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The Gospel the only Saying Power of God
A SERMON,
By 'R*t. YT. M. Bridges, Sugar Valley, Georgia.
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of
Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation
to every one that believeth.”—Komans i: 16.
The omnipotence of the one true and
living God is wonderfully displayed in
every object of creation.
The earth with all of its inhabi
tants, from the smallest insect to tow
ering man, as well as the constellated
canopy with all of its innumerable
planets, proclaims to us, in undeniable
terms, His great creative power, and the
general providences, over every creature
of earth, abundantly teach His preserv
ing power; while the same objects of
these providences hut too plainly tell
us of His destructive power. But while
we may be filled with admiration in
contemplating Jjfis creative power, with
gratitude in realizing His preserving
power, with awe in witnessing His de
structive power, yet there is nothing in
all of this to quiet that inate longing
after immortality, that one great njed
of man—the salvation of the immor
tal soul. But blessed be God in the
declaration given in the text, that need
is supplied, and we have something to
quiet, something to fill, and something
to satisfy every condion of man, and
that is—the Gospel is the saving power
of God.
In analyzing any great theory or
system, it is necessary to take note of
those elements that render it effective
in the accomplishment of the object
proposed. So we, in analyzing this
saving power of God will, in the light
of the Scriptures, discuss the nature
of some of those elements which ren
der it effective, and make it the grand
est and most glorious of all systems.
The first, and indispensable element of
this power islight,and we are madetosee
its beauty by its necessity. The Scrip
tures declare, as well as the testimony
of all the spiritually enlightened, that
in consequence of sin, moral darkness
“ hath covered the whole earth and
gross darkness the people.” This dark
ness leads to eternal death, and there
never can be one ray of light to lead to
the salvation of the soul unless it comes
through the Gospel channel. Coeval
with this state of moral darkness, we
find the promise of deliverance —the
promise of salvation, and we hear the
Scriptures declaring, speaking of the
blessed Saviour’s mission to earth, “ I
will give thee for a covenant of the
people for a light of the Gentiles to
open the blind eyes and bring out the
from the prison, and them
that so, in darkness out of the prison
house. And when the Saviour came to
earth we hear him saying, “ While ye
have the light believe in the light, that
ye may become the children of light;
yet a little while is the light with you,
walk while ye have the light lest dark
ness comes upon you;” and when He
went to leave the earth in His bodily
fashion, we hear Him saying unto them
to whom He had committed a dispen
sation of His Gospel, “ Ye are the light
of the world, the salt of the earth,”
and after He had ascended unto the
Father, we hear His apostle.declaring
“ That God hath shined into our heait3
to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God.”
If the rays of light which are thrown
upon the earth from the great lumi
nary are essential to the temporal
wants of man, and to reveal unto him
the beauties of creation, so is the
spiritual light we receive from the Gos
pel transcendantly more important in
meeting the spiritual wants of man,
and revealing unto him the beauties of
God’s own plan of salvation. It is that
element that must take hold of and
awaken the slumbering faculties of the
soul; must penetrate the deep recesses
of the heart and show it the heinous
ness of sin, and the folly of remaining
in. it. It is that element of the Gospel
that must show us how far we are
aliens from God and the means of re
turning; and while it does all this, it
points out another element of God’s
saving power—the means of reconcili
ation. Hence we see the beauties of
this element as a prerequisite to the
glorious influences that are to follow in
the salvation of the soul. When the
veil that has shrouded the soul in moral
darkness has been lifted by the light of
the Gospel, it discovers unto man his
true condition; but while it reveals unto
him the wretchedness of that condition,it
offers sweet comfort from the assurance
“that God was in Christ reconciling
the world unto himself.” While the
true light shows the extent of man’s
alienation from God, it bids him return
unto? Him “who will have mercy and
abundantly pardon.” While it shows
the chasms and quicksands of the wan
derer’s road of sin, it points out a high
way, “a way of holiness,” for the prod
igals return ; and when he is brought
back to “Him who cannot look upon
sin with the least degeree of allow
ance,” he looks within, and he finds no
righteousness better than filthy rags.
