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ASEKMON FUR SUNDAY fKLJSMKa A DISCOURSE ENTITLED "THE COS PEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT." The Rer. lr. J.ilbur Chapman Explains How God's Ability to Cleans la 11 lnittrated in the Ceremonie ot the Old Testament Scriptures. New YorkIclty. The following sermon -entitled, 'Th Gospel in the OA Testa ment," was preached by the famous evan gelist, Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, from the text, "And rhen the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them awar denpsis tv: 11. - - . -v , - I I r 1 i. : 1-. . . 1. i- 1 . i nnn 4-It a i nve no . tuesiiuu iiul mm uiik un God's answer to him is a very, strange one it is touna m tne verse inai ioaowa; "And He said unto him. Take Me a heifer of three .years old, and a she gaat of three ycai'S" oid, and a ram or tnree years oui. and a turtle dove t and a young pigeon." Thus, seated oDposite the aitar we hnfl Abram waiting a wondertui rinustraiiori of faith in God. It is still cariv in the. moining, and the ollerings are before Him, but God doe not speak. Still Abram be lieve.J God; and He cou:it3 it to him for a blesinsr. there -wan no sign, of the ac ceptance of the sacrifice such srs one would expect, but he wa vers not; his faith is hrm as the rocks around him. fcjarah may have ridiculed him . and the servants may have looked at him curiously as u his i ' i . : . : i. the Old Testament and the New,; we tind God's provision "made for cleansing the sinner. If, in the light of all that has been said ' wel feel ourselves condemned and that if the day of awards came to morrow we should suffer loss and lose our crown, though we shall be saved, "yet so as by fire " this thought should come to i i n hnve no ouestion but that one of . i , .(! t j- "a r greatest oiessings ci nis nie cijiniu ,10 mm while he waited. ' N We all of us have had our hours of wait ing for the fulfilment of His promises. We have had niarhts that nave oeen sieeptcsa; we nave enmnea vne nm nmmreus oi times to see if there was a cloud the size of us as an inspiration, that ail our sins may a man's hand, giving us the token of the be blotted out and oui transgressions for given.' It is of great cheer, therefore, for us to study the subject now given, it is not necessary 6impiy that we should fa miliarize ourselves with the-. New' Testa ment; this is, of course, essential; but if we would know God's ability to cleanse we ought to know the Oid Testament Scriptures, with their tj-pes and ceremo nies, i ' - i The birds of the Bible form an interest coming of victory, and the world has said that all our faith and hope was in vain. But not at all. I This is when the spiritual life grows. It is also the time '-when .the unclean birds come to discourage us and disturb us. Just as they hovered about the-. ottering ot Abram, so they, soar above w, seeking to rob us of the 'best things of our life, of all that would make life worth living. But it is a nossible thiug for us to drive them ing subject for investigation". The first all away just as we find Abram. (hd in the juentiou of them in the Old Testament is in Genesis i: 21 "And God created great whales, and every living creature that imoveth, which! the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, i and every Avinged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. Mnce mat time tncy are to be seen Hying through many of the stories of holy sweetness and been the sweete the brightest, t best. The the earth, and. writ, filled with lessons cf eag e power, i heir soners nave st, their piumage has been leir teaching has been the mounting up far above uilding its nest above the i-louds, is a picture of Christian exhilara tion. Isaiah had it m mind when he said: Thev that wait-upon the Lord shall re- jiew their strength; they shall mount up scapegoat, shall be presented alive before test with which we started: "And when the fowls came down upm the carcasses, Abram drove-them away." I Y These offerings are the same as those commanded to Moses, and if we put them ail together we have a perfect illustration of .the .atonement of Jesus Christ, and of: the riower of His blood to male clean. 