Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-09

trouble which will follow, vet tc On.
tir"ly invisible I" men. rcrogniZa bic
only by outward sie..s of his presence
and known only to the sanity few OF
humanity.
This feature of the lesson is yelled
from the eyes OF the average Bible
student by mistranSlated word The
Greek for the word coming I'M verses
- and J? IS parouSia, which does not
mean coming, but should be rendered
presence. as OF n:ic who has alread \
come.
"ln the Presence of the Son of Man"
ms gives us Il StupcndouS thought
The great King of kings will for Il
time be present amongst men. in
visible, unknown. except by a very
few Of his saints, to whom lis pres
"nce viii b" revealed through tie
knock .: prophecy and the opening Of
the eyes of their understanding to :lp-
precietc flltillments. Everything " Ill
continue as ordinarily the eating.
driniHng. planting, building and mar
rNing as it vas in the days of Noah. =
Had the world known in Eoal's DAY
the climax Of trouble impending many
~ the ordinary affairs OF life would
have been diScon.inucd--ani likcwis..
here. TIE lesson is that as the world
did not know in Eoah's day, so the
world will not know lin the days of
the Son OF Man'-in the presence of
The Son of Man.
SAVAGE-TUESDAY, NOV. 8
The field is the world, said our Lord
IN explaining one Of his parallels. And
so VIC should interpret it here. The
Lord Will gather some of his jewels
from the field; all not his jewels will
bc left. Two will be grinding at the
mill preparing food for the household:
one will be taken and another left.
The Lords household is the Church
and the mills which prepare the food
for the Church are theological. The
intimation is that some thcOloeians
VIII he taken and some will he left in
the selcctivc processes nv the presence
of thu. son of Man in the making I'D
Of his Jewels
st. Luke mentions another fratur, of
this discourse. There shall be two in
one ced the one shall be taken and
the other left. 4 bed is I: place for
rest All churches profess to be rest
irS places where the weary and heavy
laden rest through faith in God and in
hie promises. The teaching, then,
W0ul:l be that not all who are resting
in the churches OF ChriStendom in the
CreeGs. viii be amongst the elect. the
gathered jewels. Some will he taken
away from these beds. Others will he
left in them. A vivid description of
these creed-hedS and their unsatisfac-
tory character is given US by the
Prophet Nsaiah xviii, 20O.
Watch That Ye May Know
Following these illustrations of his
presence and his work in the harvest
time of this Gospel Age the Master
"XhortS All OF his followers 10 watch,
tC be ready. to be on the alert, to be
on the lookout that they may b" ready
for his presence, shat they may, in due
II no, discern his presence and that
they may be gathered or 81 paratcd
f. m the world and theological rela-
tionship, and trom earthly church re-
lationship. t. the Master himself
Some very earnest Billie students ne
icNc that we are in this harvest period
now; th3t the Son of Man. the glori-
fled Messiah invisible to men, is ever
now present doing searching and
separating work in lis Church, gather
ing his saints unto himself preparatory
10 their change from earthly 10 htav
cnlr conditions and preparatory to the
Inauguration of the great time If
trouble, by which present institutions
will be plottcd out to make way for
the Kingdom of righteousness. for
which We nave so long prayed. Many
Bible students believe that the present
unrest and sitting and shaking
amongst Christians and the crerds OF
all denominations are the colleges and
selninaries are but incidental to this
work which the Son of Man, present
amongst us, is accomplishing for the
purpose of fully separating to him
self his very elect. Whether this prop
osition he agreed to or not. the fact
still remains that thus matters will be
whenever the tim" shall come, when
ever the cnd of this age and the inau-
guration OF tic new shall take place.
His House to Be Broken UP
All of the for, going suggestions arc
confirmed By the symbolism of tho
43d verse. Her" the Master likens tho
hous., or household. Elsewhere he in
forms US that Satan is the Prince of
this world the over-lnrd who tyran-
niznS the world. operating through the
Weaknesses and passions and dcpraved
appetitce and impaired reasoning fac
ulties oi humanity. Had the time Of
the Lore $ Second Advent been clear
ly made known that knowledge would
have so alteEed matters and affairs
that the world would not have been
taken by surprise in connection with
| the gathering Of the Lords jewels and
| the establishment of his Kingdom and
| thus there would not be such a break
| ing-up in earth's affairs as is noW i'm
pending: the Kingdom would be ostab-
lishcd. but not in the way in which
| God designed.
In this verse our Lord likcns his
! second presence. unknown to thf
worl6. t" the presence of a thief in 2
house. unknown tc its master. The
Lords saints in tn" world are his Jew
els. These he will take away and tht
loss to the world will be great -Ns
the sanity ones will, be gathered from
the fold. frorI the mill and from the
bed into closer heart union with the