The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-08-26

oc i'll absolutely ullLeTeht hSi6hOo
hoods?
The expression Is equal to practical
limitlessness. The east; that is wheref
Straight out into space, east, east.
east; It canont be bounded by human
thought. The west; that is boundlcss-
ness in the opposite direction from
the east So there is boundlessness 10
boundlessness $50 far!'
For the reach of vision, space may
tire the eyes: for the journey, distance
may weary the traveller, or the heart
may yearn with inconsistencies because
the ocean is SO wide, but there is dis
lance to be greeted with ten thousand
welcomes. What a fact That q
mans sins may become to him for
eigners!
Nothing like q patched-up peace can
represent Gods dealings with us SIN
ners, We might well imagine that
something must have been done to
guarantee mercy through grace as q
free gift so perfectly sufficient. Other
wise how could II be true that God
and ! could be actually, clearly at
peace?
1t is Of our Lord Jesus Christ that
the declaration Is made. HE 10 our
peace" Not only does He give peace;
that would be wonderful, but He is
In the place of condemnation against
US, so that its opposite lie is to us.
Something availed. Something sub
stituted. Something fulfilled. His
shed blood has met all. In the EN-
brace of Gods great mercy-plan We
were there when 1t occurred. Peace
is proclaimed through the blood Of the
cross"
We are often too ready to classify
Bible descriptions as hyperboles-
When we read of the mountains and
the stars, we say the descriptions are
highly poetic. Perhaps they are not.
What book In all the world can profess
to describe mountains from above
them or stars from beyond them ex-
cept the Biblef
SO, here, when we are considering
the forgiveness Of sin, let US not say
II is a statement Of poetic license. No,
Il is that God would not allow a hint
of a grudge against the saved soul.
Men may well both cry and sing for
10y to believe It: He loves US. There
10 not possible judgment unto con-
demnation against the man whom the
Lord forgiyes.
"we are saved from wrath" through
Jesus Christ. But we are also saved
from present reproach. 'The re-
proaches of them that reproached thee
were laid on me-; those are the words
which the Holy Spirit takes from the
Psalm of the ancient people, for whom
this Psalm Of our main text was spe-
cially given. and by Him applied
through Paul to our Lord Jesus Christ.
We may search In vain for the slight
est hint of grudge against the man
whom God forgives.
Ages ago this distant sending away
OF our sins was typified. OF the goat
which Aaron should send forth after
laying his hands on its head and con-
Tossing all the iniquities Of the chill
dren of Israel. II Is written that IL
was dispatched into "A SOLITARY
LAND" Let the iniquities be there
in a nelghborhood by themselves. II
Ia sin In company that works the
havoc. let them be sent Into per-
petual loneliness. Let them be so that
IL they called for me could not hear
them. If they swore that was once
their friend, their asseveratiou could
never reach my ears. As lost sinner.
could hear their sigh when II was
as II less articulnte than silence; but
now, | may not hear their yell. He
shall put them upon the head OF the
goat. and shall send him away by the
hand of a man, and he shall let 20
the goat In the wilderness" $50 far"
O. II Is Gods ancient plan that his
shall never be so close Is
TO be almost. From guilt to remission
n no mere narrow escape. Surely.
then on this side of the Cross OF his
ONLY. begotten Son the distance has net
been lessened. children" and heirs"
are not guiltladen; they are free. In
Him. for my sins II Il Punishment;
bet for my soul Il is homins.