1 shall not consider the offerings in their or der, but five them: to you in tins chapter as tluy have impressed themselves upon my own mind. 1. '"And he fhall take two goats and pre- sent them uetore the Lord at me door ot the tabernacle of the congregation. , But the goat on which the lot fell to be the with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be . weary; they shall walk and not faint." The sane ibird, preparing its nest and pushing out its little ones so that they may learn to fly, offers a splendid illustra tion of the providence of God, in thu but 'with the outcome iu- Every man who has come Christ must certainlv say, Paul, WA11 things work to- to them that love God." ras at the brook Cherith. and the waters liad passed from hisvision, and he himself was on the verge of star vation, the birds fed him. Every little sparrow that comes flitting thro'icrh ho air is a reminder of what Jesus said: Not a sparrow faheth to the ground bat your Heavenly J?ather knoweth it. But as we read the Old Testament sto ries we find that there are also birds of seeming severe, ways glorious, to know God in with the apostle gether for good,1 When Ililijah w the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. Lev. xvi: 7,10 Very few services in the Old Testament Scriptures are more interesting in the past, and more powerful as we study them in the present, because of the light shed upon the atonement, -than' the ottering ot the goats. There were two in number, and in this there lies the very deepest thought ol God as touching sin. W hat must 1 do to be saved?" has been the heart-cry of many a poor lost soul, who no sooner utters it than the evil birds begin to flv about his head, suggesting all sorts of answers to the question v One whispers Keform, and the poor, tempted one makes an effort, but what a struggle, he has. for he finds that! when he has cut off, one sin. the strength of it senna to 20 111 the channel in which an- prey, ihey, too(, have their lessons, but other has been flowing, and reformation. the stones they tell are not so bright and even if it be complete (which it rarely is), happy, this lesson in the text u along only touches the present, and possibly the tnis line. . I fut'ire. and never tor a moment makes nro Abram is a vvonderful study for the Vision tor one s awiul past. In the Christian. e great, events of his life Another bird suggests that we simply. he perfectly typifies the experience through e good. One great evangelist says, - Quit which every Christian has passed. When your meanness;" another, equally great, God called" him :rom Ur of the ChnhWs "Ho right, and you will be a Christian." he was an illustration of our being called from the land of Ism and death. When he separated himself from Terah, his father- m-Jaw, it emphasized -'what Jesus said, A man must forsake father and mothpr nnrl his own life if he would be My disciple." Every Christian, if he is to be used of (?rd must forsake the world. In Abram's sep aration irom ijot ne is a pertect illustration of the demand made in the New Testa ment that Ave must, if Ave would be filled with the llOiy hpint of God, separate our selves even from the flesh. There is a great battle waging, as we find God has been dishonored, His truth has wnen we read the connection of the text been scorned. His authority has been set with other verses of Scripture. It is writ- aside. His majesty has been slighted. His ten in Genesis xiv: 14-16 "And when huv has been broken, His name lias been Abram heard that his brother was taken despised. No reformation of man can captive he armed his trained servants, ever make this wrong right. Thu in the Willi all due respect for these men, who have been counted great, I submit that they are wrong; for one might "quit his meanness" to-day, but what about yester day? And one may possibly do right to morrow, but who is to make provision for the deeds of to-day? Man's way has miserably failed. Let us now turn to God to seek the proper an swer to the question. 1 he first goat-was slain for the Lord, and this side of man's sin must never be forgotten. Jn the transgressions 1 of "man When the heifer was burned, in;o th flames was cast scarlet, which U suppose; was used to typify the sins ot Israel, lor both theirs and ours are red like crimson or scarlet. Cedar wood and hyssop were also cast in. The cedar was the proudest tree in the 'olden ; times, the king of the forest, while- hyssop was the. common, cvery-day plant which .eoukLbe found out side the door of every cottage, l'aking the hyssop on the one side and the cedar on the other, all nature would be. included in the sweep. Surely there musfy be a hint here as to the breadth of. the atonement provided by Jesus Christ, and also a clear, suggestion as to the . power of. Christ a blood to cleanse. . YY 1 r In the sixth chapter of Numbers U ret twelve verses, we have the law of the Naz arites. From this we learn that if the Naz nrite defiled himself in any way. he must Immediately be cleansed, or else step out 1 of fellowship with God, and that if he 1 j out of fellowship the days of his unclean ness are lost with God. In other, words if there is in our hearts or lives any uncon fessed or unforgiven sin we may be saved we will not argue that question but our time is lost: it counts for nothing with God, and for this loss of time we shall one day be called to a strict account, now many Christians, to-day are absolutely without power. Their voices were once heard in the prayer meeting. Their testi mony once rang out