The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-22


IkSHO are made nigh? Those who will
wv receive the cleansing power OF
Jesus blood. Christ has made
atonement for the sin of all the world,
and the efficacy of that atonement is only
limited by the extent to which it is re-
ceiyed by the world. Those who are
made nigh to God are those who have re-
ceived the Lord Jesus as Saviour, who by
faith have accepted the fact of atone
ment for sin as the only way Of salvation.
1t is a blood-washed throng, whose gar
ments are made spotless. None other
may come there. The test is not church
membership. 1t is not family connec-
tions, good pedigree. The Jews pleaded
that argument with Jesus, but because
they were of the seed of Abraham did
not insure their salvation. 1t is not good
works Perhaps that is what the stran-
ger wore who got into the marriage sup
per without the wedding garment on
Certainly he was very bold in coming
there in the garments he had prepared
for himself, and he must have encour-
aged himself in tbs belief that he had
as good a right there as anyone else.
But when the Lord Of that supper con-
fronted him he was speechless, and be-
cause he lacked the spotless garments
which only the Bridegroom could give
him he was cast into outer darkness
Different religious bodies may have diff
ferent tests which admit to membership
but there is only one thing which will
admit the soul into the blessed presence
of God, and give it place in Heaven;
it is the cleansing blood of Jesus. And
those who are thus purified are admitted
to blessed fellowship with God here in
this life and also in the life to come. --
1T HESE are they which come out of
great tribulation, and have
washed their robes and made
them white in the blood of the
Lamb" There is paradox"
says Dr. McLaren, the great Eng
lish preacher RED blood makes
black robes white. 1t is like some of the
apparent pieces of magic that you can
see performed in some of our Lighthouses
nowadays. There is nothing else that
will touch my guilt except that one great
sacrifice offered once for all for worlds
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nothing else that will deliver me from
the dominion of my own evil, except the
power of the life and love of Jesus Christ
planted in my heart, and there bringing
forth the fruits of righteousness. There
is an old legend which says that the
only thing that could melt adamant was
the blood of a pure lamb. / believe that
the one power which brings forgiveness
and forgiveness is not mere impunity
is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ And
know that the one powe- which, trans
fused into mans life, can make him
live soberly, righteously, and godly is
that blood which is the life of Christ
Himself impaired to us. So, then, that
which no man can do for himself, and
no man can do for any others, and with
out which all else that is done by us for
ourselves or for others is inadequate to
the necessities of the case, is done,
blessed be God! for us in that shed blood
Of Him who in death bore the sins of,
and in life imparts righteousness to, the
whole world
THE power of sin is awful. 1t sepa-
rates from God. It curses and en-
thralls in this life. 1t dooms to
everlasting death. And only Jesus blood