The Newtown bee., 1908-05-29

loved and labored with who have gon
 on before. You wish to Know even a
 you are known of the things whicl
 here you see only through glass dark
 ly. You want a release of the spiri 1 from the flesh and the infrmties which
 it is heir to. You want a fuller, free
 activity of the soul than the tempta tions, trials and tribulations of thu
 world afford. Your worn and wear,
 body you would allow to return, the
 earth to earth and the spirit aspires
 to return to God who gave it. You
 would attain unto that which eye hatf
 not seen, ear hath not heard, neithe,
 entered into the heart of man but hint
 ed at by the spirit. You would be
 come meet for the inheritance of tn,
 saints of light and possess it.
 If you have no yearning for immor
 tality have no message for you. Lef
 me say that the persistence of indiv
 duality beyond the point of death is
 not only allowed but almost affirmed
 by sicence. The hopes of primeval
 humanity for a hereafter from the firs1
 were not created to be crushed, else
 God is a "Cruel Fate and not a Kind
 Father. " The fact or immortality is
 evidenced in Scripture but the form of
 immortality is not very reliable ir
 Revelation for it is colored and con
 trolled by the Judaistic medium of be-
 lief about existence after death and the intense but erroneous imperialistic expectation of the chosen people. Wher the throne of David was esta blished it was supposed it would stand for ever. It's perpetuity would be mi raculously if not magically preserved. The throne of David went down into the dust, the tribes were dispersed and large colony carried away into cap tivity to Babylon. After the return of faithful few from exile and the temple was rebuilt, all was electric with expectation for royal repre- sentative to take the throne, visit the enemies, throw off the yoke of oppres- sion, resulting not only in national in dependence but increasing the do- main over all the earth. The prophets dreamed of a great David's greater descendant. Various attempts at revo- lution resulted in inevitable disaster. Malachi ended the prophetic procession by proclaiming that the messenger would appear suddenly in the holy place and enemies would be scattered like forest leaves in WhirlWind or turned like the chaff winnoWed from the wheat with the fan of the avenger who would thoroughly purge the floor. This fierce, but false hope. summoned and strength ened until the time the Saviour ar rived. The Roman yoke was irksome. Jesus geDealogy through Joseph ran back to David. John the Baptist was the expected Elijah II. His message was that the Kingdom of heaven was at hand, Jesus frenzied followers wanted to force him to be King. Jesus seemed to share in the racial and re- liglous expectation of this speedy and sudden kingdom. While his conception was not So crude as the prevailing one and he would not use brute force or un- holy means to accomplish it, yet never. theless he believed that it was to be a visible earthly kingdom as an express sion of its spiritual essense. His dis ciples were taught to pray that it might come on earth. It was to be an epoch, coming by catastrophe and cat acylsm according to the abomination of lesolation promised by the prophet Daniel and with it the end of the early age and then the Regeneration, the faithful preserved, an era of surpass-
 ing fertility of the field, all absence of Neariness in those who worked and as only the elect would exist their emi- 1ence would be without question. Jesus discovered that the people of power and position not only did not re- spond to his Messianic claim but ruth essly resisted him and at last the rulers determined that he must die. as being disturber of peace and piety, Jesus saw this and he hoped against nope that the Palm Sunday presenta- ,ion of Himself as King might prevent nis death. But even if death came it would be but brief delay in the con- ng of the kingdom, when he should re- urn to the earth riding on the clouds by the holy angels and then md there he would execute judgement. lie was so certain of this that he told he twelve that they would sit on ;hrones and judge the tribes of re- turned and restored Israel, and some would not see death before that event, l le was coming so soon. Then there vas to be resurrection of all who had allen on sleep and wanderers from the | North and South and East and West would flock to the capitol to feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. All this vas to be earthly and material in ex-E ,ression and Jesus must have shared in f his expectation or else deliberately de- ! 'elved his disciples in the hope and I | lave too much regard for Jesus to l harge him as being dishonest. Yet
 Ome sanctimonious people think it | lwful to allow that Jesus was mistaken | when the only alternative is that he de- 1 eived or allowed to be deceived the
 pOstles. We thought it were to be he Vho would restore Israel walled the
 roken-hearted disciples walking Oward Emmaus. At the time os as- ension the teasing request was 'Wilt hou at this time restore the kingdom f Israel" and the impatient ones were old then and there to wait his speedy oming in the skies. Anxiously he r,lu&1n.. T. ..4.l D-..l .. ]