, 1912-01-25

"CChlJ W dDOuI Twelve Ill
lions In the United States. Canada,
Great Britain and Australia. His text
today was. For the life Of the fesh
Is In the blood; and l have given it
to you upon the altar as an atonement
for your souls. "-Leviticus xvii, II.
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
Chrtstendom. Or perhaps we would
better say. C~hristendom 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 a sin-offering.
the Just for the unjust, are extremely
few.
Darwtn's Evolution theory. that
man sprang from a 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 a more satisfactory explanation
In its teaching. that we are in the
dawning of a New Dispensation-the
Messianic period 80 long promised of
God as the time in which all the fam
lies of the earth will be blessed.
The Blood of Atonement
The Bible theory of mans sin and
condemnation to death and of a re-
demption OF Adams rae 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 anne 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
%judicialIy freed from the death sen
tence and be permitted to have a 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 II a way Of life
through resurrection and restitution
has beer opened up This is the mean
ing of our text and is fully concurred
d. h- tho AN1vfln whn ooua "AlmnGf
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 I'm
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 ouI
text. that the life is in the blood and
that by blood reaction 1t can readily
be determined which animals belong
to a certain species and which do not
The custom heretofore has been tc
classify animals by their bones and
nature. which has always been more
or less unsatisfactory The blood Ii
now found to be the sure test n thu
speedy n
Third and Fourth Generation
Notice, said Pastor Russell. a tex
which always seemed TO US hard ant
cruel, but which we ind. on the con
trary. to be merciful and gracious. l
reads. 81 am a jealous God. VISITING
the iniquities Of the parents upon tn
children unto the third and fourth gen
Grafton of them that hate Me-"
The life is in the blood. TIL law o
heredity carries impurity and diseas
through the blood in heterogeneous
Were 1t not for the Divine provision
that these small organisms OF diseas
or blood impurity will die out In tn
third or fourth generation. our rae
long since would have been wiped oi
the face OF the earth. The Divine al
rangement that infectious germ dis
eases such as syphilis will die out
the third or fourth generation is
most merciful one.
Thus God shows mercy unto thor
sands OF them that love Him and see
to keep the Divine commands Thu
the theories Of man crumble. n afte
another as the decades slip by and a
they have been doing for centuries,