Year: 1875

"Un'o Adam also and to his wife
did the Lord God make coats Of skins
and clothed them" In this verse
we get the first glimpse Of blood.
Certainly the Lord ceuld not have
clothed Adam and Eve with the skins
of beasts unless He had shed blood.
There we have the innocent suffering
for the gultv-the doctrine of sub
stitution in the Garden of Eden. And
Abel, he also brought Of the fatlings
of his flock, and of the fat thereof;
and the Lord had respect unto Abel
and his Offering" Undoubtedly on
the morning of creation God marked
out the way man might come TO
Him; and Abel walked in Gods way,
and Cain in his own. Perhaps Cain
said he could not bear the sight OF
blood, and he took that which God


had cursed and laid it upon the altar.
And there are good many Cainites
in the Church to day; and some have


got into the pulpit, and they preach
that 1t is not the doctrine of the
blood, and that we can get to heaven
without it. The first thing Noah did
when he got out Of the ark was TO
build an altar and slay the animals,
thus putting blood between him and
his sin. The second dispensation
was founded upon blood, and it is
most important that these animals
were taken through the flood express
ly for this purpose. We find Noah
walking by that high way, and all the
men of God have been walking that
way, for it is the blood that atones
for sin. "And Abraham lifted up his


ewes and looked; and behold! a ram
caught behind him in a thicket by
his horns; and Abraham went and
took the ram and offered him up for a
burnt offering instead of his son."
The ram was typical; he was offere d
up instead of Abraham's son. God
loved Abraham SO much that He
spared his son; but God loved us so
much that he did not spare His Son,
but freely gave Him up for all. Je-
hovsh opened the curtain of time,
and Abraham saw Christ coming up


He saw his sins on Christ and was
glad, All Abraham's seed lost their
sins as much by Christ as we. The
difference is that we look back to Cal
vary and they looked forward. And
the blood shall be 10 you for token
upon the houses where you are; and
when | see the blood | will pass over
you, and the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you when l smite the
land of Egypt" ! can imagine some
of the Lords and Dukes and grea,
men as they rode through and saw
the poor Hebrews sprinkl'ng theil
dwellings,, saying they never saw
such foolishness, for they were spoil


ing their places. 1t was not what
they we're. He did not say, I" Wher
| see your prayers, your good deeds


will pass over you," but when
see the blood will pass over you


A little child that night behind the
blood in Goshen was as safe IS Moses


Some people say tisn't the death o


Christ, but His life. Suppose some
one had said, al will have . littl.
lamb; l will tie my little white lamt
against the door," Death would
have passed over that lamb, and intt
the house. The Lamb not only
for our sins, but we are TO feed upor
the Lamb. We don't start, rs some
people suppose, from the cradle tt
heaven. We start from the Cross
We must be born of the spirit anc
sheltered by the bloed, and then w
become pilgrims for heaven. From
the time Adam fell there has been n
other way man can approach Go


but by the blood. Even Aaron coul


! not come to God until he sprinkle