The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-11-11

tirely invisible 10 men, recognizable
only by outward signs Of his presence
and known only 10 the sanity few Of
humanity.
( This feature Of the lesson is yelled
from the eyes Of the average Bible
student by mistranslated word. The
Greek for the word coming In verses
81 and 30 Is pdrOusid, which does not
mean coming, but should be rendered
presence. as Of one who has already
come.
"ln the Presence Of the Son Of Man"
/ This gives us a stupendous thought
The great King Of kings will for
time be present amongst men, In
visible. unknown, except by very
few Of his saints, to whom his pres
ence will be revealed through the
knock Of prophecy and the opening Of
the eyes OF their understanding to ap-
preciate fulfillments, Everything will
continue as ordinarily eating,
drinking, planting, building and mar
rying. "as II was ia the days OF Noah"
Had the world known In Noah's day
the climax OF trouble impending many
I Of the ordinary affairs Of life would
/ have been northumberland likewise
here The lesson is that as the world
. did not know IN NOah's day, so the
world win not know Sin the days Of
the Son Of Marin 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 win
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 win be taken and
some will be left, in the selective pro
cesses Of the presence Of the Son Of
! MANN the making up Of his jewels
81. Luke mentions another feature OF
this discourse. There shall be two in
one bed; the one shall be taken and
the other left. A bed is place for
rest All churches profess to be rest
ing places, where the weary and heavy.
laden rest through faith in God ana in
his promises The teaching, then, would
be that not all who are resting In the
churches Of Chrlstendom, In the creeds,
win be amongst the elect, the gathered
jewels. Some viii be taken away from
these beds. Others will be left in
them. A vivid description Of these
creedbeds and their unsatisfactory
character is given us by the Prophet
isaiah xviii, 20D.
Watch That 70 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, and from earthly church re-
lationshlp, 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
glorIAed Messiah invisible to men, Is
even now present doing searching
and separating work In his Church,
gathering his saints unto himself pre-
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
stitutlons win he 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 seminaries are but incidental to
this work which the Son Of Man, pres
snt amongst US, is accomplishing for
he purpose Of fully separating to him