Smyrna times., 1901-01-09
PASTOR HILLS SUNDAY DISCOURSE.
Presented Christ as Having "Finished" the
Office OF Priesthood in Offering Himself
as Sacrifice for their Sins.


Office Of Priesthood in Offering Himself
as a Sacrifice for their Sins.
Sunday last was communion day in
the M. E. Church. The pastor took
for his subject before the administra-
tion of the elements, the declaration
of Christ ON the cross, just before he
gave up the Ghost-''It is finished.
He said there must have been some
thing of holy Joy and victory in the
last words of our Lord, his work being
pre-eminently to make an atonement
for the sins of the whole world. In
his death was the fulfllment of the
things the prophets had spoken, aid
another has beautifully said, "when
Jesus cried 1T is finished, the prOph-
etc stood round the cross and said in
one deep-toned and responsive voice,
Amen, it is finished; our prophecies
are all fulfilled; all that God taught
us, God in our nature has now done,
| Amen"
All the good things snadowed forth
by the types of the Jewish economy
became when Christ said cit is fin
ished," the glorious possessions of the
church. The principal path of sacri-
fee having served the day of its min
istration, is done away. Every sacri
fee offered under the law by the pious
sons of Abraham was but a type Oi
| Christ. It's profound lesson and mean
ing concerned the Lamb of God which
taketh away the sins of the world
The Jew was not saved and made per
feet by the sacrifice which he offered
Not by the sacrifice which he offered
but by faith in Christ's atoning sac
rifice was the Jew saved. So this sac
rament of the Lords Supper whicl
we celebrate this morning, cannot saw
and make the comers thereunto per
feet. The sacrifice of the Jew locke,
forward, this sacrament of the Chris
tian looks backward; the Jewish sac
rifice was type, the Christian sacra
ment is a memorial, a sign, a pledge
BY faith let us apprehend Christ
presence in the sacrament and b
faith let us eat his broken body an
drink his shed blood.
: Christ Finished His Sacrifice.
, Christ finished his own sacrifice,
: is therefore not to be repeated. 1t
clear that there is no warrant or san,
: tion in the Scriptures either for th
: erection or existence of any altar
any Christian church, nor do th
Scriptures make any place in th
Christian church for a sacrificiT
q priest 1t is the glorious truth of &c
"We have such an high priest, but
has passed into the heavens"
To those who say that by the co
e secration of the bread and wine a co
y version is made of their whole su
s stance into the body and blood of ol
Lord, which they are pleased to ter
transubstantiation, sufficient answ
:" =, is found in the eighteenth of our Ar
: = cles of Religion: '"Transubstantiatio
: or the change of the substance
. bread and wine in the Supper of o
% Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Wr
u but is repugnant to the plain words
- Scripture, overthroweth the nature
y a sacrament, and hath given occasi
to many superstitiOns.
III cit is finished, said the dying S
e of God and Son of Man. The reve
ol ton of God made in the words is g
d finite loUe." The revelation of the p
g feet man is sacrifice. self sGcrif
rs Since the days of John Tetzel tn
% have been those who have tried
ie make the largest word of the Christi
u vocation, Indulgence. but the less
sc of the Cross is far otherwise. \
zee iaduIgence, but self sacrifice is
large word of our high and holy CT
!, ing.
no To this table of the Lord let us dr
:, near with hearts full of gratitude I
pray that we may completely rely