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THE ATONEMENT FORE
SHADOWED YEARS AGO.
Rev. Mr.. Froom Discusses Subject In
His Sermon Last Night.

Infinite justice and infinite mer'
CIV Joined hands at Calvary, and the
shadow of the cross reaches back TO
the very gates of Eden" said Evan
gelist L. E. Froom, in his regular
Sunday night address at the Adven-
fist Chapel. The discourse, on The
Shadow of the Cross" was an expo
sition of the atonement as foreshad-
owed in the sacrificial system of the
Old Testament. Mr.. Froom said:
1.-THE atonement of Christ in the
New Testament was foreshadowed by
the sacrifcial system of the Old Tes-
lament. Atonement means atone
ment; the blood of Christ makes the
sinner and God at one. All through
the Bible from Genesis to Revelation
runs this scarlet line on every page.
Take out this scarlet thread OF lie
and it would no. be worth carrying
home. Beware of any man or any
church that makes light of the blood
of Christ.
GAS soon as man became sinner,
a transgressor of the moral law, II
pleased God to set forth in type and
shadow the Savior who was to come.
No sins ever committed IN THIS
world were forgiven without being
punished. They were punished in
Christ, who His Own Self bore our
sins in His Own body on the tree.
1 Pet. 2, "a. Paul tells us that
without shedding of blood there Is
no remission Heb. 8, %. The rea-
son is because the life is in the blood,
Lev. II. II. We must die for our
sins or find a willing substitute to
die in our stead. We cannot get
some other man to die for us because
they have sinned themselves, and
have to die for their own sins. But
Christ was without sin. AMI therefore
He could be our substitute. He be-
comes the worlds sin-bearer.
"God must be just as well as mer-
ciful, and justice and mercy could
meet in no other way but in the
atonement. God is infinite in every
perfection. His love cannot be more
than infinite, and If His justice were
less than infinite God would be i'm
perfect and finite. The atonement
not only rescues guilty man, but 1t
maintains the integrity of the violat-
ed law, and the honor of the divine
government.
eff the law could have been chan
ged, man could have been saved
without the death Of Christ. The
fact that it was necessary for Christ
to give His life for the fallen race
proves that the law could not re-
lease its claims upon guilty man
It is a mighty argument to all crea-
ted intelligences that the law of COD
is changeless, and not to be triied
with. The son of God as creator and
lawgiver was above law. yet He be-
came subject obeying the law in ev-
cry particular. Although innocent
He suffered the full penalty of ! the
Itransgression of the law, the wages
of SIM which is death. He then
promised pardon to the per
-. condition that he b
80 lis z " ilf al
divine law. Thus both justice and
mercy were satisfied, and CHI e be-
kcame the sinners substitute.
mo mere man ever laid down his
H. for others in the sense in which
Chris laid down His life for the
world. livery man must die at some
time, and when a man sacrifices his
life, as a substitute, he but sacrifices
few days or years, for he will die
sooner or later. But Christ did not
choose between dying at one time
rather than another. He chose be-
tween dying and not dying, and He
chose to die as the substitute for lost
man. Blessed death to set us free!
"Thus we see that the atonement
is clearly taught in the Bible, that it
is in full harmony with reason, and
satisfies both justice and mercy. Par
don is not license. To assert that the
pardoned sinner is under no further
obligation to keep the moral law is
to pervert holy gospel into mere