The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-30
hT0NEMEAy BY HOOD
Tho Subject Of Mr. Mopdy's Sermon Yes
terday Aftesn noon.

only partially filed yesterday afternoon
| when Mr.. Moody commenced TO preach.
| The cold. drizzling rain was sufficient TO
| deter many anxious ones from coming.
! and while all the seats below were oc-
cupied. all those In the galleries were
j not.
The song service was led by Mr.. Jacobs.
! Several new hymns were sung, and Mr.
| Moody stimulated the singing by urging
| all 10 sing. The unfamiliar tune which
seemed TO promise a failure was rapidly
taken up. and was soon resounding
through the building. Mr.. Jacobs sung
with much expression My Heart Shali
Keep Singing"
Rev. r.. r. Wilson offered an earnest
prayer. and Mr. Jacobs sung another solo
with fine effect.
Mr.. w. =. Fife. the drummer evangel-
list. was then called to pray and in a
most earnest manner asked the Divine
! blessing on the meeting.
Mr.. Moody preached a grand sermon
on "The Atonemcnt." and If there were
any present who doubted the truth of
| the doctrine Of the atoncment, it must
| have been dispeied by the powerful
| Scriptural evidence deduced and the flood
| of light that he uncovered upon this sub
ject from the Divine Word.
T.
| If people would look into the Bible and
study II they would have no trouble about
| the atonement, which had been assailed
more than any other doctrine laid down IL
! the Bible.
Said he. the Bible teaches one thing
from Genesis to Revelation, and In every
part Of IT, that the just suffer for the
unjust-the suffering OF the innocent for
the guilty.
Men may cayil as much as they please.
but IL was proven in the beginning; God
allowed animals 10 be killed in Eden TO
clothe the first man and woman; 1t was
fixed in a distinct promise to Eve that
the seed Of man should bruise the SER
penis head
And Th~re Thev Pavted.
Cain and Abel differed on this doctrine;
one brought bloodless sacrifice. and
there they parted, and they have been
parted ever since. You can find Abilities
and Cainites TO this day. Abel took
Gods way. and Cain took his own way.
That is how it is to-day; Gods way and
mans way.
Noah, though he had every manner Of
animal and bird and beast. took clean
animals into the ark for sacrifice
Later on we find Father Abraham on
the mount making sacrifice, even unto |
offering Isaac when he thought God |
wanted him to do it.
A few hundred years later we find |
Moses the law giver travelling the same |
way The Lord told him to take a lamb |
and 10 Stay him, and all the children Of |
Israel 10 take a lamb and strike the
door post with the blood, and when /
see the blood I shall pass over you,
and mind you that they were as safe
behind that blood as if they were in
Heaven.
Bless you when you are behind the
blood, now you are as safe as were they
at that day in the land of Goshen.
Isiah walked the same way. and Daniel
said; Il shall be cut off. not for my own
sins, but for the sins Of my people"
why Hequirr Bioodg
People ask why does God require blood?
Because there must be Il law to govern
the world, and what is law without a
penalty?
If God made this world, do You sup
pose he made no rules by which il should
be governed? He said the price Of sin
shall be death, and he that sinneth shall
surely die. without he has the atone
ment Of the blood Of the lamb
Look into the nth chapter Of Levlticus
and you will find why God requires
bloOd-the life Of the flesh is in the
blood.
God demands blood. because he de-
mands life Take the blood out Of my
body and l am dead.
We must die or We must have sub
stitute God is at war with sin. and
when God found sin on his own son he
smote his body. and when he finds sin
on our body he will smite us.
/ don't want another Gospel than that
Christ died for me. He did not die as
a martyr; he died as a substitute for us
In speaking Of the opposition Of many
people to the idea Of atOnement by blood !
Mr. Moody said: IF the blood Of Jesus
Christ has nothing to do with our sins
the Bible is not true. and you might as
well just throw it away"
He then quoted passage after passage
from the New Testament to show that
Christ was not martyr but died for
our sins: that Christ himself frequently
referred 10 his coming death.
The blood is precious, because it blots
out. An Irish child was asked if there
was anything that God could not do. and
she replied that he could not see our
sins through the blood of Jesus, and that
is just about so.
We are blood relations. How close we
&c; to each other when we talk about
the blood. Nothing will cement this
world together like the cross of Calvary.
can preach on JuStlHCdtlOn, IL Is too
high, / can't reach up to IL. and | don't
think | ever preached a whole sermon on
Justification in my life.
10 means that we shall be without !
blemish; that we shall be on a level with
Christ We shall be justified by faith.
1t BY Mon '
You are not redeemed by such dross
as money you are redeemed by the pre-
,ious blood of Jesus, you are bought with
a price. you don't belong 10 yourself, you
are Gods.
Did you ever thank God for your re-
iemption? If you never did you had
peter do SO
You will never set peace TO a guilty
conscience until you go to Calvary. The
Hood is very precious because Il brings
,eace If you want peace get behind the
hood. Ii either means redemption 10
'ou, or IL means condemnation. Oh, get
behind the blood.
Are you afraid of death-the burden of
Ieath? The word says you shall have
$. so we are Christ will be there. the
evil will bring this charge and that
barge against me, and l will say that
$ all true, but IL Is covered by the blood
f Jesus-it is blotted out He is my
Hood relation he will be the Judge and
am going 10 help him, he has said that
must.
The difference between the believer and |
he unheiiever Is that with the belieyef |
! Is ALI behind him. with the unbeleVer | 4