Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-07-14

says it was to make ready y people pre-
pared for the Lord.
The mission of Christ and the twelve
WAS also preliminary and preparatory
Jesus said 81 am not sent but unto the
losh sheep of the House Israel" He
said to the twelve Ego not into the way
of the Gentiles and into any city of the
Samaritans enter ye not but go rather
to the lost sheep of the house of Israel
Peters mission was largly preliminary,
he regulated for time in the fold and
Christ having given him the keys of
the kingdom he opened the door to the
first Gentiles and then his active minis
try ceased and Paul the apostle to the
Gentiles to whom was committed the
gospel of the uncircumcision became
the conspicuous figure in the bounds
of the Church under the ministry of
John the Baptist, the Jew took the first
step leading from Judaism and under
Peters teaching he took the final step.
We notice then 1st Johns ministry
was commenced with the first of the
Churches transition. 2 The mission of
Christ and the twelve prior to the Cru
cifixion, was connected with the second
or midle stage of the Churches tran
sition. 3rd Peters ministry was con
nected with the third and final stage
of this transition from the awful dis
pensation to the gospel dispensation.
AS view it my good friends of the op-
posite opinion are holding as funda-
mental in and essential a Gentiles sal
vation few sayings and teachings
which were only incidental in and pecu-
liar to the transition of the Church in
to better form of development and the
transfer of its individual members to a
new and more glorious dispensation of
religion. We will now proceed to give
summary of the foregoing
1st The Apostles had to do with two
distinct classes of men the circum-
cised and the uncircumcised, one in the
Church and the other out of it. End
Paul declared that the Jew had the
advantage. 3rd The Jew had a suffi-
clent degree of faith before he ever
heard of Jesus of Nazareth and when
Jesus came he only needed to be con-
vinced that this Jesus was the Christ
and openly accept him. 4th The Gen
tiles faith not beginning until after Je-
sus's death his attention had never
been called to the coming of a promised
Saviour he was not advanced in the
way of Salvation as was the Jew. 9Th
The law was schoolmaster to bring
the Jew to Christ and the Gentle had
no such schoolmaster. 9Th The Jews
were Abraham's children and the Gen.
tiles were to become such. 7th The
Jews were the sheep of Gods flock, the
Gentiles were to become such. Sth The
Jews were citizens of Gods household,
the Gentiles were to become such. 9th
The Apostles found the Jew ready for
4 graduation but found the Gentle Who'll
ly untutored. 10th The breaking of the
middle wall of partition was not for the
let the Gentle in. 18th Daniels pro-
phecy gives three and half years after
the death of Jesus for the spiritual re-
novation of the Jew. 18th We learn in
the Acts that the word was preached
exclusively for some time after Pente-
cost to the Jews. 18th We must not
mistake the means employed to estab-
lish the Jew in the Church for Gods
method of saving a Gentle from his
sins and bringing him into the Church.
REV. G. Y. PALMER.
Vincent, Ohio, July 13, 1901.