The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-30

tory. This bellrang
 out for liberty on the day the Declaration of Independ- ence was signed in Philadelphia. The words of the text are inscribed upon it: Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof. These words refer to the year or JuDl- lee, when the trumpet was sounded and liberty proclaimed to all the land of Israel Jesus evidently thinks of this great event when he says: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me be- cause he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor and the acceptable year of the Lord. Just as the trumpet sounded liberty to the Israelites, so the gospel pro claims liberty to all through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 There is the liberty of release from bondage On the day of jubilee every slave was freed except those who had agreed to be slaves for life and had allowed their masters to bore thelr ears Only those can be made free who desire liberty. but every one who will can have through Christ freedom from the bondage of sin.
 There is also the liberty of release from bruises. to set at liberty them that are bruised There is a diff ference between the bondage of slavery and the bondage of bruises A prisoner behind iron bars is deprived of liberty: so is the wounded man on the cot in the hospital. He might walk out if he could. bat he cannot His inability is the bars that inclose him. Through Jesus Christ we have liberty from the bondage of guilt and liberty from the bondage Of disease, the result of the bruise made by sin He can break the bars and set us free, and he can heal the disease and give us the liberty of health.
 There is also the liberty of release from debt. When the trumpet of jubl- lee sounded every debtor was released from the obligation to pay. In the Lords Prayer is the petition Forgive us our debts and sin is debt to justice. We are all bankrupts. From the time we accept him as Saviour there is a perpetual jubilee of freedom from the debt of sin.
 Again, there is the liberty of law. The command was that during the jubilee year "Ye shall do my statutes and keep my judgments, and ye shall dwell in the land in safety Safety is always linked with law Anarchy means danger. The savage. where there is no law, is under the bondage of fear He dreads assassination. He must protect himself. All the time he is exposed to the anarchy that is about him. Righteous law, which i'm poses limitations, gives really the largest liberty.
 It is an interesting historic fact that the liberty bell was cast for the first time in England, during the reign of George H., in the year 1752. The above text was then inscribed upon it, and 1t proclaimed throughout all the land the liberty of English law. After the bell was brought to America it was recast and the same words inscribed upon it. When it's notes rang out on the first Independence day, they made a proclamation of liberty under Amer ican law. It rang the first time for England. it rang the second time against England; but its notes pro claimed liberty on both occasions, The liberty of the first was limited and protected by English law and the | liberty of the second by American law. Jesus Christ was made the "end of the law to every one that believeth." " Grace gives liberty within the limita- i tions of law The Christians de light is in the law of the Lord, and | in his law doth he mediate day and night" Legalism imposes outward ob- | servances and makes salvation de pendent upon them. Grace receives salvation through Christ, and obeys | Him as the result of a loving spirit. All this liberty can be obtained through simple faith in Christ, If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" It can be maintained through the presence and power Of the Holy Spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord is. there is libcrty.'
 Let us ring every day this liberty bell of the soul and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabit- ants thereof" The joy of giving lib erty to others is equaled only by the joy of receiving liberty ourselves. Will berforce. who freed the slaves of Great Britain, did not, like the slaves. sit up all night singing before eman- cipation day, and with the rising sun assist in hurying the coffin full of shackles and whips, but his joy as he thought o' the part he took in lib orating the poor slaves was akin to theirs in fullness. and had the element of unselhshness which enhances all joy. Tell to others your liberty ir Christ, that liberators and liberated