The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1903-11-26
"MONUMENTS

OF Nov. II, As follows:
MONUMENTS.
"The world is full Of monuments.
From very ancient times they have been
employed TO commemorate persons and
events. God has 50 used them. So he
does now IL the Jewish fge there were
two monumental ordinances, the S H.
bath and he table Of showbread
The Sabbath is frsi meniioned in The
sixteenth chapter OF Genesis. Israel
was IN the wiIdegness and ia need Of
food. God gave them mamma They
were 10 gather e. ough on the sixth day
10 last them over the seventh. God "a
planned why. There had been no need
Of Al explanation. bad they been famil-
lar with the Sabbath. But it was not
made an ordinance until Sinai. Their
il became one Of the ten commandments.
God explained tito be a memorial OF his
work In creation and his rest II Was
p.us and then made 2 monumental Or
diuance Up to THE time the relations
ship bei~eeu God and man was that Of
Creator aud creature. The more iniim
sie relationship Of Father and children
WAS yet 10 be made known. The great
est event, 10 men, thus far, was creation
On that mans obedience to God was
based. Il vase illing that an event OF
such importance should he commemorate
ed ss il was in the Sabbath.
The table Of showbread commenorat-
ed, not the beginning, but the susien-
ance Of their physical beings. by the
mamma with which God fed them. The
Sabbath was out Of the Jewish church,
while the table was in II and part Of
a. This Sabbath was not church IN
slitulion, while the table was. The
Sabbath was for all The people, while
the table was for the worshipper. The
Sabbath was an act Of loyalty, while the
table was an act Of worship
The table was more. II was q type as
we'll It spoke Of "ihe bread from heav
an" who was yef to conre. The Sab.
bath was monument only, while The
table had two voices. 1t spoke both OF
the part and the future Il was both a
and a type. These we're the
only two monumental ordinances in the
old dispensaiion.
In the new dispensa,ion there are only
two monumental ordinances, baptism
and the Lords Supper. Baptism is
and has a voice II speaks
Of the three events which the apostle
calls "ihe gospel" viz: "The death.
burial and resurrection" OF Christ
These three events made recreation aud
eternal life possible. Re creation like
creation is TO be commemoraled. II is
lbe greatest event in the history Of the
world. Jesus died for our sins. The
sinner "des 10 sin in the Aesh;" "cruci-
6es The old man OF sim" II Is fitting
hat that which Is dead should be bur.
led. Jesus was. Paul (Rom. VI says,
1--WE are buried with him By baptism
into deaih." Had mol Christ risen from
me grave, he could have offered us no
life. The sinner who Is dead aud buried
must also arise from his temporary
grave in the water, to "walk in newness
n life" The old life is dead and bur
ed. As God quickened his Son In the
grave. so does be quicken dead and bur
ed sinners in their graves. to "uewness
of life."
Like the Sabbath, baptism Is com
nemoralive. The FIRST, OF creation, and |
he second OF re-crestiou. The 6rst was
ior all and so is the second. The first
Has out OF The church and so is the sec.
oud The first was an ACT of obedient
loyalty 10 God and so Is the second
Both are monumental.
The Lords table Is also monument.
sDo this in memory Of me-" says the
Saviour.
Like The saowbread, il commentaries
he "bread from heaven" We, too, are
ravslug through a wilderness. We
an not tive of The country. We need
ood. God has provided for our spirit
,al, as be did for Israel's physical. ne.