The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-06
Blood That Maketh an
Atonement for
the Soul
By PASTOR RUSSELL
of Brooklyn Tabernacle

TEXT-The life of the flesh is in the
blood; and I have given it to you upon
the altar to make an atonement for your
souls; for 1t Is the blood that maketh an
Observation-Disclosures XVII, q
Ours is day in which, more than
ever before, the statement of our text
is -disbelieved-by Jews,
qentiles and Christians. The great
Christian author, st. Paul, agrees ex-
actly with the words of Moses in our
text, saying: without the shedding
of blood there is no remission Of sins"
(Hebrews 1929. The orthodox Jew
and the orthodox Christian, therefore,
are in substantial agreement as to the
foundation of things and the unorthc~
doX are in agreement Of opposition.
The latter agree that there is no ne
cessity for sin atonement-that the
later thought of all the wise men Of
the earth, the greatest ministers and
rabbts, is that there is no such thing
as original sin; hence could be no
such thing as necessity for canceling
it-of making an atonement or salts
faction to justice on behalf of it.
All the worldly wise of Christen-
dom have reached the point of repu-
dating the testimony of the Old Tes-
lament and the New respecting the
need ola sacrificial death for the sat
isfaction of divine justice, the cancel
lation of sin and the restitution Of
the sinner to divine favor. The claim
of the so-called new theologists repu-
dates the fall, repudiates the ransom
and repudiates a restitution to all that
was Iost-claiming that nothing was
lost and all that we have is gain.
Thus the world and its wisdom know
not God and appreciate not his ar
rangement 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 in 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 and
that the tendency of all sin is toward
death. They cannot deny that death
is gaining. a greater hold than ever
before upon our race. Insane asy-
lums, prisons and reform schools show
that, Notwithstanding our educational
facilities and wonderful achievements
under the enlightening influences Of
the new dispensation now dawning-
nevertheless, the insanity statistics
and the prison statistics and the phys
ical statistics show that, in spite OF
everything, our race is becoming men
tally, morally and physically weaker
day by day. It is for them to explain
how these facts fit to their theory of
evolution.
BY the term Christian we refer to
those who intelligently believe the ex-
PLANTATION of the Bible respecting sin,
that 1t Is a violation Of the divine law
and carries with 1t a penalty-that
Father Adam was created as sinless
as are the angels and as perfect as
they, only on a little lower plane OF
being. Obedience was required of him
as the price of divine favor and ever
lasting life Disobedience thrust him
from paradise into the unprepared
earth to wrestle with the thorns and
thistles, where the decree, Dying
thou shalt die" accomplished his exc
cution. His race was in his loins and
naturally shared by heredity his weak
nesses and death penalty, so that the
entire race is dying race. But the
Creator was unwilling that Adam and
his children should die as brutes. God
did not revoke his decree of death nor
give any intimation that he had done
untustly in condemning his creature.
He did, however, provide way for
their relief. He provided that, as the
first man alone had sinned actually, SO
one Redeemer alone would be neces-
sary for the race. And to him ne OF
fered a great reward, 30 that his sac
rifce for sins would work out to his
own advantage, as we'll as TO the SIN
ner's A part of the reward was the
high exaltation to the heavenly ma
ture-far above angels, and the GIT
of the kingdom of earth necessary TOT
the overruling and subduing OF the
shirt of rebellion in the world and for
the exaltation and uplifting from sin
and death conditions of all the willing
and obedient Of Adams entire race.
But why should God require the
death of a victim as a basis for the
forgiveness of the sins of Adam ana
his race? We reply that Gods law
was intended to be an illustration OF
the exactness of divine justice. JUS
tice could not punish Adam nor his
children with everlasting torture or
anv other of the horrible things we
once IMAGINED The severest penalty
of the divine law Is represented In our
common law, which, as an extreme
nenaltv. requires the death OF the
transgressor.
After the divine reconciliation
comes human reconciliation. The great
Messiah will not require sacr1hces
If humanity, but, on the contrary, Will
omen the blind eyes and cause the
knowledge of the grace OF God TO
reach Adam and every member OF MS
race Then all willing for reconc1l1a-
tion will be helped by the great Med1-
ator of the New Covenant and by Is
rael, his chosen people and earthly
representatives The object to be &C
complished during Messiah's reign is
the bringing to all the willing and
obedient the restitution which God has
nro1nised-restftutio to all that was
lost. Ultimately Messiah will transfer
the allegiance of the whole world (per-
footed nv him) to Jehovah God, that
he may be all in all Il. Corinthians.
1929.