The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-12-20


We report his ad-
dress from these words of Scripture:
"And Isaac brought Rebecca into his
mother Sarah's tent, and she became his
wife and he loved her."-Genesis xiv, 81.
When we sometimes speak of Abra-
ham, Isaac and others as types we
should not be understood to mean that
they were merely types-that the BIZ
Bile stories respecting them are fic-
tons. A person or thing is a type
when. in addition to the actual expe-
riences, the Scriptures indicate that 1t
prefgures and illustrates on a small
scale some person or things yet fu-
ture. As, for instance, Adam In GER
tain respects, as the head of the race,
was a type of Messiah. the Second
Adam
The first Adam was the head of our
race, but failed to give the eternal life
desired In Gods providence Messiah
is to be the Second Adam, in the sense
that he will regenerate, as his chill
dren, all the posterity of the First
Adam. Messiah is thus declared in
prophecy to be the Everlasting Fa-
ther Of mankind-the Father or Life
giver. better than Adam, and who will
give to our race everlasting life, in
stead of heritage of weakness, imper-
lection and death.
Similarly, Moses not only was a real
character, the leader of the nation of
Israel, but, additionally, he was a type
Of a greater Mediator-Messiah. As
Moses mediated the Law Covenant for
Israel, so Messiah, the Prophet like
unto Moses, or antitypical of him
(Acts lii, 23), is to be the Mediator of
Israel's New Covenant, under which
the Abrahamic blessings will reach
them and through them reach all the
families of the earth Ger. XXI. 81.
Similarly, Aaron was a type of the
higher priesthood and it's better sacri.
fees connected with the New Cove
nant. So, also. the under-priests and
the Levites, additional to their own
experiences, served, in Gods provi-
dence, as types of the higher institu-
tons by which the New Covenant will
be inaugurated shortly.
On this occasion we ask your atten-
ton to Abraham, known in the Scrip
lures as the friend of God, as the
father of the faithful, and to his son
Isaac, the Son of Promise, born out of
the natural order. miraculously, when
his mother was old; also to Isaac's
wife, Rebecca, selected by Abraham
to be the companion and joint-heir
with his son Isaac in his inheritance.
These personages lived their lives
wholly unconscious Of the fact that
God was using them and over-ruling
their affairs so as to make of them
prophetic pictures of his own great
Plan of the Ages. These type-pictures
are always to be read in full harmony
with the inspired writings Of the Bible
and never to be understood in contra
diction of the same.
Abraham Type Of God.
Not everything that Abraham did,
however, is to be esteemed typical In
general way this grand man of the
past looms up before our minds as a
monument Of faith and integrity and
justice. The blessings promised to go
through him to his Seed, which would
constitute him the father of many ma
lions, made of him. as St Paul points
out, a type of the Almighty, from
whom flows every good and every per
feet gift-from whom proceeds the
blessing which ultimately is to flow
through Messiah, his Son, and through
Israel, his people. unto all the families
of the earth
All Christians, presumably, are aware
Of st PauPs Interpretation of Abra-
ham and his family as types. As
Abraham typified God, so his wife
typif1ed the Covenant through which
the vitality of the promise ultimately
develops the Seed of Promise-Isaac In
a type, and Messiah in the antique.
st. Paul also explains that Sarah's serv-
ant. Hagar. at Sarah's wish, became
for time her representative with
Abraham and brought forth Ishmael
Hagar, st. Paul explains, typifed the
Law Covenant, vitalized by the gra-
cious arrangements of the same God
and Father. And Hagar's son, lit
orally Abraham's first-born, typified
the Jewish nation, the first develop
ment under the Covenant
AS Abraham loved Isaac and desired
a blessing upon him. SO God loved Is
rael and desired a blessing upon Israel,
the offspring of the Law Covenant
Nevertheless. as Ishmael, the offspring
Of the bondwoman, was declared not
to be the primary heir Of the Abra
hamic promise. but secondary one.
so the children of Israel. the offspring
OF the Law Covenant, were not intend
ed to be the Spiritual Messiah through
whom the promise declared that the
blessing should first proceed.
In the type. we see that Sarah, Abra-
hams wife, who represented the origi-
nal Abrahamic Covenant brought forth
a son Of her own. Isaac, long years
after the bondmaid. her substitute
had brought forth Ishmael. When
Isaac was born, Sarah repudiated Ish,
mael and no longer acknowledged him
as her son, but, instead, claimed every
thing for Isaac. The antitype Of this
Is that from the time that God began
the development of the Spiritual Israe
and set forth the Covenant by sacri
fce," through which this Spiritual Is
rael would be developed-from that
time 1t began to be clearly manifest
that the chief portion of the promise
of God to bless the world was not tc
be fulfilled through the Ishmael Seed
natural Israel, but through the Isaac
Seed-Spiritual Israel.
The Well Spring of Hope For the Jews
From the first there was manifested
a competition for the Abrahamic bless
ing. And as Ishmael Knocked at the in
FAINT Isaac, so the Jew, in his consider
able development and strength, Knocked
at the Antitypical Isaac-Jesus and his
comparatively ignorant and unlearned
followers-and prosecuted them. In or
der to continue the type, that Abraham
might typify God, he was commanded
to send forth Hagar and her son into
the wilderness. That sending forth
typifed the Divine disfavor which
came upon the Jews eighteen centuries
ago and which has made them outcasts
from Gods favor, as Hagar and Ish
mael were cut of from Abraham's
presence and family and care. The
bread and water which Hagar took
with her. by which she and Ishmael
were nourished In the wilderness fol-
time, pictures and types the promises
Of God through the Law and the
prophets which still belong to the Jew
and upon which. for eighteen centuries
he has been nourished. and without