Show JESUS CHRIST P PpE EMINENT E-EMINENT Sermon h by He l D. D A. A 1 nt ft 1 First Church At the thc First Baptist t church yesterday yesterday yester ester esterday First day morning Rev Hc D 1 D. D A. A lS Brown took as ns his hits subject The Fhe Pre eminence of Jesus Jestis Christ The sermon centered esus the epistle to lo to the Hebrews I Its character upon and purpose It I was Pauls Paul's Pauls desire Mr 11 Brown said sall to Instruct the Jews as to the tiie tie divinity dl of Christs Christ's mission missIon mis mis- sion an and to convince con them that the they were vere wrong In their conception of what the he Messiah would be at Ills His Ils coming Paul laul wished to lo show to the Jewish people people peo peo- in Iii rejecting Christ and plc their error eror all to lo give as lS mal many of them as po possible a knowledge e of oC the true so gospel as US he IC understood l t t. t Mr lr Brown Drown pictured Christ as the embodiment em em- of ot all 1 good good u. u He was superior Ir lor n O to lo the lie angels show hoW that the tue angels were instructed to worship Christ He lIe was equal with God at the foundation o of the world His Ills atonement atone atone- but notwithstanding this ibis atole- atole ment has lias made it possible for man to I call Him Brother rother His mighty love lo cal for mankind has hns opened the lie wa way whereby whereby where where- b we may nIl all attain perfection If we by nl choose to follow the thc plan He lie 10 has marked for us Paul tried to show the In Iii his epistle Hebrews that lint Christ was the very foundation foundation foun foun- dation of their own religion ion that He lie was daton the Messiah for whose coming coining thc they hail hall long waited The ancient prophets had bad IanI prophesied that lint He lIe le come to earth and und establish His work among lurth men Lund and the tho Jews ever since the days laYt of or Abraham 4 Isaac and Jacob had hud been leen hint Him for watching with anxious eyes wih In iii the lint Hut because He lie Il hud hod not come Him the tho be people wa way they had expected of the Jewish nation would not nol accept Him |