Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-12
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screen great, far-reaehing sand bars
and twenty miles of Savannah and
PUSHES and tropical and semi-tropical
trees and orange groves and palmetto
trees and the man of the night before
denounoes him and says: Il never
saw such things, and | have lived III
America and have seen the Atlan1lo
coast"
What was the matter, They were
both right and both wrong although
that may seem paradox Nel1her
one was all wrong for the first man
has seen the coast from Maine TO cape
Eatteras ard the other from cape
Hatteras to Tucatan The coast was
so varied that they could not CROWD
into one picture with so few views as
of it. And God Almighty never under
took to give their picture on one
screen of the whole plan of redemp-
ton.
Man Seeks TO cIothe simself'
From this day that Adam and Eve
ate of the forbidden fruit until Jesus
Christ on the cross cried; ut Is mn
tshed," God was giving us picture
after picture and preparing the world
for the greatest event that ever en-
tered into human history, And when
see the great long knife in the hand
Of the high priest and the sacritice
upon the altar and hear the lowing
herds all these are picture after
ricture God gave us, Until at last
Jesus Christ hung bleeding on the
cross and cried: "It is finished.
The atonement is plan whereby
sinful man can be made one with God,
.A-one.ment, for a sinner has no
standing with God and has no spiri.
fual existence in the sight of God
and EXISTS just as the brute of the
field A man has no spiritual life
until he repents and accepts Jesus
Christ as his Savior And there.
fore ! hays often imagined when
Adam and Eve sirned-for God told
them that in the day that they should
sat Of the fruit of the garden they
should surely die; not meaning day
of twenty-four hours--Y have often
imagined Adam and Eve did not re.
gard It as eternal death, for they had
never seen a man die, the breath
cease. the eyes close and the blood
coagllate, and they have regarded
81 AS separation from God, for the
Bible says that your sins separate be
tween YOU and your God After they
sinned they went out into the field
and plucked leaves and sought to
make garments with which to clothe
their nakedness. and from that very
minute down to tonight, sinful man
has seen himself open to the iudg
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Saved Through Blood Alone.
He has sought to clothe himself
with philosophy, with morality, and
with science falsely socalled, but God
looks through your philosophy. and
your science, and morality, and all
your postulates that you claim to
demonstrate of demonstrate PROPOSE
tions and all that That you think
It enough to shield you from the
wrath of God. And you go up and
down the streets parading your mo
rality, and your culture, and your
education. But God looks through
that and sees your black heart, and
sees that you are in rebellion. He
sees through the fig leaves that
screen your bodies; and he came
down and saw the nakedness Of Adam
and Eve, and he went and found a
beast and killed It, and threw the
bleeding skins about Adam and Eve
and from that minute until tonigh:
when sinner has been saved from
the wrath of God, tell you that it
has been by and through repentance,
faith in the blood, and IL you turn
your back on that you are a condem-
ned sinner or that book is a liar,
from Genesis to Revelation
There Is no way to be saved unless
you accept Jesus Christ But said an
old infldel: IT don't believe in the
doctrine OF substitution. I don't be-
Iieve in the atonement. I don't be.
lieye in the innocent dying for the
guilty"
why don't your"
We'll. because it does abortion to
my eyes, to my ideas. and opinions"
said ITO perdiction with your
Ideas and opinions You are a
fool. You have an idea. and an
opinion, and set it UP in opposition
to the revealed will Of God, and hold
to your little iackass opinions. The
word of God says one thing, and you
think another. and, OF course, Gcd is
wrong and you are right.
Innocent Suffer for the Guilty.
A man goes to the penitentiary be.
cause of his opinions The law says
one thing and he does another A
man goes to hell because of his
opinions. Gods word says one thing
and man don't believe it. and fol
lows his own opinions and goes te
hell. Cert ainly. What differences
does it make about your opinions
Now let me say this: I have read
about everything that any man would
read who values his time. Everything
that has ever been written from an in
fdel standpoint against the doctrine
of the atonement, and have yet tt
find the first argument of common
Eense and reason
And I have said "Old skeptic
what have you to offer and to pro
pose, that will do what the gospel O
Jesus Christ has done for the world
Until you can trot out something tina
will make me a decent man. the