The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

ed by the Priests ana the LeV1teS in
the type a. Jesus glorifed, the anti
typical High Priest, and his faithful
footstep followers, the antitypical I'M
esthood-otherwise his Bride"
Together these are styled a Royal
Priesthood or a Kingdom of Priests.
st. Paul tells us that Melchizedek, who
was a priest upon his throne, merely
typified the Church Triumphant-Head
and Body-The Christ, "a priest for
ever after the order of Melchizedek"-
a priest upon his throne. During the
Millennial Age that glorious Priest,
Head and Members, will bless and up
lift, rule and judge, the world of man
kind, with view to recovering as
many as possible, as many as will
obey him, 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 op-
portunities 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 in the Church
rresponding-styled "a great COM
pany, whose number no man know
eth" in that they were rot specially
predestinated. These less earnest, less
Jealous than the faithful "little flock"
will reach a plane of glory through
tribulation also, but with less joy.
These, we are told, will be with the
Bride as her companions. AS Levites
they will serve God in 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 men,
bers of the Body of Christ.
The Church Miltant'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
Y Il hot
which is sown in weakness shall be
raised in 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, SO
| 54). Surely such, having prayed, 'Thy
Kingdom come; thy will be done on
| earth as in heaven" are waiting fol
| 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, ever
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 "Wel
done, good and faithful servants; enter
We into the joys of your Lord. You
have been faithful over a few things
/ will make you ruler over many
things" in the Millennia
Kingdom glory and its dominion O.
earth for the uplifting of mankind
Union or Federation--Which?
l ask you, my hearers, and indirect
ly l ask the millions of my larger con
gregation whom address week.
through the public prints, What ad
vantage will accrue to the Church Mil
liant through the on-coming Fedora
ton? | reply that great advantag
will come to the sanity few, not in tn
manner expected but along the line
of the Divine promise that "All thing
shall work together for good to ther
that love God-to the called accordin
u
ton. which the Scriptures distinctl
show us will be effected. will includ
the various classes already Indicated
~ Hypocrites; (2) Moralists; CO Flo
lowers afar off; ca Saints.
But in the Federation the Moralist
and Higher Critics will be dominan
forces. The sanity will less than eve
be in evidence and appreciated. Th
outward and apparent success of tn
Federation will seem wonderful for
moment, but the results viii be disa.
trouS.
The sanity few, guided by God
Word and holy Spirit, will awaken
the true situation and become separa
ed from the nominal mass. Their mil
guided hopes as respects the bringin
about of a spiritual Kingdom on cart
/, will be thoroughly shattered. and, MOI
than ever, they will look to the Lor
as the source of help and wait for hi
Kingdom to come through the r.
deemer's advent and the Resurrectio
Change"
In word, Gods sanity people nee
no outward Federation, even as the
need no. credal fences. So far as thes
nre concerned, the sooner all barrier
between them are leaped and the
, come together as members Of OF
body, Joined to the one Heavenly Hea
: and Lord, the better. Let Churchian
ty produce its Federation and see II
= folly and failure, as outlined in OF