The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-12

of the ordinary affairs Of life would
have been diScontinued-and likewise
here The lesson is that as the world
did not know in Noah's day, so the
world will not know lin the days of
the Son of Man"-in the presence of
the Son of Man.
The field is the world. said our Lord,
in explaining one of his parallels. And
so we should interpret it here. The Lord
will gather some of his jewels from
the field; all not his jewels will be left.
Two will be grinding at the mill pre-
pairing 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 theologians will be taken and
some will be left in the selective pro-
ceGSes of the presence of the Son of
MANN the making up Of his jewels.
St Luke mentions another feature of
this discourse. There shall be two in
one bed the one shall be taken and
the other left, \ bed is a place for
rest, All churches profess to be rest
ing places. where the weary and heavy
laden rest through faith in God and in
his promises. The teaching. then, would
be that not all who are resting in the
churches of Christendom, in the creeds.
will be amongst the elect, the gathered
jewels. Some will be taken away from
these beds. Others will be left in
them. a vivid description of these
creed-bedS and their unsatisfactory
character is given us by the Prophet
isaiah xviii, 20,.
Watch That We May Know
Following these illustrations of his
presence and his work in the harvest
time of this Gospel Age the Master
eXhorts all of his followers to watch,
to be ready. to be on the alert, to be
on the lookout, that they may be ready
for his presence. that they may, in due
time, discern his presence and that
they may be gathered or separated
from the world and theological rela-
tionship aud from earthly church re,
lationship, to the Master himself.
Some very earnest Bible students be-
lieve that we are in this harvest pc
Rod now that the Son of Man. the
glorilied Messiah. invisible to men. is
even now present doing a searching
and separating work in his Church,
paratory to their change from earthly
to heavenly conditions and prepare
tory to the inauguration of the great
time of trouble, by which present in
situations will be blotted out to make
way for the Kingdom of righteousness,
for which we have so long prayed
Many Bible students believe that the
present unrest and sitting and shak-
ing amongst Christians and the creedS
of all denominations and the colleges
and SPminarinS are but incidental to
this work which the Son of Man. pres.
rnt amongst us. is accomplishing for
HE purpose Of fully separating to him
self his very elect. Whether this prep
osition be agreed to or not. the fact
still remains that thus matters will be
whenever the time shall come, when
ever the end of this age and the inau-
guration of the new shall take place.
His House to Be Broken Up
All of the foregoing suggestions are
confirmed by the symbolism Of the
43d verse Here the Master likens the
institutions of the present time to a
house or household Elsewhere he in.
forms us that Satan is the Prince of
this world. the over-ord who tyran
nizes the world. operating through the
weaknesses and passions and depraved
appetites and impaired reasoning fac
ulties of humanity. Had the time Of
the Lords Second Advent been clear
" made known that knowledge would
have so altered 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 he such a break
ing-up in earth's affairs as is now i'm
pending: the Kingdom would be estab-
I lished. but not in the way in which
| God designed.
In this verse our Lord likens his
second presence, unknown to the
world, to the presence of thief In a
house, unknown to its master, The
Lords saints in the world are his jew
els. These he will take away and the
loss to the world will be great. AS
the sanity ones will be gathered from
the field. from the mill and from the
bed into closer heart-union with the
Lord, those left in the world, the mill
and the bed. will be greatly disad
vantagcd-not because the jewel class