
himself shall give you sign: behold vir-
gin shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call his name Emmanuel" If there
be Joy in heaven over one sinner that re-
penteth, what JOY and rapture must have
filled the heavenly mansions when the Re-
deemer of the world was born. Foretold
by prophets, heralded by angels, Christ be-
gan his mission on earth. His first work
was to show men the way He said,'I am the
way; no man cometh unto the Father but
by me.''
Christ's nature was two fold, he was God
and man, and his followers often forgot
his humanity in his divinity. AS God. the
whole earth was his, as man, he had not
where to lay his head; as God all the beasts
of the field and the cattle upon thousand
hills were his, as man he hungered; as God
he was attended by multitude of heaven
ly hosts, as man he was the servant of all.
The Savior not only bore the sins of man
but he bore their sorrows; in s'all our atflic-
lions he was afflicted" He was tempted
and tried at every point. It was this heavy
burden, the remorse and anguish for sin,
that caused the bloody sweat and the
agony of the garden. 1t was not physical
pain, for that had not begun then, but it
was the penalty of sin.
Under the Jewish dispensation the high
priest entered the holy place once year
bearing blood as an offering for sin. Christ
as the 'high priest of better covenant
entered into heaven with his own blood as
an atonement for the sins of the world
''He bore our sins in his own body on the
tree" The Jewish high priest offered the
sacrifice once a year, but ''Christ has ap
peared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself once for all.
Christ was not only the one eternal sac
rifice for sin, he was the ''high priest of an
endless life.'' His positive declaration
was, Il am the life" He came to tho
world lying under sentence of death. The
only light which illumined the gloom was
the promise of God to send Redeemer.
In fulfllment of this promise when the
time was fully come he sent his S1R into
the world ''that whosoever believeth on him
should not perish, but have everlasting
ife." Christ redeems men not only from
sin, he redeems them from the power of
,bo%l o
ted to the dominion of death, he took upon
himself the gloom and darkness of the
grave. Christ died and with him all pos
sibility of Immortality, unless he could
conquer death, and rise from the grave.
Paul preached, eff Christ be not raised,
your faith is vain. Ye are vet in your sins.
Then they also which are fallen asleep in
Christ are persisted" Gods "unspeakable
gift" Immortality, depended upon the
resurrection. of the crucifed Redeemer.
What intense meaning have these words of
the Savior, 'verily I say unto
you if man keep my say
ing he shall never see DEATH" Jesus
said unto the woman of Samaria, sWhoso-
ever drinketh of the water that shall give
him, shall never thirst; but the water that
shall give him, shall be in him we'll of
water springing up unto everlasting life"
Jesus said, ''this is the Fathers will which
sent me that of all which he hath given me,
should lose nothing but should raise it up
again at the last day.
PauPs theme was always Christ and him
crucifed, and the Immortality gained by
patient continuance in we'll doing through
the resurrection of Christ. The apostle
emphatically declared, Sod only hath i'm
mortality"
Let any one read the 18th chapter of the
First Corinthians and mark how immor.