Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1912 — BLOOD ATONEMENT WAS NECESSARY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BLOOD ATONEMENT WAS NECESSARY.

Falllire to Understand This Leads Many to Unbelief. Need of the Hour In Pulpit and Pew le a Correct Appreciation of the Value of Blood Atonement For Sin, Declared‘Pastor Russell at Lynn.

Lynn, Mass., Oct 13.—One of Pastor Russell’s discourses I here today was from the text, "Without the shedding of blood there Is no remission of sins.’’ (Hebrews lx. 22.) He said in part:— 1' Th e Scriptures 1 declare that the life ]is in the blood iLeviticus xvll, 11);

hence the shedding of blood represents death; aud death may be spoken of as the shedding of blood, regardless of whether or not a single drop of blood be spilled literally. Thus the presentation of the blood of the sacrifices of old represented the offering to God of their lives as, typically, an offset to the for felted life of Adam and his children, who lost life through his disobedience. Israel's Atonement Sacrifices. Each year, at approximately this season, the Jews celebrate their Atonement Day. by which their sins are thought to be covered afresh for the year begun. The underlying thought is a reminder that they are sinners, and that without the shedding of blood, without a sacrificial death, there can be no Divine forgiveness of sins. For more than sixteen centuries Israel observed these typical Atonement Day services, up to the time that Jesus came. Since then the Jews can have no Atonement Day. really, because their priestly line Is lost, and they have no Holy and Most Holy in which to make the Atonement apd no Sheklnah Mercy-Seat on which the blood of Atonement may be placed, and from which Divine blessing and forgiveness should proceed. In their typical procedure the Day of Atonement included all the Atonement tork of the priest on the tenth day of e seventh month. His Atonement sacrifice consisted of two parts—first a bullock, which he slew, and afterward a goat, which he treated tnlike manner. He took the blood of the bullock into the Most Holy and applied it not bn behalf of Israel, but simply on be half of the priestly tribe of Levi. After accomplishing tills he came out and slew the secondary part of his offering, the Lord’s goat, which typified those consecrated to be his under-priesthood. After treating the goat precisely as the bullock had been treated, its blood was taken into the Most Holy and there was sprinkled on the« Mercy Seat not on behalf of the tribe of Levi, but on behalf of all the other tribes—on behalf of “all the people," representative of all humanity—thus showing that eventually they will be brought into harmony with God. “The Better Sacrifices”—-Antitypioal. In the type the bullock represented Jesus, consecrated to dying and dead; and the high priest represented The Christ, spirit-begotten. Jesus, as the appointed antitypical Priest after thp order of Melchisedec, offered up Himself—His human body—'when He reached manhood's estatethirty years. Gradually He fulfilled His baptism unto death, for three and a half years, completing it at Calvary. During His' earthly ministry, as a Priest He was in the Holy, having fellowship with the Father. At Calvary, as Priest, He passed under the second veil, and in His resurrection arose on the other side of the veil, in the Most Holy—in the perfect spirit condition.

Our Lord remained for forty days to manifest Himself to His disciples, after which He ascended on high and .presented the merit of His sacrifice {(Hebrews lx. 24) on behalf of the Church, just as Aaron presented the blood of the bullock on, behalf of his household, the tribe of Levi The Divine acceptance of this merit on be half of the Church was manifested by the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost And this represents God’s acceptance, not oply of the faithful who were there, but all of the same class from then to the end of this Age. ’Members of Jesus Still Dying. The Scriptures set forth that the faithful few of .Teens’ followers who will constitute the Royal Priesthood by and by have been represented as the antitypical Lard's Goat of the Atonement Day,.-which is caused to pass through the same experiences exactly as the antitypical Bullock, our •Lord. (Heb. xlli. 11-13.1 "If we suffer With Him we shall reign with Him.” i The exalted High Priest, since Pentecost, has been slaying His secondary ’sacrifice—His consecrated followers—-permit-ring them to thus represent Him in the flesh. While they suffer, the Bufferings of Jesus are not completedas He Himself said to Saul of Tarsus. "Saul, Saul, why persecutes! thou Me?” “I am Jesus whom thou persecuted ’ Not until the foreordained number o’ these “better sacrifices” shall havbeen completed In glory will the fr.i giveness of the world’s sins be acre pllsbed. At that time the antltypir Priest will make the secondary apt cation of His blood on behalf et the people.” .