The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-02-16


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and to be smitten Oh both cheeks,
rather than to return evil for evil2
Where, then, comes In the fight? Who
are the foes? Surely none would as
sail NONRESIDENT!
We reply that the facts do not bear
out that suggestion Our Lord and his
apostles were peaceable and non-re-
sistant, obedient 10 kings and laws.
and yet they suffered violent deaths,
as well as stripes and Imprisonment.
They had their names cast out as evil.
And those who prosecuted and ma
ligned them verify thought that they
did God service. All who follow in
the Lords footsteps must expect SINH
lar treatment, because, as Jesus said.
"The servant Is not greater than his
Lord Marvel not, IL the world hate
you, We know that 1t hated me before
it hated You. IL ye were Of the world
the world would love his own; but be-
cause We are not of the world, but
therefore the world hateth you" Gohn
xviii, Is. l9l The Master said, 1.-THE
darkness lateth the light which ex-
plains why the chief religionists Of
his time, being OF wrong condition Of
heart. lnstignte his crucifixion They
were Of The darkness. living outwardly
holy. while In heart they were far
from consecrated to God. The very
holding up of the torch Of Truth was
painful TO them, reproved them and
excited their luminosity. Human ma
ture Is the same today. Notwithstand-
lug he fact that heretic-roasting has
become unpopular and intolerable to
the world there are methods of pri-
vatcly and symbolically roasting.
slashing wounding and killing prac-
tised by those estranged from God,
though sometimes highly esteemed OF
mea and wearing vcstments only
slightly less glorious than those worn
by Cniaphas and Plate
who Scourgeth Every Son."
The Scriptures explain that there Is
of his followers are required to suffer
for righteousness sake.
% Ii IL requisite to their own char
acknowledgment that they should not
only profess absolute loyalty TO God
and TO Truth, but that this loyalty
should he put to the test. Thus we
read Of our Lord that though holy,
harmless. Undecided he was proved
perfect in his loyalty by the things
which he endured-by his obedience
even unto death, even the ignominious
death OF the cross The same prlnci-
pie the Scriptures assure us, operates
in connection with all whom God Is
now calling to be Emmanuels associ
ates In the Mllennial Kingdom. They
must suffer with him II they would
reign with him. They must walk In
his steps Galatians v, II; vi. II; II
Thessalonians /, 3; II Timothy /. II:
II. 8, T.. hi. ID.
ca These experiences are designed
OF God to qualify us to be Judges of
the world during the Millennial Age
that the Christ. Head and Body may
be merciful and faithful towards the
people of earth. Likewise II is proper
| that the world should know that its
| Judges have thus been tempted and
tried. and are able to sympathize with
them in their weaknesses and In their
endeavors for Righteousness more
willing 10 help them up up. up TO hu-
man perfection than to consign them
to the Second Death.
Although this conflict has lasted for
more than eighteen centuries II has
not been long for any single individ-
ual. With the Master himself the trial
period was only three and half
years, On the whole, as compare
with cterii ty, the entire Gospel Age of
| Sacrifice as the Master said. is but
"a little while" And as for the a.
flctions and testings themselves. st,
| Paul gives the proper thought. saying,
that at most they are light Affections
but for a moment and not worthy To
be compared with the glory that shall
he revealed IN u.s." the ovcrcomers
NIomans viii. Isl
The Church Triumphant.
The Church in glory and In power
will contain no hypoeritcs and no
merely nominal Christians only the
true. the sanity. the "sanctihed In
Christ Jesus" Nevertheless II will be
composed of two classes. as illustrat-
ed by the Priests and the Levites In
the type. II, Jesus glorified. the anti
typical High Priest. and his faithful
footstep followers. the antitypical I'M
der-priest hood otherwise his Bride"
Priesthood or Kingdom Of Priests
st. Paul tells us that Mclchizedek. who
was priest upon his throne merely
typifed the Church Trlumphant-icad
and Rody-The Christ, "a priest for
ever after the order OF Melchizedek"-
a priest upon his throne. During the
Mtllennial Age that glorious Priest
Head and Members. will bless and up
lift. rule and Judge, the world of man
kind, with view to recovering ms
many as possible. as many as will
obey him, from the ruin Of sin and
death. During the Thousand years OF
the Melchlzedek reign all the families
OF the earth will be blessed with OPP
portunitics OF return to human perfec-
ton and to earthly Paradise. The
willing aud obedient will be destroyed
in the Second Death. At the close OF
the Millennium, Christ's Mediatoria
Kingdom will terminate.
As the I.eyites were much more nu
merous than their brethren, the priests
so there is another class in the Church
corresponding styled "a great com
pany, whose number no man know
eth," In that they were not special,
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