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s 5 A SERMON FOR SUNDAY I s A STRONG DISCOURSE ENTITLED. v "MAN'S CONDITION: COD'S REMEOY." Ad Address Delivered at the utfildmay Conference by Sir Kobert Anderson, K. C. B., IX.D.?The Spirit*.al Helplessness and Hopelessness of Man. ' London, England.?The following adt dress, entitled, "Alan's Condition. Cod's f Remedy," was delivered at the Mildrnay Conference by Sir Robert Anderson, K. C. r B., LL. D. The special subject assigned to me is i * "The Spiritual Helplessness of Alan by Nature, and the New Birth From Above." ? I am not here to defend the dogmas that theology has based upon this truth. What concerns us is the truth itself. I say this Willi f in uccauot vi n uat jo i/aco" ing around us. f And this should be our position in regard to all the great doctrines of faith. The age of creeds is passed. In days of chivalry, when men had respect for truth and honor, creeds shut' out those who i, could not honestly accept them. But now they avail nothing to protect the gold against "thieves and robbers." Men will publicly, and in the most solemn way, pledge their belief in every Christian truth in order to gain office in our ehurches; and as soon as they secure the prestige and pay which office affords, they use the pulpits" to attack the very truths they are pledged and subsidized to defend. . This being so, let us abandon the outworks of our creeds, and, falling back upon the Bible, stand four-square in its defense. In this spirit I approach my subject. I am' not ignorant of what theology teaches about human depravity, nor of the controversies respecting it which preceded the settlement of our creeds. But on this platform I will recognize no authority save an open Bible. My reason for saying this is because here, as on many other questions, the opponents of the truth owe their vantage ground to what is called Christian doctrine on the subject. For the i doctrine is inconsistent with facts, whereas between truth and fact conflict is impossible. A natural man, i. e., a man who has not experienced the new birth, and who has"- not the Spirit of God, may live a N life of the highest morality and rectitude. ? , Scripture testifies that in these qualities ihe Apostle Paul made no advance after his conversion. It is no answer to this to say that in his unconverted days he came under the external influences of divine truth. The fact remains that they were unconverted days, and that with such an environment he was able to maintain such a life of purity and piety and zeal, albeit he was spiritually dead in sins. : He took to religion as another man might take to pleasure, or to study, or to trade, or to drink. But in this, as he himself declares, he was only following his natural bent?"the desires of the flesh and of the inind." AToifVior ic if. an objection that such a case is exceptional. What man has done men may do. . If the Fall made it impossible for men to live pure and upright lives, in would be unjust in God to judge them for their vices. There are two great standards or prin* ciples of divine judgment. With those wno hear the Gospel, the consequences of f accepting or rejecting Christ are final and irreversible. As for the rest, men will be judged by the law of their being, whether as stamped on heart or conscience, or as formulated in express commands at Sinai. THE NATURAL MAN. The first three chapters of Romaus claim notice here; The nrst dhapter describes the condition in which the mass of the heathen world was sunk even in days when the tide of human progress and culture was at the flood, and when, moreover, the great religious cults of classic Paganism held up a standard of life as hign as any that apostate Christendom presents?cults of which one at least had such spiritual vitality that three centuries afterwards it bid fair to supplant Chrisitianity as the religion (I am not speaking of the true Christianity of the true < Church of God) maintained its ascendancy, it was first by penal laws of extreme severity, and second by adopting L the chief characteristic rites and errors of the Paganism which it thus persecuted. ' These things need stating if we are to understand aright the closing words of * . the first chapter of Romans. The vile practices of the heathen world were not due to ignorance. They knew that their deeds were evil. They knew the judgment of God, that they who practiced sucn things were worthy of death, and yet they practiced them. 'y But the case of Saul or Tarsus was wholly different, if what men call con ?r\? V? nmo r? pnn KiCUCt' WCiC VUC til yiiv.1 vi w** duct; if that were right which a man honekly believed to be right, his was a perfect life. As judged by any and every unman standard. Saul of Tarsus was a pattern saint; but as judged by God he . i .was a pattern sinner. And if you read the middle verses of Romans 3 intelligently, this is the lesson you will learn from them: It is God's estimate of the life of the natural man at his best?the life of the upright, pious, zealous Jew under law. "For that which is highly esteemed among ?. jnen i6 abomination in tne sight of God." The story is told of the first Duke of Cambridge, that when, in the reading of the Decalogue, the Seventh Commandment was reached, instead of the orthodox response, he answered, in an aside, that was . plainly, audible, "I never did that." But nere was a man who could make a like response to every commandment in the [Decalogue. "As touching the righteousness that is in the law, blameless." Such was his pround boast. You will say. perhaps, that this only proves that