The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-05-10

| disc Lost" The grand design of the
| Kingdom of Christ is to bring him into
such fellowship with God as that he
| may be an heir OF Paradise Regained
| At Athens were two temples, "a temple
| of Virtue and temple of Honor.
| Only through the former could the lat.
| ter be entered.
Only through the Invisible Kingdom
| of God on earth--the Kingdom OF
Grace"-can we hope for admission at
length into the Kingdom of the Re.
deemed"-the Temple Of Glory" The
subjects of this empire must be I'm
harmony with and breathe the splri;
of the King. We are reminded sec.
ondly Of the small beginnings of the
Kingdom of the Messiah
The 'stone cut out of the mountain
without hands" was diminutive at first
as compared with its subsequent an.
pearance. This is indeed the law OF
nature. The trees which fill our for
ests were once but tender saplings-the
mon of the next generation are to-day
but weakly children. Christianity was
indeed complete ut the beginning.
From its very nature 1t must have
been. An imperfect system would have
been witness against itself In alt
these nineteen centuries not Il single
principle of truth has been added. Ii
was Christ's gift to the world. A mine
TO be worked--a very bonanza. A sys.
tenn to be studied-a very thesaurus of
truth. Christ in His doctrine was its
teacher. In His matchless character
It's grand exponent. Each Christian is
a matriculate in the preparatory school
and when the term time of life shalt
end viii receive n certificate into the
University Of Heaven. Laws are being
constantly changed in order that they
may be adapted to the varying condi-
tons Of mankind. Amendments to the
Constitution have been added one by
one. Statutes are subject to frequent
revision. Provisions that have proved
injudicious have been struck out. Nee.
essary notifications and additions have
often been made. Can anything be
added to the system of religion which
Jesus introduced into the world? Has
the Sermon on the Mount" ever been
improved? Can it be? AS well at
tempt to add TO the radiance of the
midday sun or the majesty of the heav-
Ing ocean, The necessity of change
would imply weakness, crudeness, i'm
perfect knowledge. II am the Lord. I
creed of Jehovah-the system of Him
who said, II am the truth" Who shall
say that Christianity can ever need
modification?
To what age of the world, to what
nation, to what government, to what
human conditions has it not been
adapted? Still, in its beginning, it
seemed of small and weak proportions.
From human standpoint. what could
appear more uncompromising? 1t
seemed like Il Lilllput arraying itself
against host of giants. We are so
constituted that we look for causes
which shall seem adequate to given
effects. Who in the first century could
nave conceived as ever possible the
scenes which in these latter days greet
our eyes and the facts which thrust
themselves upon our attention? Christ
Himself was poor and obscure Naza-
rene peasant, without prestige or i'm
mediate pedigree of note. His disciples
were, with few exceptions, lacking in
culture and of but limited influence.
The new religion had in it nothing to
win the opulent or the influential. 1t
mlnistered not to the caprices of men,
but combatted their strongest preju-
II
sword" Judged by ordinary stand
ards, it seemed doomed to failure. We
need not turn to the grand treatises of
the Buffers, the Paleys, the Dwights,
reslstless as their arguments seem; the
sublime history of Christianity during
these nineteen centuries offers a might
Ter and more eloquent plea for its di.
vine origin and character, a perfect
Gibraltar against which all the shafts
of infdelity seem but paper pellets.
But as we turn again to the inspired
narrative of the dream of the Baby
lonian king, we read that after the
Image was smitten and the iron, the
clay, the brass, the silver and the gold
were broken in pieces, becoming like
the chaH of the summer threshing floor,
the stone which destroyed the image
became n great mountain and filed
the whole earth.
Thus in mystic symbolism was the
truth revealed that the kingdom. which
at length Jehovah should set up, was
destined to universal prevalence. Nor
are we limited in this view to the Ian
guage of symbols. ASK of Me and |
will give thee the heather for thine in
heritance and the uttermost parts of
the earth for thy possession" "The
earth shall be full of the knowledge OF
the Lord as the waters cover the sea-"
Thus David and Isaiah, peering
through the perspective OF coming
years, beheld the wondrous ascendency
of the Kingdom OF Emmanuel. What
appeared to these prophets of the olden
time in vision appears to us translated
into history, glorious with the grand
achievements Christianity has wrought.
Magnificent victories have followed its
banners. Territory after territory has
been added to its dominions. DesDite
the opposition which it's representa-.
lives have met the fiery prosecutions,
not limited to the period of its intro.
duction, but blighting the records of
ten centuries, and, indeed, times long
after the dark ages" its growth has
been phenomenal; aye, more than that,
divine. Palestine has become the
moral centre Of the world. The prayer
which Jesus has taught, Thy kingdom
come" is being graciously answered.
Judging from the history of Christian.
ity and reasoning from analogy, had we
not the promises OF the Sacred Word,
we should be compelled to anticipate
the ultimate triumphs of "Th. Re-
deemer's cause"
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