(2 Co. 11:3; I Isa! 2-13). We fell in Adam because he was our common father; we rise iij Christ because He is : our i common Brother. Make another scheme of salvation if you will, but do not call it Christian. No doubt we should find the presi- dent above quoted, like others of his way of thinking, a strong advocate of the modern emphasis on ,the .universal Fatherhood of God, Brotherhood of Man, and Manhood of Woman. For such to deny the universal headship of Adam is nothing short of logical hari kari. It is the common fatherhood of Adam, "which was the son of God," that gives standing room for the senti- ment and practical duties of paternity and affiliation. This in turn rests on the Fatherhood of God, the Immediate Creator of Man. The amiable frater- nity universal which these men teach is reduced to a . vanishing point if men had an autocthonous origin (springing individually out of the ground). No world-wide brotherhood is possible apart from a world-wide fatherhood. We could no longer speak even of man- kind (kin), but only of men. Even the Good Samaritan would stand on slip- pery footing. As for woman, no longer "bone of man's bone and flesh of his flesh," psychology, physiology and his- tory would combine to deny her that equality which these sentimentalists preach; and her sublime relationship sketched in the fifth of Ephesians would be without moral, as without natural, and historical claims. brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. Rom. 9:2-3. The Saviour prayed with strong crying and tears. Soul winners must know soul sorrow for the lost. They must have compassion for the Christless. Dr. J. H. Jowett says, in speaking on the verse—I fill up that which is be- hind of the afflictions of Christ. Col. 1: 24. The Gospel of a bleeding heart de- mands the ministry of bleeding hearts. As soon as we cease to bleed we cease to bless. Does the cry of the world's need pierce the heart and ring even through the fabric of our dreams? Do we fill up our Lord's sufferings with our own sufferings, or are we the unsympathetic ministers of a mighty passion? Why do you wish to return? Because I Evangelism
from and revert to the same original stock. The facts of Archeology range themselves in mass to tho defense of Adamic origin. They agree with the Bible, that the primal home of man is. Mesopotamia; that he has been civil- ized from the remotest beginnings; that monotheism and sound morality were his earliest creed and code; and there- fore, like his soul, must have been de- rived from the instruction of his Cre- ator; languages, too, so say the best informed savants, are variations of one original, and highly philosophical, tongue. As to the supernatural stumbling block: few, if any, scientific men of the first order now have the hardihood to deny the action of the Supernatural some time and some where (not to write these words in the plural). Their science demands a beginning, and a beginning, in the strict sense, is miracle in a stupendous sense. It is inconsistent for one who pro- fesses, at least, to believe in the New Testament, to doubt the Adam story. If God "has spoken unto us by His Son," why doubt that He spake to that other "son" (Lk. 3.38)? If He walked in Galilee, why not in Eden? (Gen. 3:8). Jesus endorsed the record of Genesis (Mt. 19:4; Jn. 8:44); as the second Head of humanity He also met the tempter (Mt. 4). Paul built the vica- rious salvation on the vicarious con- demnation (Ro. 5:12; 2 Co. 15:45), and confidently used the story of the Fall LESSON 9 • • r HERE can be no soul saving without i l l soul sacrificing. One reason for our ^ ^ lack of success in this work is our lack of sincerity. We are thinking of this work as a kind of holiday affair rather than a holy day sacrifice. We are wanting to win men without working for men. We would be glad to see them, saved, but would not want to pay any great price for their salvation. We read of Moses saying, "Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." Exodus 32: 32. You hear Paul saying "That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that my- self were accursed from Christ for my Personal
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