The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-25
PLAN OF RECONCILIATION.


Market Street Baptist Church.
In Rev. I. w. Reads absence Rev. Thomas
Baldwin, of the North Seattle Baptist church,
filed the pulpit of the Market street Baptist
church yesterday morning, Rev. ID. d. Proper,
superintendent of missions, preaching at the
former church. DIR. Baldwins discourse was
on spiritual Conditions" from the text-the
words of John the Baptist, when testifying to
Jesus-"Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh
ava the sin of the world" He said, In SUBJ
stance:
Sin is here-it is one of the conditions OF the
world; one of the universal facts OF our nature.
1t Is mans natural state. 1t Is the dark shadow
OF hts present and future. But, here, God calls
all men alike to see HIS Son for relief He takes
away sin.
First-He takes II away from before the Judge
OF all. Sin has provoked God; IL has put all the
world in open revolt against the authority of
God; 1t has defed Him in every demand He has
made as the Creator and possessor of all things.
Sin has put Satan In the place Of God, and has
followed Satan's rule in all evil ways wherein
Gods honor has been traduced and His name
cast out Sin has hindered the Great Father
from doing the good which He has intended to
do for his people. 1t has denied Him the right
of Judgment in His own universe, and hence
justice has an infinite account against this re-
VOTED world.
Here is Gods method OF grace. The Son has
come and has offered a ransom, has expiated
with His own life on the cross all the worlds
deserts. He has taken away sin. "once in the
end OF the world He has put away sin by the
sacrifice of Himself" 1t is gone forever from
Gods mind. "He is reconciled," He has ''Cast
our sins behind His back" "He remembers IL
no more against us forever"
As the scapegoat was driven into the wilder
ness with the sins of Israel confessed upon his
head to a land unknown and forgotten, so this
Lamb of God takes sin away from the mind of
the Great Judge of all mankind.
This is what the angels called "Glad tidings
to all people," and His name is called "Jesus."
For this reason, ale saves His people from their
sins" 1t is not the church or the priest, but it
Is this Lamb of God who takes away the sin of
the world. As God appoints the sun for day,
and this is His only way of making day, so this
Lamb of God is His only way of taking away sin
from the Great Judge OF all the earth.
Second-He takes away sin from us. All are
under sin. A bad consciousness is in all hearts
to a greater or less degree. Adams experience
in the garden, 81 was afraid, is common to all
his posterity. Sin has made US to have fears,
but this Lamb of God takes it away 1t covers;
it hides. II imparts the peace OF innocence 1t
cleanses from our sins. Ii fills us full OF the
love OF God. He assures us of our name in the
book of life He passes us over from death
under law, to lie under grace. He takes away
from the mind all its fear, he fills il with Joy
and peace in the Holy Ghost
Third-He takes away sin in all its results in
this world Sin has filed the world with
death; II has made the graveyard to triumph
over all the race it has broken up all our
homes, and mingled its wreck with all the
good of life. But Jesus, the Lamb of God, has
conquered for us death and the grave. 1.-THE
second Adam a quickeniug spirit" SO now in
this relation he becomes the blessed hope of the
resurrection.
Satan may point to all the millions of the
sleeping dead, and say, "Here is sins great re-
suit" but now we can point to all these follow
ing their Savior, coming out OF these graves in
that glad day when God shall honor His own
Son. the Lamb OF God, in His generous method
of taking away sins. No spot, nor wrinkle, nor
any such thing shall remain. The death ma
ture, the death under law the death in the
grave all swallowed up of life in the Lamb of
God, who takes away the sin OF the world.
In the evening DR.. Baldwin preached at bis
own church, his subject being "The Prodigal
SON.