Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-02-12
10 MCDLLL'S MUSINGS.
THE KINGDOM or HEAVEN.

The birth of Iesus heralded by angels
The message from Heaven was, "Pe ce OH
earth good will toward men,"
When ] sus had attained to his maturity,
He entered upon the work OF making plain tn
message OF Heaven to men.
The mass of the people were ignorant, and
many were diseased.
He taught and healed Teaching and heal
ing were inseparaby connected. Mind, body
and spirit were included iu the message. All
of what man IS.
When Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of
this world" He meant that His kingdom did
not originate on earth, and was not like unto
any earthly kingdom. Kingdom, in its gen
era significance, applies to conditions as we'll
as king and state.
The power that leads, directs, compels, is
king. or ruler.
Jesus said of His kingdom that it was spirit
ual that is, that N His kingdom, people would
receive the impulse for what they dio from
within their hearts or inner consciences, God
being the source.
The new doctrine was presented with great
force. "He taught the people, and His fame
spread abroad till multitudes went to hear Him."
In b,ief, heavenly principles were to be planted
upon earth and those who lived the heavenly
principles upon earth would, at death, be trans
nlanted 20 Heaven. The salvation began on
earth. When the seventy disciples were sent out
to propagate this new doctrine, they were in
s,ructed to teach and heal. In the parable OF
the last Judgment, those persons who were re-
ceiyed into Heaven were those who "fed the
hungry, clothed the naked and administered to
the sick and visited those in prison" All 9TH
ers we're commanded to depart from the pres
ence of Christ, because if they had not love
enough tor their fellow beings to look after
their welfare when on earth, they had not at
tanned to near Gods standard to dwell in His
presence They were menace and marplot.
They who had not cared for the woes OF the
poor and needy were cursed-cursed with the
curse of their own making.
Is the "Kingdom of Heaven" as Jesus
preached it laboring mans kingdom? Yea,
verily Jesus was born in manger; learned
10 be carpenter; toied as many other carpen-
ters: had less of this worlds goods than foxes
and fowls of the air. The foxes had holes IN
the earth; the birds had nests; the "Son of
Man had not where to lay His h ad."
There was verv little teaching done in those
days. and in most of the world, teaching of
any kind was a novety-but not so among the
Iews. The Jews had their temples and syna-
poeues and weekly Sabbath meetings. They
thought they knew and believed in the true
heavenly principles, but when they heard Jesus,
atbev were astonished at His doctrine" The
Jewish rebbis were the most learned religious
teachers of that day. Probably they knew all
about the so-called religious of the Egyptians,
Creeks, Romans and Phencians, and, as Jesus
had none of the doctrines of the surrounding
nations, and very little of the rabbis', the rab-
his were astonished. But, astonishment passed
into envy, jealousy and hate. The rabbis be-
lieved they had the divine right to butcher
everybody who did not believe as as they did.
Thew thought God sent wars, pestilence and
famine as Judgments and most of the time,
thew were in rage.
1esus' first preaching was to correct the false