clearly 1 the church. Their life in the home', was' without re proach. And to-day they have lost their testimony. It is when a man is in sueh a condition as this that the evil bird comes straight from hell to say to him: "Ah,, yes! . You once accepted Christ and made great professions. You once joined the church and gave much promise of usefulness You were once prominent in the Christian world. But now this U past. You have lost it all, for your case is hopeless!" ! Y I have been told thnfe In the olden days there was a Puritan divine that followed this custom Every once in 'a while he called the roll of the dead, called, the pa-triarr-hs by name, one by otie, and then, standing spent in the pulpit waited for an answer. The silence was voiceful. Thn, looking at his congregation these -were his words: "Brethren, there is ho response.' After calling these names he would call the names of kings, the names of apostles', the names of famous historians, the names of artists, of scientists, of inventors, of philanthropists, and niter the roll call came again and again the answer: r "Brethren, there is no response., These men are dead." I could call the names, too, if I wouM. Here is the name of one who was once the superintendent of. a Sunday-school, and who answered not at fhe roll call. Here is another who once stood as an officer in the church, but his voice (is silent. Here is another who was once honored in society for his professed faithfulness unto God. but there is no response to his name. And oh, the sadness! here is another whose name was once a household word as an honored minister of the gospel, and there is no response to his riame. What is the reason? Because, like the Nazarite, they have come in contact with the dead. Their old sins have come up again, like bone from the grave, defiling their memory and robbing them of their power. " It is be cause the very atmosphere they have been obliged to breathe, like ours, is against God and in enmity to Christ, and it is not easy to keep unspotted from the world. The Jews counted every open vessel un clean, i - But one is still left Jd us. God is still love. He still loves you. and, having loved ycu will love you unto the end. His New Testament provision is a far better one than the old. "For if the blood of bulls and of coats, and the ashes of an heifer J sprinkling the unclean, i sanctifieth to the 1 :r ii 1 I'um.ving 01 ine nesn. now much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered! Himself without soot to God, purge your conscience from dead works, to serve i the living God? (Hebrews ix: 13, 14). We need not stay out of fellowship, or be deprived of power. God is love, and He will give us all things, if we but fulfill His conditions. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. f-rv HERE will be some I i people disappointed. JU is to the dollars :hey thought .tney aid up in heaven very time they in ested a dime in a hurch dinner. , A small door may ead . to a large . 00m. Straight charac ter cannot come out of crooked living. A man begins to go down the mo ment he ceases to look up. The decision 'for the right is always more difficult than the doing of it. God's holiness is the keystone of the bridge between earth and heaven. The prayer ;of the publican would be a boast on the lips of the Pharisee. , To cultivate the soul' is not to sac rifice the sense but to subdue the senses; v . Y .-"''. " " The more fashionable the devil ap pears the more fatal will be his ap proach. j The skies are never so bright as Sivhp'rA thpv ha!ve been washed by a shnwpr. 1 i . j Sinners will like them. You cannot lng another. Y The least man is whole world, j The pearl of patience grows in the shell of pam. j A godly heart is better than' a den tongue. ! f I If you will not lend love you cannot borrow1 any. j j Spiritual strength; is the secret of all strength. Failures are often God's fighting for future successes, i God does noi measure our sanctity by our sighs. 1 Without tale-hearers there would be no tale-bearers I Y VIRCHOV WILLlNCi TO VA Great Physician CellcveU p Cerstocd the Situ rcs 1 1. Won. the Berlin University of J - K "-an- r.n A young physician, a who was a student there time that the late Prcf. Virchn"f and S thr. 1 a chair of the. faculty, tells thi" 1 of the great pathologist : " u stry Prof. Virchow had acccpte '1 tv. tation of the surgeons of - 7 verv ... - un. hospital to be present a a ready in the operating room. jrpnns. instruments in '' - . . "HUU. ,,.. nwnUincr the arrival of t 't Sf in- Pries- us when we are lay one devil by rais- like greater than the gol- formed them that the patient w ing "shrive.n" by the hospital and would not be ready for minutes. Upon receipt of this sage tho doctors used impation ' (mnce and anoloffized ftrofusoi-., ' D ."