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Christian people have forgotten and worldly
people never knew the Significance Of our
/ text. We all familiar with the beautiful
J hymn which inquiries. What will the harvest
| be- and which gives the suggestion that IN
| a reaping. This is true, and we will examine
! this phase OF the subject by and by but first
| we call your attention to the fact that our
! Lord in the parable of which text is a
| part had no such thought in mind. The para
| BILE deals not with the church individually but
! collectively. 1t points out that our LORD, the
| Son of Man, a seed sower, and that the
! field in which He sowed the seed was the
J world His personal seed sowing OF the gos-
| pei message was accomplished more than
| eighteen centuries ago, but since then, from
! His glorious presence at the Fathers rlsht
| hand on the throne of glory, He has oeen
/ represented by His followers who imDueu
| with His spirit have gladly laid down thslr
| lives in the same work of scattering the good
! tidings of the kingdom.
! It is true also that our Lord did a re9P Ii
! work. and associated His disciples with HIM
| self in that saying. It sent you to reap
! that whereon We bestowed no labor, other men
! plowed narrowed sowed, and We are entered
} into their Iabors'' (as reapers of the fruitage
I Of other told. The truthfulness of TINS Is
| manifest and is corroborated by statement on
| John the Baptist, who declared OF our lNoru
! that He the reaper OF the JeWlsh d ga
! whose fan was in His hand, and VINO ulu
purge the threshng floor, and did gather LH ne
| wheat into the barn and burned UP tne ClaII
| with unuuenchable fire Matt S:l2) LOOKING
| hack over Jewish history we see that tI'e
4 harvesting of the Jewish age began with our
Lords first advent and ended forty years
! later at She destruction of Jerusalem: III
| that time He gathered all the wheat OF ina
] nation. all who were ready for the kingdom
| CJohn 1:l2D These were comparatively a ~
| tie flock" They were all Israelites' inoeeu;
| In whom no guile. These were ga.lei ~ ~
! to the garner barn of Divine taVOI ~
! protection by the baptism Of the Holy spirit,
I which came upon the leaders at PentecosI Jay
| and subsequently extended 10 every oH -
| us-to every Israelite, indeed amounting '"eS
I with the Holy Spirit ..,,ou,o,
| The threshing. the winnowing ana gatne I
| into the barn continued during the enuIS e no" 20
! vest period and ended in the year a. -. ~;
| when the Roman army completely oeslII JS.
| Jerusalem and every vestige OF Jewish po!rtg
Thus was fulfilled Johns pTeGlc'i99 rir,t rs
! shall baptize you with the Holy SplI!SS -
' raelites indeed. beginning at Pentec0sO ., enI
| Cthe renainder) with fire. All not "a -,
| with the Holy Spirit. all not ADOPTED nus
] ~ che family Of God, received their share
| in the baptism of fire, troupie' VIZ, o..1 rs
| upon that nation, and to 1t the apostle re-
! i'no1 tSis neopIe that all things written IN
! the law and prophets concerning them sho ,o
| be fulfilled" Il Thess. 2:l5; MAUI o'I'' i''
A Double Work progressing
From the foregoing it will be perceived that at
tIiso-foid v,orl, worcestershire harvest OF
| the Jewish age and a preparatory NolH t.,i,or
| the gospel age. reading work anu se oi,a
| time as respecting the Jews anu tn ie $3.50,
| mont relationship to God, and simultaneously
/ the opening of the new dispensauoh' IN VIM, ia
| the middle wall Of PARTON between 5 1emS and
| Cantiles was in due course broken DOWN anu
| ali VINO received Christ, whether Je" oI 800
| tile bond or free, were accepted Oh lhe L-I
as members of the new mouse Vi 500 sorvants-
! took the place of the old house OF seIvanIs
1 .sNgoses verify was faithful as a servant over
/ ALI his house (of servants), but Cnrlst as a
son over his own house Gus. 'o dz sons; AS 81
! The parable of the wheat and the tares' tC
| which our text belongs, was a brief statement
by Lord of His work IN tne woTtu Ea laid
| in His redemptive work the work itselt prop
| erly began with the bestowal OF the Holy
| Spirit of Pentecost. Our LORD declares tna ma
1 ne soved the good seed of the Kingdom ana
| in harmony with this we find that he cor
/ tinually taught His disciples that the Jews
were riEat in their expectation OF the estao-
Ilishment of Gods Kingdom amongst man LOT
| the overthrow of sin and Satan ana Tor the
deliveranee and uplift OF Adam ana nus
But he instructed them that His Kingdom was
| not of this world, not an earthly Hnsuom'
and that His servants were not 10 ngnt VIII
weapons Of carnal warfare for the estaDnsh-
mont Of His Kingdom It would be established
at His SECOND coming in power ana greal
/ glory. 1t would have all power and to II every
would not Cypress, but would bless its sub
| iects and fully restrain its enemies, and ulti-
matelv destroy the impenitent I'll.
