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our Brother Edmonds have meant to us during the time of our sojourn together. We rejoice in the blessed hope of Thy return and in the assurance that we shall see Thee, that we shall be made like Thee, and together shall adore Thee forever and ever. EVANGELISTIC NOTICES T he F ather and S on E vangelists , C. E. Hedrick and Henry Hedrick, spent three weeks in February in meetings in the Lindsay Baptist Church, Lindsay, Calif. Both the evangelists, as well as the pastor of the church, J. Theodore Goodman, were reverently aware of the Spirit’s working; at least fifty individuals yielded to Christ as Saviour, and a large number of other friends consecrated their lives to the Lord. Children’s meetings of outstanding profit were held five days a week. Each Satur day evening of the campaign was planned to appeal specially to young people, when Henry Hedrick, a young man of convic tion, choice musical ability, and Christian winsomeness, spoke earnestly to youth. The regular forms of publicity for the meetings were augmented by the use of the Hed ricks’ “public address system,” by means of which announcements could be heard at a distance of as much as a mile and a half from the speaker. Dr. Hedrick and his son expect to serve the Lord in meetings from March 7 to 21 in the First Baptist Church, Kingsburg, Calif., and from March 28 to April + in the Congregational Church, Washougal, Wash., of which Charles Thomas, ’31, is the pastor. For other engagements, either on the Pacific Coast or elsewhere, these true-to-the-Bible evangelists will welcome correspondence: Father and Son Evangelists, 236 E. Tenth St., Long Beach, Calif. T he W m . F. R awlins E vangelistic P arty closed a fruitful campaign in the Calvary Bible Church, Findlay, Ohio, in January. Seventy-two came forward to ac cept Christ as their personal Saviour, and the children’s meetings were attended by an average of 115 boys and girls each day after school. Dr. Rawlins used object les sons and also showed Dr. Pace’s cartoons with a stereopticon machine. The music on the Vibraphone, cathedral chimes, piano, ac cordion, cow bells, and bottles aroused gen eral interest. The Rawlins Party held fur ther campaigns in the Avon Gospel Taber nacle, Girard, Ohio, January 24 to Feb ruary 7; Sunbury Baptist Church, Sun- bury, Ohio, February 14 to 28. Meetings were scheduled for Sykesville, Pa., March 7 to 21; and Emporium, Pa., March 24 to April 11. The workers ask the friends of T he K ing ’ s B usiness to remember them in prayer that God will use them for the salvation of precious souls. The Raw lins Party can be addressed at 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif. L. C. R obie (Biola, ’18), Union Springs, N. Y., known as “Sky-Pilot Robie” because of his experiences in his own airplane, closed a two-weeks’ series of well-attended “Victory Meetings” in Ashland, Pa., in January. The month of February he [Continued on page 156]
2. There Is the Blood-Sprinkling. As is well known, one word for “pro pitiation” is “mercy seat,” the golden lid of the Ark above which the Shekinah shone, and on which the blood shed was sprinkled. This sprinkling of blood was the one act of worship performed by the high priest alone when withdrawn from the gaze of the people. And such a presentation of the blood shed at the altar stood for the surrender of the offered life to God. The mercy seat would have been a judgment seat had it not been for the shed blood sprinkled thereon. Being sprinkled, the mercy seat bore the token or evidence that the righteous sentence had been carried out. There had been death for sin. Now, how swetly suggestive all of this is of the effectual and eternal efficacy of the wounds of Christ He still bears! He is our Mercy Seat, and God, gazing upon the scars and reminiscences of Christ’s conflict, passes over us. Christ offered unto God a life of holy obedience and a perfectly completed work of redemption. Yes, and the resur rection was God’s receipt for the debt paid by His Son on our account! The blood, then, both shed and sprinkled, declares that divine righteousness is able to justify the ungodly. The tragedy, however, of this apostate age is that such a blood-red doctrine of jus tification is well-nigh dead in our Protes tant churches. Through modernism it was sent overboard along with the biblical doc trines of the Trinity and the Atonement. And the introduction of the God-dishonoring theory of evolution, with its application to man’s own salvation, has, in the minds of many, done away with the necessity of the justifying Sacrifice, for man is con sidered well able to justify himself. It is affirmed that the doctrine of God’s justification has had its day. But its day can never cease, seeing that it is part of the eternal gospel. So long as sinful men have to do with an all-holy God, nothing short of such a glorious theme, crushing as it does man’s self-deceit and magnifying God’s sovereign grace, will suffice to meet man’s need. “The last words of Mr. Honest were, ‘Grace reigns.’ And so he left the world.” Let us walk through the world preaching the crimson grace of God, and then, when we come to our Jordan we, too, shall cross it, exalting Him who “loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.” lit Roses in December, published bp W m B . Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., and on sale at $1.00 a copy (cloth bound), Mr. Lockyer includes not only “Justification by Faith’' but eleven other meaty chapters. AROUND THE KING’S TABLE [Continued from page 126] body. We, too, who are now alive and who look in faith for the coming of the Lord, in that moment “shall . . . be changed.” “Caught up together,” we shall have fel lowship together throughout eternity. Until that day, we thank Thee, O Lord, for what the friendship and fellowship with
The question arises: How could any man living back in those “horse-and-buggy days” draw so complete a picture of our present airplane government and its certain tendencies as did Mr. Peters? The reply is simple: He held in his hands the sure Word of God’s inspired prophets. By that Word, he knew the way that all nations will take as the age of Gentile dominion draws to its inglorious end. He wrote accordingly!
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The New Testament lays great stress on the blood, death, or cross of Christ as a further basis of Christ’s work for the sinner. If Romans is “the cathedral of the Christian faith,” then the blood is the main door leading us into such a spacious temple. By the “blood” we mean the sur render of the perfect life of the sinless Christ (cf. Lev. 17:11). God can justify the sinner in virtue of the blood. In fact its value is in its virtue. It was the blood, not only of God’s Son, but of the Son who was God (cf. Acts 20:28). The blood of God! Who can fathom the mys tery? The sinner through violating the law became guilty, condemned, under divine wrath, and shut up under sin, and in such a condition was powerless to avert divine justice and discover a righteousness satis fying to divine claims. Christ, however, entered our nature, took our guilt and sins with all their demerit, and made them His own. And now the believer in union with Christ shares the fruits of the atonement, and God, in justification, pronounces him legally free. Oh, let us never cease to praise the Lord of saving merit for His ransom-rescue! His death was mine! He paid the debt and set me free. “Hallelujah, What a Saviour!” There are two aspects of the justifying blood of Christ, however, that we must be careful to distinguish: 1. There Is the Blood-Shedding. The victim under the Mosaic law was slain and offered at the altar, and in such we have a foregleam of the out-poured blood at the cross. This is the aspect which the New Testament stresses. Calvary is God’s “tryst” with man. Jesus became the propitiatory Sacrifice, and justification is red and glorious with the blood without which it could never have been made possible. And such a death proves that in God’s grace there is no connivance, no indulgence without a lawful reason. God is now able through the blood of the cross.to liberate His love along the lines of a wonderfully satisfied holiness. How, then, can we dis parage the doctrine of atoning blood? Why, to do so is to remove or belittle the whole fabric of the evangelical doctrine of the grace of God. “I delivered unto you first of all,” says the apostle, “how that Christ died for our sins” (1 Cor. 15:3). Yes, “first of all” ! Let us place the cross in such a foremost position.
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