The Globe-republican., 1890-01-29
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'sThe Inevitable Surreader of OrthO-
dOxy," in the North Ameyioas R<,se.y Of
June, 1888. The same old cry, not ever
10 q new form; the rejection of the doc.
trines Of the inspiration Of the Bible, the
fall of man, the stonemeot Of Christ, the
nature of sin, and the existence of heav.
en- and hell. Man may doubt the inspi.
ration of the Bible, but he cannot doub
the beauty, richness, grandeur and iu.
comparableness of the character of the
Christ as set forth in the Bible. Mar
may doubt ''the fall q man." but be
cannot doubt his own sf.fulness, the sin.
fulness Of the race; his e~n need of sal.
walton. and his own intense longing fol
eternal life. He may doubt the atone
ment of Christ, but he can not doubt bis
own need of holiness and purity and for
giveness, and his utter inability to undo
one deed Of the past. He may doubt
the existence of hell, but his own sense
of distributive justice insists that there
ought to be one for some kuman fiends.
if there isn't.
THE PENALTY of violated law must be
executed or RENTED. To execute it is
to Danish man from the presence of light
and from the joys Of life. Because a
broken law will forever remain broken.
so far as mans ability to change it is
concerned. No amount of punishment
can mend the law, or undo the act for
which the penalty is executed. So, to
let the law take its course is to meet out
eternal justice unmiXed with mercy.
But if the penalty of the law be RENTED,
the executive of the law certainly has
the right to say upon what terms the
pardon shall be granted. The offender,
then, is not pardoned because he ought
of right to be, but because the executive
is mereiful, gracious. In order to show
a proper regard for the law it must be
demonstrated in a practical way that the
law can be kept. in letter and spirit.
hence is not unreasonable; also it must
be shown that the law maker has proper
regard for his own law, otherwise the
law would come into disrepute. So. in
a practical way, Jesus. as man, keeps
the divine law, in letter and spirit; and
a proper regard for the law is shown in
the fact that some one is required to keep
the law perfectly. This work is done,
the law is kept, man is offered pardon
through the perfect obedience of Jesus.
Hence the atonement of Christ.
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THE INSPIRATION of the Bible stands
lpOn reasonable ground. 1t is not I'M
that the president of the
United States might wish to commune
ate his will and wish to the people of
his government. Neither is it unreal
enable to think that God. the ruler of
he universe, might communicate his /
will to his moral creatures. Just that is
What we have seen done. In proof of
his we have the following reasons: First
he Bible states mans. true condition,
morally and spiritually; this we know
rom our own experience. Second, the
haracter of the teachings of the scrip
nres compared with the highest classical
FITTINGS shows the former to be greatly
nperior.. Third, the plan of redemp-
on is above mans ability to devise. In
ardOn, renewal, faith, love, works, JUS
fication and in providing an infinite
aviOr, the Bible stands infinitely above
ny or all other books. Fourth, bad men
Ould not have written that which con-
antly condemns them, and good men
ould not palm off a falsehOOd for the
nth, hence one strong reason for the
uthfulness of the Bible. Fifth, the
ible claims to have been written BY men
who spake as they were moved by the ,
oily Spirit" This book has been, in no
lse, invalidated in reference to its ,
aims to truth, historic or otherwise.
therefore, it is reasonable to give Gre :
.nce to these claims. Sixth, the power Z
the Bible in the civilized world shows !
to be more than human, for no other T
'Ok in the world, or that has ever been
the world, will compare with it in in
fence for good. Seventh, the acknowl- !,
|ged efficiency of the scriptures to ele-
tie moral character, to purify daily life,
direct In true christian living is every n
here observed, and fully deserves the
cognition received. Eighth, there is a
imam element both in the composition
ID thought of the Bible. but there is
20 a divine element which over-rules n
ID guides the writer TO make such a n
ecord as fully accords with the mind
d will of Cod ii
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THUS CHRISTIANITY continues to be 81
ried. During the first sixteen hundred c.
ars of the christian era there has arisen O
e obituary writer for the burial of g.
in about each fifty years, Gel Il
S being the first. Lord Herbert the last. B
len for the next two hundred and nine b
wears there have been about five to the )