The Kingdom Come On Earth
Thus He taught His disciples, and us
through them. to pray for the coming klng9om
| as the Divine boon and blessing most desira-
HE. He said pray We, thy kingdom come
thy will be done ,o on earn kingdom was asso
| ciated with nearly all Of His promises TO Hls
| disciples: AS the young nobleman He would
| 90 to a far country and in due time woulo
return and reckon with His servants ana re-
| ward them according to their loving loyalty
and energy in His service. In His Kingdom
some of His glorified servants would De
| granted dominion over two cities. some over
| five some over ten and thus all would be
joint-heirs with Him in His Kingdom sharers
| of His throne partakers in His great work OF
uplifting Adam and his race out of their pres,
| emit fallen condition, mental. moral and
| physical-Luke 1872.
An Enemy Did This
| Our parabIe shows that the Lord and His
| faithful disciples sowed the good SEED Oh hlns-
| dom promises but that that subsequently our
| enemy Satan, over-sowed the field with
| treacherous and false doctrines. AS the true
doctrines bring forth the true wheat" class
suitable for the kingdom, and false doctrines
produce wrong characters, "tares,' which TO-
| day all ocer Christendom are so many that the
true wheat being choked out Indeed 50
Accustomed is the world to the high look of the
| tare class that the humble wheat are thought
peculiar and strange party OF unaesireOle S
| So closely intertwined the roots OF the
two classes that the great Reaper decided that
| there would be separation between them
until the harvest or end Of this age; because
to disturb such close relationship in life would
create a great commotion, such time OF
trouble would wreck present institutions
hence the Lords decision was, Let both grow
together until the harvest; the harvest is the
end of the age" At what time the great
commotion incidental to the complete separa-
great harvest of tares would be due and the
great time OF trouble incidental to the separa-
ton would find its proper place in connection
with the proper judgments with which this
age win end and the proper blowing expe-
riences of trouble with which the new dispen-
sation will be inaugurated.
We Are Now in the Harvest Time
Dear friends. in two Of the volumes of the
| Scripture Studies" which many Of you pos
sess. and / trust are studying, we have pre-
sented from the Scriptures the evidence that
the harvest of this Gospel Age is forty years
in length and that already considerable more
pointed out that this is the meaning and the
! favorable and unfavorable. which now
round the pathway of all Of the Lords people.
This is the explanation of the federation move
ment among the churches Of the trust move
ment among the wealthy and of the union
movement amongst the masses. The awful
time Of trouble which shortly as a plowshare
will prepare mankind for the new dispensation,
the Millenna Kingdom Of Christ and His
Church. is even now casting its shadow be-
fore. Already Lords prediction Of ii is
being realized. MEMS hearts are failing them
for fear and for looking after those things
which are coming upon the earth. Luke 81 :26.
The courageous are saying peace and safe
ty." but the scriptures declare that the con-
| summation of the age is upon us and that
nothing avert it, that the destruction will
come with suddenness ''as pangs upon a
gradually increasing in intensity until the new
Al ,f fN11su Con,