The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-19
AS A BLAsPHEMER
Matthew 20 i57-6S-November -.


sviled not again - Peter 223
| ing of Israel and all humanity. From
their standpoint, If "the suiferings of
| Christ were intended to prepare the
way and usher in His Kingdom OF
| glory then the program must have
failed, or else His Kingdom of glory is
10 be heavenly one and not, as they
! believe, in accord with the prayer
! taught by our Lord. Thy Kingdom
come; Thy will be done on earth"
! The trouble is that they will not real
ize that where the sufferings of
Christ. the Head, ended. the suffer
ings of the Body OF Bhrist" began
the sufferings of the Church, which
is His Body"-filling up the measure
of the Affections of Christ, which are
behind (Colossians /, 24). As soon
as the Church, the Body Of Christ"
shall have finished the bearing OF the
cross, after Him, following In His
steps TO the end of the journey then
the Kingdom glories will be ushered
| in. Israels blindness will be turned
away and the blessing of the Lord
will begin to fill the whole earth.
The Jews, who caused the cruel
| hXion OF Jesus, certainly did so in
much the same spirit which led ST
Paul-then Saul of Tarsus-to cause
the stoning of st. Stephen. AS Saul
was forgiven, so Israel is TO be for
| given; as the Scriptures declare, THE
Lord will pour upon them the spirit
of prayer and duplication, and then
they will see, with the eyes of their
understanding. Him whom they
pierced and they will all mourn for
| Him" (Iechariah xii, 10), and their
mourning will be turned into joy; for
as Joseph forgave his brethren, so
will this great antitypical Joseph of
| the throne Of earth freely forgive
those who caused His crucifixion.
Politics and SeIfshness as Religion.
| The Jews are not so different from
other people now, nor were they then.
History indicates that some of their
| highest Offices were held by irTelig-
ionists for their political influence;
thus the chief-priests. at the first ad-
vent of our Lord. was a Sadducee,
who wholly disbelieved in the prom
lses OF God to Israel, including a dis
belief in the resurrection of the dead.
Similarly today there are high-priests,
both amongst Jews and Christians,
who disbeIieve, and yet hold high po-
, sitions. Amongst Christians there
are ID. Dc who are unbelieYers and
many of the most notable rabbis
amongst the Jews also declare them
selves thorough unbelievers. We are
not claiming that such unbelieving
Christians and Jewish ministers
would lightly espouse and support an
unjust procedure against an innocent
man. We do not know about this. It
! has yet to g be tested. perhaps. We
do know, however. that when faith
in a Divine Revelation and in Di-
vine supervision of human affairs is
lost the natural effect is that the los
ers OF the faith become more and
more POLICEMEN and consider policy
the extreme OF human wisdom. par
ticularly in the guidance of affairs of
Church and State.
Taking history for IL that the lead
ers Of Judaism at the time Of our
Lord were higher critical unbelievers
! (Sadducees), we can readily see that
! their policy was to curry favor with
the Roman emperor and 10 seek TO
hold the common people in subjec-
ton TO themselves To these, then, it
must have seemed almost calamity
that poor man. although OF noble
DiTlh, VI lHt nanny VI DdNiu anu inc
Tribe of Judah should gather about
him a handful Of nondescript fisher
men. taxgatherers, etc; that he
should pronounce himself a king and
declare the setting up of his Kingdom
TO he near. and that by the exercise
of some supernatural power for the
healing OF their diseases he should
attract the common people to his
standard, but not the learned. We
can we'll imagine their reasoning that.
II this thing, the popularity OF Jesus,
continued 10 increase, II would short
ly reach the ears OF the Roman emA