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I. “The life is in the blood." A “mistake of Moses ?” Scientifically true. “Lynx eyed science” discovered it only a few decades ago. If M. was right that the life was in it , he was right that life is by it. II. “I have given you the blood.’’ Then: (1) The blood is God’s appointment. (2) The blood is God’s gift (John 3:16). (3) The blood (life) is His best gift. (4) He must accept (the Mood) His own condition. III. It is the blood that maketh atone ment.” God delights not in slaughter any more than our modern men of culture. He abhors it. His name is Jehovah, not Moloch. Emphasis is to be put on “life” not on blood save as life’s vehicle. Life for life made reconciliation justifiable (Rom. 3:26). Sinners were not mulcted in money for charities and churches; not sentenced to re formatories to mend their ways; nor to hard labor under the legal taskmaster: They were doomed to die! Blood only could satisfy “by reason of the life,”—thank God it does satisfy. Woe to that house that doleful night in Egypt had a list of virtues; or a registry of vows; or a schedule of donations been nailed up as equivalent to the God-given blood. “I have given you the blood,” therefore “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.”— Exod. 12:13.—5'. SUGGESTIVE ITEMS merville. “At Liverpool and at London,” he replied. “What! were you born twice?*' “Yes,” said the evangelist,” once after the flesh, and once after the Spirit.” A great English statesman estimated that when a missionary had been twenty years on the field, he is worth in his indirect expansion of trade and commerce 10,000 pounds per year to British commerce. A u g u stin e used to tell a story of a man who complained to Almighty God about one of his neighbors, saying, “O Lord, take away this wicked person.” And God said, “Which?”— From Sabbath Reading.
4:31, 32; Matt. 6:25, 33). Germans now emphasize and enforce the doctrine: The State’s need obliterates the individual’s. Queen Elizabeth to a merchant who plead business as a reason why he could not ac cept a mission for the state: “You attend to my business and I will look after yours." “I ’m h ere on b u sin ess fo r m y K in g .” III. First as to world within. (1) Head: education, culture, life-preparation. School, studies, teachers—choose with regard to this first thing (Prov. 9:10). (2) Heart: spirit ual culture (Rom. 14:17). IV. First as to world without. The Great Commission is life’s chief commission (Matt. 28:19, cf. 2 Cor. 11:24-28; Phil. 3:13, 14). The first word of a demented man who had failed “to make good” was, to all he met, “Seek first the kingdom of God.”—S'. T hree T h in g s A bout t h e B lood "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it (the blood) to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of ithe life.” —Lev. 17:11. A three-fold mention of the blood. Blood stained verse. Blood-stained Book. So: Blood—from Abel to Jacob; from Sinai to Calvary; from Pentecost to the Parousia. “F orever round the mercy seat The guiding lights of love do burn, But what, if habit-bound, thy feet Shall lack the will to turn?”— Whittier. “If I am right, thy grace impart. Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find the better way.”— Pope. “D ear , so very dear to God Dearer I cannot be; For in the Person of his Son I am as dear as H e !” “W here were you born?” one asked Sum- ILLUSTRATIVE AND
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