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SUMAC°, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19,
1878.
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nom each all people, the Messiah date some one of them from that *heal 'rit; of Omgame in C world." the rule should country appears either as promised, or expected, them that dlielares v in end saw Daniel that and all or announced, or pictured, and that with came, e poor ml of time. such vividness and with such startling happened in the order in which he EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE of mission wi charged are men people ; His to death fidelity of detail as to present a most it. Christ is put of world, 410 DWYER= BY Ma GRACE TEl revolutionisill ; people His accurate and striking representation of deny Him, and cease to he the Interfor heart and abolished ; an revclutio are sacrifices ancient the concrete. the in really happened what SYDNEY. ARCHBISHOP OF polity, mid chatting The succession of empires until His universal alliance is made ; Israel is soul of esapiregOkials, oeuld emapi IR THE coming ; the state of' the Jewish people dispersed throughout the world ; and or spit* assiguire* the end KingPRINCESS THEATRE, SANDHURST. and of their failing condition at the the latter empire-the Spiritual empire wh eh should teach an on ISItmblo fuunded Christ-is of dom ; the had to appear He epoch when distinct mid irpthoritsand Ibis WI no power is which able$0 rock, which bask to chain of marvellous occurrences down the tivn;priAll, Let us calmly look upon the great had to precede, accompany, and follow pieces. , gietkilerpetuate a ' lb; moral reasonable as you, revolution that was effected in the con- that coming ; the place of the Messiah's let ask rue Now, :AN those that went dition of mankind by the coming of the birth ; the character of His works and beings, is it possible that all these sacrifice elf shadows and the the but were before have We by earth. the upon God occurred Son of of 11,e life ; the details of His passion, strange coincidences this worldfar more arguments for His Divinity His &nth, and of Hie triumph ; the chattels ? Is there any other reasonable types. When we compare moat than those had who were merely nature, the aim, the fruit of His coming, way for accounting for a fulfilled embracing view with those of the how they witnesses of His life, and were living that is to say, the union of the divine prophecy-fulfilled to the letter, as this ambitious philosophers of old, We and human nature in the personality of one is, and iu so many minute and dwarf and sink into insignificance ; so dose upon Ilia resurrection. possess the testimony of 11030 years and the Word ; the redemption of the world startling details-than by saying that Plato, and Socrates, and Pythagorasn,pchlielovseo.r, more, which the pages of history 'gives, by a great victim ; the waiting for the the hand of God must be in it ? The we see at once that they are with a clear and derisive voice, regard- expectation of the nations which alone future and the past are in no man's cultivated, a ing the effects of His teaching and the can explain the sacrificial basis of the 'muds. lie alone who inhabits eternity phers, yes influence of His power. But let us religion of every nation in the world ; can thus prepare and picture a plan of temptation Int la gin from the beginning. We have and the establishment of a universal and divine action and passion, of universal taut when little to fear from Teutonic science in militant Church which should conduct redemption and enlightenment, and then His phil the vast argument we possess for the to the Church triumphant-all these early out into action every event which for the feel o His divine mission of Jesus Christ. things are clearly spoken of, and with He foretold. Had Chrises been an religion and philosophy have survived such exactness, by the prophets, that ordinary life, and had He undertaken amidst every phase of error and every strange no man who can compare two and two an ordinary work, someonetnight bore and o ed in philosophy ; and His bold upon the together can fail to see how exactly the imagined it, or He Might tore; masses of mankind has surpassed any- die fits on the figure on the wax. With- accordance with a cone thing ever dreamt of by the imagina- out Christ., who is the key to the but a life of which every steptlikAivine) !birth lie I tion of any simple man. religious history of' the world, the Old every action a miracle, and everp.esent tho earth, wittiest steirai There are four great corner-stones to Testament would be unintelligible. He unforseen, no man could preconceive His uni!ersateimpink the great temple of our belief, each the son of the woman who was to and draw ; nor could, if he had drawn pvidwo establish being a support and strength to the crush the serpent's head ; He is the it, imitate it. To do what Christ did in *O. initial of 01 tholegrained tredi other ; and each and ull forming so true victim prefigured by sacrificer from requires the power of God ; and to dont smog all argument for the divine mis- the ht-g;iiii;og, die true A.64.,1, the type imusin. what Christ did do before He and temples. sion of our Saviour that, if fairly of the innocent one immolated on the did it, requires a special inspiration. serving them ; In tbelekist of ?rapped by the mind, they become altar of sacrifice for the salvation of the COMPARISON. pliers, and statesmen, aid ANOTHER, TO NOW TURN to going itresistilile. I am not here guilty ; lie is the true Isaac carrying kings, they fear not ; a thole* enter into the intricate and endless die wood of His own sacrifice, anal Let us compare the remaining two of and is within them ; they feel that power q, @slims. of Bible criticism, in which offered by His Father, and receiving these four corner -stones and thus add strength is not to do the work ; human many minds find an especial interest. life that lie might be the joy and glory cumulation of proof to the divinity of the sheep were sent amongst I are going to address myself to a wider if all the nations ; lie is the true our Redeemer. Open the New Testa- though the sheep conquered ; those who argument than any founded on such Joseph sold by His brethren and becom- ment, peruse its pages, study the wolves, to suffer persecution were proceases as these. The whole world ing the Saviour of those who had be- principles taught there by the Redeemer, were ready be the victims ; the meek were to to in two books are there that knows trayed Him ; He is the victim of weigh His promisee, meditate on and the land, and the fishermen was existence, one