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But what shall God do with the one who has sinned? There can be only one answer; he must he condemned as the free and guilty author o f his sins. But must the death and the doom of the sinner’s sins be visited upon the sinner himself? Ah! here is the point at which the love of God shines with a splendor which overwhelms the soul and conquers the heart. We could never have imagined what the length and breadth and height and depth of God’s love really is had it not been that, instead of visiting the con demnation and curse and doom and re sponsibility of sin upon the sinner him self, He visits the condemnation and the curse and the doom and the responsibility of sin upon Himself—the sinner’s God and Saviour. The invincible demonstra tion of love which breaks down all of my doubts and conquers my heart is that God Himself, instead of holding me respon sible for my sins, calls His own Son to assume the responsibility for my sins, although that responsibility requires Him to go down into the death justly due to me. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt he saved.”—Dr. John Timothy Stone. AND A BISHOP SAID IT Bishop Fowler has said that “ It may seem a severe thing for a Methodist Bishop, and one who has been President of one of the largest universities, to say, but, nevertheless, I believe it io be true, that the schools and the universities of the Methodist Episcopal Church belong more to the devil to-day than they do to our Church.”
God’s Love Demonstrated What shall God do with the sin of the sinner, and what shall God do with the sinner who has sinned? He must condemn these sins. He has no choice; the imperatives of His nature require it. He cannot wink at them, as if His holiness were all make-believe to scare men with a fear which is all un real. He cannot ignore them, as if their dimensions were so small that He could afford to disregard them. “ The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men” (Rom. 1:18). The wrath of God at sin is as necessary to the completeness of the Divine nature as the love of God for righteousness. What sort of God would He be whose attitude toward wickedness was exactly the same as toward righteousness? What kind of God would He he who felt toward falsehood as toward truth, toward im purity, toward cruelty and hate as to ward love and compassion, toward selfish ness and pride as toward self-sacrifice and humility? He would not be an in finite God; He would not even he an in finite devil; but He would be an infinite abortion, whom no one could respect, whom none could worship. Every harp in Heaven would be stilled and every voice would be hushed, if such a being as that were shown as seated upon the throne. If God does not abhor sin, He does not love righteousness, and if He loves both alike moral insanity Is on the throne, and moral lunacy or idiocy would be the fitting preparation for worship by His votaries. The hypothesis is its own refutation. God must condemn sin and pass upon it the judgment that it is worthy of death.
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