The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-10-05


Paradise and enlarge It, making II
world wide, the home for not only
Adam, but his now muldtudinous
progeny of Twenty Thousand Mil
lions. The Scriptures abound with
promises that Israel shall be re-gatn-
cred and restored to Divine favor and
be made the fundamentally OF the
Lord in spreading the blessings to
other nations. The Scriptures tell us
how the paradaisaical condition shall
be brought about. They explain that
the wilderness shall blossom as the rose
and the solitary place be glad. ST. feter
points us down to the Second Coming
of Christ for the fultillment OF all
these great restitution promises. He
tells ms that then will come TO earth
shines of refreshing" He assures US
that the times of restitution OF all
things which God hath spoken by the
month of all the holy prophets since
the world has begun will then find
accomplishment (Acts Ill. 1920.
Better Sacrifices Than Those.
But now we inquire why this delay
In bringing In the times OF refresh
ing" the times of restitution" why
did not the great Redeemer begin at
once to accomplish the work secured
by his death at Calvary? How can
he bear to delay, since he loved the
world so that he died for all, ana
since he fully admits that the whole
creation is in pain. waiting for the
great deliverance made possible by ms
sacrifice (Romans viii. 1920?
The Scriptures answer the question.
They tell us that the gathering OF the
elect Church during this Gospel Age as
a feature of the Divine program must
nrecede the bringing of restitution
blessings to the world. They tell us
that God has imposed special crucial
tests upon those now called and cho-
sen. Their invitation is to joint-heirship
with Christ in a heavenly or spiritual
nature. and to share with him IN the
MillenniaI Kingdom and glory, and in
the work which these will accomplish
for the world. The Scriptures tell us
that those who will be accounted
WOTIQY Oh luis CAaib0lAOh ~ 9~O-S'
honor and Immortality, will first be
required to prove their loyalty to the
Lord to the extent of sacrifice. This
does not mean a putting away OF sin.
for that would not be sacrifice. IL
does mean the laying down of earthly
rights and privileges. after the man
ner and example Of the Redeemer, who
knew no sin Believers are exhorted
thus to sacrifice The Apostle says to
them, 81 beseech you. therefore. Dretn-
rem. by the mercies of God. that ye
present yonr bodies a living sacrifice.
holy. acceptable unto God. your rea
sonable service" Romans xii. y.
Many Scriptures inform us that God
has attached the glories of the future
10 the sufferings of the present and
that "if we suffer with Christ we shall
also reign with him and IF we DO
dead with him. we shall also live with
him." Thus we see this entire Gospel
Age is period of sacrificing. Our
Lord began the sacrificing. and In ac-
cepting believers as his members, 1t Is
on condition that they Will be sancd-
fed, separated from the world, and
present their bodies living sacrifices.
Thus the saints throughout this Gospel
Age have been suffering with their
Lord and Head and, as st. Paul de-
clares, Filling up that which is be-
hind of the Affections of Christ" (Colos-
SLAMS |, 24D The merit is in the sacrifice
of their Lord. but he passes that merit
through the believers of this Gospel
Age. TO the intent that they may share
In the glories and honors of his Mil
lennial Kingdom, which will be estab-
lished as soon as the last member of
"his Body" shall have finished the suf-
ferings of the Christ.
st. Paul. after pointing out the typ
ical sin-offerings under the Jewish ar
rangement. shows US that the sacri-
fees of Christ and the Church are the
antitypes of these sin-offerings-offer-
ed year by year under the Jewish econ
omy. Those he styles the better sac
rifices than these" Hebrews TX. 23).
The Day of Atonement.
We are at the time of the year when
our Hebrew fellow-citizens are accus-
toned to celebrate their great Day OF
Atonement. They celebrate it, how
ever, in a meaningless manner. Those
of them who are acquainted with
the facts know that the whole proce-
dure is farce. In the confusion
which God has permitted to come upon
them they have no Priest Since their
rejection of Messiah their priestly rec
urds are lost. so that no Jew in the
world can make claim to the position
of High Priest or dare to perform the
functions of High Priest in connection
with the Day Of Atonement sacrifices
They have no Tabernacle or Temple
nor dare they erect one; for If one
were conspcrated. an unauthorized
priest would risk his life In attempting
to pass through the Second Veil into
the Most Holy
AS consequence our Hebrew
friends deserve our sympathy. The
tenth day of the seventh mouth was
their appointed Day of Atonement. BY
the sacrifices of that day. properly per-
formed, reconciliation for their iniqui-
ties was made for the ensuing year, at
the end Of which they would again be-
come unclean and need anotho; Atone
ment Day. AS the Apostle says, the
arrangement God made for them for
the forgiveness of sins was year by
year continually" and the yearly repe-
tition indicated that the sins were not
h1f ranrnlu 0nUnrnd
for the year.
1t is part of Divine providence that
our Hebrew friends have no Priest
and that no sin-atonement sacrifice Is
possible. Now when the anniversary
of the Day of Atonement comes they
benoan their sins and fast and pray;
but they have no Priest to offer the
bullock of a sin-offering and then to
take it's blood into the Holy and Most
Holy and to sprinkle the same for the
cleansing of the priestly tribe. They
have no Priest later on to come and
take the goats sin-offering and do With
it as he did with that Of the bullock,
taking it's blood into the Most Holy
and sprinkling the Mercy Seat for all
the other eleven tribes of Israel. The
Priest does not come out of the Holes
to bless them, as of yore, and to tell
them that their sins are forgiven
through the merit of the sacrihcial
blood. No. After waiting the entire
day. and knowing that they have no
Q4eviticus xvii. When he assembled upon
Priest. no Advocate, no Intercessor. no
Sin bearer at the close of their Atone
mpnt Day they endeavor to be cheerful
and happy and to suppose their sins
forgiven: or rather, they endeavor to