El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-22
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Third Sermon On the PdsCha1 Lamb
By Rev. w. o. MilliCan.

Rev. W. O. Millican preached a
third sermon on the Paschal lamb
Sunday morning, having for text
Exodus 12:1-6, "Ye shall take it out
from the sheep or from the goats:
And We shall keep it up until the four
teenth day of the same month" He
spoke in part as follows:
In our previous study of the paschal
lamb we have seen Christ provided for
the redemption of men from before the
foundation of the world: his matchless
character of purity and power. 10 day
we hope to view him in his visible sepa-
ration for the consideration OF the
children of men. The command to the
Israelites was. that having found this
male lamb without blemish they should
take 1t out sfrom among the sheep
or from the goats. When this was
done it would necessarily attract the
attention of every Israelite and thus
give this lamb an attention different
from that received by any other lamb.
this lamb would call the attention OF
all the people powerfully to the awful
condition that had be fallen them.
Let us study one of the thousands of
such scenes that took place in Israel at
this time. 1t is the tenth day of the
first month of the Jewish year. In the
gray dawn of approaching day the
father sets out to the sheepfold in the
field. The children awaken and miss
sence. The mother bids them wait
and see. The sun throws his simmer
ing rays across the landscape and far
down the distant slope the father Is
seen slowly approaching the home,
bearing in his arms tender lamb.
His head is bent low and he is wrapped
in thought. But now he nears the
q: wi
satisfaction at the welcome, while with
the wife he houses the lamb in some
place different from that ever occu-
pied by any other lamb. The children
ply the mother with questions concern
ing the fathers strange action and the
special care of this lamb. The mother
gathers them about her side and tells
them the story of sin and oppression In
Egypt and how God is going to send an
angel to destroy the first born of man
and beast four days hence, and how he
has promised that this little lamb shall
in some way or other keep the angel
from killing any of their family; and
that they must do just what God has
told them to do about this lamb and
to 60 to better land. Get fixed in
your mind the fact that this scene was
taking place simultaneously in every
family of Israel, and that for q period
of four days it would be looked on by
every child in every family as a lam b
doomed to a peculiar destiny with
which each soul in the family was
peculiarly connected, and you will get
some idea of the Importance connected
with the separation of this paschal
lamb. Surely no lamb received such
attention or was regarded with such
peculiar Importance.
And have we an antitype to this
feature of the paschal lambs history?
Reviewing the passages of scripture
previously used to show that Christ
was a lamb separated in the purpose
of God from before the foundation Of
the world, we find that this lamb was
to be separated from his previous en-
vironment and manifest to men sin
these last times,,' shy the appearing
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christi"
and that just as the paschal was ''kept
up" among the people during Ger
tain period of days prior to his execu-
ton so Christ was separated to the
people and held among men for def
mite period before his ex-
ecution. A look at few