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of either to obey the laws ot God tthder tlie ol<l covenant the relalioii witli tilt painful truth that but a
Original Contributions.
or man. The Jews contended that began by a birth of the flesh, but small minority have gone from the
“Ye Are Not Under Law, But justification and righteoilsness-came under the newtlje new birth is re- school into the sacred preeihets of
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I uh tT 1thLLuh.l thc.knowl.-hhe church. We recognize one
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rd was taught to tiling lacking—the conversion of
and that they could merit and hence edge of till! L(»rd
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demand of God salvation because of them after the jpjption began, 1»tit the children. That this is the end
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SUMBEB XI.
their obedience to that law. 'flic under the new “ he that cometh to proposed in Sunxltfj-school work,
Spirit, in these passages, and many God must believe that lie is.” needs not, I think, a single argu­
The next quotation is no better.
others also, contradicts this, and Under the old the greatest or older ment in attestation. Should there
To sav as Paul does in Heb. 10*: 1:
teaches us that we owe all our ones knew the Lord while the least lie a Superintendent here, or a
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essings to the grace, or favor or "ni'*ymmgrT"nTrcs 'dirb
the good things to come not the
God ; .that the only meyit is the to be taught to know him by their is to build up a fashionable school,
very image of the things, can never
meiat-of Christ ; that the procuring fallow citizens, while under the^ a school large in numbers and
with the same sacrifices, year by
cause of justification and pardon is new the least or youngest citizen small lit Gospel facts, great as
year, which they otter continually,
the--blutai of Christ, not tlutt i>f the must know the Lord.' The new, as singers or performers, aild tfiiciil
make perfect TKein
draw
sacrifices under the law; that we the old, is written on paper, As it tured iii Hie lessons of di viiit? "truth,’"“'
nigh,” is a very different thing from
are righteous in the sight of God,, must be first, in order that it may perfect in their dress, maqners and
tjie proposition which Bro. AdaiAs
not because of our obedience to his be written on or in the mind and deportment, and wholly deficient
quotes a part of it to prove, that is,
law, but because we are clothed up heart. If a man, yes, even a godly in the knowledge of Him who gave,
that God’s work with the Jewish
with the righteousness of Christ; man, finds anything in his mind or himself a ransom for us, I will say
nation was “ a miserable failure ” (?)
and our imperfections completely heart in addition to the law of in the outset, that my remarks are
Evidently Paul in this entire con­
hidden by his all glorious perfec­ Clirist, as written in the New Tes­ not for such Sunday school work­
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text, is contrasting the priesthood
tion, and that men coming to God tament, (not to speak of things ers. If, on the other hand, there
of Christ with the priesthood under
through Christ, and as.godly men which are in antithesis or contrary is one teacher present who is in
the law; the sacrifice of. Christ
or Christians yielding a dutiful and to it), it was put there not by Got! earnest, about his works who really
witli-the sacrifices under . the law ;
but by Satan, and Paul never said desires not only to know the.wav
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the blood of Christ with the blootT
law of Christ, which hq ordained or intimated that he might follow of truth and righteousness himself,
of those Sacrifices, ami showing the
and gave through inspired men, it without sin. And yet another is but X willing, yea anxious, to
superiority of the work that Christ
teach this knowledge to his class—
(who wrote it on paper that it to follow.
has done for his people over that
(jentervillo, Or., Sept. 19, 1882.
I hope that something may be said
might be written in men’s hearts,)
which the Levitical priesthood could
would be saved not alone because
The Sunday-School Teacher— to aid such £ii one in the great
do for those who were under the
of their obedience to that law, but
His Responsibility and His work in which he is engaged.
law. To quote his language then
The teacher is the most impoi>
tiecause of the infinitujiiercy ami
Preparation.
and apply it as a measure of tlie
tant
factor in the Sunday school,
love of God to them- manifested
power, or virtue of any kind of
BY JI j SHADED, MODESTO.
