A Goodly Heritage

It is still true that many pass by the cross. To some it might be said , the cross is not your station ; it is only that which , being lifted up in public proclamation , you just glance at it and pass by . On Sunday you pass by it on the way to Monday. Your magnet is where business is done , not where Christ is exalted . You say that you "have no time for abstractions "that you are " men of common sense ,"that you must "attend the main chance ", that "you must live. "" I am not so sure of that "said Luther , when this last sentence was spoken to him , "but I am sure that you must die. " You poor man , at this moment making even Christ give way to some consideration that you regard as more pressing , Christ is at this moment saying to you , is My sorrow for you "nothing to you"?Is pardon nothing to you ? Is strength , is peace , is heaven , is eternity nothing to you? Scoffer , is Christ nothing to you? Backslider , n...

The word used by the Saviour on the cross , is the word that is applied to the scapegoat being sent away(Leviticus16 :10 .Septuagint ) On Calvary the very Sin - Offering Himself prayed for sinners , and prayed that their sin might be forth- given , as the scapegoat was forth - given ; and the first sinners who were thus prayed for were His own crucifiers . Let a great prince die for his friends , and we could never say enough about it ; soon the sacrifice would glow on the canvas , gleam in the white moonlight of the marble, and live on the page of history ; but here is the Son of God , the sinless lover of souls dying for His enemies ; and while He is dying for them  He is praying for them . Love on the cross ,through the cross , had a new right ; and this is its first exercise . Jesus begins to use His own cross by saving those who had nailed Him to it . Let no one despair after this !