The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

place, having obtained eternal redemp-
ton for US. For IL the blood of bulls
and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer
sprinklinu the uncIean, scantifieth to
the purifying of the flesh."-Hebrews,
9th chapter, f2-13 verses.
Speaking on "Atonement" on Sun
day night, Rev. w. A. Sunday said:
Paul argued if God were satisfied
with the Mosaic law and when they
shed its blood if He was satisfied
with that for an atonement, for sin;
if the blood of bulls and goats and
the ashes of an heifer sanctified the
purifying of the flesh, how much more
shall the blood of Christ, who, through
the eternal spirit, offers Himself with.
out spot to God! Purge your consci-
ence from dead works to serve the
living God.
That's my lesson instead of a text,
for my sermon tonight is topical. in
stead Of textual. and the subject is
The Atonement of Jesus Christ"
that central doctrine of Christian re-
iigion. More battles, logical and il
logical, and theological. and nonsen-
steal, and idiotic, have been fought
J ' otOICCIlll llloA oil OlllCl "
trines in the Christian religion
Now and then when some man reads
the Bible and gets a little inkling of
the truth he runs out and builds q
church and starts another denomina-
ton, by and by, through which to
propagate his idea BY the thirteenth
amendment he has a right to do that,
but he doesn't stop there; he makes
war upon all other denominations that
do not interpret or believe as he does.
But l can count on the fingers of my
two hands all the denominations that
hold up the bleeding form of Jesus
Christ as Gods ultimatum for sin, so
with one sweep of the sword l have
eliminated go per cent of them today
and thrown them on the ecclesiastical
scrap heap, where they belong.
Tells of
Little Sketch
And, as | have read it over, / am
reminded of this little fancy sketch.
A mar goes to England and he adj
vertises that he is a stereopticon lee
turer on Atlantic coast scenery. He
flashes upon the anvas pictures that
show rocky promontories, innumerable
inlets and great forests of spruce and
Viii, OlldlSS upOl IT'S UOduCS, anu d
man in the audience arises and says:
Il denounce that mar as an imposter
and a fraud. l challenge his state
ments. | was born in America and
! V looked upon such n and
if you will return tomorrow night
will show it to you as | know it to
be, for was born in America and
have seen for myself"
The two mon almoct anna 10 bIou,e
but the audience couldn't determine
who was right or wrong. so they re-
assembled the next night 10 test the
veracity of the two men. The chal-
lenger flashed upon the canvas lone
coast lines, innumerable inlets and the
tropical and s~emi-tropical vegetables,
orange groves, lemon groves and the
: banana and grapefruit, and great
realms of lowlands. The man chal
: lenged him as a fraud and imposter.
They are both right and both wrong.
They are both right as far as they
went: neither man went all the way.
/ The first man gave the Atlantic coast
scene from Maine to Cape Hatteras,
: the other from Cape Hatteras to Yu.
catan.
Presents Plan
in Many Wavs
God Almighty never undertook to
? give to this world a view of the plan
of redemption in one picture, but in
} an endless series of views from the
. Gay that Adam and Eve ate the for
hidden fruit and were driven from
the Garden of Eden. on down until
Jesus Christ hung bleeding on the
! cross.
When see the 10 plaques SWEEP
over the land, when | see them star
cut under the leadership of Moses
when ! see the waters of the Red Sea
beating back, when I see the water:
bubble from the rock in the wilder
ness and the great flocks of quail:
come up, and the lowing herds, ant
!, the long razor-knife in the hand Of
priest, down until Jesus cried on tn,
+ cross, cit is finished" God was pre-
d pairing my friends, for the consumma
/ tion of His plan of salvation in tn,
gift of His only begotten Son, Jesu
5 Christ.
The atonement is the state or quaI
/ ity or the plan perfected whereby
e sinner might be made one with God
A sinner is an alien: he is in hi
attitude An alien a claim none O
the protection of this government; h
is not a citizen. A sinner is not
citizen of heaven; he is IN alien, an,
God will not deal in mercy with tina
n sinner until he returns through fait'
S in the shed blood of Jesus Christ
then he can claim all the ~protectio
y and friendship of heaven. An allie
le cannot claim the protection of thi
e government until that man become
a. n~aturalized; then he al stand be
M tween the stars and stripes for tn
e, same protection that is accorded 20
u and ME.
So a sinner is an alien and he mus
come. And so the atonement is tn
s state or quality or the plan perfecte
'e whereby a sinner might be made on
If again with God. as we have law
ID whereby an alien can become a
American citizen, entitled to our law
n and protection.
~ Law Furnishes
= T~ransgressor -
u So l have sometimes imagined thu
> when God said, For IN the day tho
eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die
the reason, l think, is the fact thu
e they had never seer any n die. The
had never seen a man or woman frol
- whom the wreath of life had gon,
ID therefore 1 imagine they might hav
Thought it separation. For the Bib