The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-02-11

/ obey linn, from the ruin Of sin and
/ Death During the thousand years OF
the Melchizedek reign all the families
of the earth will be blessed with OPP.
portuHitieS of return TO human perfec
ton and to earthly Paradise. The
willing and obedient will be destroyed
in the Second Death At the close OF
| the Millennium, ChriSt's MediatOrial
Kingdom will terminate.
As the Levites were much more nu.
merous than their brethren, the priests
so there is another class i'm the Church
| correspondence "a great com
pany, whose number no man know
eth in that they were not specially
predestinated. These less earnest, less
jealous than the faithful "little flock,
| will reach a plane of glory through
| tribulati0n also. but with less joy
These we are told will be with the
Bride as her companions. AS l.evites
| they will serve God I'M his temple, but
| not be members of the temple class,
| the Priesthood. These will have palm
branches and be before the Throne,
while the Royal Priesthood will have
crowns and be in the throne as mem
bers Of the Body of Christ. ~.
The Church Miitant's Surrender.
| All the soldiers of the cross, ex-
periencing fightings without and with
| in against the powers Of sin and dark
ness and their own weaknesses, surely
| long for the time of their change" in
| the First Resurrection" They long
| for the time when this mortal shall
put on Immortality; when this cor
| ruptible shall have put on incOrrup-
ton; when we shall be like our Re-
deemer and see him as he is and share
| his glory. Gladly. therefore, do all
| of Gods consecrated people wait for
the blessed change promised at our
Lords Second Coming. when ,that
, which is sOwn in weakness. shall be
raised i'm power; when that which is
SOwn in dishOnOr shall be raised in
glory; when that which is SOwn an
| animal body shall be raised a, spiritual
body q Corinthians XIV, 42-44, 30
54). Surely such, having prayed, '"Thy
Kingdom come; thy will be done on
earth as in heaven" are waiting for
the King and Gods time for estab-
fishing his Kingdom for THE blessing
| of the world. No wonder the Apostle
wrote of these. yourselves also, which
have the first-fruits of the Spirit. even
we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
| redemption of our Body''-the Body of
Christ. the Church, through the power
of the First Resurrection" change.
This will be our glad surrender to the
| Church Triumphant, when we shall
hear the Masters voice saying, "Well
done, good and faithful servants; enter
We into the joys of your Lord You
have been faithful over few. things,
| will make you ruler over many
things"-participants in the Milennial
Kingdom glory and it's dominion of
earth for the uplifting of mankind
Il Corinthians vi, 2; Revelation ii, 2G).
Union or ederation-Which?
ask you, my hearers, and indirect
| ly I ask the millions of my larger con
greSatiOn whom | address weekly
through the public prints What nd
vantage will accrue to the Church MIL
liant through the On-cOming Fedora
ton? l reply that great advantage
will come to the sanity few, not in the
| manner expected, but along the liHes
of the Divine promise that ''.All things
shall work together for good to them
| that love GOd--tO the called according
to his purpose" The Church Fedora
| ton, which the Scriptures distinctly
show us will be effected, will include
the various classes already indica ted
% Hypocrites; CO MOralists; CD Fol
lowers afar off; (4) Saints.
But in the Federation the MOralists
and Higher Critics will be dominant
forces. The sanity will less than ever
be in evidence and appreciated. The
outward and apparent success Of the
Federation will seem wonderful for a
moment, but the results will be disas-
trOus.
The sanity few, guided by God 5
Word and holy Spirit, will awaken to
the true situation and become separat-
ed from the nominal mass. Their mis-
guided hopes as respects the bringing
about of a spiritual Kingdom on earth
will be thoroughly shattered, and, more
than ever, they will look to the Lord
as the source of help and wait for his
Kingdom to come through the Re-
deemerS advent and the Resurrection
Change"
In word, Gods sanity people need
no outward Federation, even as they
need no credal fences. So far as these
are concerned, the sooner all barriers
between them are ,leaped and they
come together as members of one
body, Joined to the one Heavenly Head
and Lord, the better. Let Churchiani-
ty produce its Federation and see it's
folly and failure, as outlined in our
text. But let the saints of God draw
near to him and to each other in a
spiritual Union and realize to the full
| the meaning Of the Apostles words,
Zone faith: one Lord; one BAPTISM
one Church Of the Living God whose
names are written in heaven" This
condition cannot be attained through
outward bonds, but can be attained
only through drinking into the one
Spirit Obtainable through the proper
understanding Of the Word of God.
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