The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
Is a Necessity

him. We appreciate his reverence for
the Divine law and his desire for fell
1owship with God in the cleansing of
his sin. We would, however, suggest
to them that nothing is to be gained
by deceiving themselves and each 9TH
er in the supposition that their
atonement day brings them any relief
or harmonizes them in any sense of
the word with the Almighty. What
they do is a mere farce. The sooner
this be acknowledged the sooner will
their honesty in the matter bring them
into the proper condition of heart to
recognize that the sins of more than
| eighteen centuries rest upon them un-
Cancelled and that this is the explana-
| ton of the calamities that have be-
fallen them.
When Israelites come properly to
understand the situation, they will see
| that all their hopes center in Mes
siah's Kingdom. Messiah is not only
the great King typified by David and
| Solomon, but he Is also the great
| Priest typified by Aaron and more par
| ticularly by MelchiZedec, who was a
priest upon the kingly throne. So Mes
| Siah will not only be the great King
over Israel and the world, but he will
| be the great Priest whose application
of his own merit will effect the can
| collation. of sins forever. He will not
| re-introduce to them sacrifices of bulls
and goats, but will make known to
| them that those sacrifices were mere
foreshadowings of better sacrifices
so much better that they will not need
repeating yearly, but work a perpet-
ua1 cancellation of the sins of Israel
and of all the children of Adam.
Higher Critics Repudiate the Blood
All the worldly wise of Christendom
have reached the point of repudiating
the testimony of the Old Testament
and the New respecting the need of a
sacrihcial death for the satisfaction OF
Divine Justice, the cancellation of sin
and the restitution of the sinner to Di-
vine favor The claim of the so-called
. New Theologists repudiates the fail
repudfates the ransom and repudiates
J a restitution to all that was lost
claiming that nothing was lost and
that all we have is gain. Thus the
; world and its wisdom know not Coo
and appreciate not his arrangement
that, as death came upon mankind
: through the sin of one man (Adam)
even so a restitution to life should
come to all men through Christ-that
''as all in Adam die, even so all iT
Christ shall be made alive
These worldly wise cannot deny the
fact that there is sin in the world and
, that there is death in the world an6
that the tendency of all sin is toward:
: death. They cannot deny that death 1:
i gaining a greater hold than ever be
} fore upon our race. Insan3 aSylums
i prisons and reform schools show that
{ notwithstanding our educational facil
: tiles and wonderful achievements un
t der the enlightering influences of tn,
/ New Dispensation now dawning-nev
' ertheless, the insanity statistics and tn,
/ prison statistics and the physical sta
tistics show that, in spite of every
Y thing our race is becoming mentally
4 morally and physically weaker day b.
lday 1t is for them to explain hov
these facts fit to their theory of evo
luton.
i The Christians View OF Sin Atonement
e By the term Christian we refer t.
e those who intelligently believe the ex
r PLANTATION of the Bible respecting sir
II that it is q violation Of the Divine Law
: and carries with it a penalty-tha
n Father Adam was created as sinless q
T are the angels and as perfect as they
h only on a little lower plan of being
+ Obedience was required of him as tn
s price of Divine favor and everlastin
e life Disobedience thrust him fror
i Paradise into the unprepared earth t
: wrestle with the thorns and thistles
# where the decree, Dying thou Shal
# die,'' accomplished his execution. Hi
: race was in his loins and natural
n shared by heredity his weaknesses an
o death penalty, so that the entire rae
o lis a dying race But the Creator wa
q unwilling that Adam and his childre
e should die as brutes. God did not re
IT woke his decree of death nor give an
It intimation that he had done unjustl
in condemning his creature. He dit
Is however, provide a way for their re
-e lief. He provided that, as the f1rs
h man alone had sinned actually, SO on