The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-29
LECTURE

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ed Upon. the same trial On this trial
Adam has no privilege above tls
family OF which he is the head. All
are upon the same standing before
God.
The question that naturally arises,
and the one that the, speaker sought
to raise was, is this Just and fair to
the human family. Adam was sur
rounded. with everything that was
good and pure, and therefore God in
order to he justemust give to all man
kind the same chance under the same
conditions. While It is true that man.
is living in a world of sin. yet God
has made a wonderful provision for
him in the gospel. The love of God
is revealed in the gift of his only be-
gotten Son shows how greatly the
heart of God was moved to save the
lost world, How great is the wondeF-
fngpower of the blood.
4For I am not ashamed Of the gos-
pei of Christ; for it is the power Of
God unto salvation to every one that
believeth." Rom. 1916. Not only did
Christ die to redeem us from sin and
death, but there is a power mani
tested in the gospel that is able to
keep us from sin, and present us
faultless before the presence OF His
glory with exceeding joy. Jude. "a,
/ Cor. 1918. This power Of God over
balances the conditions ythatssurround
men in this world, and can keep the
individual ~unspotted from the world.
.Tle'blessed invitation is, Come unto
me, all We that labor and are heavy
laden, and 1 will give you rest" Matt.
1928. Behold, now is the accepted
time; behold, no wis the day of saliva
tion." 2 Cor. 6:2. Rev. 1920. These
scriptures are not limited to any par
ticular individuals, but to all. Let
us not wait until the Millennium
for a more favorable opportunity lest
death find us unprepared. "And as
it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment" Heb.
I9:2S.
The bold assertion was then made
by the speaker that God has not been
trying to save the world at all, but
has only been gathering out a select
few. He tried to prove his asser-
Ftlons by some instances from the BIT
bic. The first instance was that Of
tho flood. The statement was made.
that God only intended to save Nbah'
and His family, and that the world
was left to its fate; no special warn
ing being given to,it OF the oncoming
Obstruction. Let us notice what the
same chapter says Of this from which
the speaker took his scriptural sup
port. Gen. 6:3, "And the Lord said,
My spirit shall not always strive with
man, for that he also is flesh: yet
his days shall DO a hundred and
twenty years" Here we see what
God was doing for the antiduluvian
world Though the agency of the Holy
spirit. Now what is the work Of the
Holy Spirit? "And when He 1.-THE
Holy spirit) is come. He will reprove
the world Of sin, and of righteous
ness, and of judgment" John 16:7,S.
1t may be argued that the Holy Spir-
it was not upon this earth until after
Pentecost, but Peter says that "Noly
men Of God spake as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost, 2 Pet. 1920.
Ever since, the fall Of Adamathe spir-
1t of God had been'strfvin with men,
but they were still going farther and
farther away from God, until they
lad reached the condition described
in the 5th to the 9TH verses of this
chapter. The thoughts and imagina-
lions of their hearts being evil con-
tinually, and God saw that it was
useless to strive with man any long
er yet He gave him one hundred and
twenty years in which to repent and
turn from the error of his ways.
When a man rejects the strivings of
the Spirit, God cannot do anything
more for him, and hesis left to reap
what he has sown. And so 1t was
with the antideluyian world.
Now as to God not warning the
world, but only telling Noah in a cas-
ual way to build an ark for saving
Of his own house is another error
which is easily seen. God in the
first place did not tell NOAH simply
to build an ark for the saving of his
own family, butte build an arb and
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