The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-10-19
PULPIT.
BlessiingsW Without
Sorrow
Text, THE Blessing Of the
Lord, 1t Maketh Rich; and He
Addeth No Sorrow Therewith"
proverbs x, ~.

IN RIGHTS of dam Cost through d1soDe-
dience and redeemed by our Lord at
Calvary and now at his disposab are
imputed to those who. during this
Gospel Age. turn from sin, accept
Christ as their Redeemer. and then by
conservation sacrifice all earthly rights
In a word our Lord Jesus has right
to give the earthly rights. the earth
ly life and honor. to any one person
or to any number of persons of Adams
race as something to sacrifice. When
they do mentally sacrifice earthly
rights they receive the begetting OF the
holy Spirit to the heavenly nature
But that heavenly nature itself they
will not receive until they shall have
finished the sacrifice agreed upon.
Thus as Jesus by keeping the Law
had a right to earthly perfection and
sacrificed 1t, so those keeping the Law
in the spirit of their minds and ac-
cepting the merit of Christ as JUSTIFY.
ing them TO restitution right and glory
sacrifice these, use them in Gods serv-
ice that they may share Jesus new
nature and glory. The merit at the end
of the Gospel Age will be the same
merit of Jesus, and will be at his
disposal because. although passed
through the Church. it will not have
been kept by any member Of the
Church and will. therefore, be at our
Lords disposal at the close of this Age.
the dawning of the Millennial Day.
What will be done with the merit of
Christs sacrifice at the end Of the
Gospel Age when 1t shall have passed
through the Church? We answer that
it will be used again. 1t will be given
to the Jews and through them to the
whole world. 1t is the blood or merit
which will seal the New Covenant
promised to Israel long ago, but not
fulfilled. 1t is one thing to promise
Covenant: another thing to draw up
the terms of a Covenant; third thing
to sign and seal the Covenant. The
New Covenant has not yet been sealed
The blood that will seal it is now being
used in the interest of the elect spirit
ual Israel. that the little flock may
have something to sacrifice, and there
by be granted a share with Christ in
his spirit, nature and glory. This Is
the cup referred to by our Lord in the
memorial supper when he said, This
is my blood of the New Covenant shed
for many for the remission OF sins.
Drink ye all of it. The privilege of
drinking with our Lord in this cup of
sacrifice belongs to this age only. None
will be left for the future
But the blessing viii not remain
with those who drink of the cup
their restitution rights and privileges
will be sacrificed and thus passed on.
for the benefit of malAzind in general.
The Apostle says that our Lord at his
First Advent in his death became the
"SArety' or guarantor of the New
Covenant. But he did not seal the
New Covenant nor put it into force in
any sense of the wosd. because 1t was
q Covenant with natural Israel and II
It had been put into force it forthwith
would have begun to bring blessings
to Israel not to be theirs until after
spiritual Israel should have been glori-
fed in the First Resurrection. The
mystery is, then, that philosophy in
the divine program which no one could
have surmised. in advance. God has
been quietly taking from the world a
great Messiah, great Prophet, great
King, a great Mediator between God
and the world. Jesus is the Head and
the faithful members are the Body.
This is the great Mediator Of the New
Covenant, of which st. Peter wrote,
saying. "For Moses truly said unto the
fathers. A prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your breth-
rem, like unto me mediator Of the
Covenant: him shall We hear in all
things, whatsoever he shall say unto
you. And il shall come to pass, that
every soul, which will not hear that
prophet, shall be destroyed from
among the people" (Acts lii, %, 23).
st. Paul styles Sarah. Abraham's
proper wife and the mother of Isaac,
the type of the heavenly Jerusalem, the
heavenly Covenant of which we are
the children I'VE, brethren, as Isaac
was, are the children of the promise"
"And if We be Christ's, then are ye
Abrahams Seed. and heirs according
to the promise" Galatians lii, 29). Thus
the Church. Jesus the Head and the
faithful, his members, constitute the
great Deliverer which lis born or
comes out of spiritual Zion and which,
under the New Covenant, will turn
away ungodliness from Jacob-natural
Israel. Notice how the Apostle eX,
presses this saying. For this is my
Covenant unto them (the New Cove
nant to natural Israeli when l shall
take away their SINS
We are not to understand that the
mercy which they will receive under
the New Covenant is purely the mercy
of the Church and not the mercy of
the Father and the Son. Evidently he
wishes us to remember that all things
are of the Father and all things are
by the Son. Gods mercy exercised
through Christ and Christs mercy
through the Church will bless Israel
under the provisions of their New
[Lawl Covenant
Already indeed (by faith) has the
Church been made rich by the Lord 8
blessing in proportion as the exceed
ing great and precious promises have
been accepted: and If it will still fur
Their make us rich through the
"change" of the First Resurrection to
glory, honor and Immortality, what
may we not expect Of its richness and
blessing toward the Jew? Surely the
blessing of the Lord will make Israel
rich and honorable. IsraePs blessing
will be national as well as personal.
Indeed. as soon as the Millennial King
dom shall have been established, the
blessing of the Lord will mean Divine
favor in all the natural affairs of lie
to all those who are truly his-"to the
Jew first" AS a people they will be
the first to be ready for the Divine
guidance after the great time of trou-
BILE with which this present age VIII
close. Christendom In general has III
tie knowledge Of coming restitution,
to all that which was lost in Eden.
Christendom in general expects to go
either to heaven or Purgatory or eter-
nal torment. but many Jews know
their Bible better than this; that the
blessings promised are earthly ones
'sTimes of restitution of all things
spoken by the mouth of all the holy
prophets since the world began" (Acts
iii, 20l.
With the close of this age heavenly
hopes will no longer be held forth to
mankind. but. on the contrary, earthly
hopes. restitution. Israel. therefore,
will be the better prepared for the