The Irish standard., 1916-11-25
Presbyterian Minister
Expresses Doctrine
Of Blessed Virgin

Of Blessed Virgin
The Rev. +. N. Mcmillan, Presby
terrain minister of Cincinnati, we'll ex
pressed the doctrine of the virgin
birth of our Lord, when he declared
4, recently that:
ITO the careful and sympatheti,
student Of revelation the virgin brit
of Jesus is beautiful and logical fact
The seer of Israel looked down the
centuries and saw the incarnations O.
the Son of God. He said Behold 6
virgin shall call his name Emmanuel.
lcATHoLIc COLLEGE AT CALGARY
Right Rev. Bishop McNally is about
to establish a new Catholic college al
Calgary, Canada, of which the Rev
w. E. Cameron, a Rhodes scholar and
graduate of Oxford University, recent
ly ordained, will be the head.
"a supernatural being has super.
natural advent into the world. Mat.
thew and Luke in no vague or obscure
way, but as integral and essential
parts of their records, give the nara
tives of the virgin birth.
Matthew says: When his mother
Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
before they came together, she was
found with child Of the Holy Spirit.
Luke says: The angel said to a
virgin, thou shalt conceive and bring
forth son and shall call his name
Jesus, and the holy thing which is
begotten shall be called the Son of
Cod
Evidently the virgin birth of Jesus
is not theory to be argued, it is a
fact to be believed and proclaimed
when the Bible says that God created
the world out of nothing by the word
of His power; that Jesus raised Laza-
rus from the dead; that upon His sac
rificial cross He redeemed the world ;
that He rose from the dead the third
day; that He was born Of the Virgin
Mary, the Bible means exactly what it
says. To capable and logical mind
it is apparent that in order to be con-
sistent the one who refuses to believe
in the virgin birth because of the UNI
usual and supernatural and miracu-
lous in the Bible.
What may be termed the divine
philosophy of the virgin birth is re-
vealed in two considerations-tlle first
that so great was the guilt of SHINING
humanity that God Himself must suf-
fer and atone for the sins of the
world; becoming incarnate it must be
made clear that while He was man
He was also God-hence the super
natural conception and the virgin
birth; the second, that only per-
fectly sinless Savious could redeem
the world; there must be no inherited
or imputed sin in the perfect nature
Of the redeemer, hence the virgin
birth.
1.-The ministers and the members of
the Presbyterian Church, with almost
no exception, believe in and that is
their misfortune; it is not the fault OF
the Lord, the Bible, or the Presby.
terrain Church.
THE General Assembly at Atlantic
City called attention to it's deliverance
in 1910, that it is an essential teach.
the virgin birth Of Jesus. If pitt.
fully small minority does not, doctrine
of the Word of God and of our stand.
ards that Our Lord Jesus Christ was
born of the Virgin Mary
ITO this statement of belief the
commissioners OF New York Presby-
terry including it's Moderator, pledged
their loyalty and that of their presby-
terry, and pledged further that their
presbytery would not in the future or.
dain to the Presbyterian ministry
young men who have not mental cali
Der and spiritual grace enough to TN.
derstand that the Bible means what
it says about the virgin birth of Jesus
and all other matters.
"The great creeds Of Christendom,
the Apostles and the Nicene Greed,
the Augsburg and Westminster Con-
fessions and the thirty articles of
the Church of England all declare
their belief in the virgin birth. The
highest and the finest productions of
literature reveal the faith of multi
tudes. Canon Farrar in his Life of
Jesus says: AS one stands moved by
emotion in the Chapel of the Nativity
and looks upon the silver star set in
marble, surrounded by sixteen ever
burning lamps and encircled by the
inscription, 'Hic de Virgine Maria
Jesus Christus Natus Est he has a
picture painted in the colours of
heaven of the sinless birth of the Re.
deemer of Men.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ
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