TAt One Ment by Propitiation 95 tist, Sir David Brewster, “Oh, it is everything to me! It meets my reason, it satisfies my conscience, it fills my heart.” (See also that fine passage in Drummond, the “Ideal Life,” p. 187.) Or, take our hymns. We want no better theology and no better religion than are set forth in these hymns, says a great theologian (Hodge, Syst. Theol., ii: 591), which voice the triumph, and the confidence, and the gratitude, and the loyalty of the soul, such a s : - -
“Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.” “My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary.”
“When I survey the wondrous cross, On which the Prince of glory died.”
Or take the preacher’s power. It must be built upon reality as real as life itself; on what the Son of God has done for him. One of the greatest of the nineteenth century preachers said, “Looking back upon all the chequered way, I have to say that the only preaching that has done me good is the preaching of a Saviour who bore my sins in His own body on the tree, and the only preaching by which God has enabled me to do good to others is the preaching in which I have held up my Saviour, not as a sublime example, but as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world!” And the work of Christ did not end with His death upon the cross. As the risen and ascended One, He continues it. The Crucified is still drawing souls to Himself. He is still applying His healing blood to the wounded conscience. We do not preach a Christ who was alive and is dead; we preach the Christ who was dead and is alive. It is not the extension ^
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