Milford chronicle., 1909-07-23

out with reward for faith attached;
instead. knowledge shall fll the whole
earth as the waters cover the great
deep philippians ii, TO- II: Isaiah XII
d. As a result. no one shall then say
TO his neiehbor. or to his brother.
Know thou the Lord for &hey all
shall know him. from the least Unto the
greatest of them Jeremiah Xxi. 3A.
Heather Fall Under Him.
Another Psalm describes Messah's
triumph in the Millennial Age, saying.
"Gird thy sword upon thy thigh. o
most Mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty And in thy majesty ride
prosperously In The cause Of Truth and
f Meekness and Righteousness; and thy
right hand shall teach thee terrible
things. Thine arrows are sharp iu The
heart of the Kings enemies: whereby
the people fall under thee psalm
xiv. 3-Jl Instead of the word - n.e
here read the word "heatheu" as iu
the original and we have picture of
the conversion of the heatheu as it
will shortly be accomplished. We are
not TO suppose the Lord viii ride upon
q horse. nor that literal arrows viii lit
orally pierce the hearts Of his enemies.
We are 20 understand this picture 10
signify our Lords triumphal conquer
ing Of the world. and that the arrows
of truth which will go forth unto the
whole world win reach the hearts Of
men. and smite them down. Even SO
we read that when St. Peter preached
mt Pentecost that the Jews had taken
and cruciacd the Son of God. the
hearers were cut 10 me heart with the
lance of truth Thank God for such
arrows from the quiver of Divine wis
dom. justice. loFe. We rejoice that the .
hcatheu Will thus be conquered for the .
Lord and thus eventually every knee /
bow and every tongue confess.
This work Of dealing with the heath .
en-. with the world with all except the /
Church. will begin with the generation I
living nj The time of the establishment .
of the Lords Kingdom IN due time .
it win proceed and ultimately include .
al that age in their graves. in the re-
verse order from that which they en- .
tered and Che last shall be the first to
come forth every man in his own or
der or class
Too frequently do Bible students neg
lect 10 see whether or not their inter
pretations are in harmony with the
context of the passages under discus
sion. Let MS not make this mistake.
Turning 10 the second Psalm. we find
that. following our text and part
with IT, is the declaration. Thou shalt
break them with a rod of iron; thou
shalt dash them i'm pieces like a pot
ters vessel" verse %. The application
of this evidently is TO the time for our
Lords second advent. when the seec-
tion Of the Church shall be completed
and she shall have entered into his
glory as the Bride. the Lambs Wife.
symbolically pictured IN the New Jeru-
salem from God out of heaven. From
that New Jerusalem we are told that
the river of the water Of life shall
flow freely and that whosoever will
may Iart9.n of it freey-all that are
athirSt Cp either bank will grow the
trees Of lie whose leaves are for tie
healing of the nations. Aud the Spirit
and the Erle will say Come, and who
sOever will may come and take Of the
water of life freely But meantime.
before the nations, the world, will be
ready for that blessing from the New
Jerusalem. they must needs pass
through a period of very deep humilia- .
.ion-"d time of trouble such as nercr
cqs since there ,ras nation
As fer the nations Of that time the
extent TO which they will suffer de-
itruction will depend largely on their
,wn attitude. as is inumated by the
-erses following our text Those of
he nations who freely and heartily
lccept Of Messiah's rule viii be corre-
saved from the breaking
process. Hence it is urged, kiss the
son. o ye kings of the earth; kiss the
son lest be be angry with you and We
,erish from the way. when his wrath
$ kindled but a little" But while
his seems to offer eniency. mercy.
hese favors are conditional on the
manner in which the Messianic King
om shall be received Other Scrip
ures seem to intimate that all the
ations. not only heathen but civil
led. will be found in violent opposi-
ion to the heavenly Kingdom, and
en that all together they will be
rushed as the vessels of potter
The Glorious Outcome.
The Lord tells us that as the heav-
ms are higher than the earth. so are
is ways higher than mans ways, and
is plans higher than mans plans.
md this we find true as we come
D better understand the Scriptures.
Who ever dreamed Of such lengths
nd breadths and heights and depths
T love divine. all love excelling. as
re implied and included in Gods
reat plan of selecting. first the Christ
Jesus the Head and the Church, His
ody-and then through these bless
lg all the families of the earth with
knowledge of Himself and the glori-
us opportunities for life eternal! We
lake no claims Of universal salvatiop,5
ecause the Scriptures do not authors
e this. but distinctly speak Of some
-ho will die the Sec nd Death, Prov
10 flar,cotroe not eua9ofautIv In hor-