-C Mr " - . professor for the delay. One of even went , so far as to say tiiat ? , 1IUUIU y " WAAUi(Jil mand the patient at once, "shrivpn unshriven." This was apm.0 with irreverent humor. eiJ The great pathologist, who, (i0M not" a religionist, always respec?1 religious beliefs of his patients,,5. "Gentlemen, be patient; put don Y instruments; the priest knows you all . . a T 3 hpTTnr tnan 1. ana nas unaountPdi, covered the fact that the longer prays the longer the patient lives.- BIO MQNET -mi born in his own them unto Dan them, he against house, 318, and pursued Old Testament the goat was offered to meet God's demands, which were just, and to satisfy His hoi v law. And thus in the New Testament .fesus Christ came to suf fer and to die. Nowadays there if much And he divided himself and his Rpn-:ints h' night, and smote them, and imrsnrd fhnm nnto Hobah. which is mi tnp loft 1 Damascus. And lie brought back all the teaching abroad, which magnifies the life 1 Jesus, but the clear teaching: of the ord of God is that only bv the shedding c i r:. i. 1 . 11 .. -. . e ui ijis u.oou is mere remission 01 sins; the blood of Jesus Christ IIi3 Son cleanseth from all sins. Much is said to-day about Jesus beintr a teacher, but He said Himself that the Spirit, when He is -come," would goods, and also brought again his brother of Lot, and his goods, and the women also, v It inhere we find a renl ffcf ftf au; JVlany a man has gone down just Avherc jiumiH sioou. vjroa is always giving us cls ui cxiaracier Read Very carefully the twenty-firat; to teach us all thins-s. .Tesus Christ came to the. twenty-fourth 'versea nf tho frT.fn. chapter of (enesis, and notice Abram's an swer: And the king of Sodom said unto AriTntn linm -mo 1. . 1 i 1 , r .. ,.uc pcisuns anu tate the goods to thvself. And Abram said to the King 01 Boaom, 1 have lift up mine hrfnd unio tne j.ord, the most high God, the yuasc.a&ur vi neaven ana .earth, that I Will not take from a lachet, and that I will not take anything vAiai, is uune, lest tnou shouldest say, I liave made Abram nVh enm i-u-i which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eschol and Mamre; let them take theirportion. It always pays to stand l:od, as against men in this world. If ciea,riy taught m Genesis xv: 110 - Alter these things the word of the tame uiiLo nra.m in n vioivn oo-- mg Feat not, Abram; I am thy shield. itu my yxceeaing great reward. And do just one thing, namely, to die, that through His death an avenue might be opened up for man to come back to his Uod, reconciled forever unto God. : All of which we know and believe, if we are faithful students of our own nature and of the word of God. But this is no li cense to sin, for if we confess our sin God's word is out that He will be "faith ful and just to forgive us our sins;" that is, He will be faithful to Christ, who 'has carried our sin away. i Isaiah's picture in the fjty-third chapter of his prophecy is a picture of Jesus Christ as the scapegoat, bearing through the wil derness the weight of our sins. 1 j For every evil bird that comes to dis courage us or .to discredit God's .word there is a sure way by which they may be driven from us. The word of God i3 our defense, and you have but to hold up to oaian, wnose agents mese evil birds are Abram said, Lord God, what wilt Thou the expression "It is written," and he will give me, seeing 1 so hildlesT. and' the be overcome steward of ,my house-is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed; and lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And. be- "u,Vi uau ui me juoru came unto him, aymg, This shall hot be thine heir, but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And He brought him forth abroad, and said T,nrl.- tiow toward heaven1 and "tell the stars, if iuuu ue aoie to number them; and He FaM unto him. So shall thy seed be. And he heheyed in the Juotd; and He counted it to him for righteousness. ,v And He said Tinto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chfildees,.to give thee this land to inherit it. 4nd he said. Lord God, whereby shall I kno that I shall inherit it? And He said iinto him, Take' Me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a , ram of three years old, and a turtle dove and a voung ...pigeon. And he too unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another, but the . birds divided he not' Y, God nevei deserts His people. He some times delavs, but neVer forsakes, and there js a promise of bleking which comes to , yery one who will walk uprightly. No tice the eighth verse of this fifteenth chap, ter of Genesis: "And he said, Lord Gocl, whereby shall I knov that I shall inherit Ttr Abram does not put this test to God because he is incredulous, or because he lieheves that God iiiay fail him, but he cause it was the custom in those days for "And the Lord spake unto Moses an4 unto Aaron, saying: And he that gather eth the ashes, of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even; and it'-ahalljbe unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute forever." Numbers six: 1, 10. ' - If one were to give this passage of Scripture a casual reading he might find in it very little to arrest his attention,! but if he studies it, carefully and compares Scrip ture with Scripture, '"tie" will learn that not only is it one of the most intensely inter- estmg studies in all the Bible, but that it sheds light upon the gospel story, and makes both plain and powerful one i phase of the work accomplished by our. blessed Lord. . .. . -.. . p Y There was something in the color of the heifer, for it was not allowable to have one single white hair all must be red. Surelv a1,: r a - riii . 