The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-02-07
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, ITS
'THE KIND THAT CURES"
THE REv1vALs CONTINUE.


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THE REVIVALS CONTINUE.
| Rev. POwleks sermon on the Great War
Against Sin.
The revival spirit continues in the Metho-
dist Episcopal church and the meetings
which have boen so successfully held from
night to night are still going aud new mem
bers are being received every Sabbath. The
con gregatons on Sunday we're large. in the
evening difficulty was found in seating the
people who went to hear the word OF God.
The sermon was from the text Wherefore
he is able to save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by Him, seeing He ever
| liveth to make intercesson for them.' Heb.
/ 7-26 The text assumes what very few deny,
that men are lost. Humanity has always
felt its guilt and been anxious to get rid of, at
least its consequences. How to do this has
ever been the problem Of the ages In every
land priests have been cOnsecrated, altars
have been erected and sacrifices have been
offered to propitiate deity. But Jesus Christ
our great High Priest has by His own blood
put away sin so encctually that there re
maineth no more sacrifice for sins" Priests
and sacrifices have been forever done away
by the Interchangeable priesthood of Jesus.
The ability of Jesus to save was acquired
by his sacrifcial death. l suppose God might
have saved men from sin by killing them off
in infancy or by destroying their moral
| agency, thus reducing them to mere machines.
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healing them of their propensity to sin.
When we speak of salvation we are often
understood to mean salvation merely from
hell. But the salvation the gospel provides
is salvation from sin-sin against man and
sin against God. This was the supreme
purpose for which Jesus came into the world
10 is the meaning of his name. Thou
shalt call his name Jesus for it is he thai
shall save his people from their sins'-as a
means of saving them from hell and bring
ing them TO heaven. He intended that meI
should remain in the world and yet not b,
contaminated by the evil of the world
, Though citizens of earth they were to bC
denizens of heaven.
In undertaking this work there were mora
a difficulties to put away in order to place mar
in salvable state. There were the broker
law and its threatened penalties. God mus
Phold the honor of his government. Th,
claims Of divine Justice must be met. Anl
until this was done even God himself-owin,
to self-imposed hmitatons-was unable I,
save man. The law which was ordained unit
e life had been made weak through the fesl
D and was unable to confer it. So Jesus, tn,
. son of God, became our sin. offering that Il
E might acquire the right to set us free. Thi
S is the meaning Of His ability TO save. H,
S has bought us with His own blood and i
$ Therefore able to save. Nor lis there an,
f, limit to His saving power. He can saw
{ unto completeness He can do for us al
e that our faith can claim. Human means 70
o saving men largely overlook inward prinsi
10 pies and appeutes and deal with outwar,
e conduct. They aim to reform the manner
. and practices. But the divine method seek
TO transform the moral preferences and brin
them into harmony with the will of God
( The gospel aims not only to dry up the puri
; flying sores and to remove the sickening Scab
from the body polite but to begin thehealin
process from the inside by destroying in u
the love of sin and thus breaking its power
Sinners of every sort and of every deere
of guilt are equally susceptible to his saviuI
power He is able to save them all. From
the sinner who is perched on the pinnacle O
his own righteousness to the sinner who i
quivering on the brink of hell--with all be
tween-He is able to save, It is as easy 70
Him to save a drunkard from his cups as
pharisee from his pride. But will He do it
That depends. win the sinner come to Go,
by Jesus Christ to be saved? His ability {,
sa 5e is one thing amp your willingness to le
Him save you is another Here lies the only
difficulty You may be at the point Of death
The physician in his office may be able t.
cure you. Then what hinders the cure
Nothing but an unwillipgness 10 submit d
his treatment. The great Physician of soul
"is able to do exceeding abundantly above al
that we ask or think, but it is according t.
p the power that worzeth in u.s."
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