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4 THE VIRGIh Our Salvat The recent meeting < held at Johnstown, N."' icr. (October 17) the Charles McKenzie, pre Birth of Jesus. The " extracts irom the serin sonally lie accepts the birth, but he goes on I anybody else accepting connected with the rcf. realize, make it very di know what to do aboui how. Nothing imports no fundamental ideas o least in accepting or i Can this be true? E angel to assure Mary, i Joseph, that her child himself. When God t fact, arc we at liberty Hut it does matter, ; When we look at t Christ, we find that o fact that the fatherhoo of God. The truth is. t of divine parentage, his piatory value, and of i Redeemer would be tin To understand this question of God's plai through the work of a ture is that Jesus Chris resentative?a represen sinned, and deserve pu Jesus was to bear that to so live as to earn a sentativc Tp<;iic cn livo title to eternal life. A terms of God's covenar of our sins and earned We have repeated 1 tive," because on this God could have create having a representative did so create the ang< they have no represent endures his probation 1 if one of them sins, h (who have no racial r deemer. Tn Hebrews ''not lay hold on angc there is no Redeemer. Hut in the creation in special kindness, ari resentation. He appo sentativc of the race, sc the whole race would 1 In doing this God prep tnc second Adam, Llir work depends on this i pie of representation ir If Adam had faithful % THE PRESBYTERIAN i BIRTH OF JESUS, ion Depends On It. 3f the Synod of New York was Y., October 19. Two days earlpastor of that Church. Rev. ached a sermon on the Virgin Johnstown Republican'' gives on. In it he declares that perScripture narrative of Christ's luis:: "I should not insist upon it. There are many difficulties >ort given in the Gospel that, I ifficult for some minds to really t them. It does not matter any mt depends upon it. There are f Christian truth affected in the rejecting it." >oes it not matter! God sent an ind God sent an angel to assure I.Jesus, was begotten by God ook this trouble to verify the to say that it does not matter? and vitally. he foundations of the work of ur redemption depends on the d of Jesus was not of man but hat if Jesus of Nazareth be not ? death would be shorn of its cxts saving power. His work as dcrmined. matter we must enter into the 11 of salvation. It is salvation representative. Its central fea>t came to earth to act as a repitativc for sinful man. We have nishmpnt nc rvnr rnnfflcniif-vt!.." , %*w VMA 1 VJ/l VOVJilULlVt punishment. We have all failed title to heaven. As our repred in holiness of fife as to earn a lS our representative under the it. He bought for us the pardon for us the privileges of heaven, lie words, "as our representaliinges all the work of Christ, d men without the privilege of t to act for the whole race. He Is. They have no tic of race; ativc head. When one of them le secures life for himself alone: e alone suffers. But for them epresentative) there is no Re2: 16 we read that Christ did Is/' For Satan or His angels, of man on this earth. God -anged for the principle of repillt I'fl tllO fircf- A fl D m oc rnnrn ) that if he had obeyed in Eden, lave had all promised blessings, ared the way fo?- the coming of ist. The efficacy of Christ's ngrafting by God of the princii this world. ly kept the season of probation, f OF THE SOUTH. the whole race of men would h in perfect security to all etcrn dience of the one man. But Adam, as representative sin; and thus, the penalty of Every child of Adam by ordit under sin, under the penalty o Now, if Jesus of Nazareth 1 human father, He also would the curse, subject to death bee sinning Adam. Then all his sn out meritorious value. His < His voluntary act, would have quences due to Adam's sin. 1 possible for Him to say "I lay ners, because already it was for was "in Adam'' was involved sin, and could not do any work But Jesus Is The 5 The infinite wisdom of God In order to be the Redcemci Christ must (on the one ham and blood. God secures this born of Mary. He became boi of her flesh. On the other hand, in ord< condemnation of Adam's transg not be descended from Adam tl and child of Adam. This was ! self became the father of Jesus tell Mary that her child would but would be "that holy thing thee," and that He would be ' t human father. In all this, behold the marvel was a problem which human s solved. Only God could do it. hands; unnn nnr mnntlic ?' And now when God has pla how does it comport with a c does not matter?" WHAT ARE WE SPEN] In the address of Hon. J. j tional Peace Congress at Ch presented the foHowing figure During the fiscal year 190 the United States for the ci army and navy were $204,122 from the total revenues of amounts collected from postag six per cent of our revenue. The amount paid out for per was $180,608,204, which is thi revenues. The total of war past) was therefore sixty-seve nuc. In the fiscal year 1909, the st Up to the date of his speech government for current expe navy were forty-one per cent o sions, etc., thirty-one per ce seventy-two per cent of our n the purposes of war. November 17, 1909. lave been safe, dwelling ity, because of the obeof the race, committed sin fell upon the race, lary generation is born f A ' i _ i nuciiu >s transgression, lad been the child of a have been born under ausc lie was a child of ifferings would be withleatli, instead of being been one of the conse[t would not have been down my life" for sinfeited. Any person who in the consequences of : of redemption. Son of God. solved the difficulty. of the human race the d) be partaker of flesh by causing Him to be le of her none and flesh er to be free from the jrcssioii? the Christ must trough the fatherhood of secured when God Him, so that the angel could not be a "guilty" child, which shall be born of he Son of God", not of a lous wisdom of God. It ikill could never have We st?nd, and lay our Imire! ! inned time wnnrlprfiillir ~ hild of mail to say "It DING FOR WAR? Tawney, at the Naicago, in May last, he I S: ! 8, the expenditures of irrent expenses of the ,855.57. If we exclude the government the e, this amount is thirtyisions, during that year, rty-one per cent of our expenses (currertf: and n per cent of our reveate of the c^se is worse. , the payments by the nses of the army and f the total, and for pennt, making a total of ation's money used for I