The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-08-09
PEOPLES PULPIT.
The Desire of
All Nations.
Z will shake all nations. and the
desire Of all nations shall come"
(Hasgai i. y.

as completely as 1t Is now done in
heaven. This is exactly what the
Scriptures declare-that sin and igno-
rance will be done away; that the
knowledge Of the glory of Gods char
acter will fill the whole earth. 1t
means a strong government exer-
cised for the restraint Of sin and for
the freeing Of mankind from slavery
to sin-the slavery of inherited weak
nesses entailed by Adams disobedi-
ence. The great Heavenly King, the
Son of David. who will do these things,
according to the Law and the Proph-
cts. will have many titles indicating
various features of his greatness He
shall be called Wonderful. Counsellor,
the mighty Elohim. the Prince Of
Peace, and the Father Qife-giver) Of
eternal life isaiah TX, 81.
He is called the Savior by the Proph-
ct Isaiah (xlv, 15), for he shall save
from their sins" and from the penalty
of sin all who shall become Ibis peo-
pie" And all who will wickedly re-
fuse his rule Of righteousness and his
assistance out of sin and death con-
ditions viii be esteemed wicked" in
the proper sense Of that word; and Of
these we read: "All the wicked will
be destroy
Love Righteousness-Hate lniquity.
We have had too much of hatred and
persecution because Of the differences
In our degrees of knowledge as ex-
pressed in our differences of belief
Let this cease. Let us unite in our
love for Righteousness and in our hatred
Of unrighteousness-in-equity. Let us
cultivate such sympathy for the com
ing reign of righteousness to be estab-
lished by Messiah (by whatever name
he and his Kingdom may be handed
down to usl that our characters shall
be more and more Influenced and
transformed by the prophetic view.
We are all agreed that Messiah's King
dom is nigh, even knocking at the door
Of the world. In the wonderful inven-
tons of our day we have the very fore
CLEANS of that Kingdom as outlined In
prophecy. The necessities of the case
also corroborate this: The tension be-
tween Capital and Labor will soon be
to its limit and break; the grasp Of
monopoly will soon be so strong that
the masses will be ground between
the upper and the neither mfllstones;
our high-tension living is calculated
soon to have our race In the mad
house; specialists say. within one cen
fury. Let US believe the Word of God
delivered by the prophets of old Let
us prepare our hearts for the Great
King and know that such will have the
chief blessing
"He Must Reign-Until."
According to the Bible the reign of
the promised Great King shall not be
an eternal reign. Eventually the do
minion Of earth originally given to
Adam and lost by disobedience and
consequent incapacity. is to be restor-
ed to such of Adams race as shall at
tain earthly perfection and Jehovah's
approval. Messiah's Empire viii be a
Mediatorial one and. according to the
Scriptures. will continue only one thou
sand years. But we are assured that
the period will be quite sufficient for
the great work to be accomplished.
Father Adam, after being sentenced
for sin-"Dying thou shalt die" expe
rienced the dying processes for $50
years. Contrariwise the world will,
under the Messiah's rule as King and
Priest (Melchisedek, Psalm OK, A.,
gradually rise up, up, up. out Of sin
and death conditions during a very
similar period of time.
Paradise restored will no longer be
garden merely, but the whole earth, as
Gods footstool. shall be made glorious
isaiah TX, 49,. The promises of God to
the children of Isaac and Jacob are
not heavenly or spiritual, but earthly.
From Genesis to Malachi there Is not
a suggestion of a heavenly or spiritual
calling. If Christians have heavenly
calling 1t is no cause for offense to
Mohammedans and Jews-neither of
whom have conflicting hopes. There
Is no need for confiict-every reason
for harmony.
"Times of Restitution"
Not only do the ancient prophecies
foretell coming blessings Of the Lord
upon Jew and Gentle, bond and free,
but the Law typified the same. Every
fiftieth year with the Jew was to be a
Jubilee year-a time of release from
debts and from all bondage. The les
son is that Messiah's reign will be the
great time of jubilation to men, to all
who will accept and obey his rule.
The cancellation Of debts represents
that God Through Messiah) will thus
cancel the debt Of Original Sin and set
free Adam and his race. All will then
be given a fresh start for life eternal
The setting free from bondage In the
Jubilee Year typed mans release from
the weaknesses inherited through
Adams fall. 1t will include the resur.
rection from the dead, the great pris.
on-house mentioned by the Prophet
isaiah Xxi, u.
If we see this great fact about to be
accomplished need we quarrel about
how it is to be done? Since it offers
blessings to all who love Gods RICH
teousness. why dispute over details
Shall we contend with God and his
plans and promises except to our in
jury? Let us rejoice with the Jew
God has decreed for the natural seed
of Abraham a glorious share In the
great work of blessing the world-tC
the Jew, first. this means blessing
to the others later! The Scriptures
clearly teach that Messiah will estab
lish the New Covenant with Jacob
natural Israel Let all who reverence
the Lord acquiesce In his arrange
ments. And If the Jews shall some da,
see that the Oath-Bound Promise t.
Abraham meant two seeds, let then
be glad and rejoice in their portion
II the great Messiah soon to be re
vealed in power and great glory b,
composed of many members" on TIN
spirit plane, what matters 1t to Jacob
all of whose promises are on tn
earthly plane? Moreover there Is NJ
room for jealousy anyway. for thes
"elect'' who shall be on the spirit plan
are of all nat1ons-the Jew being Their
given also the preferred place. Fur
thermore the select or ''elect' few ar
not either Christians or Jews In tn
ordinary usage of those words, bu
sanity, holy ones chosen by the Lor'
from every sect and party, because o
their love for righteousness and faith
fulness under trials.
al viii Shake the Earth"
The context shows us that THE d.
sire Of all nations will be realized a
the result Of a great shaking Of tn
heavens and earth and sea and a
nations. This is prophetic Of the grea
time Of trouble, with which the co
lapse Of present institutions will com