The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

Cld, only that they are carrying on
| their work on Il higher plane-appeal-
| ing not 10 the gross and the vile. but
to the refined. intelligent and truth
seeking. As II result their Influence
is thousand fold more injurious.
Those TO whom Paine and lngersoll ap-
pealcd were very rarely Christians Mt
all: hence they destroyed very little
faith-they merely made the unbelief
more rank and foul.
But these Higher Critic infidels Of
this "eyil day" are making use of all
the vast machinery of Christcndom in
all denominations, especially through
Theological semlnaries. to undermine
and overthrow the faith of all who
have named the name of Christ, great
and small, rich and poor, cultured and
ignorant. 1t is being done systematic
ally. too, craftily, deceitfully, in a
manner that the masses Of the people
would scarcely credit II is safe to
say that fully four out Of five who
graduate from theological seminarles
of all denominations are Higher Critic
inhdels. who are instructed that their
main business Is to promote morality
amongst the people, especially to build
up Churchanity, particularly their own
denomination, and to gradually.
stealthily, craftily wean the people
from the faith OF the Bible to their
higher critical dogmas. And they are
succeeding most wonderfully. a pes.
Filence" is the only figure OF speech
which really fits to this pernicious In
duence.
"out of Thine Own Mouth viii I
Judge Thee,"
Said the Lord. and in harmony with
this We find that in the Lords provi-
dence these Higher Critics are gradu-
ally more and more telling on them
selves. But the nominal Christian Is
quite obtuse, and many of the true
Christians, as the Apostle explains, are
merely "babes in Christ" unable to
use the strong meat OF the Word, and
capable only Of enjoying or using the
milk of the Word" and incapable Of
using its strong meat. Hence the open
declarations of these wolves in sleeps
clothing, who masquerade as sheep,
are not taken seriously. . If the sheep
are startled by the words. they are
soothed again by the thought that this
IS our kind minister, polished in man
ner and well educated, and he surely
would not lead MS astray, he surely
would not deceive us. If he had ceased
to believe the Bible and become an in.
fidel he surely would have left the pull
pit. Poor innocents!
Blood Atonement For Sin.
Our text refers to blood-atOne-
ment for. sin. The Law Covenant re-
quired the death of bullock and n
goat, bat tue repetition of these sac
riices every year indicated that no
cancellation was effected thereby
merely typical covering OF sin for a
year. The Law required an eye for
an eye, n tooth for n tooth, n mans
life for q mans life. which implies
that perfect man must OF necessity
die In order to be the Redeemer Of
Adam and the race which shared his
condemnation. The bullock of the sin
Offering, therefore, was merely type
of Il better sacrifice. The true sacrl-
fee was provided i'm the death Of the
Man Christ Jesus. lie was Il man and
yet not sinful man, because, al
though born of II woman, His life was
from above. Had He received His life
from. an earthly father He would
have been blemished. imperfect, sin
full man, and as such could not have
paid the ransom-price for another.
For this cause One was chosen to be
the Redeemer who was "holy, harm
less, undefled and separate from sin
nersP And all this because of His
miraculous conception.
AS In the type the blood OF the bul.
lock was used TO make n typical atone
ment for a year, so In the antitype
the blood OF Jesus Is efiicacious 10
make atonement for the sins of the
whole world. In the type an earthly
priest offered the blood, In an earthly
tabernacle; IN the aptitype. He who
became the Sin-Offering, begotten OF
the Holy Spirit ut the time Of His