Our Sacrifice and Priest

IN each era of the Church of God, some particular truth of the Scriptures has been specially the object of the Enemy's attack. In our own day and land, the glory of Christ as Sacrifice and Priest is assailed, and very many, who call themselves Protestants, are gradually returning to those principles of religion, which deny the Scripture teaching respecting both the sacrifice and priesthood of the Lord. In the presence of this evil, how thankful should be the devout believer in the absolute authority of the Bible, for the Epistle to the Hebrews For therein, in the plainest manner, is to be found the antidote to the poison which so many now regard as life-giving food.
In the olden days, when the Jews still had the Temple, with its ceremony and ritual, God the Spirit gave to the Church the Epistle to the Hebrews. Therein He first of all sets forth the excellent glories of the Son of God, so that the Church should revere and extol Him, and regard in the light of the glory of His Person, ceremony and ritual, sacrifices and priests. In this spirit we purpose devoting part of our pages this year to the glories and honors of our Lord, and we can do no better than by spending the present occasion over the first chapters of the Epistle we have named.