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VOL. III. RICHMOND.
The Abiding
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From the Press of the Young Men's Christian
Association of New York we have a valuable
little booklet, which we commend to the reader.
It bears the title which appears above. The author
is the Rev. Geo. L. Robinson Ph n
, > ^.vrx^O"
sor of Old Testament Literature iu the McCormick
Theological Seminary at Chicago, a man
and an institution in which we all rejoice. We
are glad that he has published this book, for it
is needed by a great many people who have failed
to appreciate the value of the Old Testament.
in the first place, the author presents the
value of the old Testament as a
history, for it is "the fountain
head of history." It presents the u fT
"underlying principles," and
shows the '4 nexus of cause and effect
'' as does no other history. Our
author dwells freely on the value (A lady, s
of this book as 4 4 literature,'' mark- serve the foi
... .... , . the reason,
ed by its originality and its unique precarious s
characteristics, and of its value as foV"d, in
suited exactl
presenting the doctrines and the that, with G
duties in concrete form, easy of mUrht hernia
apprehension. Then he discusses
its value as the inio?n?ofA- ~-e
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New Testament, lie quotes Prof. ^Stethinlw6!
iSanday: "The New Testament is I want to kn
latent in the Old; the Old Testa- An heir to
ment is patent in the New." lie ,Is lllis the p(
dwells upon its value as a tutor ^ The point
to bring us to Christ, and happily ?jrt proves
presents the attitude of Paul and you.
the attitude of Christ to the Old . .
I want to kn
Testament. The booklet?for it I want to
covers only fifty pages?is ex- 1 w?nt to knt
,, * w tr o VVaa ghed 1
cellent.
And yet, while he presents so I want to fe<
many of the values of the Old Bi[t ^beV*!0!
Testament, we think that Dr. Rob- It. almost d
inson has omitted the chief value
of the Old Testament. To our 1 or^Gln-lst!"
mind this lies in the gradual de- l want to fee
velopment and presentation of the And not so
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grcut iruin 01 reaemption through
the blood of God's eternal Son.
\<w , To us, this is the one great end and purpose
1 of the thirty-nine books that are there collected.
p7 us try to trace this as it appears at intervals
in the Old Testament record.
V? In doing this, let us remember that this
00. C? ' hook does not attempt to tell us all that was said
or revealed to Adam or to any one of the men
of those days. It alludes to a great many things
which it does not directly state, thus showing us
that the antcdeluvians and the patriarchs knew
much more about redemption than is stated in
its pages. For instance while the third chapter
\1 ) the qenta
The Sou'.
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Value of the 0
IV. THOS. E. CONVERSE,
ui" Genesis does not state that God instituted
saeriiiee in the Garden of Eden, yet when it
says that God gave to Adam and Eve "coats of
skins," and that Abel brought of the "firstlings
of his lloek" and that God said to Cain, (see
marginal reading) "a sin offering lieth at the
door," we perceive that our first parents must
have had the ordinance of a bloody sacrifice for
sin.
In the light of this suggestion, we look through
the pages of the Old Testament to percieve the
suggestive steps in the revelations concerning
Him who should redeem Israel.
lis & $)otnt 3 IsDant itnot
JDaniel Herbert
joing through a lodging-house in Malvern, was surpr
llowing lines hung up in every room in the house. O
she was told that Lord K had come to that hous<
tate of health, and even thought himself dying. Or
>ook the following verses. He read and re-read tli
y his own state of mind, and made so deep an impress
od's blessing, his faith was confirmed. On leaving tl
< asked the landlady to hang up the verses, trustiu
de of equal use to other poor sinners.)
point you long to know? 1 want more faith?a stroi
hear you say 'tis this: 1 want to feel its powers
ow I'm born of God, I want to feel more love to
everlasting bliss. I want to feel less love tc
>int you long to know? 1 want to live above the w
is settled in my view; And count it all but trast
ant to love your God 1 want sweet tokens of Got
that God has first loved Some foretastes of eterna
1 want?I know not all I ws
ow Christ died for me; 1 want some true and sp<
feel the seals within; Yet all my wants are si
)w Christ's precious blood here?
to wash away my sin. I want?I feel I want mj
3l more love to God; Is this the point you long t
e liberty in prayer; The dead can neither feel
ook within my heart It is the slave that's bound i
rives me to desnair Whn knnuio h rtp
id more firmly fixed So where a want like yours
my Everlasting Head; I think 1 may be bold to i
1 my soul alive. The Lord has fixed within tt
barren and so dead. What hell can never take
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1. In the third chapter of Genesis, we have
the assurance that God would send a Redeemer, <
who should suffer at the haud of the serpent, but
who should triumph over the serpent and deliver
men from his power of destruction. As we
have seen, God gave to our first parents the in- <
stitution of sacrifice, showing that this deliver- ?
ance should come through the shedding of blood
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inner man mat 01 tne sinner. i
2. In the account of the Flood, God revealed
to ail the nations of the world their intense need
of this Redeemer. Tie told them that when the
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autedeluviaus ignored uud neglected his mercy
the whole world became so otl'ensive in His
sight that he destroyed them all.
3. In the chapters of Genesis which follow,
we see God revealing the fact that even the warning
of the Flood was not sufficient to deter men
from again relapsing into idolatry and sin of
ail kinds; and that in order to the salvation of
the world it was necessary to sever God's people
from these evil surroundings. All this appears
in God's severance of Abram from his
kindred, in connection with the organizing of
the visible church.
4- In the narrative of the offering
of Isaac, there appears anU
" other of the features of the redemptive
work of Christ. Whether
God explained it to Abraham,
we do not know; there is a silence
ised to ob- in the narrative liketo the silence
" i if ^'very concerning sacrifices in the third
le day he chapter of Genesis. But we at
fm' least can here see the child of
ion on him
10 lodging- the promise, whose birth was sug
that they pernatural, placed upon the altar,
and we can see God providing a
substitute ram, and bidding Abra?*?*
bam offer it in place of his son.
God; 5. Other prophecies of the Re*
sin* deemer are coincident with the
orld progress of the nation. When
l and toys; t lu? nation had a prophet, far sill's
grace, .
! j0ys. lienor to any that was ever
known, God bade Moses tell them
, that "A prophet like unto me
jcial good; 1 1
linined up shall the Lord your God raise up
_ unto you." When the nation
f God! ^ .
had a priesthood, duly organized
o know? under the headship of Aaron, God
nor see;
iii chains gave them to understand that
liberty. their Redeemer should do the
^ work of a pri&st. When the najay>
' tion had a noble king in the perlat
heart son ()f David, God told him "Thy
away. throne shall be established forisenger.
ever," of course in the coming of
the Messiah.
6. The Old Testament further depicts the
uharacter of the coming Redeemer in its psalmody.
Psalm 2 tells us that he shall be the Son
of God; Psalm 8, that he shall be human, yet be
glorified beyond conception; Psalm 16. that bo
shall not bo holden of death; Psalm 22 that his
sufferings shall bo real and fearful, yet effective
unto salvation ; Psalm 40, that these sufferings
shall be undertaken willingly for the sake of sinners;
Psalm f>9, that they shall be so serious as to
end in a broken heart; and the fifty-third of
Tsaiah tells us that, they should be vicarious.