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depravity--a liability to sin--an inabilityto refrain from sin. It brought in a wordnot only physical disease, but also moraldegradation--iniquity--hence, in redeemingus from death, it was at thesame time a redemption from iniquity ofwhich death was the wages or penalty.The price or cost of iniquity was death,and to redeem us from its dominion, Jesus,as our substitute, paid that penalty,that in due time we might be made freefrom it. He made his soul [his being orexistence] an offering for sin, to redeemus from all iniquity.And now in view of the many sidesof this question which this contemporaryadvances, arguing in one column thatthere is no ransom, no price, no substitution,and in the next column of thevery same article that there was a price,a ransom, &c., but a spiritual and divineone, we candidly and seriously adviseit to either abandon its various theoriesof no corresponding price beinggiven in man's redemption, or else discardthe Bible altogether as a text book;for the crudity and inconsistency of theabove statements must be apparent tothe most obtuse, not to mention the effectupon intelligent Bible students.====================R708 : page 3HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?My life flows on in endless song,Above earth's lamentation;I catch the sweet, the glorious hymnThat hails a new creation:Through all the tumult and the strife,I hear the music ringing;It finds an echo in my soul,How can I cease from singing?Though earthly joys and comforts die