Arizona republican., 1898-12-06

and is 'cbtaired by the santance Of a judge, declaring, after inquiry, that the Judged person hath performed all th t
 was required Of him, So that he is noc only freed frcm punishment, but cnt'- tlcd tC the promised reward, and may complain of injustice if thsse are d. nied him?
 But no mortal has ever lived sir e the day when man fell into sin whc c,uld stand before Go3 and cla in iusti- fcation cn such terms Thsy csn not be dee'ared righteous. They have done
 unrightaousness. and law $ ope a i've in but tw3 directions: To ccndem1
 the guilty and justify the innocent. l. is also q lear from this that T. gal justi-
 flcaticn is not gospel justi6ca15n,'
 and we are grateful t5 cur Father in heaven to learn tha. a righteousness of Gcd withcut law IS discovered, b2ing testified by the law and the prophets even teh righte2usn ass Of God through faith cf Jesus Christ unto all and upcn
 all who believe; fer thcre ia n dis lac. tion, because all have sinnCd and came ! short of the praise of GCd,' being just fed Of free gift by His grace, through the redemption which is by Christ Je- sus' From this Paul says We con- clude, then, that by faith man Is justi- fed without works of law And Mac knight remarks on the apostle teaching
 here that when justification by faith is mentioned, in opposition to justifica- | Iticn by deeds of law, he mems a gra- tuitous Justification, founded noc ol the accused persons innocence CT righteousness, but proceeding merely from the mercy of the judge, who is pleased, out cf pure favor. 10 acc-pt Of his faith in the place cf righteousness and to reward it as if it wers rig IL ecusnsss, and all for the sake oi Chr,s-.'
 In this we have cCntrasted legal justi- tication' and gratuitcus or gcsrei lst'- fication.' The Judaizars affirmed and consistently taught the farmer Paul the 1attcr, and not Cnly did he teach that men are, in the Christian dispen- ation, justified by faith, but h affirmed that it was ever so, and quoted from the p-0pG.et Ha bakkuk tO prove it: It is written, The just by faith sha'l live
 And in opposition to the assertion Of these theorists. that men are justified by the Levitical offerings, he declared that in thoss. sacrifices there is a re-
 membrance again c,f sins every year.
 Fer 1t is nc. possible that the bio d of
 bulls and Of gclts should taks away
 sin Then, If nsither law, nor the ani-
 nal sacrifices offered under that law
 could procure justificat' on, 1t is evident
 the law of Moses had nothing to d.
 with it, and was no. giv5n tG the Jews
 for that purpose. Here, then, we are at th3 question: Why was the law given at all if it was impCtsnt in this respect? Well, it was gwen fc' the
 very same reason ttat our laws are,
 because Of transgrassion,' for tn ore are
 these who will do evil, ard the prev
 ince Of law is t- discCvcr this evil;
 hence, Paul declares, the law is net
 made for righteous man, but fOc the
 lawless and isobsGient.' In Galatians
 answers it in Cne sentence. Wherefore
 iii:19, he asks this vCry QuestiCl and answers it in Cne sent5nce, 'WheI ef ore, then, scrvcth the law?' It was added
 'becaus3 Of t~ansgTe5sio1.
 But an cbjector says, Gospel justi- fication is justifying the law.ess and ungOdly.' Well, we answer taa-, frcm a legal standpoint. tat is S. But ouc objector asks, How can Gcd Ee jus. and righteous, and yat jus s.ify the un- gCdly? Ard 50 every one o: r3fe-tiO ], indeed every thoughtfu, perscn. must inquire, 'HciY can the justification cf the ungCdly. .bs regardc1i IS corpatiole
 with the justice, the purity, the truth fulness tf God?' Many inquirng min Is have asked, How can God stand just fed before the pure and hoy and rigdt- cOus pcers of his celestial Ic3lm-t1e itierarchs and princes Of heaven,' ard justify the ungOdly? This is g-ea- questiCn, a profound mystery. and be- fore Gcd tonight I fsel the awful ra- accessibility that rests cn ms in at tempting to answer it. On this qu S tion A. Campbell has written, 'Oae there is, and was, and evermCre will be, who, by his obedience to that violated law, even unto death, las SC ma gnifsd d and made honorable that law and gov ernmart as to open a channel thToI2l2 which truth, righteousness and merry can haTmCniously flow tog-ther and justify God, while jus.ifying tie sin her, by pardoning him and then t eat ing him as th-ueh he never hed nusd against Eis throne and government. His dsath was, therefore, c1ntempia iate3 as the Cn2 only true. real and ad5qult9 sln-CHering ever presented in this uni v-rse in the presence Of God. arg ls, men and demons that docs forever .us- tify GCd in justifying man. It will fo = ever silence all dsmur and fill the uni vctse, heaven and et-rnity with the praise Of the Lord
 But theEe is an inspired answer 10 this question, and I am glad that w have a Thus saith the Lord for it. It is found in Romans iii: 25-26. Paul tte~a declares that God hath set fo. tin Christ "a prop.t atcry through faith in his blood fer proof of His own right eousness in passing by the si-s which were b5fore committed, through the fcrbearance of God; for a pro- f also 0: His righteousness in the pcssaus tine, in crder that He may b9 just when ir8- tifying him who is of the faith of $ Is Christi