The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-03-14
Intrnanotnrv SERMON.

DAptibt OuufCil, prcdCiiou hio INV
sermon on Sunday morning. In an able
I manner he set forth the work which lies
before him and the manner in which he
wished to accomplish it. DR.. Nelson Sc
lected the following as his text:
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. as
though God did beseech you by us; we pray
you in Christ's stead, be ye reconc1leo 10 0ou.
liz Cor. s; 90.
Moses and Paul. The Himalayas and
the Alps. The two mightiest men OF all
history one the leader of the old dispen-
sation, the other the leader of the new.
How charged with solemnity are their
words as they roll down to US from the
far off centuries. Moses speaks to us from
the majestic and awful pulpit reared by
nature herself amid the deserts of Arabia.
Behold his sublime figure as he stands on
Sinai, in the midst of black clouds.
broidered and fringed with hame-his
face and form aglow with the reflection OF
the divine-in his arms the tables of stone
on which the Almighty One had written
the law of laws and thereby immutably
set the text of civilizations codes and con-
stitutions He has been on the mount
with God these many days. He has talked
with the Ell Shaddai. He steps forth a
messenger from eternity itself, and from
the bosom of omniscience he brings his
messages to men. He is the prophet Of
the older Israel. The newer and grander
Israel also appears with sublime figure
at its head Like Moses he had no in
ferior training. The older teacher had
been schooled at the University of On.
This later teacher had sat at the feet of
Gamaliel. A proud, young Pharisee-
proud of his race. prouder yet of his sect,
he would quench in blood, oppositions
and antagonisms to either. 1t was for
that purpose he was on his way to Da-
mascus; when, 10 light from heaven.
above the brightness of the sun, shining
around about him and those that journey
ed with him, and a voice from heaven
"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?'
Beneath that fierce light rider and horse
lay prone. They that were with HIM saw
the light but heard not the voice. Was it
then that Gin the body or out of the body"
which he could not tell-he saw things
not lawful for man to utter? We know
not. There and then from the lips of
Christ himself, he derived his commission.
Henceforth he is an ambassador of the
King of Kings. He Is now, by special
warrant. numbered with the Apostles who
had received the command; "Go, and
disciple all nations, baptizlng them into
the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Ghost; and 10. am with
you Away, even unto the end of the
world"
This is the great commission given on
the mountain of Galilee by the ascending
Lord. 1t was the authority of the first
disciples, the authority of Paul. and con-
tinues to this day, the authority of every
minister of the Lord Jesus Chist.
The scope of the ambassadors commits
sion is to proclaim to all men the scheme
of divine grace. OF that scheme Paul
gives a very comprehensive delineation
in the two verses that precede our text
In the 18th verse we are told that all
things are of God. The things referred to
are those he had been talking of in the
chapter, and they are those things per-
tanning to the regeneration of mankind.
1t is to be observed that those things are
of God The solution of the problem how
be might be just and yet the justiier of
the ungotlly this is of God.
Then in the 10Th verse, he goes a step
farther and shows us an historical fact,
namely: that "God was in Christ recon-
Cling the world unto himself" How
gloriously the character of God is thus
relieved of that phase of obduracy and
applicability wherewith. in ignorance,
men haye been accustomed to clothe it
How full-orbed, in the significance of this
truth, becomes the divinity of our Lord
Jesus Christ God was in Christ" Christ
possessed, therefore, not merely dele
gated and circumscribed power of the
Godhead, as some would falsely assume.
He was, indeed, Emmanuel-God with
us. In the homeless Christ God. In the
scorned and rejected Christ-Go In
the crucified Christ. the. quivering victim
on the cross-Godl And all this conde-
scension and aDasement that he might
reconcile the world unto himself
Our duty here is to proclaim God in
Christ but. in connection with this
scheme of salvation, God has given us
revelation. Herein the minister has the
text of his message, to be ampIifed
under the guidance of the Holy Spiiit.
Concerning the proclamation of Gods
word a minister is not left to his own dis
erection. The truth he finds in the Bible
he must proclaim. There is tendency to
90 to the Bible in the spirit of eclecticism;
TO take from it what the preacher thinks
| ia true-in other words what pleases him
and to either ignore or undermine those
teachings with which he does not happen
To he in intellectual agreement. Now.
what is this book On anv theory of it.
whether that of plenarv inspiration or the
free suner-naturalistic yiew-one thing is
certa;n all suiritual truth-all that re-
lates IN mans dntv here as determining
his condition hereafter-set forth in this
hook is the word of God.
Thara ia a mania in the present dav. for
sansat;onaIism want 10 be able to pro-
duca sensations in nv sermons. sensa-