Neither genius, learning, fame, or mo
rality, can secure justification. Then
he looks to Sinia’s law, and he cannot
find it there ; but in this extremity he
turns to the Gospel, and oh ! the beau
ty of the arguments he finds there for
a recosciliation to God. He learns in
this hour of peril “that Christ is the
end of the law for righteousness to
every one that believeth.” He now
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOTTTHX WESTERN BAPTIST.
turns to the cross and finds a robe of
righteousness wrought out there suffi
cient to shield and protect from all the
evils of sin, and when clothed with it
will enable him to stand justified in the
presence of the great Jehovah. When
he is thus brought before tl e Judge of
Heaven and earth, he looks again with
in and to the law, for the price of re
demption, for a proper expiation and
atonement for all his sins, and he fails
to find it; but he turns again to Cal
vary’s bleeding victim, to that thorny
crown, to those bleeding hands and feet,
and to that pierced side, and he bears
theOne.hanging there say, “It is Finish
ed ;” on Him were his iniquities layed,
and from His wounds flows the blood
that clenses from all sin. His faith
views this atoning sacrifice, and be
holds mercy streaming from the Cross,
and to the Cross it comes to obtain a
proper reconciliation ; and this recon
ciliation leads to another element of
God’s saving power—tbat of the new
birth. It now remains for us to notice
the nature of the life produced by this
new birth.
It is an establishecLfact that when
man yields to the
■Gospel, a is
and tBV *geconciliation
i* change of heart or new
birth, w
•'
Saviour said to Nicodemus,
not that I said unto thee, ye
must be born again.” He further
said, in explanation of this birth, “that
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and
that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit.” Reasoning from the analogy
of like comparisons, made by the Sa
viour, we understand Him to teach a
very important lesson in reference to
this birth. When He said, “That
which is born of the flesh is flesh,” we
understand Him to mean that the heir
thus born, must possess ali the charac
istics of the flesh, which are, according
to the Scriptures, adultery, fornication,
uucleannets, lasciviousness, idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emula
tions, wrath, strife, sedition, heresies,
envy in gs, murders, drunkenness, revel
lings.” While all of thege are the nat
ural traits of the birth after the flesh,
such a birth also teachers the certainty
of the flesh-bearing mortal, and marks
out a definite period for which it
serves the heir, and that is, just as long
as mortality lasts.
So the Saviour meant as much when
he said, “That which is boru of the
Spirit is spirit.” He meant that the
heir thus born must possess all the
characteristics of the Spirit, for it must
be like it. The heir “must walk in the
Spirit, for He lives in the Spirit. The
true life of the heir thus born, though
it be held in an earthen vessel, must
exhibit the fruits of the Spirit, which
are love, joy, peice, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
and temperance.” And following the
analogy, it teaches that the Spirit is
immortal; that the germ of this spirit
ual birth emanates from a self-existing
immortal being ; and therefore, it also
marks out a definite period for the
heir—and that is the period of immor
tality.
This analogy also teaches that while
there is a birth from nature to grace,
there is no other change that each
serves the purpose in the life of each
state for which it was designed; and
that there is no laying down and tak
ing of life by the heir, or power of re
production when lost.
In support of the views advanced in
reference to man’s spiritual life,"we
have the following from the Scriptures :
“Being born again, not of corrupta
ble seed, but of incorruptible, by the
word of God, which liveth and abidetb
forever.
Whosoever is born of sin, doth com
mit sin, for his seed remaineth in him,
and as this seed produces the life of
which we are speaking, we have the
following in further support of this
life : “But is now made manifest by
the appearing of our Saviour, Jesus
Christ, who hath abolished death and
brought life and immortality to light
through the Gospel. Ye are dead, and
your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall ap
pear, then shall ye also appear with
Him in glory.”
From what we have said, in refer
ence to this life, if the reasoning he
correct, if it is in accordance with the
Scriptures of eternal truth, we draw
the following conclusions: If there
should ever be a time when man would
cease to have an immortal soul; if
there should ever he a time when God
would cease to possess His spiritual
character ; should cease to he a self
existing Being; then there may he a
time when some or all of the combined
powers arrayed against the children of
God, might wrest from them their
spiritual life. With what indissolu
ble ties is the child of grace hound un
to his Saviour! Oh ! what power the
Gospel exerts in the salvation of the
soul! Well could the apostle say,
while contemplating the length,
breadth and depth of this power—
“ Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ ?” And in viewing the mag
nitude of obstacles thrown in its
course, and the enemies arrayed
against it, could, in the midst of them
all, very exultingly declare, “Nay, in
all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him that loved
us.” Ah !ye arch enemies of this life,
ye are powerless! Ye arch fiends of
the darker regions, ye are disarmed
in your implacable work, when the
child of God exhibits the robe of Geth
seruane and Calvary!
While the Gospel has in it all the
elements necessary to secure to man
this life, it also has within it all the
incentives necessary to a proper perse
verance.
