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? By REV. JAMES M. GRAY. D D.. DM o? the Moody Bible Institute. Chicago TEXT-"Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. " Matthew xxvll. 50. tion of his death is satisfactory, or even possible, than that h? suffered as a substitute for guilty men. We have been trying to recall some of these reasons while meditating on the transcendent event commemorated on Good Friday. (1) His death occupies the fore most place in the New Eestament. There are, for example, twenty-eight chapters in the Gospel of Matthew, and eight of them, at least, or more than one-quarter of the whole, is ta ken up with the story of his crucifix ion and the events immediately lead % lng up to and following it. About the same i roportion is Been in John's gospel, lo say nothing of the emphasis laid upon his death in the epistles of Paul and the book of Revelations. (2) His death awakened the greatest Interest in Heaven as well as on earth, since in Peter's first epistle. Chapter 1, 12, he relis us that "these things the angels desire to look into." More over, whet; Moses and Elijah, brought back to earth, were conversing with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration, it was abou "His decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." (Luke ix. 31. i (3) lt was :he centrai object ever present in C!'.-?st's own thought and teaching. Me : come into the world to live, but ho ells us that, he came tnto the world .o die. "The son of man, said he, e_me not to be minis tered unto, but co minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." (Matt, xx, 28.) In another place, with application to himself, he says. "Ex cept a cora of v.heat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but If it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." (John xii. 24.) (4) His death was voluntary, in John VII, 30. we read that at a cer tain crisis, "no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come." And again he himself said, "I lay down my life that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but ? lay it down of myseif. I have power . to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." (John x, 17. 18.) Fur thermore. lt ls specifically said that in his death he "yielded ni the ghost." In oth-?r words, the paas?.g out of hie spirit from his body wa.; the act of his own will. (5) At the same time He died with peculiar agony, not merely that of a physical but a spiritual kind, crying out, "My God! My God!, why hast thou forsaken me?" Whoever heard of God forsaking a martyr to his truth? And if Jesus were forsaken in any sense, must it not have been as a substitute for us? (6) There were wonderful pheno mena accompanying his death is of no other man,-"the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the toj> to the bottom: and the earth did qua lt?, and the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went unto the holy city and appeared unto many." (Matt, xxvii.^l, 53. ) (7) it was a predicted death. A way back In the Garden of Eden Lt waa pointed Lo in the words addressed to the serpent, "I will put emnity be tween thee rOid the woman and be tween thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Gen. iii. 15.) Isaiah, the prophet, spake of Christ seven or eight centuries before his birth, say ing, "He was wounded for our trans gressions, he was bruised for our ini quities; the chastisement of our peace was upon bim; and with his stripes we are healed." (53, 5.? And Daniel Bald he should be cut off, but not for himself. (9, 26.) (S) lt was a predestined death, cince Peter says, "Yet arc not re deemed with corruptible things, as . ver and gold . . . but with the pre cious blood of Christ, as of a Iamb with out blemish and without spot; who verily waa foreordained before the foundation of the world." (9) Finally, it was a death which has been commemorated by an obser vance that never can be hid or ex plained away, namely, the communion of the Lord's supper. In which Chris tians eat the bread and drink the wine In remembrance of his dying love. This is the reason an inspired apos tle is able to say, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Loro, shall be saved." (Rora, x, 13.) In one of the older commen taries on the Bi ble, we once met the question. Why did Jesus Christ die? Which was answered by a se ries of reasons, some of which are remembered and some forgot ten, the whole however, making an impression which was never lost. This im pression was that no other explana AS A MATTER OF BUSINESS The Beauty and Orderly Keeping of One's Home Town Should Appeal to Every Resident. "The cities of Europe," declares an expert, "consider civic beauty an ab solute asset in cash. Paris, for exam ple, invariably has an eye to the beau tiful in whatever it does. Paris would never