Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-10-12

Is in the blood; and l have given it
to you upon the altar as an atonement
for your souls. "-Levidcus xvii, IL.
The trend Of all scholars within the
past forty years in particular has
been away from the Bible. Even
those few who still contend for the
Bible concede much to the Higher
Critics and merely strive to retain a
hold upon certain shreds Of truth.
The Bible is suffering at the hands of
Ohristendom. Or perhaps we would
better say, Chrtstendom is suffering
from letting loose its hold upon the
Bible. The Bible theory, that all, the
sin and death manifest in the world
resulted from Adams disobedience, is
now generally denied Consequently
those who still preach a forgiveness
Of sins and an escape from the penal.
ty Of sin are in the minority. And
those who admit that the death of
Jesus was necessary as sin-offering.
the Just for the unjust, are extremely
few.
Darwin's Evolution theory, that
man sprang from monkey parentage
and has been evoluting higher and
higher for thousands Of years, finds
apparent support in the rapid growth
Of intelligence during the past fifty
years. But those who heed the Bible
find more satisfactory explanation
in it's teaching, that we are in the
dawning of New Dispensation-
Messianic period so long promised of
God as the time in which all the fam
lilies of the earth will be blessed
The Blood of Atonement
The Bible theory of mans sin and
condemnation to death and of re
demption of Adams race from the
power Of death by the blood of Jesus
is one consistent narrative. Because
one man alone was the original sinner
and the sentence came by one, there
fore it was possible for Divine mercy
to arrange that by the sacrifice of the
Righteous One, the Just for the unjust.
the entire race Of Adam might be
judiciallye freed from the death sen
tence and be permitted to have resur
rection from the dead and the opportu-
nifty of restitution and to approve
themselves to God for everlasting life.
This, the Bible theory, lays the whole
stress of salvation upon the work of
our Redeemer. By it way of life
through resurrection and restitution
has been opened up. This is the mean
ing Of our text and is fully concurred
in by the Apostle, who says. "Almost
all things are by the Law purged with
blood; and without shedding Of blood
Is no remission" Of sins.
Latest Deductions Of Science
Scientists now learn not only that
different species will not amalgamate.
but that different breeds Of the same
species crossed cannot be maintained.
but will revert again to their originals
in the third or fourth generation. IN
doubtedly this was what troubled Mr..
Darwin in his rearing Of fancy breeds
Of pigeons and his inability to main
tain the fancy varieties. The same
principle is found everywhere at work.
Different varieties Of peas crossed have
produced new varieties only to return
in the third or fourth generation to
their originals.
Moreover DR.. Thompson proclaims
that he finds, in full harmony with our
text, that the life is in the blood and
that by blood reaction it can readily
be determined which animals belong
to a certain species and which do not.
The custom heretofore has been to
classify animals by their bones and
nature, which has always been more
or less unsatisfactory. The blood is
now found to be the sure test and the
speedy one.
Third and Fourth Generation
Notice, said Pastor Russell, a text
which always seemed to us hard and
cruel, but which we find, on the con-
trary, to be merciful and gracious. It
reads, II am jealous God, visiting
the iniquities Of the parents upon the
children unto the third and fourth gen.
Grafton Of them that hate Me-" 81. ..8
The life is in the blood. The law of
heredity carries impurity and disease
through the blood in heterogeneous.
Were it not for the Divine provision
that these small organisms Of disease
OF blood impurity will die out in the
third or fourth generation, our race
long since would have been wiped of
the face Of the earth. The Divine ar
rangement that infectious germ dis
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the third or fourth generation is a
most merciful one
Thus God shows mercy unto thou
sands Of them that love Him and seek
to keep the Divine commands. Thus
the theories Of man crumble, one after
another as the decades slip by and as
they have been doing for centuries
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