welcome those who ridicule it as a myth. He would have said, "It is immaterial whether you put money first, or God first." But that was not Christ's way of dealing with vital things; He never varied a hair's-breadth from the rule which He had laid down, and His rule required that God should have the first place in the life" Thou shalt have no other gods before me." So the young man, lovable as he was otherwise, because he put his money first, -for he had great possessions-retired to obscurity and is not mentioned again. So, today, the Christians who accept the Bible as true believe in a God with whom all things are possible and in a Christ who is one of the Trinity cannot lower the standard to accommodate those who put reverence for the guesses of scientists above reverence for the Word of the Living God. P IV THE BLOOD ATONEMENT OSSIBLY no doctrine of the Christian Church is more hotly contested to-day than that which is known as "blood atonement," and yet no doctrine is more clearly stated in the Bible. Before taking up the attacks upon it, and a defense of it, let us see what the Bible itself says. When man fell through sin, God planned his redemption by the blood of the Messiah, and his restoration to favour through the forgiveness of sin. The fall is plainly declared and the promise of redemption is fully set forth: The soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezek. 18: 4). The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. 6:23). Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Rom. 5:12). What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is |