The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-28

risen IOru WAS no longer merely
man, but that he had experienced
change in his resurrection. so that now
! he was spirit being and could go ant
come like the wind-appearing in
body of flesh when his purposes so de
manded. lie gave proof of this by
vanishing out of their sight, dissolving
| the body of flesh and bones and the
clothing as easily as he had created
them and by the same Divine power.
The Pentecostal Blessing.
The glorified resurrected Jesus re-
manned with the infant Church for
| forty days, watching over their inter
ests. On four or five occasions he APP
peared to them again in different forms
and for the further incubation of the
great lesson that he was risen and
changed, henceforth a spirit being
| Then he assembled up on high to ap-
pear in the presence OF God on behalf
| OF his faithful ones first, as later on
he will appear in the interest OF the
world The Fathers recognition Of
the merit of his sacrifice, applied ION
! our behalf" was manifested by the
importation of the holy Spirit on Pente-
cost day. Traditionally this same won
derful upper room" witnessed that
outpouring of Divine blessing and
favor. which came only upon conse-
Grated believers and has come upon
the same class, and upon none other,
from that day unto ths-begetting
them individually by the holy Spirit
to the divine nature with its promises
Of glory. honor and Immortality to the
faithful, in association with the Lord
Jesus in his Mlllennial Kingdom.
That blessing was a partial fulfil.
ment Of the Lords word through the
Prophet Joel, namely of that portion
which says. I'm those days will pour
! out OF my Spirit upon my servants
and upon my handmaids" Goel H. PSI.
We are glad, dear friends, that what
occurred at that first Pentecost and
what has continued all through this
Gospel Age, of Pentecostal blessing
upon each individual member OF the
Body Of Christ. is merely foretaste
Of Gods great favor towards Adams
race. AS st. James declares ii. 49, the
Church is merely "a kind OF first-fruits
unto God of his creatures" True, the
first-fruits in this case is the very
choicest-0ur Lord. the glorious Head
and High Priest. and his sanity fol
lowers the antitypical under-priests of
the Royal Priesthood. But a great
blessing is yet to come, for there shall
come IA still greater outpouring of
Gods Spirit as mentioned in the same
prophecy in the words, after those
days, saith the Lord, | will pour out
my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons
and your daughters shall seek for me,
and your young men shall see actually
what your ancients dreamed Of"
This will have its fulfillment during
the Millennial Age, not that the world
in general will be begotten of the
holy Spirit to spirit nature like unto
the angels and like unto Christ. as in
our case. but the Lord has promised
to take away the stony heart and to
give "A heart OF flesh to all the willing
and obedient Of mankind during that
bIillennial Day. In SUCH a right spirit
shall be renewed as they become Obedi.
ent to the gracious arrangements OF
Messiah's universal Empire and that
right spirit in man. that right DISPOSE.
ton will be the holy Spirit-God' s
Spirit or disposition. 1t was given to
man originally when he was created
perfect. upright in the image and
likeness of God. 1t was lost by sin
and displaced by a spirit OF selfishness
and sometimes by II spirit of devilish
ness. 1t will be the great work of that
thousand years of MesSiahs Kingdom
to lift mankind ont of sin and selfish
! ness and death and TO restore the will
ing and obedient to all that was lost
in Adam and redeemed by the merit
OF the sacrifice at Calvary. With the
close of the Millennial Kingdom God
shows us that all who will not have
attained to the possession OF his holy
Spirit will be destroyed in the Second
Death. Then there shall be no more
signing, nor crying. nor dying, no more
sin, no more sorrow, for all the former
things OF sin and death shall have
passed away. 1t will be Christ on the
throne who will make all things new.
Supper In tho Upper Room.
In closing we ask that in connection
with what we have just said respect
ing this Upper Room and the bless.
ings here conferred, you do not for
get the special privilege which some
twenty or thirty of us enjoyed in this
same room on Friday evening last
We remind you afresh that that even
ing, after six o'clock. correspondent to
the night in which our Lord with his
disciples first celebrated the memorial
of his own death with the loaf and
with the cup, additionally in this same
Upper Room" incidentally we remark
that the early Christian Church used
this same Jewish reckoning in the an.
nual celebration of our Lords death
and resurrection, but that, later on
the method of calculating the date was
slightly modified so that this year
Good Friday and Easter. according to
the revised Episcopalian Calendar, oc.
Cured nearly Il month ago-March
1921. feel sure that as long as |
; live l shall not forget the blessed ex.
perlenccs of Friday evening and its
memorial celebration, in this Upper
3 ROOM" of the great event which
means so much to the Church and to
the world-which symbolizes the pre-
ci0us sacrifice OF Christ and also, as
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