The Detroit times., 1916-10-31
Sunday Nights Sermon


goats and the ashes OF an heifer
Sprinkling the unclean. sanc'iheth 70
the purifying the flesh paul argued
N his letter 20 the Hebrews that
God Sauctfed mon by the blood Of
tullocks and heifersl, how much
more shall the blood OF Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without spot 90 God. purge
YOUR conscience from dead works 20
serve the living God
NO more OF his turtle dove bust
moss. no more offering the blood of
hullocks and heifers 10 cleanse from
SIN
"This is lesson without a text.
Ny sermon today is topical not tex
teal The subject OF 1t Is. The
atoning blood of Jesus Christ the
thing about which all else centers.
Il believe that moro logical. illogl
cal. idiotic religious and irreliEious
arguments have been fought over
this doctrine than all others
Now and then when a man gets
new idea OF II he goes out and starts
new denomination He has per
feet right 10 do this under the thir-
teenth amendment. but he doesn't
stop here. He makes war on all ~
the other denominations that do not
interpret as he does our denomina.
tions have multiplied by this method
until {, would give one brain fever
10 try 10 count them all
But can name on tho fingers ot
my two hands all OF the denomins'
tions that believe IN the atoninG pow
cr OF the blood 81 Jesus Christ as
the only means OF salvation. so AZ
one sweep have swept 90 per cent.
of the others 70 the scrap heap whore
they belong They are rubbish.
Listen The atonlng blood And
a. 'hink II over | am reminded OF
man who goes 10 England and al.
vertiscs that he Will throw pictures
on the screen Of the Atlantic Coast
Of America
$50 ho gets a crowd and throw
pictures on the screen OF high bluffs
end rocky coasts and waves dashing
against them until man comes out
OF the audience and brands him a
liar and says that ne Is obtaining
money under false pIetences, as he
has seen America and the Atlantic
coast. and what the other man is
showing d, not America AZ all.
The men almost come 20 blows
and then the other man says that N
tho people ~Nil come tomorrow he
will show them the real pictures ot
the coast
SO the audience comes back to
500 what u" viii show and he fashes
on The screen pictures Of low coast
line. With palmetto trees and haut.
na trees and tropical foliage and he
apologize to the audience. bu say
these are the pictures OF America
The .frst man calls Hm Is liar and
tho propl" don't know which 20 h.
lieyc. What was the matter with
them
Atonement Was Final scene
They were both right and they
were both wrong. paradoTical AZ ~
may seem
9TH. nr.t showed The coast lluc
from Nrv England 90 cape Haiteras
WhiI. tho seCond had showed the
coast line from Haticras 90 NUcatan.
Th,y neither could show II all IN
Cne panoramic view. for II is 40
varied n could not bc taken In one
picture.
God never intended 70 give YOU
n picture Of Tho world In ON" pan
oramic Wow From the time of
Adam and Eve down 10 the time Of
Jesus Christ hung on The cross He
was unfolding H views
when ! see Moses leading The
people ont of bondage whore they
for wears had barred their backs To-
the taekmastor's lash, when | see
the lowing herds and the high priest
standing before the altar -eNeriug
the jugular vein OF rIc rams and tho
bulloCks ou until Christ cried out
from tho cross 10 O., finished, God
was prcpar!ns the picture for the
contamination Of it ia the atoniug
blood of Jesus christ
"A sinner has no standing with
God He forfeits his standing when
he commits sin and the only way he
can get back iS 20 repent and accept
the atoning blood OF Jesus Christ
81 have sometimes thought that
Adam and Eve didn't understand AZ
fully as we do when the Lord said
Eat and YOU surely shall die They
had never seen anyone die They
might have bought II simply meant
separation from God.
But no sooner had they eaten
and seen their nakedness than they
sought 10 cover themselves and n Is
tho same today. When man secs
himself in his sins. uncovered, he
tries 20 cover himself in philosophy
OF some fake.
Put God looked through the fg
leaves. and the foliage and God
walked out INTO the field and slew
the beasts and took their skins and
wrapped them around Adam and
Eve. and from that day 20 today
when n man has been a sinner and
has covered himself II has been by
and through faith In the shed blood
" Jesus Christ.
God Won't Consult You.
Every Jew covered his sins and
received pardon through the blood of
he rams and bullocks and the doves.
The reason God accepted AbeTs
'acrifce and rejected Gains was
because Abel offered the choice OF
ais focks. filed with the blood of
ife, while Cain gave only crops from
he field.
And from then on through blood
the only way He will deal with
inners.
AN old lnfdel said 10 me once
But I don't believe in atonement by
Hood. II doesn't come up to my
deas OF what Is right