Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-09-07
Pastor RusseII's Sermon


1900. Since then none have fallen
through persecution. outward perse-
cution has been stopped Gods people
are seeing more and more clearly the
true teaching OF His Word-the gold
en- vessels" Of the House of the Lord
are being brought back from Babylon
and put to their proper uses in the
spiritual Temple.
Better Sacrifices Than Those.
But we are reminded that st. Paul
himself wrote of "better sacrifices" In
the plural. QIebrews TX, 23) We are
asked what these refer to, If not to the
sacrifices Of the Mass.
We reply that st. Paul made no
reference to sacrifices being offered by
earthly priests. He referred only to
those offered by the Great High Priest
Himself. None but the High Priest is
competent to offer sacrifices acceptable
to God. The sacrifices in the type OF
the Day Of Atonement consisted Of
two-the bullock, which was for Aaron
and his household (hls sons and his
tribe-of Levi, and the Lords goat
which ne offered on behalf Of all the
people Of Israel. In the Antitype,
"himself and his house." represents
the Body of Christ (the Under-Priest-
hood, the Royal Priesthood), and the
household of faith-the anityplcal
Levltes; and all the people Of Israel
typifed all the world Of mankind who
ultimately will be brought, through the
merit OF the precious Atonement, Into
full relationship with God and to ever
lasting life.
OF these "better sacrifices" the bull
lock represented our Lord Jesus, In
His own person The merit Of His
death Is throughout this Age imputed
to His true followers-the sanity few,
the Royal Priesthood, and to the larger
number of less Jealous followers repre-
scented by the tribe Of Levi All Of
these were covered, reconclled, blessed,
directly through the imputation OF
Christ's merit, when He appeared In
the presence Of God for as, after His
ascension, Divine acceptance Of His
merit being manifested by the imparta'
tlon Of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
But that was not the completion Of
Jesus sacrifice In the type the bullock
was only one part of the sacrifice. Next
followed the Lords goat, which repre-
scented the class Of Christians addressed
by st. Paul in his exhortatlon, 81 be.
seech you, brethren, by the mercles Of
God, that ye present your bodies a liy'
ing sacrifice, holy and acceptable to
God" Romans XII, ~ During this
Gospel Age the followers OF Jesus have
been privileged to present themselves
to Him for sacrifice, but they do not do
the Sacrificing. He, the spiritual High
Priest, has proceeded in His work for
more than eighteen centuries, offering
up for acceptance by the Father all
who have become His true disciples,
denying themselves and taking up their
cross and following Him faithfully.
All these are represented by the
Lords goat of the Day Of Atonement
sacrifice Qevticus 10) and were rep
resented in the PentecostO blessing.
There all Of this class were accepted
representatlvely and all of them were
devoted to sacrifice, according to the
terms Divlnely arranged As soon as
the foreordained number constituting
the sacrihcial Body Of Christ shall have
been sacrificed, the better sacrifices
will be complete, and all the members
Of the Body of the Great High Priest
will pass to the Head beyond the veil,
into the Most Holy. Then lie work of
this Gospel Age will be at an end Then
the work Of the New Dispensatlon viii
begin-the blessing OF the world.-Titus
Il, IA.