Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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flesh and without Him was nothing made that was made ) hanging on the accursed tree is a Devilish picture, and yet it is the only possible way ol salvation, God in His law declared for he that is hanged is accursed of God (Deuteronomy 21:23). The curse of the broken law (broken by Himself) could never fall upon Christ, for He never broke the law; but He was accounted accursed of God when He was nailed to the tree and our sins were laid upon Him. It was there on Calvary that He gathered up in Himself all that is contained in the curse of sin—all the suffering, all the labor, all the disappointments, all the travail of soul and body which the curse contains for all people for all time; and there He bore the penalty against it all that it might be ended forever. None but He will ever know the burden, the pain and anguish of that hour. It is ours to know the sweetness of salvation that has come out of it for the Lord hath laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. The Tree of Ruin, was planted in a garden, and so also was the Tree of Redemption, for in the place where He was crucified there was a garden (John 19:41). The Tree was planted by God—not Adam but by Adam ' s God—for the good of man. The second Tree was planted by man—and in that act he revealed his desperately wicked heart. The first Tree was pleas¬ ant to the eyes ' but the second Tree was one of blood and agony, where a howling mob looked upon a hanged Man (God-Man) Whose visage was so marred more than any man and His form more than the sons of men (Isaiah 52:14). The first Tree was forbidden to man; but to the second Tree all men are bidden to come. Of the first Tree God said Thou shalt not eat of if. Of the second Tree God says Come! Taste and see that the Lord is good. When God said of the first Tree Thou shalt not eat of it, Satan rebelliously said Eat! Nov when God says of the second Tree Eat! Satan says Thou shalt not eat of it! Because man believed Satan, the first Tree brought sin and death; but when a man believes God, the second Tree will bring salvation and life, for he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. Through the first Tree man was driven out of Paradise. From the second Tree —and only because of it—a believing sinner heard the glorious words Today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise ' The garden of the first Tree became a howling wilderness because of sin; but the Tree of the second garden will make your barren life one of fruit¬ fulness unto God. Yes, God created trees for man ' s blessing, for man ' s food, for mans shelter; and that second Tree —the cross of Christ—is good for food, a place of shelter, and the source of every blessing that has ever come into the life of man. So, we rightly and joyfully sing: In the cross of Christ I glory, Tow ' dng o ' er the wrecks of time; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime, Z

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good and evil. This means that Adam and Eve were not to experiment with evil to see what it was tike. They were not to gain their knowledge of evil by participation therein, but by the revelation of God, even as the unfallen angels know the difference between good and evil, We do not know what kind of fruit that tree bore, but simply that it was good for food —undoubtedly just as good as that ;of any other tree in the garden. There is no question of the fruit here; the question has to do with the eating—eating in disobedience to God ' s command. They did not eat because of necessity, for they were surrounded by fruit of many trees and herbs of the field—of all of which they might freely eat. They were not like the Lord when He was forty days and forty nights in the wilderness with¬ out food. In the midst of abundance, when there was no unsatisfied hunger and absolutely no necessity for partaking of that particular fruit, they deliber¬ ately disobeyed God—and thus sin came into the world. Man fell from his pristine glory and became the father of fallen beings, for a fallen father cannot beget other than fallen sons. Thus by one man ' s disobedience many were made sinners (Romans 5:19). Thus a tree which God had created for blessing, for shelter, and. for food for man became a diabolical thing, a thing of sin and a curse. Similarly, the Creator (for the Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus was God manifest in the

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W. B. RILEY, M.A. r D.D, Baptist Pastoral Problems Parliamentary Practice Homiletics FACULTY MRS. W. B RILEY, B A. Baptist English Etiquette Ethics and Ideals MRS. MAUDE F. GROOM, B.A., Th.M. Baplist ’‘Greek Bible History and Geography Church History Christian Living Adv, Church History FRANK C BASS Baptist Personal Work Practical Work H. WARREN ALLEN, B.S., Th.B. Presbyterian Homiletics Bible Introduction Archeology DAVID CHRISTIANSEN Baptist Senior Conducting Fundamentals of Music Men ' s Glee Club Choir EVALYN A. CAMP, B,A. Baptist ' Religious Education Missions (Asterisk indicates Seminary subject) CURTIS B. AKENSON Baptist Synopsis Speech JAMES P. DAVIES, B A. Baptist Senior Conducting Choral Club; Harmony Girls ' Glee Club Orchestra; Hymnology HELENE A. RENSCH Baptist Journalism Literature English BURRIES MORFORD, B.A., Th.B. Baptist Christian Evidences I. T. BERGEN, M.A., D.D. Presbyterian Christian Philosophy Christian Psychology