The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-12
snnnial 10 The Tribune.


Spccial 20 The Tribune.
OMAHA Neb., Dec. II.-Pastor Rus
sell of Brooklyn Tabernacle visited our
city yesterday as the guest OF the inter-
national Bible Students association. lie
gave iwo public addresses. which were
heard by large and intelligent audiences.
We report his address from these words
And Isaac brought Rebeccs into his
mother Sarahs tent, and she became his
wife and he loved hcr.'-Genesis XXiv..
When VIC sometimes speak of Abra-
ham Isaac and others as types We
should not be understood 10 mean that
they were merely types-that the Blble
stories respecting them are hctions. 4
person or thing is a type when. in adj
dtion To The actual experiences, the
Scriptures indicate that It preigurcs and
illustrates on small scale some person
or things YET future: As for instance; n
OF the race, was type OF Messiah, the
Second Adam.
The hrsl Adam was tho head OF our
raoe but failed TO give the eternal life
desired. In Gdd providence Messiah
is TO bc the Second Adam in the sense
that hs will rcgencratc, as his chill
drcn all the posterity of the First Adam.
Messiah is thus declared In prophecy 10
he the Everlasting Father Of mankind
the Father or Lifcgiver. better than
Adam. and who will give to our race
weakness. impcrfection and death.
Similarly, Moses was not only real
character, the leader OF the nation OF
lsrael, but, additionally, he was a type
of q greater Mediator--Mcssiah. AS
Noses ned'atcd the Law Covenant for
Israel so Messiah, the Prophet like unto
9S). is to be the Mediator of lsraers New
7 Covenant. under which the ADrahamic
blessings Will reach them and through
them reach all the families of the earth
der. XxXi 81.
Similarly. Aaron was tyre OF the
higher priesthood and its better sacri-
fees connected with the New Covenant.
So. also. the under priests and the Le-
vites. additional 10 their own experiences
served in Gods providence, as types OF
the higher institutions by which the
New Covenant Will he inauEuratcd
On this occasion we ask your atten-
lion 10 Abraham. known in the Scrip
lures AS the friend OF God, as the father
os She faithful. and to his son, Isaac.
the Son Of Promise. born out of the nat
ural order, mlraculously. when his moth
er was old: also 10 tsaac's wife Re
bccca. selected ny Abraham To he the
companion and Joint heir with his son,
Isaac. in his Inheritance. These person
ages lived their lives wholly unconscious
and overruling their affairs so as to
make of ,nem prophetic pictures Of his
own great Plan Of the Ages. These
iype pictures are always to he read IN
of ibe Biblc and never to be understood
in contradiction Of the same.
Abraham Type of God.
Not everything that Abraham did, how
ever. Is TO bc esteemed typical. In a
general way this grand man OF the past
nent of faith and integrity and Justice.
The blessings promised TO 20 through
him to his seed which would constitute
hin the father OF many nations. made
afi i,,,, Tp5ts 81 IN -
OF the Almighty, from whom flows every
good and every perfect sfft-from whom
proceeds the blessing which ultimately
Is 10 flow through Messiah. his Son. and
through Israel. mis- people, unto all the
families Of the earth.
All Christians, presumably. are aware
nj ST. Psul's Interpretation OF Abra ham
and his family as types. As Abraham
tYpife6 God so his wife typfied tho
cbvcnant through which the vitality OF
the pro"1se.lssac I in yPs; and i'd Mes cS
plains that Sarah's servant. Hasar. at
Sarabs wish. became fov time her rep
rcsentatiVe with Abraham and brought
forth lshmael. Hasar. ST. Paul explains,
tvpified the law covenant, v'talizcd b?
the gracious arrangements of the same
God and Father, And Hsgars son; son; i,to "
Jewish nation the first development un-
der the covenant.
4 As Abraham loved Isaac and desired
blessing upon him. $" Cod loved Is
B rael and desired blessing upor Israel
the offspring of the law covenant. Never
dheless, ras lshmaei. the offspring Of thc
primary heir Of the Abrahanic promise
nut secondary ono, so the children OF
Israel, The offspring Of the law covenant
werc not Intended 10 bc the spiritual
messiah through whom the promise de-
coed.
In the tyre NE sec that Sarah. Abra
hams wife who represented tie original
Ahrahamic covenant brought forth a son
~ her own. Isaac. long years after the
'ssndmaid. her substitute. had brought
forth I.hmael when Isaac was boin,
Sarah repudated lshnacl ana no longer
Acknowledged him as hor son. but, in
stead, claimed everything for Isaac The
sntitypo Of this is that from tho tiiue
that God began the development Of the
Spiritual Israel aud sot forth the Cove
mint by sacrifice" through which this
spiritual Israel would be developed
from tina; time ii hezan TO he clearly
manifest that IN" chief portion nf the
Promise OF Cod 10 bless the world was
not 10 be fulfilled through tnc Tshmaci
sePd. natural Israel. hut through the
haTc seed-spiriiual Israel
"el-Spring of Hope for the Jews.
From the first there was manifested j
liz a ocmpetlticu for the Ahrahainlc bless
ffns, fass.,, And as lshmarl 'nockcd at The in
N op'e development and strength, n"csen
~ 'he antitypical lsaac-JesuS and nh
Comparatively ignorant and uni-arnet
..oloWers--1nd prosecuted them. In orde
70 continue The Type. tina Abraham
iu,shi tEpiiy God. he Was commanded tc
send forth Hagsr and her Bon into the
WIluerness That sending forth Lypiilet
me divine disfarcr which came upoI
M .me Jews eighteen centuries ago snC
ntuGH has made them outc5Sts from
VOC favor, as Haesr and ishmael wcr
Ssnl OH nnm Abraham's presence aE'
rs,LGGlN and care The bread and wa;G
4 WHICH ii9Gar took With her. by wbicl
on. aud 1slmac were nouriahcd in th
M NlldcrncHS for time pictures and type
A HHe promise OF God through tic law an
tle prophets which s,lii belong To ~
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