The Newtown bee., 1905-03-31

Lamb, arrayed in white robes and palms in their hands; and they cry with greatlvoice, saying, Salvation unto our God which sitteth on the throne and unto the Lamb"
 Prior to the advent of Jesus Christ into the world, the majority of the human family groped in darkness, and were very far away from the truth, concerning the future life, as it is now revealed to US by Jesus Christ. But since Christ has come and brought life and immortality to light, there can no longer be any doubt about the future life. To John in exile, God has been pleased to lift the veil, and to give us through him 8 glorious revelation of the same.
 The very title of the book is an in- dicatiOn of it's contents. 'The revela- tion of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified them by his angel unto his servant sJohn." Not mystery but revelation or un- covering of the
 FUTURE GLORY OF CHRIST AND THE
 REDEEMED.
 In the 18th verse of the 1st chapter, John is commanded to "Write there fore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter" In the vision which we have before us, John says, he saw great multitude, that no man could number, of redeem ed ones, who were once on the earth, and who had once been familiar with suffering and sorrow; but now ascribe their salvation to God and the Lamb. To the question put by the disciples to the Lord Jesus, "Are there few that be saved?" the only answer they re- ceived was the command, "Strive to enter in at the straight gate which leadeth unto life." If, as some teach us, all are going to be saved, what need of this injunction?
 Here, John is permitted to see great multitude, ascribing salvation unto God and the Lamb. A great multitude who have been made perfect through suffering, who have reached their present life by way of the cross. THEY EVIDENTLY WE'RE REsURREcT-
 ED ONES.
 John speaks of seeing them and rec ognized them as once having lived here on earth. John was familiar with men as he knew them in their bodily form and as such recognizes them now, only they are arrayed in white robes. How could John have seen them and speak of them as such unless they had on their resurrected bodies, no longer bodies of sin ana death but incorrupti- ble bodies. They were from all parts of the earth, out of all the nations, and of all tribes, and peoples and tongues, but all speaking the same language, for. John says he heard them with a great voice, saying: Salvation to our God and the Lamb. On the day of Pentecost the disciples spake with other tongues and the peoples of diff ferent tongues heard them speak in their language. Here they all speak with one voice, one tongue and praise Him, who sits upon the throne, as John tells us they did when he sees them later on. "After these things I heard as 1t were the voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelu- jah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God; for true and right eous are His judgments"
 We are not told what their partic- ular trials or sorrows or sufferings were. We have no intimation that they had all been church members here, but we are led to believe they were once sinners, as it is said that they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. It was only sinners Jesus came to save and cleanse; if these are cleansed per sons then they were once sinners. "who, who are these beside the chilly wave, Just on the border of the silent grave,
 Shouting Jesus power to save,
 Washed in the blood of the Lamb2"
 'These, these are they who in afflicted woes, Ever have found in Jesus calm repose, Such as from pure heart flows,
 Washed In the blood of the Lamb.
 Safe, safe upon the ever shining shore, Sin, pain, and death, and sorrow, all are o'er; Happy now andsevermore,
 Washed in the blood of the Lamb"
 THEY ARE IN HEAVEN.
 This is a great thing to say of any one. It is to be in the enjoyment of an estate, by the side of which all the exaltation, honor and glory that this world can bestow, shrinks into utter nothingness. Lazarus in heaven is a far sublimer picture than that of any