1 .t . . . ; . ? V nine nmt tnat m the sacrifi cial life, and death of 'Jesus ; Christ i there ua uyt, uue smgie Dngnt ray. j The offering must ne . wit.Vimif lV!nvTc.l . if. there was the .least spot of weakness about it it was to be rejected. And He was without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing too absolutely perfect was the Son of (rod, our Saviour. The red heifer was to be taken out of the camp, and. there put to . death. And Jesus was taken outside the citv and cru cified, upon the green thill which we call And nr. thou shalt- take the other ram. and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head ot the ram. Then shalt thou kill the ram. and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the. right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon .the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.'- Ex. xxix : 19. 20. Another part of the offering of Abram was the ram. This, like all the rest, sheds light -upon -the gospel, and the understand ing of it is the secret of peace for many at life. When the blood was sprinkled on the ear and the thumb and foot it was a sign thev were henceforth to be separated from all worldly purposes. In this we get a deep lesson touching consecration. We have been told that we must forsake all for Christ, and" some of us have done it. We have been counseled to give up the things that really we have enjoyed, simply be cause they are questionable or contrary to the teaching of God's word, and when we have done this the evil bird comes to us, saying: ' .; ; -' . "You have forsaken these . things, but what have you got in return?" : Not .infrequently w-e find persons, who1 stand in this position, who are of all per sons the most miserable. I This is because ; they have taken only half the step.; They have separated themselves from something, but have failed to consecrate themselves to , ary thing. In other words, there are two sides to the doctrine of separation. We are to be separated from the world, but we are at the same time to be separ ated unto Christ, and that place which once the world filled is now to be occu pied by Christ Himself. . j ' . O It is to be noted that the blood -was. placed upon the ear first. This is very sig-, nificart to me. So many; people get an idea that if they are converted they must immediately do something for Christ, jwhen in point of - fact service comes last. The blood placed upon the ear, first teaches the lesson that we are to hear what the Lord has to say to us. If we could but cultivate the habit of going alone each day and sit ting still just to commune 'with God, what a source of strength it would be ,to tis! God only tells His secrets to those avho . shut out the world, and thus come close to Him. :.;'-"--,.,-.. , . v . The blood was placed upon the hand next, from which I learn we are not only to hear what God has to say to us, but we areto reach out and take what He offers. God has promised us the Holy Ghost. He? is a gift. Reich out and take the gift. 1 he blood vas placed upon the foot lastY I his many stand for service, but notice the divme -order..;:.. :'V. : j ,, - . . W.e have reached a time when rules of jBrnce are hardly.,-necessary; when the methods, adopted for soul-winning, we feel sure mast .grieve, the Holy Ghost. In point of fact if one is to be-used of God he must certainly surrender to God,!and give Him the, right! of. way in. his life, and- Tenor as Stock Company. Andreas Dippel, the celebrated tenor, nas a novel plan to anticipate the future. He wants to form himself into a stock company, the basis of which will be his earning capacity, present and , future. He thinks that he has at least twenty years of good earning capacity ! in him and he wants to cash some of itj in advance. In short, he wants to make his voice his principal in a concrete form. When he returns east from! his western tour he expects to interest Wall street in the enterprise. Under his plan all his earnings for the j next twenty : years will be paid over to the company, he to take half his s!h are in cash and the rest in common stock. 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