Daily globe., 1879-04-06

as it surely will be by adopting liberal
policy, it will be then an overgrown village,
and wherever you will 90 then, you will read,
'Houses to rent, ssStore to let.'' Let the
landlords consider, and be wise.
FAm PLAY.
CHRIST'S COMING.
A Controversy Over Much Mooted
Question.
To the Editor of the Globe.
ANoKA, March 81, 1S79.-With your per-
mission, should like to reply to the article
which appeared in the last issue of the Anoka
entitled "Christ's Second Com
ing" which understand to have been writ
ten by L. Nj. Jordan. This writer, if 1 am
not mistaken, seems to desire to do away
with any such thing as bodily appearance
of our Lord, euer, upon the earth again, at
the last day or any other time, and calls at
tention to the words of Jesus in reply to Pi-
late, found in Luke XVIII ch. 36 ", where he
said, "My kingdom is not of this world;'' to
show, it seems, that his kingdom is never to
be established upon this earth. Let US read
the remaining part of the verse quoted from,
'sthen would my servants fight that I should
not be delivered to tho Jews, but non is nv
kingdom not from hence'' I understand
that he means that his kingdom was not to
be established nt that time by his saying nom.
but if we claim that it is never to be estab-
lished at all because not at that time, what
sense would there be contained in the proph-
ecy spoken of him, foucd in Luke ch. 80
", which reads, ''He shall be great and shall
be called the son of the highest, and the
Lord God shall give unto him the throne
of his father David, (33 w. and he shall
reign over the house of Jacob forever, and
of his kingdom there shall be no end.'' The
throne that David occupied here spoken of
was located at Jerusalem. and David sat
bodily thereon, and in order that this proph-
ecy shall be literally fulfilled, I cannot con-
celve of any way to do so, but by having a
bodily Christ, who shall occupy the same
position as David did in the same place.
Now am not one who desires to be known
as tSnae setter for Christ's kingdom to be
established on the earth, for read in Matt
XIV ch. 81 ", ''of that day and hour know
eth no man, no, not even the angels of heav-
en-, but my Father only.'' Now because
Christ said his kingdom was not of this
earth Then at that time we cannot conclude
that it never would be of this earth, for Da-
vid never occupied throne in sky king
dom, nor anywhere except at Jerusalem, and
Peter tells us in acts II ch., "a w.,
for David is not assembled into the heavens,
so we can only understand this throne
spoken of to be located on the earth.
Again.we cannot infer that because the saints
are caught up together with those who are
alive and worthy of being translated, to meet
the Lord in the air, Thess. II ch., z ver.,
that they are always thereafter to remain in
that position or place; on the contrary, in
Dan., VII ch. and II ver., we read, 'sAnd the
kingdom and dominion and the greatness of
the kingdom under the whole heaven shall
be given to the people of the saints of the
Most High, whose kingdom is an everlast-
ing kingdom, and all kingdoms shall serve
and obey Him." This claim means on the
earth which is under the whole heaven, and
no where else beside, and also claim that
for Christ to occupy the throne of his
father, David, he must have body to do So.
Again, admitting as Christ said, in Matt.
XIV ch., "a ver., "For there shall arise false
Christs and false phrophets, and shall shew
great signs and wonders, insomuch that If
1t Dere possible they shall deceive
the % very elect" Now because that
false Christs shall arise we cannot infer that
the true Christ shall never come, neither
that because false prophets shall arise can
we infer that no true prophet shall ever
come, for Christ said in Matt, XVII ch., II
ver., "Elias shall truly first come and restore
all things,' and this means, as understand
it, before his kingdom is established or the
second advent is realized, and this restitu-
ton of all things, also spoken of by st.
Peter in Acts, III ch., 21 ver., which reads,
"Whom the heaven must receive until the
times of restitution of all things which God
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy
prophets since the world began.'' This re-
fers to Christ and that he is to come after
the restitution of all things takes place, and
if we say it is not that personal Jesus that
the apostles saw go bodily away, what sort OF
Christ is it to be then, ask? Perhaps
this writer would say an ethereal
or spiritual Christ. But remembe,
that Christ had tangible body
that cal honey and broiled fish before them
and said, Luke xxx1v: 39th YER, "Behold
my hands and my feet, that it is I, myself
handle me and see, for spirit hath not
flesh and bones as ye see me have.'' Now
I cannot see how this writer can show that
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back; but on tn contrary, all his teachings
are to that effe 1t, and this will be fully con
summated at I day called the Day of Judg
ment, or last Iay, and I understand that
true prophet, called by him Elias or Elijah
is to be the forerunner of his second advent
the same as John the Baptist was a tru,
prophet and the forerunner of his first ad
vent, because Christ said so in Matt. XXI
18th ver., quoted from. Now, in the case O
Job that the writer speaks Of, who said h.
should see him, there is an error in tn,
translation in our common version of tn.
bible, the Talmud or Hebrew scriptures CAV,
it thus, Job XIX: oath and 26th verses: "Fo
| I know that my Redeemer lives
and that he shall stand at tn,
latter day upon the earth, and though afte
my skin worms destroy this body, yet out o
my flesh shall see God.'' This under
stand means with his spirit eyes in the spir
itual body that is resurrected, and not will
his natural eyes; and st. Paul tells us il
I. Corinthians, 1v ch., 44th ver.: ''It is sow
q natural body, it is raised spiritual body
and this body will be tangible literal one
for that was what Christ proved to his apos
ties in Luke, XIV ch. and 39th yer. thinl
have proved that Christ will come bodil!
again, but as to his appearance and dress
have nothing to say. Moses was only allowe'
to see his back parts, but his face he neve
saw with the natural eye. Read Exodus
XIII. en-, 22-23d verses, "And when hi
kingdom is fully established He will dwel
amongst His people, and therefore mus
have body to do 80. think have prove
that Christ will appear bodily.
Yours respectfully,
II. A. HARRINGTON.
What Does It Mean?
/ To the Editor of the Globe: