The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-05-18

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tie. .'Christ brought life and immor-
tally to light through the Gospel"
The speaker said:-
All around US We see what the Scrip
lures designate a reign Of sin and
death. The various forms Of life In
nature-the grass, the flowers. the low
err animals and man-exist for brief
summer time Of life. then wither and
die. This does not strike US as
strange, except In conjunction with
humanity. and that because Of mans
greater intellIgence-his appreciation
of the value Of life, his growth In
knowledge and his ability to use. life's
opportunities with his increased wis,
dom.
The disposition to shun death is
not peculiar to man; it is the law
of nature. The smallest creature. by
instinct, fees from death. The law of
self.preservaHon Is properly said to be
the first law Of nature. The lower AMI
mails. like man, have sensation. an ap-
probation of pain; but all these things
are much more pronounced in humani-
ty than in the lower animals; and the
lower the form of life the more slight
are these sensations. We are not de-
Tending vivisection. but we quite agree
with scientists that the pain, the suf-
fertnG Of the lower animals, is MS moth;
ing in comparison with that Of hu'
manity. We even note the fact that
the more refined a human being. the
more intense his suffering. Core
spondlngly. refinement and intelligence
bring fear of death and desire for
life everlasting. 4 -
All mankind seem, instinctivelys to
hope for a future life. even though With
the majority the hope is accompanied
with dread respecting its conditiBpsDl
However, only the Bible reveals ara!
tional basis for faith respecting al fu-
ture life-a survival of the general
death conditions everywhere prevalent.
The heather hope for future life, put
none Of them furnish a logical basis
for such expectations. Only in the
!. Bible can this be found. n
d The heather hope is representedaDy
their great philosophers. Socrates and
plato. Their hope is, In brief, that In
view of mans great superiority overthe
beast, it must be he will have a future
even though to all appearances death
mems the same to the human as tothe
brute. The Bible explains that man was
indeed created in his Makers image and
likeness and granted the privilege Of
eternal life on condition Of obedience,
! but that he disobeyed and therefore
became subject to death; and that
death. the penalty. effects him exactly
as It does the brute creation But the
Bible does not leave the subject here.
It tells of Gods pity and love. and of
His provision to rescue mankind from
sin and from death.
God Meets Mans Emergency. J.
Since the Divine sentence is that
only the perfect may live, Adam and
bis race, as imperfect sinners. could
not have eternal life after violation
J of the Divine Law; but to meet this
: emergency, Divine Love provided a
Redeemer, who died. "the Just for the
; uniust"; "As by man came death. by
n Man also comes the resurrection Of
Il the dead; for as all in Adam die, even
so all in Christ shall be made alive;
every man in his own order" Il Corln'
, thlans Ky, 21.23.
thus God has manifested His char.
acter in n way and to degree which
: could never have been known to nm
gels or to men had He not permitted
sin to enter the world His Justice
Inns been, manifested in the inaiction
Of the death penalty upon our race for
ak thousand years. Divine Love has
been manifested in the arrangement
. made by which the Only Begotten Son
of God, on the heavenly plane, counted
It 10y to leave His glory and honor
and be made flesh and die for our sins
Before the Divine Plan shall be fully
;, consummated, Gods Wisdom and
Power Will also stand fully revealed
through His dealing with sin and sin
ners.
Through the merit Of christ's death,
Adams transgression will be fully Of
set, and the penalty of Adams sin
will be fully paid to Justice; and Adam
himself and all of his posterity, who
:. have shared his penalty, will be set
/ free from the signing and crying, the
: balm and trouble, mental, moral and
physical, incidental to the execution OF
the death sentence against sinners.
Thus, through the death Of Jesus, Di.
vine provision has been made for a
future eternal life for mankind-for
SO many as Will appreciate the priv
iege and conform themselves to the
/ Divine laws and avail themselves Of
the privileges which will be granted.
Tho WORLDS Salvation Waits.
How natural It is for US to be i'm.
PATENT The few years Of our lives,
III u 10 takn atthhI