The Grenada sentinel., 1903-12-19

Christ who was to come. The prophets
of old realized that God was preparing
a great and universal blessing for man
kind. Peter says: THE prophets in
quired and searched diligently" and
then 'prophesied of the grace that
should come unto you; searching what,
or what manner of time the Spirit of
Christ which was in them did signify.
ferings OF Christ, and the GLORY
that should follow. Unto whom it was
that not unto themselves, but
unto us they. did minister the things
which are now reported unto you. by
them that have preached the Gospel
unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down
from Heaven" And not only were the
prophets seeking to discover what God
was planning and doing, but Peter goes
on to say that the angels of Heaven
desired to look into these things God
could give nothing less than a glorious
gift. And it is the glorious Gospel be-
cause Christ. who is the theme OF the
Gospel, is glorious.
\ ND it Is the glorious Gospel because
IA 1t has accomplished that for which
it was sent-the redemption Of man.
The sun is glorious because it gives
light and heat and life-giving energy,
the purposes for which is was created
Had it failed when it was hung in the
heavens by God to perform that for
which it was created, the earth would
not have rejo1ced in its light and
warmth and would not have called it
the glorious sun. Man makes ma
chine to do a certain definite work.
When it is all completed and set up
the inventor puts it to the test to see
If it will operate successfully. When
it does he is elated and rejoices exceed
ingly; glory has come to the machine
which it did not possess before it
proved it's power to perform the work
expected of it. In the east there is
professor who has spent a lifetime
upon the problem of air navigation.
With thousands of dollars at his COM
mand he has built most wonderful
machine. 1t looks as though it ought
TO fly and would fly. But when tested,
instead of soaring off into the blue
heaven and bringing glory and fame to
its inventor and itself. it rushed down.
ward to ruin. How ridiculous it would
sound to set to praising the machine
and to call it the glorious airship.
And If the Gospel of Christ had not ac-
co1uplished that for which it was in
tended by God we would not hear Paul
calling it the glorious Gospel, nor hear
multitudes throughout the years since
the good tidings were proclaimed by
the angels on Bethlehem's hills re-
jOlcing in the power and blessing of
the glorious Gospel. The light of the
Gospel has brought cleansing and heal
ing and rejoicing into every place
where 1t has found entrance. Sin has
been punished. man has been delivered,
and brought back into fellowship with
God, death has been overcome, and the
riches and fullness of Heaven have
been made accessible. Paradise lost
through sin is now Paradise regained
through Christ. This is the message
of the Gospel. This is why the Gospel
is the glorious Gospel. Christ has ac-
complished that whereunto He was
sent.
FURTHER, it is the glorious Gospel
/ to-day, because it is still the only
message of hope to a dying and lost
world At one time when 1ngersoll was
billed to lecture against this glorious
Gospel of Christ in a certain town, a
former classmate and friend of the lee
turer, who had been to the very depths
of hell in his debauchery and shame.
but who was rescued by the power of
the Christ who had reached down and
saved him and restored him to his wife
and children and friends and society
wrote to the infidel as follows: "You
may not know my history since we
parted as students, but was swallow
ed up of sin. Invent down, down, down
until l was a poor, despised outcast
and when L thought there was none to
help and none to save there came one
in the name of Jesus, who told me o1
His power to help, and through the
story of the cross of Christ, turned te
Him. He made a clean, Upright man
of me; He gave me back my home, my
wife, my children. He did for me wha'
| all else had failed to do. And nov
| would you, old friend. attack religion
| that can go down to the lowest dep.i.
of hell and find q man and restore
! him? What can you say against re
ligion like that?'s It is said Mr.. In
gersoll read the letter to his audience
and declared he had nothing to- say
against religion like that. but tina
| he would talk about religion whicl
lis being preached by the preachers.
Rather q lame reply, sure1y. And tn.