Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, June 18, 1913, Page THREE, Image 3
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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.
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I hereby announce that I atn a
candidate for re-election to the po
sition of public eotton weigher for
i ho town of Edgefield, and promise
'he people that if given the place
vgain, I will endeavor to do my
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