The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-08-19

power Of Jesus name" was then sung,
the whole congregation joining in the
@Nr Smith took for his text That por
ton Of Scripture found in tn. I'd chaps
ter Of philippians, from the 9Th to the
1lth verses inclusive, which read as fol-
lows: :.
18th. Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus
18th. Who. being in the form Of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with
God:
Nth. But mado himself Of no repu-
tation, and took upon him tho; form of 9
servant, and was made in the likeness Of
man.
18th. And being formed in fashion as
man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, wen the death OF
the cross !:
10Th. Wherefore God also hath high
ly exalted him, and given,him a nam
| which is above every name ::
10th. That ut the maine of Jesus ey-
| cry knee should bow, OF things i'll heav-
en- and things in the earth, and under
the earth: -
Nth. And that. every tongue shonld
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord5tothe
glory Of God the Father" II
The speaker started out by saying, re-
| demption was not an a~fterthought with
the Almighty. Such. IN assumption was
contrary to all our ideas Of a God. To
admit it, We would have to acknowledge
| that God had been outwltted by Satan,
| and to admit that he had been onc out
| witted &ns to acknowledge there was no.
securitT. in heaven itself. God being
| onniscicnt, had all history within his di-
| vine view, when creation was begun.
t!The Lamb was slain from the founda
ton Of the world II.
This by no, means duplicates God in
nature is the transgrcssion Of the law OF
God. If man was not responsible for
| his act there could be no transgression.
No attribute of divine character suffers
tletrimcnt from anything dccreed.
Gods government shows its strength in
its dealing with transgrcssions. All
this was in full view when man was
created. It was done for Gods glory,
the returniwould justify the outlay.
This brings me now, to the natural,
division, as ] conceive it. Of my text.
It divides itself into two 'main heads.
First. Christs humiliation, or the
costly price of man redeIr etion. 81.
Second. Christ's exaltation. or the
glorious result Of redemption's work.
In arriving at n proper appreciation of
Christs humiliation, we must FIRST. in
quire into the Nervousness Of sim Mere
acts Of transgression give us no idea of
sin. The sin consists in the spirit,which
prompts the acts; the alienation Of The
heart from God. Acts of sin arce only
the expression Of the heart. If sin was
not from the heart, and consisted mere.
ly in outward acts pralysis would be re-
ligion. Sin from its very nature was
contrary to what we know Of the Di-
vine Being and the question presents it,
self could God have dealt otherwise
with sin than he did Could He grant
universal pardon by the exercise OF his
~prpTogative 1? This is what some would
have US to suppose. But does tho mere
remittance of the penalty do away with
the guilt The remittance Of the pen
atty is but a small part Of redemption.
The heart must be made anew, and
brought back to God. And the ques-
ton was hoW was that to be done. It
couldnot be donc.by power, for mar is so
created as to to resist power, even when
he is snbdued by it. Ambition and
cruelty, too, dance a~ttenda9se upon
power - <5.g : Ia
Mr. Smith then went on to show that
endowing man with wisdom. could not
save him.. He gained knowledge by
eating the Forbidden. FRUIT but-sin was
an attendant thereon. Christ's coming
as u worldly King would. not hayc saw
ed man: He could have manifested his
power or the cross, but it. WIS ncccessa-
ry to man salvation that Christ should
come. rs q man in order that he might
have q sense of mans personality, and
for man to have a full realization Of His
sympathy. Speaking Of the suffering of
Christ, Mr. Smith, said it was not nee
cessary to merely CLINT the tie Fathers
cruelty, to satiate his thirst for blood.
He had no sympathy with any such
idea. If such had been necessary
would the Father have had ceilings Jews
and scoff,ng Roman solhiers officiating rs
High Priests ut his altar I?
The speaker then took up the signif-
canoe Of the ntonencnt, and showed
that Jesus suffered on account Of sin
sin was the foundation OF all his suffer-
ing, brought him to the Gross, and put
upon him the row Of thorns. That
sin WAS in all Of US, and that therefore
he died for all OF us, md his suffering Cor
sin was IN proportion to his love for the
sinner. That love waa universal aud
hence s ,lys,ion was possible to all.
The second division of his subject,
viz. Christ's eXaltation was.then brief
~ touched unop. and the sermon was
clDsad BY a noble effort to impress upon
los hearers the Joy there was in store
Cor the people Of God, and1an earnest
invocation thnt the building they were
noEi about to offer to the Almighty.
would Witness in time to come, many
sinners brought to Christ, through tho
efficacy Of the word. preached from its
sacred desk. : 80
FIR Smith preached for: one hour and
twenty minutes, and 0f course the above
does not begin to to do his sermon JUS
t!ce. the congregation listened with
anfailing interest, and when he closed
all were Impressed with his Christian
1911 -..p 49, -. ..- :. -t..t-