The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-28
BEARING HIS REPROACH.
Rev. o. v. W. Chandler Speaks OF Seek
ing the City to Come.

Rev. O. v. W. Chandler Speaks OF Seek
ing the City to Come.
Rev. o. v. W. Chandler, of the Second
Methodist Protestant church, yesterday
preached from the text found in Heb. Nv:
1913, "Let us go forth unto him without
the camp bearing his reproach; for here
have we no continuing city, but we seek
one to come" and said in substance:
In his epistle to the Jews, Paul adapts his
language and thoughts to their habits and I'M
derstanding. Their customs and systems of
religion had been very different from that insti
tuted by Jesus When convenient he followed
the snalogies between the Jewish and Christian
systems.
In the context he had been calling to mind
the striking similarity between the Jewish sac
rihce for sin and Christ q sin offering Beasts
were slaughtered without the camp and the
blood brought into the sanctuary of the high
priest; whereas Jesus, to sanctify the people,
poured out His blood without the gate.
The burning of the sacrifice without the camp
was the custom when the Israelites dwelt in
tents in the wilderness. Grotius says; "What-
ever was not lawful to be done within the camp,
afterwards was not lawful to be done in the
city"
It was appointed that Christ should die with
out the city on Calvary. Under the law, 10
criminal could be executed within the limits.
The proposition to go to Him without the camp
meant to leave the system and city devoted to
destruction and take refuge in Christ alone.
To openly avow Him was to bear His reproach;
it engendersd persecution; it resulted in the
loss of property and the danger Of life
Heurged those who believed to leave and bear
the reproach. In those days it cost more to be o
Christian than it does now. jerusalem and the
temple were to fall. Christ had foretold its de-
struction. Within forty years afterwards the
city and its inhabitants were destroyed. There
fore, the Apostle. eight years before, could well
say, "For here we have no continuing city," He
proclaimed the eternal truth applicable not to
that particular case but to all cities and people
The text proelsims first the transitory condi-
ton Of all things here below. Decay and obliv-
ion is written upon the face OF ali nature
History tells Of the destruction OF cities with
their proud people, lofty spires, gorgeous tenn
pies and strong walls. The jerusalem Of today
is not the city that once was. Proud Babylon
fell So Nineveh, Tyre and the cities of the
plain Observation as well as history teaches
US the sad fact that decay and death surround
US. Inspiration corrobocates history and OBJ
servation-the latter also verfes the former
Thirty-dve hundred years ago Job proclaimed
"man that is born of . woman ia OF few days and
full of trouble" Screen hundred years
ago Isaiah cried out: "All flesh is grass and all
the goodness thereof is as the flower of the
field, the grass witheretn, the mower fadethT'
The Psalmist proclaims tina, our days are
numbered
Christ and His Apostles teach that there is to
be a final dissolution of all things here The day
of the Lord il to come as a thief n the night
In the which the heavens shall pass away" the
elements shall melt and the earth and all there
on be burned up. Christ himself said: "The
heavens and the earth shall pass away, but Ny
words shall not pass away"
We reasonably conclude there 10 nothing abid-
ing. Death knocks at the door of also it has
been, SO it will be. Man and his habitation, na-
ture and her beautiful roees-the earth with its
iewels-all must yield TO the inevitable
"For here have We no abiding city, but We
seek one 10 come" The first part of this is but
too true, FOR nature il doomed to decay and, be-
yond certain limit, man must cease to exist
But now there Ia another declaration which
should DO of the greatest importance to u.s. viz:
That there Is habitstion beyond-.nother
state of existence for man. Death ends ell or 1t
does not
Annihilation or imn,ortsl;ty-which? Science
demonstrates that matter cannot be annihilated
Its form changes, but its substance u never