dare to lose its prestige as the most beautiful city in the world. That would be bad business. "We ought to consider it a ruinous business policy for one of our cities not to protect its beauty. Take the railroad problem in our cities ?Vt present some railroads are beginning to brace up and do splendid things. btBt for a long time wherever we had a railroad in a city it was death and desperation 30 far as beauty was con cerned. "We ought to do the same m other things. Here each fellow hus gone ahead for himself, without regard to others. A city ought to be a unity Each citltzen should be allowed to do whac he pleases oniy In so far as he does not hurt the city as a whole. A3 soon as he does that he should be stopped." In conclusion he said: "No one man is competent to plan a city. Such a task needs a combina tion of men. The problems of city planning today are not L'Enfant's nor Sir Christopher Wren's. What we now have to face is far more complicated. "City planning should be undertaken by architects. laadscapists. traffic ex perts, and the various types of engi neers working together. All these men. before making plans for the rebuilding of cities, should give special study to the various difficulties of civic im provement." DATE PALMS IN CAUFORNifl County Supervisors Are Planting Them Along Roads and the Work ls Applauded. The board of supervisors of Los Angeles county have authorized the county forestry commission to pur chase 500 date palms at a cost of a dollar apiece to be planted alon? the San Fernando road. There ls a great deal of work of this kiud to be dene in. southern California. It was nat urally a treeless section uutil the horticulturist came in and adorned it with minions of revenue-producing fruit trees. The highways are still neglected to a large extent, a thing that should be remedied with all pos sible dispatch. Every line of country road should have its ornamental trees, and the main thoroughfares should be parked with grass plots and parterres of flowers well cared for. We must not forget that this is the playground of the continent, and that tourists seeking enjoyment desire to have the sense of sigh*, delighted above all things.-Los Angeles Times. Never Need of Ugliness. No town is so amati that it need be ugly. A little railroad "whistling post" could be attractive with trees. Some time the railroads of the wear will send out their "arbor specials" as they send their good roads trains. There is little excuse for the habita tions ol' men along the track to be usually the 3ingle unlovely thing in the Kansas railroad journey. Have you noticed that where fine trees form a park in the air the peo ple below have holiday manners0 The people under the trees seem to be enjoying life. They are not satisfied with slovenliness. The accompani ment of nice lawns and pretty, well kept houses and clean streets is a trib ute to the example of the trees. Even to be lazy under arching branches is the nicest sort of laziness. When you loaf in the shaded streets of towns like Lawrence and Manhattan you in vite your soul. The "good, pray poet" would have liked these Kansas towns. Heat City With Electricity. It is planned to electrically heat the dwelling and business houses of Stav anger, Norway, and the board of di re-.-ors of the electric light plant at thu* plaee ha3 asked permission from the --ity council to make contracts up to z consumption of 100 house power. It h s been suggested that the price for ! ? current thus used shall be $5.75 rex horse power (744 watts) per year, lt is also planned to heat tho govern meat and city buildings in chat manner Tho population of Stavas ger if. . S.flOO, and tho city lias water {rower .icilities to furnish 25,000 horse [. r.'er for electrical purposes. Hypocrisy of Cities. The h; -ocrisy of cities lies in the fact tha\ .heir front yards are clean and the / i>ack yards are dirty. The front yar i- are lipread over with emer ald grass haved smooth by a lawn mower, a.- ! are often attractive with flowers, rici: markets for tho bees. The back yards are slatternly with ash heans and refuse and many of them are never cleaned up. The front yards with their pleasant grass and their daffodils daffodilling and their cro cuses croaking, are a pretense. They pretend that the whole premises are equally clean.