he was utterly blind and dead. But that is precisely what I am insisting on; that so far is it from the truth that human nature is hopelessly corrupt and depraved, as men judge of corruption and depravity, that a natural man may live a life that would put to shame half the saints in the calendar. By a course of unchristian asceticism and severe penances for "punishing the body," these calendar * saints attained to what men deem saintship. But to this man saintship was as natural as sin was to many of the saints of the calendar. One of the tests which people hold to be final is that man shall "do his best." flVhat more can possibly be expected of . him? This man "did his best," and his .best was a "record" that has never been beaten. What purity of life was his! What nietv! What burning zeal! What celf-saci iticing devotion to what he believed to be the cause-of God! But looking back upon it all, he writes. "Who .was befdre a blasphemer." And what a bias-!' phemer! And so, when he comes under the Divine searchlight, he declares himself the chief f sinners. iScanning the long line of all the sinners of the race, he takes his place at their head, "of whom I am the lirst." If these were noi the words of an inspired Apostle in an inspired epistle, we might suspect exaggeration. And yet they only express the well recognized principle that privilege increases responsibility and responsibility deepens guilt. Of course he knew no better. But that only made his , ease the worse, for if ever there was a man who ought to have known better it was he. And so he takes his place as "chief of sinners." And he humbly adds, **I obtained merey." And he repeats this. For be was twice mercied. It is not God's way to put ^ blasphemers into the ministry. And so, as he thinks of the Lord's "exceeding abundant grace", in calling him tka apostlechip, he says, "I obtained mercy, hecasse I did it ignorantly in belief." Bnt for a lost, dead sinner a plea like this avails absolutely nothing. For such, the one and only plea is "that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." THE WORK OF REDEMPTION. The Epistle to the Romans goes on to unfold the doctrine of salvation. Sir. arraigns the sinner, before the Divine judgment seat, and he stands there as guilty and doomed. Salvation therefore can only be through redemption, and redemption must be by blood. Buc as we have seen, sin has another aspect: it corrupts and deoraves the whole spiritual being. The sinner therefore needs a new nature. He must be born again, born from above. But these truths must never be separated. The Spirit's work depends upon the work of Christ. Hence the emphasis with which we are told that Christ came by water and blood: not by water alone, but by water and blood?as the R. V. renders it. "by the water and the blood.*' We all know what the blood means. We are "redeemed by the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." But some of us are much at sea about the water. The water and the blood are figurative expressions. But the figures are typical. And if we understand the types, both will turn our thoughts to the sacrifice of Calvary. The water was "the water of purification" of Numbers 19. Water that owed its ceremonial efficacy to the sin offering. But the sin offering was only for a redeemed people; a people already redeemed by the blood of the Paschal Lamb. When the Lord returns in blessing to Israel, then, as Ezekiel 36 teaches us. He will come "by the water." But this i6 because His first coming was not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. The blood has already been shed, redemption is accomplished. The two, I repeat, must never be separated. And as redemption is altogether clod's work, so also is the new birth. Like the Apostle's ministry (Gal. 1: 1, R. V.), it is "not from men, neither through man." No ordinance or "sacrament" has anything to do with it. Men can fix time and place for ordinances, for ordinances relate to earth: but the new birth is from ' - rni? l il TJ? aoove. " JLOe opirifc uieamca ?uc;c aic wills. It is to this thirty-sixth chapter of Ezekiel that these words of Christ refer. Three elements in the new birth are specified in the prophecy: (1) "I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean." (v. 25.1 (2) "I will give you a new heart." (v. 26.) (3) "And I will put My Spirit within you." (v. 27.) "THE WATER OF REGENERATION." In Matt. 19:28, the time of its fulfillment for the man is designated by the Lord as "The Regeneration." And in the only other passage in the New Testament where that word occurs, it is used in connection with "the water of purification" and the Ezekiel prophecy. I allude of course to Titus 3:5: "He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost." The word here used is loutron. It is m>s-rendered "washing," for it is a noun substantive and not a verb: and the R. V. gloss (margin) is misleading, for loutron is never used in the Greek Bible for "the laver." But in the Greek Version of Eeelus. 34:25 it is used for the vessel which held "the water of purification." But to return to the Divinely appointed rite of the Jewish religion, What was the symbolism of the water? Scripture itself supplies the answer. The word loutron, like the word "regeneration," occurs only twice in the New Testament. I have already spoken of Titus 3:5: the other passage is Epli. 5:26. Christ gave Himself for the Church, "that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the loutron of water by the Word." In the type the Israelite reached the sacrifice by means of the water; in the antitype the believer reaches the sacrifice by means of the Word. Hence the language of Scripture, "the loutron of water in the Word." The water of purification was, as wc have seen, the water of regeneration; and it is by the Word that the sinner is born again to God. It has nothing to do with mystic arts or shibboleths after the pattern of ancient Pa ganism. "We are born again' (as tne inspired Apostle teaches) "'by the Word of God"?"the living and eternally abiding Word of God."