New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-04

n II not on the whole discouraging because God
one Of these days lie will put new heart into that
force tina. ts running awsy with the human race
May / just recite briefly some Of the elements
which think should enter into this? God looking
he would fall He create free agent. lie
2 M run the the 1 NEW St
runs away over In the future beyond him God
the human So that in the great ns@ yosder
people will rise up IN Jesus Christ and will say Il
through process of incarnation in Christ and OF
atonement wrought out through Christ.
impenitent men he is glad to know he offer
grace to sinners and it is the most joyful hour in
abounds Where sin abounded grace was "y mo or
than sufficient. 1t Is only the fallen sinner that can
plead for mercy. 1t Is only he that can welcome
the saviours atonng blood . think no exagseT-
alton of the truth TO say that God resolved that
after the fall of Adam and Eve every child born
the basis OF that atonement that was promised and
Adam being perpetuatcd as II SIM the great calam-
ty had come into the world and nothing TO relieve
it or nothing TO even stay ii. Think moment; we
don't believe that
We believe that all the griefs of original sin are
In this world. suppose the concensus of Christian
thought at once takes that ground that the atone
meni covers me case OF inrnity ana depression IN
the infant II that is so the whole infant world Is
IN relation 10 the second Adam. because 1t was Gods
love ana purpose TO have 1t so. But there comes a
time when the infant grows up and begins to assert
It's VIII and PRIDE. chooses 10 remain In relation
TO the first Adam. The truth Is as the Bib.c puts It,
we are born into this world in relation 10 the hrsi
Adam and also TO the second. | do not believe that
child would ever have been born into this world
except with his relation TO the second Adam. DO
you know why Eve called Eve? The very word
means life. She the mother Of all living, the
very perpetuity of the is conditioned on that
fail Of the foundation mao Of the World You remember
that God said to the serpent that this seed of the
woman that is coming shall bruise thy head: Do you
remembeT when that FIRST son was born = Eye , how
the Lord? There never would have been man.
woman or child born to her except on the basis OF
that purpose of Jesus Christ TO come Into the world
to offset the awful calamties
Why 1t Is the first fact man meets that chris.
has been here before him. who died for him. died
do is TO fall in with that grace of God in Jesus
Christ. Now In that way God undertakes to turn
tables the fall Of man and on the sin of the
race of the first Adam. 1t is not to put us back
Adam above the old. Now another way in
whci. the tables turned is true of resurrection
self-denyng. sef-dyng. selfsacrifcing habit which
is at the basis of our Christian life. You know the
Bible abundautly teaches US not only that Jesus
Christ is our Saviour, but that we are perfected
through His suferings. How abundantly that
Is shown In the With Romans There
time when we thought. Chris: has died for me- that
is all | need. That Is all we need to do to be just-
fed But as get in the spiritual life we
soon that born to die with Christ. TO
suffering and to sin. AS die the resurrection
life of Christ is to enter into and lift up and
give US standing. and our growth and our
power.
In conclusion DR. Mabie said there IS no such
thing as deepest He'll for 1t may be deeper and
deeper and deeper and there is no such thing as a
highest Heaven, because it may be higher and
preach is a Gospel OF grace. Gospel Of turning
the tables