The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-07-08

sufficient to draw
M a crowd. We re-
llkASlQk kUSStllJI port one Of his ad
dresses, based
upon the Sayior's words respecting the
ten cleansed lepers: Were there not
ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
Only one hath returned to give glory
to God-"-Luke 17:17. IS.
Leprosy, said the Pastor, has long
been regarded as incurable, and there
fore Is used as an illustration of sin.
which Is also incurable. As only the
Masters word could heal the lepers, sc
nothing short of a Divine remedy can
cure the Ieprosy of sin. Lepers in old
en- times were obliged to separate
themselves from others, and whenever
approached were required to cry. I'm
clean! Uncleanw Cut of thus from
association with others, the condition
Of the poor creatures was far from en-
viable. So sinners by Divine decree are
isolated, separated from the pure. the
holy, the righteous.
Though all humanity are sinners by
heredity, we must not forget that they
constitute but a small proportion of
Gods great family. amongst whom are
angels, cherubim, seraphim, ETC., who
always have fellowship with God and
with each other. But while the Scrip
lures declare of humanity that all are
sinners. that none are righteous, no.
not one, yet all do not appreciate their
condition, nor cry aloud, Uncleanl In
deed, there are various degrees Of I'M
cleanness: some are more and some
less sinful
The two extremes of sin are repre-
scented in our Lords parable of the two
men who went up to the Temple 10
pray, the one a publican the other a
Pharisee The publican realized his
sin and smote his breast, saying. "God
be mercifu to me a sfnnerp The
Pharisee, on the contrary. felt himself
SO superior to the publican that he did
not realize himself sinner at all; he
thanked God that he was not sinner
Jesus declares that. because of his ac
acknowledgement of sin. the publican was
more acceptable than the Pharisee.
In other words. the Creator wishes
that each one of Adams race should
realize his fmperfection-that he comes
short of the Divine standard Of per-
fection-short of that standard which
God would be pleased to bless With
everlasting life. While the Bible thus
declares that all are sinners. 1t does
not unreasonably say that there is no
difference What 1t does say is that
that we are sinners. and that hence the
person with the least faint of sin upon
him would need the Savior. the De
liverer-would need to be cleansed
And. in order to realize his need of as
sistance. he must see his sin and cry
unto the Lord. Uncleanl Lord. save
or I perish!
Here again many of US have made
serious mistake in the study of our
Bibles. When reading that the sinner
would perish. we forgot the meaning
of the word perish, that 1t signifies to
die. to lose life There is nothing in
the word perish that signifies to be
tortured to all eternity. 1.-The wages
of sin is DEATH" estruction-annihila
ton, II you please And If God had
not made some provision for mans
recovery. there would be no future life
for Adam nor for any of his race
Death would indeed have been a hope
less state: just as leprosy, whether in
a small or greater degree. signified the
presence of a hopeless disease, from
which there is no recovery.
Jesus the Good Physician.
Jesus is the only physician who can
heal this leprosy of sin; nothing that
the sinner himself can do would cancel
the sentence. God purposely so ar
ranged the matter The Good Physi-
clan heals humanity at great cost to
Himself. As the wage, or penalty, Of
sin upon Father Adam and his race
means death, so whoever would redeem
Adam must be prepared to pay his
penalty before he could assist the sin
ner legally. justly. None of Adams
race could serve as redeemer. be.
cause each and all were born in sin
and therefore as subject to the pen
atty as Father Adam himself Nor
could any of them he born without sin.
because the life Of the race came from
its father.
Whoever, therefore, would be the
savior of man must have life sepa-
rate and apart from that of Adam, and
must be willing to sacrifice it on
Adams behalf
All of the angels had such a life
separate and apart from Adams life
and any of them. therefore, would
have been capable of being mans re-
deemer If the Heavenly Father had
made them the proposition and they
had chosen to accept it. But Jehovah
God gave the first offer to become
mans redeemer to the very highest of
all His creatures-His Only Begotten
Son, the Logos, of whom we read that
He was the Beginning of the creation
OF God, the First-born of every crea
ture. the Alpha and the Omega, the
First and the Last.
"For the JOY Set Before Him."
1t was not within the province of
even Jehovah Himself to demand that
one holy creature should die to rescue.
to redeem. humanity. The matter.
therefore, was optional with the Logos;
and If He had not chosen to accept the
proposition, 1t doubtless would have
been extended to others But such was
the love and loyalty Of Gods Only Be
gotten that to know the Fathers pleas
ure In the matter was to cheerfully
obey 1t was joy TO Him to serve In
any manner and to further Gods will.
No doubt the Son would have done
this without any suggestion of a re-
ward, but the Apostle suggests that
great reward was proffered Him He
says, 'Who for the joy that was set
before Him endured" His joyful ODE
dience began when He exchanged the
higher nature for the human. The
same joy continued when. as the Man
Christ Jesus, He offered up Himself.
and was faithfully obedient to the Fa
Tiers will to the very last. saying
THE cup which My Father hath pour
ed for Me. shall not drink it?''
St Paul further explains that it was
the Redeemers faithfulness and 10y
atty to the Father. in doing His will to
the extent of laying down the human
life, that became the basis of His still
higher exaitation-above His prehumanI
condition. The Apostle says, Where
fore God also hath highly exalted Him.
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every name; that at the name of Jesus