Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-13

assembled on high to make intercession for
us, and from his place of exal;ation and
power cries My grave is sufficient for thee
1t is that He was wounded for our trans
gressions and banished for our iniquities,
and that for His stripes we are healed. II
Is all this realized as a sublime and blessed
tact in Gethsemane and Calvary in accord
with Gods own revelations of the require
ment and the testimony Of ,ur own con-
sciousnsss to It's necessity and sufficiency
that makeit at all potent. So the climax
and fragic,-even the ghastly, are what dis
tinguish the gospel from the delusive hopes
of men. The cross is the symbol of this
You cannot object to it, or oppose it, and
have anything Christian left The cross is
the embodiment of the worlds highest pos
sible spiritual thought Upon it hangs the
worlds highest possible moral pattern
man and God at once. 1t is the foundation
OF the only unalloyed excellence and bless
ing the world has known. Paul could
afford to glory in it,
After following the gospel through its
work for individuals and for the race. in
slstiDg that it was the whole gospel. the
gospel with divine Christ and an atoning
sacrifice in it that had wrought the WONDER
works he described, the preacher closed by
saying: Men cannot successfully put
their feeble systems of morals and thought
over against it, and it is pitiful to style any
system as rational by way of opposition to
1t. Alter the moral experiments and fail
ure OF the ages, there is nothing rational
but Christianity, and there is no Christi
anlty but that based upon divine Jesus
and an atonement, and no moral precepts
are rational but those Of the Scriptures
UNITED BRETHREN
At the church of the United Brethren,
at Fourteenth and X streets, Rev J. w.
Baumgardner preached from the text,
Malachi iii, 10: "A perfect service; an
abundant reward" Thepractiee of tithing,
said the speaker, was primarily volun-
tary tax for the support of the servants of
the sanctuary. Tithing afterwards became
law incorporated in the Mosaic statutes.
One-tenth of the annual production was
therefore sacred and was set apart as be-
longing to the house Of the Lord q Chr.
xxxi.,5, I'D AT a later period of the Roman
rule. the high priests often laid violent
hands on the priestly tithes, thus bringing
the curse OF God on Them Bring We in all
the tithes: the Lord requires a perfect
service, or sacrifice in all the offerings we
bring to Him, before he can bestow the
expected favor or blessing He is rich in
grace and has an abundance for every soul,
but He cannot bestow of His grace and
spirit until the conditions are met with
perfect sacrifice.
The entire will, with all that man DOS
sesses, must become subject'to the will of
God. A perfect yielding and giving up to
God and His viii brings the soul into
readiness to be filed with all the fullness
OF God. Man measures his own standing
with God spiritually by hindering the
Lord in doing in and for him what He
designed and purposed. Righteous self
is the greatest obstacle in the way of God.
In overcoming sinful self, Goo has furn-
ished every means of grace The check
has been filled ont and every soul may
sign and draw whatever amount he wills
to meet the conditions upon. Sinner, do
you desire to live life thst will give Won
satisfaction and comfort? Then c1Ine. meet
the conditions, bring all you have, and let
Christ fill you with His own righteousness.
Backsliders and formal professors, Won
are not happy; you have no assurance in
the life you are living that Christ reigps
aud dwells in you. You are condemned
in your own mind. Just come to the
Lord, make clean surrender 10 Him and
He will pour you out such a blessing as
there will not be room to receive it.
Brothers and sisters. are you in possession
of that full, overfiowing blessing OF Gods
love? If not; why not?