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freighted with unmerited blessings for man. His administration is gracious. When, then, Christ- ianity comes and testifies, " By grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,'' does it prove Christianity unworthy of God? But more: A system of grace most powerfully appeals to the human heart, and most surely awakens and stimulates right affections toward God. How often has the culprit, hardened by punishment, been reformed by grace? Salvation by grace secures holiness as no other scheme can. God pardons that he may deliver and sanctify. Again, many object to salvation by blood. They do not like the scarlet thread running through Christ- ianity. They find symbols of blood in the law; songs of blood in the psalms; predictions of blood in the prophets; the story of blood in the gospels; the philosophy of blood in the epistles; and the tri- umph of blood in the apocalypse. It offends them. They sneer at it as a bloody religion. They turn 134 A Busy Life. from it in disgust. But why? The blood of Christ is the symbol of his obedience unto death. His death was not for himself. Upon him with the con- sent of the Father, and with his own consent, were laid the iniquities of us all. " He bare our sins in