The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-12

of either time or eternity, despair of it's realization.
 The manifestations of God are unmis- takable. His revelations are undeniabe; His purpose is irrevocable; His love is unchangeable Gazing upon the suicide of His crowning work and the apparent desolation of His highest hope in the per son of sin-shattered and sorrow-stricken man, Jehovah yet asserts His dominion and foreshadows the continued exercise of His power in the declaration that, in its fulfllment, has brought to the ages the only rest they have ever known: 'The seed of the woman shall bruise the ser pent's head"
 Standing in the place--Jehovah--j -jirah the Lord will provide-where also stood Abraham with unsheathed flashing blade, whose scabbard was to be the flesh of Isaacs his only and well beloved son. this same Omnipotent One, after the lapse of more than twenty centuries of time, in furnishing substitute for the altar bound boy strikes a still richer note of melody on the chord of higher hope, in the use of the words: By Myself have I sworn that in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; be- | cause thou hast obeyed My voice, and | from Me"
 And hast not withheld thy Son. thine only Son from Me" Ahl memory of divine sorrow, what must have been the pathos of the words, thy Son, thine only Son. Oh! record of divine tears, how be- couded with the mis: of weeping must have been that vision as peering down the descent of the ages. the peaks of another sacrifcal mount lowered high in ] ch things else because, forming dark out line between earth and sky, there hung upon their rocky heights the qulvering, suffering. bleeding body of another only | Son. the willing sacrifice of the Eternal
 Father-the Son Divine, from Whose | pale lips fell words of such agonizing
 wonder at 1t all as would have broken
 any human fathers heart, My God, My
 God why hast Thou forsaken Me?' No Substitute.
 No substitute here could creation pro-
 vide He Himself was the substitute for
 creation provided. Herein have we suf-
 fcient divine declaration of the consum-
 nation of the eternal purpose that man | through faith in Christ might be redeem | ed and restored to such purity as would
 qualify him to again manifest God to the I world; and might by the intercession of | Christ be so endowed with the Holy Spirit | of God as to be sanctihed for the work
 of the ages.
 | And now the question in general: From
 who direct is this redemption and this 1 sanctification to come? The answer is
 uneauivocal-From Him and Him alone
 Who makes them possble-from God! l He Who is the only source of life and
 purity alone can restore from death and
 keep from sin.
 | And then the question in particulars: | What the medium of His communication? | And again the answer is unequivocal- | true and acceptable worship! It is re-
 vealed in the action of the wise men of
 the east; it is emphasized in the words l of the text-'I beseech you, therefore,
 bretheren. by the sure mercies of God,
 that ye present your bodies living sac
 rifice. holy, acceptable unto God, which
 Is vour reasonable service" The medium
 is worship-worship at home, worship in the market place, worship in the sane
 tuary, worship in Gods presence every | Wherei The medium is worship in word,
 worship in work, acknowledge God day
 and night, allegiance to God in time and | eternity.
 And all this because he who offers to | God will receive from God. This is the | divine law of the universe for the per- | lection of man, It has indisputabe af- l firmation in the condition upon which de- bends the continued existence of all | things else in the world beside. All ob- jects of creation, animate or inanimate, are obedient to this law. They every one receive from God before they are capable | of imparting to man.
 | Unkissed by the dew of heaven, the grass of the field withers and dies. Ban-