T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S 891 Yet how plainly our Lord’s own words concerning the memorial sup per tell us what He ■yrould have us think of His death. By it He points out the one moment of His whole career that He desires us to remember—His death upon the cross. And that cross, according to His own words, is not to remind us of “ the tragic end of a noble career,” but of a divine sacrifice securing remission of sins for all who will accept of His finished work. That the Lord’s Supper teaches us the sacrificial character of His death, it is impossible for any honest man to deny. Dr. Lyman Abbott insults the intelligence of ninety-nine per cent of his readers. The words of Jesus in this connection, as well as in many other recorded statements concerning His death, are unmeaning mummery unless the shedding of His blood was the ground of the remission of sins. Furthermiore, the Lord’s Supper proclaims not only the atoning char acter of His death, but His Deity as well,—another “ fundamental” to which Dr. Abbott and those of his school, object. Who is this Galilean peasant in a borrowed upper room, who steps for ward and says, “ I hereby put away the old covenant and institute a new one. I am the offering and the sacrifice. You are no longer to think of Moses, but of Me. Until I return in glory you are to keep remembering Me in this memorial supper” ? What a tremendous piece of audacity—except on one hypothesis. He was the Lamb of God and He was the Son of God. Every intelligent worshipper who takes the emblems of His broken body and His shed blood, acknowledges His Deity, His vicarious sacrifice, and looks forward to the day when He shall return to drink the new wine of the kingdom with His own. “ For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord ’s death until He come.” We may not be able scientifically to explain it all, but we can cleave to the Scripture truth concerning these things nevertheless, and have our souls flooded with the peace of God that comes from knowing that our sins were laid on Him, that He died for us, was accepted in our stead, and that God looks at us through Him, and all is well with our souls. —-K. L. B. Why N o t? There are some real smart men these days. Some of them are in the pulpit. We recently read an announcement from one of them, a Los Angeles pastor, to the effect that all real evolutionists taught that evolution was a continuous process and that matter, animal life and even man were evolving now, every minute, all the time, etc. That interests us when it comes to horses, for I have a red ant bed in my garden that may turn into a bunch of jack-asses any minute. Say, wouldn’t il be great stuff if some of these evolution brethren could find a lower species suddenly becoming a higher and absolutely different species, say a don key evolving into a theologian, and display him in the Smithsonian Insti tute while he was losing his ears, tail and bray and taking on all that scholarly poise? Now that is not said in jest. Why not? Evolution is at the job at the same old stand, according to the learned divine I refer to.— Rev. Bob Shuler, Los Angeles.
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