Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-11

dried up lie went away up into the coasts
of ZidOn, and lived with a widow woman
of Zarephath. There he and the widow
woman and her son dwelt, subsisting on a
| handful of meal and a little oil in a cruise,
until the Lord sent rain upon the earth.
Again we find him on Carmel hooking
Baal and all his prophets and Staying them
at the brook Kishon. Again we find him
a days Journey in the wilderness, seated
beneath a juniper tree, with his head down
between his knees, wishing he was dead.
The world never produced but one Moses
and one Elijah. There has never been any
one like either of them. Moses died on
Mount Nebo and the Lord buried him.
Elijah did not die. God took him. Eel.
iah went up by a whirlwind into heaven"
is the simple but eloquent record OF his de-
p~arture.
These grand men, Moses and Elijah, the
one a statesman and general, the other a
poet and prophet, were seen oY Peter,
James and John on the Mount of Transfig-
u%ration. These old servants of God-the
one of whom had been, soul and body, in
heaven for near nine hundred years, and
the dust of the other had been sleeping
quietly in the land of Moab, over against
Beth-peor, and his soul in heaven fornear
sixteen hundred years, appear again on
earth, but "in glory" and talk to the Sa-
viour ''of his decease which he should &C.
complish at jerusalem" The subject of
the conversation in which Jesus, Moses
and Elias were engaged, was the decease,
rather the erodos, which Jesus should &C.
complish at Jerusalem. Jesus Christcame
into the world to glorify God by giving
himself a sacrifice for sin. His entering
upon this work is called his eisodos, trans
lated, "his coming" The completion OF
this work is called his erodos, translated
'decease." The time when God the tath-
er was about to lay upon his son 1.-THE in
iquity of us all"-the time when he vas
about to make "his soul an offering for
SIM" was near at hand. TO support the
Saviour his Father sent Moses, who led the
children of Israel out of Egypt and through
the wilderness to the borders of the prom
ised land, and the grand old prophet Eli
jah who had, so often and so fearlessly, de-
nounced the sins of Ahab, and who had
slain Baal's prophets and digged down
Baal's affairs. These came from glory, but
sin glory" and talked with the Son of
Man of his e~:roulos, of his decease, which
he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Or
the triumphs of redeeming love. AS wit
nesses, but not participants of this CONVEX
sation, Peter, James and John were per-
mitted to, be present. They saw them as
they talked, but they were not allowed to
talk. While Jesus, Moses and Elijah were
talking, a bright cloud o~vershadoWed
them. Clouds are, usually, dark, but this
cloud was light. It was the symbol of
the divine presence. Out of that cloud
a voice came saying, ''this is my beloved
son in whom l am we'll pleased, hear We
him."
On the Mount of TRANSPORTATION the in
habitants of two worlds met. Saints
from the world of glory met with saints
on their way toglory. The saints on their
way to glory were overcome, but prepared
for the grand tragedy which soon after
ward occurred on Calvary. To the trans
fguration both Peter and John, in after
life, refer. On the lonely rocky isle OF
Patmos, John saw "a new heaven and a
new EARTH" He saw 1.-THE holy city, the
New Jerusalem, coming down from God
water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding
out Of the throne of God and the Lamb"
On the Mount of TRANSPORTATION the
veil which separates the visible from the
invisible, the temporal from the eternal,
the earthly from the heavenly, was lifted,
and Peter and his companions, although
in the flesh, were given a glimpse OF the
ineffable. Moses, from the top of Pisgah,
saw the promised land, but Peter, James
and John, from the Mount of Transfigura-
ton, were given a view of the world of
glory. Like Paul they were permitted to
see the paradise of God, and to hear un-
speakable things. Like the proto-martyr
Stephen, they saw the Son of Man over
Swallowed with the symbol OF his divini-
ty. Stephen, however, did not see the
glorifed redeemer until after his erodoS,
but Peter, James and John saw him in
glory before he trode the wine press Of
Gods wrath.