When the Saviour went to leave His
disciples, He said for their consola
tion : “But the Comforter, which is
the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
send in My name, He shall teach you
all things and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said
unto you.” It is this influence of the
Spirit, bringing to our remembrance the
things within the Word, that gives ef
ficacy to the saint’s perseverance.
Then, tell me not thdt there is no
power in the precious promises of
God’s Word, thus brought to our re
membrance by the agency of the Holy
Spirit. It is that which prepared the
apostles to undergo all of the trials
that the Cross imposed upon them;
and it is that which has prepared the
true followers of Jesus to proclaim
His truth, through all of the dark
ages of the world. What is it that
prompts the young who has dedicated
liis life to tlie cause, to pore over bis
volumes, in preparing himself for the
sacred calling of the ministry, whi:e
other fields are inviting him to worldly
wealth and wordly fame. And tell me
what it is that nerves him, amid the
privations of such a calling, to know
nothing but Christ and Him crucified ?
It is because the proper incentives
have taken hold of his mind amljieart,
and gives him the victory
thing else. It is because he
the fullness of the promise “Lo, I amV
with you alway.” Toll me what it is
that gives to fond parents comfort
as they bend over the dying couch of
that promising child, though at the
moment, they may be drinking sor
row s cup to [tlie dregs: it is because
Jesus has said, “I am the resurrection
and the life.”
Book at that tender female standing
beside her dying husband. The vitals
of his manhood are gone, and the hectic
flush has faded from his cheek, and in
this hour of extremity, she beholds the
little ones gathered around the bed
side, and she knows that upon that
manly form prostrate there, they can’t
depend any longer, and the thought
ovrepowers her for the moment, but
she is a Christian and she remembers
the sweet promise, “I will be a father
to the fatherless, and a husband •to
the widow.” And it may be that the
husband is a Christian ; if so, what is
it that makes him smile as he is wrest
ling with the monster, Death ? It is
because the Gospel is the power of
God unto salvation, and God is now
imparting unto him dying grace./ Yes,
when all other powers fail us, this
shall not, but like the good ship upon
the ocean, shall bare its my rack souls
not to the land of shades, but across
the river of death to the plains of
Heaven.
Christian, does this Gospel soothe
you amidst the toils and afflictions of
life? Does it calm your fears and
dispel your apprehensions ? And when
the world is retiring, and darkness
and silence begin to reign around you,
as your powers fail beneath the hand
of death, O tell me ! will you rest your
soul upon its precious promises?
Will it smooth your dying pillow, and
clear away your vision to look on Hea
ven and eternal things ? Then, never
be ashamed of it but give it also to
others.”
Cljc J&irahg JScjEol.
State Snnday-school Committee Appointed by
the Georgia Baptist Convention.
£\7r- Spalding, Atlanta, President.
Du. E. W. Warren, Atlanta.
Bon . J, U. Jamrs, Atlanta, Treasurer.
Dr. T. L. Skinner, Macon.
i )R ‘ Vr M^H^ MclNTOS,f ’ (removed to Alabama.
Kev. T. C. Boykin, Atlanta, Superintendent of Sun
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BRIEF SUMMARY.
SAIL AND HIS SONS SLAlN—Lesson for Feb. 13
Scripture Lesson, I Sam. xxxi: 1-6.
Golden Text.—The wicked is driven away in
his wickedness.—Prov. xiv: 32.
Time and Occasion. —This lesson
brings us to the final result of Saul’s
disobedience. The kingdom is vio
lently wrested from him and from
his faimly by death. True, one
of his sons, Ishbosheth, being upheld
by Abner, the general of the army, en
joyed a resemblance of royalty, east of
Jordan, for a few year’s ; but the king
dom really reverted to David on the
death of Saul, and, seven and a half
years after Saul’s death, he was anoint
ed king of the entire nation, in a vast
assemblage at Hebron. After the event
of our last lesson be was hunted by
Saul for several years, and, in order to
escape, went in a fit! of dispondency
and subjected himself as a vassal to I
Achish, the Philistine King of Gath.
To himself and his 600 followers and
their families, the town of Ziklag, con
quered from Judah, was assigned as a
residence. Here he resided until sum- I
moned to attend Achish, as vassal, on
an invasion of Israel. From this un
pleasant dilemma David was delivered i
by tbe jealous fears of the Philistine
lords, who thought he might, during
the battle, fight against rather than for
them. Being dismissed by Achish be
returned home to Ziklag, to find it in
ruins, and the wives of himself and his
followers carried off by the Amalikites.
He pursued and destroyed tbe Amali
kites-and recaptured all the booty and
held by tbe maruders.
