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a congregation, we are not here in the interest of 

 a clan; we are here in the interest of the lost and 

 fallen. We come not in our own strength, hut 

 in the power of God. We come and say our God 

 •can do this work. 



I wish to call your attention to the analogy of 

 the Old Testament Jewish worshipper. When 

 the Jew brought his turtle dove, his lamb his 

 bullock, and his goat and placed them upon the 

 altar of sacrifice, what did he expect? The Jew 

 expected that that sacrifice would cleanse and 

 ssive him so far as his sins were concerned. You 

 ask if*he had any foundation for such an expec- 

 tation. Whether he had or not, the fact re- 

 mained that that Jew believed that that sacrifice 

 would save him. Let us refer to the New Testa- 

 ment, in the seventh chapter of Hebrews: — ' 4 For 

 if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes 

 ■of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to 

 the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall 

 the blood of Christ, who through the eternal 

 Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge 

 your conscience from dead works to serve the liv- 

 ing God?" There is an analogy drawn between 

 the Jewish ceremonials and Jesus Christ. There 

 is a comparison between the time of shadows and 

 forms, and the time of reality and power of the 

 Gospel. Now if the blood of lambs, bullocks, 

 and goats would cleanse that Jewish worshipper, 



