The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-01-08
Mature with open volume stands,
To spread his praises all abroad"

No. 164.
Mature with open volume stands,
To spread his praises all Abroad
Rev. B. r. Hall announced the recep
ton of three members by certificate. He
stated that though the pews are fir ee and
the public welcome, he wishes each fam.
lily to select some particular pew for their
occupancy.
Mrs. T. D. Jones sang Fear Not, o
Ye Israel" as an offertory.
Rev. r. G. Beaman then announced
bis text as John xii: "a, 20, 33. 34
"Verily, verify, say unto you, except
a corn of wheat fall into the ground and
die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it
Dringeth forth much fruit.
He that loveth his life shall lose it
and he that hateth his life in this world
shall keep it unto life eternal.
And l. if be lifted up from the earth,
viii draw all men unto me.
This be said, signifying what death
De should die"
He fist considered the circumstances
under which the saying was made. Jesus
MAS in attendance upon the Passover,
nearing the close Of his earthly ministry
and the shadow of the cross fell across his
path. The words are probably in reply
10 the question Of certain Greeks who
werv attending the passover. The ques-
tion oI these Greeks expressed the cry CT
The heather world-not these Greeks
along but humanity asked for an answer.
! Up to tLlo time his ministry had been to
| the Jews, but now he shows himself as
| belonging to all nations and all peo-
| pies. In this light we can understand
the meaning of MS title The Son Of Man"
-befitting and crowning his marvellous
| nfe. Christ is not the son of the Jews
Or of Greeks, but the son of man and
out Of that fact there comes a cross, and
| from under the shadows of that cross a
redeemed world begins its glad march
| toward God and heaven. In the hour of
his sloritication he states the method of
universal salvation (verse 24 This
states a fundamental law-the law OF
sacrifice, life through death. In solving
the problem of words redemption,
the death Of Christ was divine neces-
sity. Only the sinless can die redeemingly y
for the SHINING We live by his death. The
whole Christian system rests upon the
atonement, and the atonement rests upon
the sacrifcial death of Christ. Without
death he might have been the greatest phi
losopher the world ever saw, but not the
worlds savior; though the grain of wheat
lies i'll casket of gold, it cannot feed the
hungry until it fulfills the law of nature
l cannot explain why these things are
they are the mysteries of nature, the
secrets Ct Cod. God created the world
on the basis of pillared il
upon Calvary. Humanity's fall was an
ticipated; leave this out of The scheme o1
creation aud you put God in the attitude
of experimenting and the atonemen
comes IN as an afterthought TO remedy
the consequences of a divine mistake
But has the grain of corn planted in the
ground fulfilled its prophecy? the voice
of great multitudes answers the question
Whatever the world possesses of life, Of
light, of truth, of hope, comes directly
from this sacridcial sowing. By his oper
grave the poet tunes his Tyre, and sing:
his sweetest songs. Architecture re
spends 10 his death, and the grandesi
monumental piles of earth arise 20 en-
shrine the memory of his sacrifice, anc
perpetuate The victories of his cross
from the cathedrals of Milan and Cologne
from st. Peters of Rome and ST. Paul:
of London down to the lowliest log meet