In the meantime, Saul fearing and
desponding, confronts the Philistine
army on Mt. Gilboa, a little over fify
miles north of Jerusalem. Somehow
the Philistine host has reached the
plain of lezred, north of Gilboa, and,
beyond their encampment, lives a witch
in a cavern at Endor. The night be-
battle Saul goes to consult the
witen, because God gives no answer to
his inquiries, and he knows not what
to A6- expect. This act was indirect
corffravention of the divine command,
and he heaped up the measure of God’s
wrath. Samuel is sent by the Almigh
ty from hades, and reveals to Saul that
he and his sons shall be slain tbe fol
lowing day. He returns to camp be
fore morning, engages in a fierce battle,
D* arm y is defeated with dreadful
slayghter, and he and his three eldest
sAnSV'jj'i; slain. Himself mortally
ivtiunaed by the Philistine archers, he
commands his armor-bearer to end his
me, less being captured before death
he be insulted and maltreated. On the
refusal of the armor-bearer he seizes
the man’s sword and kills himself by
falling on it, and the armor-bearer, too
loyal to kill or survive his king, fol
lowes that king’s bad example, and also
commits suicide with the same sword.
TEACHINGS.
1. The wicked man is driven away
into eternal punishment, in his wicked
ness, and so to remain forever. God
will not strive always, and when punish
ment comes to the wicked it comes like
a whirlwind. (See Job xx : 5 ; Ps. i:
4 ; xxxv :5, 6 ; xxxvii: 35, 38 ; Prov.
xxix : 1.) The wages of sin is death.
It is fearful to die impenitent.
2. Disobedience to God, unrepented
of, is sure to end in death and distrac
tion. Saul’s great sin was disobedi
ence. Let us take warning.
3. Saul was taken possession of by
Satan because forsaken of God; and
he was forsaken of God because wilful
ly and stubbornly disobedient.
BLACKBOARD.
SAUL DIED AND HIS THREE
ONS, AND HIS
ERVANT. AND ALL HIS
OLDIKRS, THAT
AME DAY TOGETHER. ve r. 0.
Yj oldiors T\ isobedienco
SAUL’S SLAIN fefaud
ervaut . X J oth.
How to Raise Missionary Money—How Many
Sellouts will Try it this Year.
The Evergreen Sunday-school, in
Mitchell county, contributes, on an av
erage, S7O a year for Missions. When
you learn that the school is small, hav
ing not exceeding fifty scholars, you
will wish to know how it is done, I
will let Dr. J. B. Twitty, the Superin
tendent, tell you.
1. “On the regular preaching day in
February—the third Sunday—twelve
grains of corn are handed to each
member of the school, with the under
standing that the corn is to be planted
and worked by the party who receives
it.
2. “When the corn is made and
gathered, it is sewed up in a bag with
the name of the owner written upon
it, and the number of pounds also
maiked upon it.
3. “At an appointed day, just before
the meeting of the Association, there
is a large gathering of parents, teach
ers, scholars and friends, to witness the
sale of the corn, which is by auction,
the superintendent being the auctioneer
4. “A prize is offered to the one who
shall produce the most corn and be
most regular in attendance upon the
school during the year.”
Why should not any country school
in Georgia try this plan ? Who will try
it ? Let pastors and superintendents
bring the matter before the schools and
take a vote on it. I should be glad to
hear from all who will make the prop
osition.
If a respectable number of schools
will try the plan I will make two offers:
1. I will give a handsome little libra
ry of books to the school that raises the
most corn.
2. I will give a handsome book to
the scholar who raises the most corn.
Let all think about it, and talk about
it. You have from now to the middle
of March to distribute the corn. It
may be that some other crop would be
desiiable in certain localities. Let each
school decide that question for itself.
T. C. Boykin.
Atlanta, Feb. 3, 1876.
THINGS I WOCLI) LIKE TO KNOW.
How many superintendents in Geor
gia call their schools promptly to order
at the time appointed for opening?
How many superintendents meet
their teachers regularly once a week
for conference and for studying the
lesson ?
How many superintendents require
their secretarys to make a report at the
conclusion of the exercises, of the
number of teachers and scholars pres
eut, and the number absent, and tbe
amount contributed ?
How many teachers spend three
hours during the week in the prepara
tion of the lesson ?
How many teachers visit their schol
ars regularly ?
How many write to the parents of
their scholars occasionally ?
How many pray for their scholars
every day by name?
How many expect their scholars to
be converted this month ?
T. C. B.
[To be Continued.]
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