The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-08
Wednesday, April 8, 1884,
The Law and the Gospel.
RY A. NJ. CHREITZBERG.
For the Christian Neigh60r.


known sin but by the law" There Is
the same love in the law as in the 0os-
no, the same hand that wrote the law
was nailed 10 the cross for our redemp-
ton. The Law is a barrier against
evil. to keep us from harming our
selves and Others Yet, look at its de-
livery on Sinai. What alarm and ter
ror. thunders and lightnings, CLOUDS
of darkness, the voice of the trumpet
exceeding loud. the mountain trem-
bling, and the trumpet sounded long,
and waxed louder and louder. wei
might the people cry out to Moses
"Speak thou with US and we will hear
hut let not God speak with US lest we
dien Then came the ten command
,,ents written on tables of stone.
This Is the law and it says, "Do this
and live.n But all have sinned and
come short of the glory of God. Jews
and Geutiles are all under sin; there
is none that doeth good. no not one'
Tn this fearful condition all must per-
ish. but the Gospel speaketh peace.
"For what the law could not DO IN
that it was weak, God sending his Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for
ain 1bv q sacrifice for sin, marglnJ
(even Jesus condemned sin IN the
flesh. that the righteousness OF tne
law might be fulfilled in us who walk
not after the flesh, but after the epir-
it.n And this deliverance is obtained
not by works, but by simple faith IN
the Crucified. And yet thousands 10
this hour walk in darkness and nave
no light because they will not believe
it. It is this led the Apostle in that
grand Apocalypse in Hebrew xii to
contrast the law and the Gospel: "4e
are not come unto the mount that
might be touched and that burned
with fire, nor unto blackness and dark
ness and tempest" that beast could
not touch and live. and that made
even Moses say: II exceedingly 1ear
and quake"-But, ye are come-giory
be 70 God L"unto mount Sion and
unto the city of the living God: the
heavenly Jerusalem and to al lnnu-
merable company of angels-and to
the blood of sprinkling, that speaketn
better things than the blood of Abel"
And vet thousands mourc failing to
GRASP this consolation. Hear it ye
doubling Thomases, ye troubled Mar
thas. We backslidden Peters, ye penl-
tent sinners of every class ana age and
race. "Ye are con,e'unto mount Sion. !"
There is nothing like it in earth or
heaven.
lust as am without one plea,
But that tiny blood was shed iot me, ,eoo
And that thou blddest me come 10 Snee'
0 Lamb Of God, come, coihe.
VIM. Capers in his autobiography
tells of the comfort these words gave
him in his early struggle with the
tempter. ,
The young preacher in 1872 return
ing from q Camp Meeting held OH
Four Holes to (Orangeburg) Circuit
bowed down with discouragements
meeting all of US, determined on Il
wealth with the Angel of the Cove
nuut, if it was even until the breaking
of the day. He pitied his horse as he
tied him in the woods, sorrow'ng Tor
the long fast the creature would en-
dnre But short was the struggle.
He said "There is none here but GOD
only. and / cannot thus uncomforta-
blv 90 back to my Circuit; l will even
po to him alone who has all power IN
heaven and earth, and who has called
the heavy-laden unto him that they
might find rest. Jesus, Master, neal
my blindness! Give me faith ana
lovem He had scarcely fallen upon
his knees with his face to the ground,
when Heb. xii : IS, "a was applied
with power to his mlnd. lie "'io'
sounded to my heart above the voice
of earth and instinct lc are come 81
And my spirit caught the transport
and echoed back to heaven, "le arc
co,.c ;" In that moment felt, as can
only be felt, "the exceeding riches of
his grace in his kindness towards us
through Christ Jesus" l returned to
nv Circuit with my strength renewed
as the eagles, full of faith and COM
fort.n Troubled reader, perrleXed
and way worn 60 thou and do like
wise. Only believe, and you too shall
find "Yc are come to MOaUt SjOn.'