-Vancouver Sun. Do the Wicked Continue Sinning After Death? Br REV. J. H. RALSTON. Secretary of Co impend en co Derailment. Moody 3'TJI? lit?itute, Chicago TEXT-"He that ia unr* Thteoua, let him ,1o unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let htm be made filthy still: and ho that is righteous, let him do righteous ness still: and he thut ls holy, let him be :nuu-; holy still.' Rev. 0:11, A. R. V. Do the wicked cease sinning when they die? Probably the vast majority of those 7/ho ever consider this question with out deep thought say they certainly do, for men are to render account to God for the deeds done in the iles'.., and when a man dies his ac count is closed. Is it. not wise to matter a little carefully? Our thoughts are presented from the evangelcal standpoint as to tho nature, manifestation, and outcome of sin. The widely prevalent modern, though erroneous, view of sin makes it rather an advantage than a disad vantage. Adam's fall being upward rather chan downward. One of the first suggestions is that sin is self-perpetuating. It is a com mon saying that one sin leads to an other-that sin follows sin somewhat automatically. Sin, however, is n?t to be considered as consisting chiefly In outward transaction, but in the motive that is behind it. When a man dies his personality with its stamped character continues, and reason would say that his course of action with re spect to the moral ?aw ia to continue. Professor Denney says: "The very conception of human freedom involves the possibility of Its permanent mis use, or what our Lord h'mself calls 'eternal sin.'** The punishment of sin is not today held up before the transgressor, but rather the sin itself Is not the sin really the great evil? It may be said that if a man can cease from sin out wardly tn this lire, sin may not be come permanent. But this ceasing from sin is by almighty power alone, and this power is denied after death. If it Is further said that man by the mere force of his own will can cease from sin, we reply that the ceasing is only In the outward manifestation, and not in the real sinning, which be longs to the motive. Meager light is thrown on the act^T;. Ity of the wicked after death, but^we know the scriptum teaches that men who die in sin go to dwell with the devil and his angels. What is the em ployment of the devil? Does any one who believes in a personal devil be lieve that he does not continue to sin? Is he not intensely active, the instiga tor of all the cruelty, oppression, wars, abominations, Hes and wretchedness in the universe? If so, what about those whom scripture calls his chil dren? Jesus said they do the deeds or their father, and are they any less children after death than before? There is no evidence that after death there Is a cessation from sin if we consider the employment or expe riences of the inhabitants of the other world. As to heaven, about which we know much more than about hell, we learn the employment of the right eous. There is no intimation of sin ning, there is consequently no gospel preaching, mission work, social regen eration, or anything of that kind, but the inhabitants of heaven are engaged In the praise of God, in worshiping him In his glorious majesty, and doing his behests whatever they may be. In the text we read that he that li righteous is to do righteousness still, and he that ls holy, ls to be made more hoiy. Some one might Bay. "If the conditions in this life haye a ten dency to perpetuate themselves, will not Christians who show Imperfection by sinning, continue to show their Imperfection In heaven In the Bame way?" We might admit that if we did not have the direct teaching of scripture that there is no sin in heav en, nothing that defiles, that works abomination or makes a lie. Prom analogy we would conclude from the employment of the Inhabitants of heaven, the employment of the wicked will be unrighteous or sinful. The teaching of scripture, though not abundant, seems to be clear. Jesus said (Mark 3:29, A. R. V.) that if a man sin against the Holy Grost he shall be guilty of an et'., al sin. This certainly teaches that there IR at least one eternal sin, a 6fn that continues In action forever. Revelation 22:11 seems to leave the matter beyond dis pute, and it Is well to observe that this Caching comes at the very close of the Bible. "He that ls unrighteous let him do unrighteousness still, and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still." The marginal reading suggests the phrase "yet more" for the word "still" In each case. Here, certainly, the employment of the wicked is clearly presented. What a sad fate, doomed to eternal sinning! The only escape ls to have the motive to sin removed by the in dwelling life of ChriBt. Then the habit of doing righteousness will es tablish the character that does right* eousness, and the future ls safe. Are Arra Cr FOR THIS D By this systerr showing how ms with what degre< The book will sb the ere?st sta man, who trades rating the poor r secure a higher i does not. NOW IS T OLD ACOO 1785-1913.% COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON Sentb Carolina'3 Oldest College. 129th year Itegins September 3?th. Entrance examinations at all the ! county seats on Friday, July 11th, at '1 a. m. Fall fo'ir year courses lead to the B. A. and K. S. degree*. 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