The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

amongst mankind a "Reyal Priest
hood" to be associated with the great
Redeemer in his Mediatorial Kingdom.
They have heard that call went forth
to this effect eighteen centuries ago,
inviting, first of all, the Jews who were
ready and willing to accept this very
highest favor of God-joint heirship
with his son in the spiritual Kingdom
which Is to bless mankind in general
by and BY They have heard that to
attain membership in this Royal
priesthood means the attainment of
the Observation-Disclosures of Jesus, to be-
come copies OF Gods dear Son tRom-
ans viii, 2e). This implies, as its cost.
the sacrifice of earthly interests. They
have heard the message of the Lord.
not only inviting to the glories of the
kngdom, but also informing them
that the way to the crown of glory
is a narrow and difficult one. They
have heard the voice of the Master.
saying, sit down first and count the
COST, before you undertake such a
rifioe of your earthly interests. mo
man having put his hand to the pillow
and looking back would be fit for the
klngdom"-fit for a place on the
throne as a joint heir with Christ
Luke TX, SD. They heard the further
expression of st. Paul to all who would
become joint heirs with Christ in his
Kingdom assuring them that If they
him. 's'--
Beloved, Let Us Cleanse Ourselves.
we doubt not that as the Heavenly
tather and our Lord Jesus so loved
the world as to provide the great sac
r1f1ce for sin. so st. Paul loved the
worid-and all others of Gods peo-
PIE must have sympathetic love for
the world; But when we think of those
VINO are dearly beloved by the Father
and by the Son and by the apostles
ana by each other, we think of the
special class of conseerated saints who
scfipturally are described as of no
chareS Of sect or the party t but as
names are written in Heavens
they, have the mind of Christ, which
is also the mind of the Father. Ac-
lovely or beautiful. ST. Paul else
where admonishes us that amongst
these dearly beloved are not many
great, not many wise, not many noble,
not many rich, but chiefly the ignoble
and the poor of this world. Their
riches and their nobility are not of the
flesh, but of the spirit, of the heart. of
I the new will. to which they have been
bsgotten of God by. the Holy Spirit.
for, in the preceding verse, he speaks
| of these dearly beloved" ones as
sons and daughters" of the Lord,
children of the Almighty-hence. be-
6ShsSA again VI tIlo 11Oly squirt new
creatures in Christ Jesus (II Corin-
thians v. I'D. All. how wonderful it
seems that there should be such a class
as this in the world yet not separated
from the world. except by their new
| Spirit. These are in the world, but
not of the world, as the Master de-
clared. These have died to worldly
aims and objects and have become
| alive toward God through the Holy
| Spirit and through the quiekening in
| huenees of Gods exceeding great and
precious promise given unto them.
| Gods purpose respecting them Is that
they may be transferred from human
nature to spirit nature-from particle
/ patton with the world in the bless
| ings coming to 1t to receive instead
| honor and Immortality attaching
| thereto, as "new creatures sons OF
the Highest Gil Peteri, ~.
Christian "Filthiness of the FTesh.''
Having located definitely the class
addressed by the apostle, ''the saints
(II Corinthians i, -, let US note how
and why it Is necessary that saints
should receive such an exhortation
respecting the cleansing of their fest
from hlthiness? Could one be saint
and yet have flthiness of the flesh?
We reply that these saints, begotter
of the Holy Spirit, win not be perfect
ed as New Creatures until they expert
enee the Change of the First Resur-
retien." Meantime they have tbs
! treasure of the Divine nature, the HOLY
, Spirit, the first fruits of their inherit
. ance in imperfect human bodies. 1t Il
! not the flesh that Is begotten again b,