The Newtown bee., 1895-08-02
empty 7handsd, We are not willing to
 say we stilY nustsDear the load, we still

say we still must bear the load, we still have debt to pay, there is nothing we can give. So we come with our service past or future, or with our penances and our tears, or our willingness to suffer the penalty, or with OFT treasures of the church, or, finally, we say: y Jesus. diedI and paid it all ;, all the debt owe,''I But this is not what Jesus Ct1ist hiIal-Il i'm self said. He did not say, there weres two debtors who had nothing to pay,I and when they had nothing to pay, some one came in and paid both the debts for them. He said, They had nothing to pay, and therefore the creditor freely forgavel them both. And the two sayings are not l'4S s' a1iS'ftota iaaq 9a5 afiraI Dlaa fsodi II,
 4o HI HERE RE ARE ! F SOME DEBTS ,sas
 that never can beJpaid. What shall this boy do to square the accounts with his mother i25athe mother swho,; when she brought him life, went down to the very gate of death heEself mot knowing wheth- CT sheiwould return yornot ; the mother who, through all hisfbabyhoed, gavesup herself to him that she might pour her life out put into bis; the mother who bore with his erroTs. and his imperfections ]; the motherawho5 loved him back from his wanderings and redeemed him from his Sins; the mother who took upon herself the burden of transgressions of which he himself was unconscious, that she might bear them msawayl and he be saved from them What service shall he render to her? What words of gratitude outpour What love .bestow?. Ahpif this boy be a man, he knows that is a debt that never l can be paid! Eternity of love will not paysit, forIove never pays love's debts such debts go on eternally and love goes on eternally, and we pay and ? love Z and love and pay, and still the process lasts
 What shall this husband pay to recon. pense the wife?-who left her home, hel friends, her very name, and took his name up for her own, became his companion
 bearing bis cares more than he bore them, loving him not only for, richer ol poorer is easyAbuti for better ol
 worse= that is hard How shall this bus
 band pay the wife that has been his ,coun
 selor and his adviser and has filled hin
 with her love and her wisdom 9Ohy wha
 can he do but say, This is a debt I can
 not pay: I can owe her love eternally
 and when have loved her as long al
 eternity shall last, still there will be lov,
 due to herr How will you pay the phys
 ician that came into your, house ;whel
 your little child lay in the cradle, ant you thought every moment the -cradl,
 would become coffin, and who watched
 and tended and brought tojyou his wis
 dom and his care and his loverand hi
 skill and his courage? Can you eve- b,
 otherwise than debtor to the man wh,
 hascalled back from death your child O
 your. wife and given her back to you?
 There are debts that are tinpayable
 and among those.thati are5 unpayable i
 the debt that is made when one. has sim
 ed against another. It tEcannot be paid
 You willZask me, Does not Paul say tha
 JESUS CHRIST IS SUBSTITUTE FOR MAN IsNos he1doe not; theology often has eai \ 1t, but Paul does not say it. Afhe wor,
 substitute is not to be found in the Ney
 Testament. Does he not say that Jesu
 Christ died in the place and stead o
 man? No! he does not. He says he die for man-on his behalf. Does not Chris Iaay that sin,is debt, and that he Ina tpaid the debt? No! he does not. H
 He compares sin to debt; but he neve
 compares ferg sata the pa yment o l 2 debt Dc not yog see the difference
 They had noshlng) )to pay j and he frankl
 forgayetc them both. an insolvent;
 have been turning over in my mind hoy :. shall pay this debt and get out of n m Insolvency ; T. can see no help, no wa out and finally my creditor sends his sol
 .rne. who brings the note, cancelled ,an Ithee son son says M M y father desired me t 'l hand you this note and say, the debt
 eaneeIed; and | turn to him and say. say, i thank ssl you m that you have paid this deb 'I for me hHe did not pay the debt for me ! fhe. brought the. word that my ereiitoolr n | longer accounted it a debt against me So JesusIC Christ came not to ts.lo pay q = asadeb tSo55a, Shy lock who de man dgd his pound, Q ffeshg but to declare to the shrinkihg 2 an I Enlightened debtor, here, is no debt; 'lo you ! Father T. has { canceied it and stricken 1t of II you owe, him nothing but eternal love- [aaT This is one. of the sermons that, is, sun Ito be misunderstood, but T cannot he i
 its-I-ae net suppose it is possible in en- -lsingie sern0nito1put before any scongre tgationf the thoughts that burn and csli
 feelings that surge, sometimes ifi $, man. lIsoula0bnt there are four truths I wish 1 Eeould make oyou see. o The first is tha tthe debt of sin Is an eternal debt; th,
 second is that the forg givensss of God i |ian eternal forgiveness j and the third fl that the1l0ue of the soul to the forgiyins God Is. atl, eternal love and therefore tt. IpFocess of repentance and forgiveness. and redem ption is,an eternal and never bending process. Il do not ttlanlzsonces fol 'aal One who has paid my debt.'f thanl eternally One who is always forgivine my debt. a1The debt Is an eternal one; il cannot be paid. ~ 42iads 2 tii 3iAail
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 to payis itself almost an insult. Sup
 posing that the prodigal som had ttakar his substance, gone of into the far toun: ltry, and, instead of wasting his, substance in riotous living, had made a afortnne,an then he had come back and said, My father, here Is your money, here is the interegts here is the compound Interest," now everything is squared between us;