News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-11-12
lished it remained the Kingdom of t

| liShed it renamed the Kingdom of the
stone, and it's aggressive character is
strikingly marked by the blows by which
the image was struck until the image
was dissipated and ground to powder,
until in process of time the progressive
character of the stone Kingdom appears
in it's growth into mountain and filled
the whole earth. When the Kingdom of
Christ shall be established under the
whole Heaven then shall Christ have
universal sway, and the prayer of our
Lord shall be answered, ''Thy Kingdom
Come"
That enemies subtle and powerful have
INSTRUCTED the onward march of the all
conquering gospel is too PLAIN to be de-
MED, and the conflict has continued from
the beginning between the seed of the
woman and the serpent, and the con con
fiict is still going on. Is it true that
Christianity is showing signs of decay
after eighteen centuries of it's existence,
or that it does not exhibit signs OF a
healthy, vigorous growth. What reasons
for fear that the world is becoming worse
and worse T? Let the number of con-
versions, the number of churches built,
the number of Bibles distributed, the
number of missionaries in the home and
foreign field answer. Look at the amount
expended on benevolent and Christian
institutions, and say if you can, that
there is lack of vitality IN the mustard
seeds growth. Can we fear that mis-
sionarv enterprise will fail to win the
victory over all the enemies that OBJ
structs it's universal triumph! Premll-
| lennialists say, that Roman Cathollclsm
will not be destroyed IN any 0theT way
than by the brightness OF the Lords
coming. Roman Catholicism is not ANU
Christ, but an apostate church, as she is
the opposite of pure cnurcn, the orlde,
the lambs wife. Antl-ChrlSG cannon
agree in gender with the symDoi OF the
mother of harlots. therefore, when the
twelve hundred and sixty years of this
apostate church will have run out, she
will be cast like a milestone into the sea
to rise no more forever. The same may |
be said of Mohammedanism. The beast |
will be taken, and with him. the false |
prophet and both ydIl be cast into lake |
burning with Fl ID birthstone. Both
events wifi o. 5ass ! go. ne history
of the church and The world, but not by
the second advent. After the destruc-
ton of the enemies referred TO, satan
will be bound by created angel, and ne
will deceive thenations no more till the
| thousand years are finished,
Ii the missionary cause snail witness
the triumph of truth in the removal OF
all enemies, then will the prophetic pre-
dictions made to the church IN It's NOR
tai state meet with an exact accomplish
ment. 1t is on this account that class
of premIllennialists see, that men In the
flesh will exist after our Lords second
advent, while another class apply the
same predictions to the gloritied church
who reign with Christ,
The limit of this paper will allow me
to refer to only few predictions: ASK
OF me and shall give thee the heather
for thine Inheritance and the uttermost |
parts of the earth for thy possession.
psalm 2: 8. Will this prediction be
fulfilled in the mortal state of the |
church? [ answer, yes; and the mis-
sionary cause will witness, when Chrlst
puts in his claim to the Ancient OF days
for Kingdom, and he obtains 1T. Not
judgment is not by the Son OF God. but
judgment by the Ancient of days on
the fourth beast, and the little horn
Dan. 7: 26, 27. In Isaiah 2 2, ., 4. This
must apply to the mortal state, as there
will be no use for plows and swords in
the eternal state. The gospel will dis |
pose the nations to do right and avoid
the occasions of war, and when this is
accomplished, swords will be beaten
into ploWshares and spears into pruning
hooks, and the nations VII have war no
nations. Psalm 30 IS. He shall have ,
dominion from sea to sea and from the
river to the ends of the earth. Psalm
Y: Sill. 1.-The earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord as the waters
cover the sea-" The eternal state can
not here be referred to for then there
will be no more sea. The Jews will cast
off their unbelief. Rom. IL Is. And
the seventh angel sounded; and there
were great voices in Heaven saying,
the Kingdoms of this world are become
the Kin gdoms Of our Lord and OF his
Christ, and he shall reign for ever and
ever" The four and twenty Elders rem
der their descriptions of praise, because
he has taken his great power and has
reigned. Il Is, 16, II. The glow
ing descriptions of prophecy guarantee
to the missionary cause an actual accom-
plishment, and when Christ Will have
universal sway, the predictions Will be
made real in the history of the church
The watk Of missions will continue
until the church shall be complete, and
not one soul remain unsaved, and then
the means of saving them will be with
drawn. "Then eometh the end" the
end of the mediatorial rule for saving
purposes, the end of the world, 6 for the
earth and the works thereof shall be
burned up" There will not be an end
of the Kingdom, though Christ's present.
| ~ existing Kingdom, now administered
| by himself, will merge into the everlast-
| ing Kingdom of Christ and of God when
delivered to the Father, and God shall
be all in all. Nor would | be understood
to convey the idea that there shall be no
recognition of the work of the God man
mediator. His Mediatorial Person will
be the eternal seat of Divine NANTES ia
tiOns; the medium of communication
between the unseen one and all heaven,
and the very prop of the eternal system.
Admitting as we dc that the Heavens
must receive Christ, until the times of
the restitution of all things, not the time,
but times, denoting thereby a series of
curative measures. Some before the
Millennium, and some in the Millenni-
UNI, and others not until the Mediatorial
reign shall end. Sin, the cause of all the
disorders, with all its effects, shall be en-
tirely uprooted.
How comforting to the Christian heart,
and encouraging in the prosecution of
missionary activity. The earth is not
yet redeemed, and the blasting mildew
of infidelity, shout their defiance of the
God of Heaven; No God No Bible No
Sabbath No family! No church! No
state But who art thou, oh great noun
tain ? Before our Zerubbabel thou shalt
become plain. Men may point to this
despotism and the other, and say, here
is an impregnable barrier and there is
another. But Jehovah speaks, l will
overturn. oyerturn, overturn, until he
'comes whose right it is to reign" The
missionary cause shall outride the storm
the gates of hell shall not prevail The
missionary cause careering over the
pillows, shall win the victory and reach
the fair Ravens and the Kingdom and
dominion, and 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 everlasting
Kingdom, and all dOminions shall serve
and obey Him. dan. 7: q.