The Newtown bee., 1899-01-27

Christ live happily and die in holy tri- umph. Christ is the only source of blea- sing, His is the only name in which to trust, but it Is all sufficient, all glorious, and of boundless grace.
 In Zion's Herald, Dr Lyman Abbott beautifully illustrates Gods grace by what he calls the alchemy of pity: "It was 8 hot August afteraoon and the clouds had long withheld their shadows and their rain, and s little flower lay dy- ing. AS it lay there looking piteously up into the heavens and longing for refresh ment drop fell down and then another and another and another, ali about it., and fed it's roots and the flower, refresh ed and revived and brought back 70 life, lifted up it's face and said, Drop, I thank you; you have saved my life.' And the drop said, Thank us not; the clouds sent us.' And the flower lifted up it's face toward heaven and said, o cloud, in thy summer glory, thank thee ; thou hast saved my life.' And the cloud said, Thank not me; the Sun drew me from the ocean, and the wind waited me here; thank sun, thank wind" And tine flower perplexed and puzzled turned it's face hither and thith- CT, saying to the sun and to the wind, 70 sun, 1 thank thee, that thou hast brought this water from the far off ocean 1 thank thee, o wind, that on thy wings thou didst bear it here for nay refresb- ment,'' The sun and the wind said, the ocean, and the sun, and the wind, and caused the drops to fall." Then the IChristianly inst ucGed flo Wer said, ''God, thank thee who didsC make the ocean, and didst give the sun it's power to draw the cloud from the ocean, and dIdst give the winds their wings to bring the clouds hiCher and didst dlop drops from the clouds that brought me back my life."
 I cannot appreciate the church too highly. The word preached has been mama to my starving soul. With grati. Itude do I remember the old family altar, and the pious teachings oi Emy mother as I bowed with clasped hands ac her knee. But my soul goes out beyond the church, beyond the lips of clay, beyond and above the family altar with it's benign Influences. I arise
 from my mothers knee, and turn my
 face toward heaven, and with refreshed and revived soul exclaim o God, l thank
 thee for the church which affords me the
 means of grace, l thank thee for Christ
 ian home, thank thee for mothers
 prayers and godly instructions, for ali these blessings come from thee, the
 Fountain of Life. I am not ashamed of such Gospel.
 Second. The Gospel means, Christ crucified. He died to redeem. "Ye have sold yourselves for nought, but ye shall be redeemed without money" Re- demption literally means to buy back.
 We have sold ourselves into bondage of sin and misery and death. To buy us back to liberty, holiness and to God, the redemption price must be paid. That price was the blood of the Son of God.
 "Who gave himself for ue, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself g peculiar people, jealous of good works.n Titus, 3: IA. see Jesus standing in my room 10 bear the wrath of God for me. When, like Isaac, was bound to the altar to be offered up to justice, Christ, like the ram caught in the thicket, was offered in my room. I turn to Isaiah 53d and l find { there safferings that should have been mine. griefs, and sorrows, and affiictions. and wounds, and bruises, and cnasEise- ments, and stripes, and death, all of which should have been mine. But to save me from that to which my sins ex- posed me, the Son of God stepped into my place, and for me He was rejected of men. He became man of sorrows, was wounded for my transgression. and was smitten, that by his stripes I might be healed. l believe in the old-fasnioned atonement find the doctrine of atone ment taught all through the Bible. That he died for me ia the only hope have Of escaping the judgment of God. Dr J. Wilbur Chapman quotes John McNeill, saying III believe that Barabhas mad the best idea of atonement Of any one in Jerusalem. Pilats offered to release