MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL., JUNE 19, 1907
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL., JUNE 19, 1907
By Editor
We send no papers from this office to individuals without pay in advance. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon to pay for them. Please read the papers you may receive, and hand them to your friends to read. Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. When the Common ("King James" or "Authorized") Version, or the American Standard Revised Version is used, quotations will not be designated in reference. Any Bible quotation in this paper, therefore, differing from the Common Version, unless otherwise indicated, will be almost invariably from the American Standard edition of the Revised Bible, copyright 1901, by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Before the crown of glory stands the cross of suffering. The endurance of Calvary was wrought out in the victory of Gethsemane. There was no virtue in the blood of Abel's lamb more than in Cain's fruit; but it showed faith in the Lamb of God to come. Cain by his perversion of God's plan showed himself unworthy of God's blessing. There is but one Sacrifice, one High Priest, one Mediator between God and man—the Man Christ Jesus. The sacrifice of the "mass" has therefore no basis in Scripture. Jesus Christ made the sacrifice "once for all" when He offered Himself. Heb. 7:27, A.R.V. The Sanctuary of old with its multitudinous services was designed to be a constant object-lesson to Israel to teach them the way of God. It not alone revealed to them God's holiness and abhorrence of sin, but it showed God's willingness and power to remove the sin. It ever pointed forward to the Perfect Offering to come. In our cover illustration, at the foot of the page, are three scenes illustrating the subject of this paper. On the left is the early altar with a smoking sacrifice of the lamb. In the middle is a fine view of Sinai, the people camped before it and the ancient tabernacle pitched in the center of the camp. This included many more types, and great elaboration of the more ancient sacrifices. At the right of the picture is the cross of Calvary, on which was slain the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, and to whom all the sacrifices pointed. At the foot of the cross wells up the fountain of life where the sinner may wash and be clean.