The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-01
COMING OF The MESSIAH
Present DispensatiOn Is Fast Ap-
Preaching Its Conclusion.
SERMON OF REV. A. c. GAEBELIN
Exodus Of Jews to tho Holy Land Has
Already Begun Tho Prophecies OF
Restoration OF Jews to BE Full.
filled-FlOcking TO Jerusalem.

Rev. A. c. Gaebelin. of New York, a
| Christianized jew who is working as a
| missionary among the Jewish element
| of New York City, preached to large
audience at the Grace Reformed church
yesterday morning. He secured the alb
| sorbing interest of his audience by the
bold manner in which he claimed that
the present dispensation Is drawing to
close, and that the Jewish dispensa-
tion would soon be seen. when the
evangelization of the world would be
consummated by that nation.
The reverend gentleman based his
theme on Psalm, eli, Is and 16: "Thou
shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion
for the time to favor her. yea, the set
time, is come. When the Lord shall
build up Zion, he shall appear in his
glory" He opened his discourse by
explaining that the terms Zion, Israel
or Jerusalem, as expressed In the Old
Testament meant the ancient people OF
God. The Christian church claimed
all the blessed prophecies. but, he urged,
the Jews had been rejected nationally
and not individually. Jews had been
saved from the time that Jesus rose
from the dead but, nationally, they had
been under the curse and wrath Of
God for nearly 1900 years. If they were
rejected individually it would be an
argument against the existence of a
living and righteous God.
Cause of Their Rejection.
What had been the cause Of their re-
lection? He replied that it was be-
cause they had rejected the Lord Jesus
Christ, and when he had expressed him
self thus, when addressing an audience
Of his own nationality, forty or fifty
had arisen and left the room, their
angry faces being sufficient indication
that they could not listen to the state
ment of the cause of their rejection.
The cause of their misery was that
"He came to his own and His own re-
ceived Him not" They expected Him
as great earthly king, and in this they
had been mistaken. Then came the
question as to how the Jews had been
preserved for so many centuries, and
why had not their enemies succeeded in
the many ages and generations, in des-
troying them? Because there was q
blessing yet in store for the Jewish
nation.
With regard to the coming dispensa-
tion the preacher argued that it would
be a Jewish dispensation in which the
Lord would return to his ancient peo-
pie and reveal himself, after which the
Jews would be the messengers of Christ
to all the ends of the world to proclaim
their Messiah.
Proof from the Bible.
The prophecy that they would be led
away captive and Jerusalem trodden
upon until the time of the Gentle be
fulfilled would be complete. He quot
ed from Romans II to prove that set
time was fixed: Hath God cast away
His people? God forbid. For 1 also
am an Israelite. God hath not
cast away His people which He fore
knew. For | would not, brethren,
that ye should be ignorant of this mys-
terry lest ye should be wise in your
own conceit; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel until the fulness of
the Gentiles be come in. And SO all
Israel shall be saved as it is written,
There shall come out of Zion the De-
liverer, and shall turn away ungodll-
ness from Jacob"
The present dispensation was almost
at close and the time when the Lord
would return to fulfill his prophecy was
near at hand. There had been a ma
tional movement among the Jews for
some years to form a colony at Pales-
tine and every steamer which touched
that country brought a number of Jew
ish people who We're returning to their
own country. There were already So
900 in the city of Jerusalem and 10000
in Palestine.
He believed that the Bridegroom was
coming to claim his Bride, the Gentiles
in almost every part of the world had
heard the name of Jesus, and this dis
pensation was fast coming to an end.
The question for them was "Are We
ready? God help them to be So"