because to him is consigned the
through Christ
These glorious
law, is clearly to misapply it, ami
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and sublime, soul satisfying and H rather Moderator and Felluvj- specialities of the work. The Su­
make him teach what he never
perintendent may have a greater t
soul inspiring truths, arc so far re­ Workere in lice Sunday-School:
thought of teaching. The next
work with regard to the general
moved from the weak and beggar­
It-seems that the subject assign­
marked as a quotation “ righteous­
ly proposition of Bro. Adams as to ed me luts assumed special impor­ outlines of the school, but upon the
ness could not come by law,” 1 fail
justify me in saying that there is tance in this Convention, and, in­ teacher rests the direct responsibili­
to find anywhere in the word of
an infinite distance between them. deed, it must be admitted that the ty and imperative duty of impart­
God. But if it was there it would
The next quotation to which I teacher's work 'in the Sunday ing such instruction as will lead
not prove that God tried for 15(H)
will call attention is the one from school is of the utmost importance, the child out toward truth and up
years, and then called his effort “a
Heb. 9 : 1(1, or 10: Ki: “I will put ami demands our most prayerful toward God. The responsibility of
miserable failure.” Neither would
the teacher liecoiucs apparent as
my laws into their mind and ou ami careful consideration.
it prove that there is no power or
their heart also will I write them.”
For more than one hundred soon as we admit the proposition—
virtue in law. In contrast to what
If I understand the use made of years Hie "Sunday-school has been the work of the Sum lay-school is
Bro. Adams has tried to make the
this quotation, it is this, that the in existence. These years have for the conversion of those in at­
Scriptures say aliout the law ;
law <>f God " written on paper,” xis been sufficient to attest its merits, tendance. If this I»e true, its-aim-
(but as we have seen has entirely
in the Bible is one thing, a/l that ami to-day it comes from the cm pic announcement lvnmvcs any and
failed). 1 present the Spirit’s
he puts another law in our mind cibleof trial, a grand reality, a gem all objections to the Sunday-school.
estimate, found in Rom. 7: 12-
and heart which is in “eternal of noble worth, an ornament to That we yet occasionally meet a
So that the law is holy, and the
antithesis ” to it, “ as much unlike ” Christian lalwir, and the means of father or mother in Israel who
commandment holy and righteous
It “ asTight aIY*t~rtarknrx'< or “good bringing many to the liberty of the
and CT "ood.” I notice next “ a few
ami evil.” 1 confess that such glorious gospel. If the experience the Sunday-school work, is too
quotations ” arrayed to prove that
statepients are, to me, most shock­ of Sunday-school lxiys ami girls .true; but here the broadest charity •
“ the distinguishing feature of
ing, and T can but think that Bro. could 1>e poured into our cifrs, by must be allowed, and we who so "■
Christianity ” is “ that Godly men
Adams wrote them unthinkingly, some wonderful telephonic system, freely and willingly sanction this
are not under statutory or com-
and that he really meant some­ from all over our land ; from the work should stand abashed in the
nianded law.” in not one of these
thing else, though I can make no northland and the
southland; from presence of those to Whom we are
passages was this proposition lie-
less out of what h.e has written the fatherland and the land of hu- showing this beautiful tree, with
fore the mind of the Spirit. In
To use this Scripture in the way inanity’s infancy, wliat a grand its shapely trunk and lovely leaves
most of them, (apd I will specially
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he has used it, is as far from the chorus of praise would we bear
to to hear them ask Us for the fruit of
note tlîc exceptions when I reach
way in which tin* Spirit lAes it as the Father of mercies for such a our years, it may be of toil. The
that point), the question before the
error from truth. The contrast in lxencvolent, such an educating, such Roliert Raikcs movement, a hun­
mind of the Spirit was, How .can
the mind of the Spirit is between
sinful man be justified before God ? the ol<l covenant and the new ; the a guiding and saving institution as dred years ago, was simply the seed
plant from which has grown this gi­
not how much or how little good law of Moses ami the law of Christ; the Sunday-school.
gantic tree. His conception has
But in all these years of Sunday- long since been outgrown. We’ad- _
can the law do, either godly or un­ and especially the conditions of
godly men, nor yet the obligation covenant relation under them. school work, we are confronted mit that the Sunday-school would r
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