River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-09-29

fee and humiliation to learn their
lessons. Such as obtain the oil in
time will join the party that will go
in with the Bridegroom to the mar
riage feast. Then the door to that
High Calling will close forever.
Thank God that it is not as we
once supposed-that the door of
mercy is to close, shutting out the
foolish Virgins of the Church, to-
| gether with the whole world of man
kind; and, as we once supposed,
shutting them into eternal torment.
The parable merely shows that the
closed door will exclude any others
from coming into the Bride class, to
be joint-heirs with Messiah in his
Kingdom. The door will close be-
cause the full number elected and
predestinated to this high honor
will have attained the necessary
Observation-Disclosures of Christ and
will have stood the necessary test
ings.
AS no one of the Jewish priests
could ever serve as High Priest if
he had a superhuous finger or toe,
it is thus shown in the type that
the antitypical High Priest, the
Messiah, will have only a definite,
fixed number of members in his
neither one too few nor one
too MANY. Later on, the foolish
Virgins came to the door," but
found it forever shut. They lost
the great prize. They were foolish
in that they did not give attention
to getting the oil in time; foolish al
so in that they cared too much for
the things of this present life; but
they were Virgins, nevertheless.
They finally got the oil, which rep
resents the holy Spirit, but too late!
The door was shut! They could
not be of the Bride class. The
Master answered, l know you not.
l could not recognize you as my
Bride.
In view of this the Lord exhorts
that his consecrated followers OF
the Church or Virgin class be con-
stantly on the alert, because they
know neither the day nor the hour
, of the Masters coming and of the
invitation to go in to the wedding
The parable shows, however, that
although the time of the Master S
coming could not be known in the
past, nevertheless, it would be
known to all of the Virgin class,
''in due time" 1t will be announc-
, ed, as indicated in the cry. The cry
will be so loud that all of the Vir.
gins will hear it, even though the
world will have no knowledge of it.
The Master merely wished us to
would not be foretold in advance.
The parable does not show how
the foolish Virgins, excluded from
the wedding and from membership
in the Bride class, will be treated
Other Scriptures, however, show
that this foolish virgin class will
share with the world in great time
of trouble, which will then come to
every nation. In that time of trou-
BILE these foolish virgins will suffer
severely and Wash their robes and
make them white in the blood of the
Lamb" and thereafter be accounted
worthy to "serve God in his Tenn.
ple," though not worthy to be OF
the Temple. They will be account
ed worthy to serve before the
Throne, though not worthy to sit in
the Throne. They will be account.
ed worthy to have palms of victory
but not be accounted worthy Of
crowns of glory. The lesson to
Gods people is to Awake, to heark-
en-, to have our lamps, the Word Of
God, trimmed and burning, and tc
have oil, the holy Spirit, in our yes.
sels-to be living in an attitude o.
full conservation TO God (Revela
ton vii, 9, IA, 15).