Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-23

of him who devised it. Unqualified success
is unknown in human experience and dis
quietude, and disappointment is the COM
mon heritage of Adams race.
This is true of all men, in all countries,
and in all conditions of society. Rich and
poor, bond and free, high and low, are all
dissatisfied. We cannot rest. We are pill
grims foot-sore and tired and longing for
rest, but still we cannot rest. All our plans
have been frustrated, all our joys have been
mingled with sorrow, and all our hopes ac-
companed with fears. We are not satisfied.
We never have been satisfied, and we never
will be satisfied, so long as trace of sin re-
mains to pollute our souls.
'In vain our focks and fields increase our store
When our abundance makes US wish for more"
This is a sad picture, but it is true to the
thing painted. Were it not for the fact that
Jesus Christ "shall see of the travail of his
soul and be satisfied" and that he has assu-
red US that we "shall be satisfied when we
shall awake in his likeness" the soul would
drift into hopeless despair.
BY the soul travailso of our Saviour, we are
usually to understand all those sufferings
which he endured in order that he might
satisfy the penal demands of the law of God
against sinners. The mediatorial work of
Jesus Christ was in the place of others. The
object of this work was Gods glory and the
salvation of sinners.
1t may be that the word travail is used by
hot fo1 in VIII ha on1
stricted sense, to include all that Jesus
Christ did. If so, it then includes both his
obedience to the precepts of the law and his
suffering the penalties of the law. The
meaning of the language of the prophet,
then, is that Jesus Christ, the promised Mes
sah, shall see the result of his mediatorial
work and be satisfied. This may be stated
thus: The mediatorial work of Jesus Christ
will result, in every respect, just as it is de-
signed and just as it is desired by God, the
Father, who devised it, by God the Son,
who executed it, and God the Holy Spirit,
who makes an application of it. That God,
the Father, is satisfied with what Jesus
Christ has done and suffered is abundantly
evident from the Scriptures and is corrobo-
rated by the providence of God. This feel
ings of the Father toward the Son, are
summed up in these words: "This is my be-
loved Son, in whom I am we'll pleased"
The Father was satisfied that the Son be-
came man, and undertook to redeem sinners,
and save them with an everlasting saliva
ton. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead is, to all intelligent creatures, a
positive and unmistakable proof that God is
satisfied with all that the Son did and suf
fered. Christ himself is satisfied with his
own work. He came as mediator not to do
his own will, but the will of his father who
sent him. His satisfaction SO far as the ac-
complishing of the mediatorial work is con-
cerned, consists Of satisfying his father. So
far then as the execution of the mediatorial
work of Jesus Christ is concerned, it turned
out just as it was designed and desired by
the God-head to turn out. In it's application
and final results, Jesus Christ will be salts
fed 1t is the office-work of the Holy Spir-
it to make an application of the redemption
purchase of Jesus Christ. Christ makes the
atonement for sin, but the Holy Spirit con-
vcts the sinner of his sins, converts him
victed and converted sinner up in holiness
and fitness for heaven. In this work which
is finally to result in placing the redeemed
sinners permanently at the right hand of
God in heaven, Jesus Christ will be satisfied.
He will be satisfied, it may be remarked,
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and design that wherever the gospel is
preached, no matter by whom, sinners will
be convicted. Not convicted as Pharaoh
was, when he beheld the country covered
with frogs, or the first-born of his people
smitten down by the destroying angel, but
savingly convcted-like the prodigal son in
the parable, brought to themselves. This is
in perfect accordance with the history of
the preaching of the gospel. Those who
preach the gospel are but men, often very
weak and indiscreet men, alWayssinful men,
but never yet, in period of near nineteen
centuries, has the gospel ever been preached
without being followed by saving convic-
tions Men have been led to cry out in
their hearts, if not audibly, Men and
brethren what shall we do to be saved"
They have been made to know the exceed
ing Nervousness Of sin and to feel their own
snfulness. Not only so, but (2) they, like
the prodigal son, have been led to resolve
that they would return to their fathers
house, and have put this resolution into eX-
ecution. This convcting and converting
work is to-day going on. Men of the larg-
est intellectual endowments and finest cult
ure are humbly following him who was
once dead, but is now alive. Sinners in ev-
cry land, and of every class in society, and
of every grade in iniquity, are, by means of
the preaching of Christ and him crucitied,
breaking off their sins by righteousness and
their iniquities by turning unto the Lord
their God. Further it may be remared (O
that converted sinners are growing in grace
and in fitness for another and better state of
things. Paul says of long list Of Old Tes-
lament saints that they all died in the faith.
So it is to-day, and has been since the cruci-
fixion, and so it will be to the end of time
Each year, each month, each hour, each
minute, witnesses the departure of many
sanctified souls from world in which they
are and can be only strangers and pilgrims,
to the bright world of glory. Some of the
professed followers of Jesus are deceiving
themselves, some are deceiving others, but
no matter whether these deceiVers be MANY