* And to guard against all possibility of error or misapprehension, it is added, "And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you"?preached, as ne had already declared, "with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven." Not the Spirit without the Word, nor the Word without the Spirit, but the Word preached in the power of the Spirit. In all this the truth of Christianity is the counterpart and complement of the teaching of the Old Testament. How can sinners, helpless, hopeless, dead ? as dead as dry bones scattered on the earth?be born again to God? "Can these bones live?" was the question which led the prophet to cast himself on God. And the 37th chapter of Erekiel gives the answer: Preach to them. Call upon them to hear the Word of the Lord. (v. 4). This is man's part; or if anything more Temains it is Prophecy unto the breath"?nray that the Spirit may breathe upon these dead. The rest is God's work altogether. For "the Spirit breathes when He wil^s." Men preach: the Spirit breathes: and the dry bones live. Thus it is that sinners are born again.?London Christian. Look Ahead. There is glory for the time to come. A great many people seem to forget that the best is before us. Dr. Bonar once said that everything before the true believer is "glorious." This thought took bold on my soul, and I began to look the matter up and see what I could tind in Scripture that was glorious hereafter. I found that the kingdom we are going to inherit is glorious; our crown is to be a "crown of glory ;" the citv we are going to inhabit is the city oi' the glorified; the songs we are going to sing are the songs of the glorified; we are to wear garments of 4* ?1 ??- Anw or.AiAfv U'lll Kp glUiy <?UU UCiUUJ % VUl cvviv^T <t ?* WW tlie society of the glorified; our rest is to be "glorious;*'' the country to which we are going is to be full of the glory of God and of the Lamb. There are many who are always looking on the backward path and mourning over the troubles through which they have passed; they keep lugging the cares and anxieties they have l>een called on to bear and are forever looking at them. Why should we go reeling and staggering under the burdens and cares of life when we have such glorious prospects before us??D. L. Moody. . TKe Oppo??r of Christ. An unloving spirit is the woret treachery to Christ that we can offer. How>oft$n do those who are full of good works for the Lord stop to think of this? The harsh word spoken bv the busy teacher or superintendent or pastor is a travesty on the profession sucn a one makes. Tor Christ is one with God, and God is love. Unlove is anti-Christ. We cannot serve Christ while unlove for any child of His is in our hearts or words. "And if 1 have the- gift of nronhetv. and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love. I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing." "This is My Commandment, that ye love one another." Pray For Holiness. Let our prayer be ever for more holiness and more fitness for the kingdom. Then shall the tabernacle of God be with men, and we shall be His pesple, and God Him?e5 shall he with vs. ... . PLACES TO AVOID. Here Are a Few Regions In Which Life Is Not a Joy. j As places of residence nedth'ST the j Bahrien Islands, in the Persian Gulf, i nor intf v^rty ui xeutiuv-x, oioena, 'uave j much to offer in the way of climate, j says the Washington Pest. In Bahrien you cook and in Yaktusk I you freeze. Bahrien is said to be the i hottest place in the world. Tthe therj mometer often registers between 110 : and 120 degress, night and day, for ' months at a tims, This rather beats | Fort Yuma, Ariz., which is consideri ed the hottest place in the United j States. j Yaktusk is called the coldest city | in the world, Vekhoyaosk, in northeastern Siberia, claims to be the coldest inhabited place on the globe, the j thermometer registering 90 degrees ! below zero in January. Tt also claims -to be the place posI sessing the most variable climate, for j while it is 90 d'sgrees below in Janj uary, it is 8G above in the shade in | August, during the day, with a drop i down to freezing every midsummer night. The wettest place in the world is ; Greytown, Nicaragua, whene the am nual rainfall is 260 inches. The driest place in the worid is ! probably the rainless ccasit of northi ern Chile. They have a shower there about once in every ten years. Noth! ing grows on this desolate strip ol barren coast, and the dreary towns ! from which the nitrates and the rain* rA <tVi<a + firo i n aio UIaUCU iU xuat 1 ?JUI|JipvU depend for their subsistence upon food brought to -them in the ships from the j fertile strips to the nor^h and south I cf the desert. Northern Russia and thee shores ol j the French Congo are said -to be the j cloudiest places in the vrorld and far : fog there is no region like the Grand | Banks, the southern coast of Ntewj foundland, and the waters of Novia | Scotia. This region is one xrf fog for a large j part of the year, and the very home ! of the fog is the Island erf Grand Ma; nan, at the entrance of thee Bay ol ! 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