METHODIST MISSION.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2742, 7 September 1923, Page 5

METHODIST MISSION.

"TILE FACT OP REDEMPTION." A large congregation assembled at St Paul's Methodist Church last night when the Rev. Harold T. Peat discoursed upon "The Fact of Redemption." In speaking to bis subject Mr Peat referred to redemption a:3 the glorious consummation of the work of Jesus Christ. The fact of redemption actualised on Calvary, looked back to Fdcn and onward to heaven. The necessity for redemption was realised. in Eden. The joys of redemption are fully consummated in glory. Sin marked transgression of God's moral jaw, the law that marked the Divine nature. Men could not conceive of the mora.l law being different from what it is. As Governor of the moral universe God presented certain laws to men. Obey and you shall live, disobey and you shall die. The Bible revealed two men—Adam and Christ. Christ assumed man's nature. twofold nature made His fulfilment of the law imputable. He was man and He was God. Had Christ been merely ma.n all His righteousness would have been necessary for His own justification. A man could be no real substitute, for men. Only the Divine Son of God could atone for human sin. Having no sin in Himself His sacrifice created a moral value for man, extra and to spare. On the basis of substitution God declared he would pardon and accept all who trust his Son; thus the moral law of God was satisfied. The fruits of redemption were pardon, adoption and justification. The redemption Christ had wrought for men was freely offered and the preacher concluded with an impressive plea for acceptance of the benefits made accessible through the glorious fact of redemption. Miss N. Killick gave a very sympathetic rendering of the solo, "Come Sinner Come," Miss Maisie Bennett presided at the organ and the Rev, M. A. Rugby Pratt assisted in the service. To-night (Friday) the subject, "The Fact of Conversion" will be dealt with by the Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt.