The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-19

Christ who was to come. The prophets
OF old realized that God was preparing
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.
when He testified beforehand the suf-
ferings of Christ, and the GLORY
that should follow. Unto whom II was
revealed. 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 glorious
gift. And it is the glorious Gospel be-
cause Christ. who is the theme Of the
Gospel, is glorious.
n ND 1t Is the glorious Gospel because
"A 1t has accomplished that for which
1t 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 1t failed when 1t was hung in the
heavens by God to perform that for
which 1t was created, the earth would
not have rejoiced in its light and
warmth and would not have called 1t
the glorious sun. Man makes a ma
chine to do certain definite work.
When 1t is all completed and set up
the inventor puts II to the test to see
II 1t will operate successfully When
II does he is elated and rejoices exceed
ingly; a glory has come to the machine
which 1t did not possess before 1t
expected of it. In the east there is a
professor who has spent 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 1t ought
to fly and would fly. But when tested.
instead Of soaring of into the blue
heaven and bringing glory and fame to
its inventor and itself. It rushed down.
ward to ruin. How ridiculous 1t would
sound to set to praising the machine
and to call 1t the glorious airship.
And II the Gospel of Christ had not ac-
complished that for which 1t was in
tended by God we would not hear Paul
calling 1t the glorious Gospel, nor hear
multitudes throughout the years since
the good tidings were proclaimed by
the angels on Bethlehem's hills re-
joicing 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
complished that whereunto He was
sent.
FURTHER, II is the glorious Gospel
to-day, because 1t is still the only
message of hope to dying and lost
world. At one time when Ingersoll was
billed to lecture against this glorious
Gospel of Christ in 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 I was swallow
ed up of sin. went down. down. down,
until / was poor. despised outcast,
and when thought there was none to
help and none to save there came one
His power to help. and through the
story OF the cross of Christ, turned to
Him. He made clean, upright man
of me; He gave me back my home, my
wife, my children. He did for me what
all else had failed to do. And now
would you, Old friend, attack a religion
that can go down to the lowest depths
of hell and find man and restore
him? What can you say against re-
ligion like that? II is said Mr. In
gersoll read the letter to his audience
and declared he had nothing to say
against a religion like that. but that
he would talk about religion which
is being preached by the preachers. /"
Rather a lame reply. surely. And the
case OF this friend Of the infidel is but
one of the hundreds and thousands
which are proving that the Gospel of
Christ is the power Of God unto saliva
ton. 1t Is the glorious Gospel still be-
cause Il con .,nues 70 transform lives.
Il continsIes to cure the worlds evils
as nothing else ever has. II continues
to bleu and help wherever its glorious
light penctrates.
| A MOTHER reason why II is the glori-
| "A GUS Gospel of Christ is that 1t Is a
complete Gospel. On Gods part It
| mazda uofhfu1 more to make II effective