called the Old Testament, expiation which carries the sins of the grasp His claims, and the attributes of possess over a more mighty empire reign to Testament. New the other called the people and of the world ; the high divinity that He is ever identifying with than that governed by the greatest of the of All admit that the latest portion priest according to the order of Mel- Himself, compare them with their Closers. former was written several centuries chisedec, for He alone uffers Himself realisation in the Church, and you will the earlier than the earliest portion of the for ever to His Father a victim of love find another coincidence equally startAND TEE MASTER KNEW second. Now, take the Old Testament under the appearance of bread and ling with that which has already been that the Son of God alone could bring as it stands, awl then take the life of wine. In a word, in Him, aed in Him dwelt upon. stupendous a miracle as this. Christ as it is given us by the alone, is realised that striking contrast To leave on one side for the moment about so evangelists, and compare one with the of glory and humiliation, of strength His personal claims to divinity, simply He alone could convince man of sin and other-compare the prophecy with its and weakness, of joy and suffering, study His system, and the means He teach him how to rise towards the He gave Hit fulfilment, and you will be forced to which Isaias and the prophet saw in made use of to establish a world-wide heavenly country. admit that the figure is far too life-like visions, and which refer to the divinity empire, not merely over the actions of envoys the power of His own spirit for to have been fashioned by chance or to of our Lord giving to His passion an men, but over that which is not jealr usly the forgiveness of sin. After communihave been drawn by accident. Com- infinite merit. And not only this, but guarded by diem from all aggression, cating to them the Divine power to pare the life and actions of Him who is the very time of His coming is foretold. over their consciences, and you will at teach, He then communicated to them refigured, and you cannot get your Jacob himself, the father of the twelve. once feel yourselves to be in the midst the power to forgive the penitent sinner. reason to allow that He, as a mere man, tribes of Israel, dying, prophecies that of methods and principles which are Next, He threw a flood of light upon could have had the talent, or the power, the power should not go from Judah beyond the power of this world. We the million of sacrifices which had been to have fulfilled in so extraordinary a until He was to come who bad to be have seen how the priests of old offered since _the world began. He manner the prophecies which had been sent, and who wos to be the expecta- dwindled down into mere slayers of Himself became the priest and the He offered Himself a propitiamade of the coming Saviou: of the tion of the nations. sheep and oxen ; how the most refined victim ; the sins of the world on the for world. As well might you try to tion not did philosophers -thinking and deep STRANGER Tux Cross, and fulfilled, in the the of Altar imagine that the figure impressed upon influence any exerting of even dream the Sacrament of the of the wax and that cut into the die were, institution rich the few, chosen in Judea was except upon the prophecy which says, the Supper, by some accidental coincidence, counter- or foreigner who reigned Last the on Here, his reign and idle of the world. of the sun rising the from parts of each other, and repeated curve Herod, the Idumean, and in that poor a of counts the contrary, was a man, the son oblation would clean a setting the for curve and line for lino through some our Lord appeared. Daniel to at reconstruc- man, who not only calmly aims unaccountable and strange coincidence. years since the edict for the be offered to the Father throughout the internal the over domination universal these ; The only people which bad preserved tion of Jerusalem till Christ world. lie declared Himself to be the actsoupli- life of man, but sets on foot a scheme so living bread that came down from the primitive revelation in its purity had years were ziow about to be succeed, to likely little so extraordinary, with rumours been entrusted with the keeping of this shed ; Judea was filled heaven ; and that the bread which lie would men succeeded, not had it if that prophetic book. In it were contained and sayings about the coming of the have most certainly declared that His could give would be His flesh for tike the world. He solemnly dwlar4 their polity and the annals of their Saviour and the world beyond seemed strong were the ravings of a madman. He did life of people. In it they preserved for us to be infected with. the Jame most solemn oeeasion, that Els the on to assist philosopher tee. Ichoose the thee. great types of Him who was to presentiment. Cicero, Utica* and 'Mid in founding His kingdom, but flesh was meat indeed and His bloo4 come, and those startling pictures of Virgil, the prince of orators, tbe prinon twelve poor men like Himself. One was drink indeed ; and established thit unit Nis life and character, of His redemp- of historians, and the prince of peels,' sattilice of His body and 'blood note.. asmith, and made ploughs and cattle - bloody form ofbread and yritte, which tion and passion, of His glorious all echoed the same expectant the East was yokes, four Were Mermen, On a under to be cared ,throinghddt the spiritual empire, which speak to us at Suetonius says,µ The whole were These gardener. a another coachman, belief, until the end of 'Gni.. This cos this hour with the. clearuess- of vision rife with an old and persistent -issued men He deliberately chose. He told world, itself of the expectation of all the people that at that time persona_ who asteridee was to slay and avenge all ouch gave diem He God. was He them .the.eMpive." ; the priests -of the 03 pig* of the world. Open, that' book of books from Judea sbou4d against orders 'as Godl alone- would or could others to flit away, like' hosts diod at any page you like and you will open Josephue says the re):17:ttet)d t Were tune 'which powers pmmised.thed ;He give that fete'. thefights the things it with a picture of Christ or Christ's the Ecenans with no' meilytetrage, uncl.4u ,could madness, betraying none, without and to 1f 4 tO be work before you. In the psalms, the because " an ambiguous 'etaele, found were temples 'tells He creature. ofir to a rational prophecies, in every part of the history in their sacred writings, this 'at that
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