The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-06-28


It'll What mean these sectarian di-
visions amongst you? Why are there
so many Church edifces and so few
sanity worshipers? Who authorized
you to put these creedal fences be-
tween my people to divide the flock?
Know We not that said. there is one
flock and one Shepherd? Why have
you so neglected the spiritual interests
Of my flock and their instruction in
righteousness? Why are you so unable
to rightly divide my Word?
Instead of coming together as one
Church Of the Living God whose names
are written in heaven you have divided
into hundreds of sects and partiesI In
stead of taking my Word as whole
and rightly dividing its teachings as
between the different ages and dispen-
Stations of my work, you have divided
my Word in sectarian manner. One
sect has made one selection from my
Word and another sect has made an
other selection. Thus We array one
part of my Word against another part
Of it, and hence get into confusion
and conflict. What have you to answer
for these things?
With shame of face we must all ac-
knowledge that I'VE have done those
things which we ought not 20 have
done and have left undone those things
which we ought to have done, and
there is no help In u.s." The proper
thing for us to do, dear Christian
friends, is to get down upon our knees
before the Lord and in contrition of
heart to acknowledge that we have
wrought no deliverance in the earth
isaiah XVI, 49,; that our sectarian
differences are our shame; that the ig-
norance that we have all been in re-
specting the Word of God is humil-
iating. Now that our eyes are open
so that we can comprehend as never
before the harmony of Gods message
from Genesis to Revelation, it means
a rich feast and blessing to our souls.
The Word of God becomes more pre-
cious to US daily as we become able
to comprehend it. Our duty is to fly
to the assistance of our dear brethren
and sisters in Christ, of all denomina-
tons, and to call upon them to join
with us In a determined stand for
righteousness, for Truth, for God and
for his Word.
We must show them that ignorantly
we and they have dishonored our God
by Misrepresentation Of his character
and Misrepresentation Of the real
teachings of the Bible. We must point
them to the fact that the Bible does
not teach that all mankind except the
ELECT" saints will be consigned to an
eternity of torture at the hands Of fire
proof demons. We must show them
that the election of the Church during
this age--a sanity little fiock-does moi
mean injury to the non-elect. That
on the contrary, 1t is the Divine pur-
pose that the elect saints with their
great Redeemer in glory shall cOnsti-
tute Gods Kingdom. That his King
dom when established will bind Satan
put down sin, Danish ignorance, error
and superstition and uplift mankind by
restitution" by resurrection processes
up, up, up, to all that was lost in
Eden by disobedience and to all Sc
cured for Adam and his race through
the great transaction at Calvary (Acts
iii, 1920.
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth"
Alas, how many intelligent people
have turned aside from following
Christ and from hearing the voice OF
God through the Bible! Alas, how
many are looking to Theosophy. ia
Spiritism. to Christian Science. to
Higher Criticism, to Evolution-wan-
dering farther and farther daily from
the faith once delivered to the saints"
Jude liz. We fault them no more
than we fault ourselves. As whole
we have been i00rkmen tOh0 need to
be ashamed We have dishonored God
through misunderstanding and misrep-
resenting his Word and his Character.
We have driven away from God and
the Bible some Of the most intelligent
of our fellows, by reason of the con-
Trajectory nonsense of our creeds.
The Apostle urges, "Study to show
myself approved unto Cod" We are
not to suppose. therefore, that the
highest of all science, that which per-
tains to the Divine purpose and the
Divine plan, can be acquired without
study. We are not in this claiming
that study alone would bring the de-
sired results of proper knowledge. We
heartily agree in the Scriptural prop
osition that "the world by wisdom
knows not God" We are not there
fore to study along the lines of world
ly wisdom, but along the lines of ''that
wisdom that cometh from above
along the lines of the inspired Scrip
lures. We must study Whoever will
not study will not know. 1.-THE secret
of the Lord is with them that rever-
ence Him." And reverencing him
means the giving Of our best thoughts
and talents to the study of his Word,
that we may 'know the things freely
given to us of God" q Corinthians IL
10.
We should note further as Bible stu.
dents that we must not study to be ap-
proved of men, but to have the Divine
approval. This will bring to us, as il
did to the Master and bis apostles, the
disapprobation of the worldly-wise and
nominally religious. 1t was the Chief
Priests and Scribes and Pharisees, and
not the common people of the Jews, mol
the Roman soldiers, who were guilty
of the crucifixion of our Lord. And
we must expect similar conditions, be
cause, as the Apostle says, "As he was
SO are we In this world" The class
who called the Master Beelzebub is the
same class which will oppose his foot
step followers.
= God permits all this with wise and
loving foreintention. Nothing connect
ed with the opposing forces is in any
sense Of the word interfering with his
great Program. He set apart with Di
vine wisdom this Gospel Age of nearly
nineteen centuries for the sole purpose
Of selecting from the world ''tht
Church of the flrstborns"-the antityp
ical Priests and Levites. The restric
ton Of his message, the darkening Of
counsel, the clashing Of creeds, the op
position Of the world, the flesh and thu
Devil, are all wisely permitted will
the foreintention on Gods part tha
thus all through the Age the way o.
the cross-in the footsteps Of Jesus
should be a marrow way" so tina
comparatively few finding it would
care to walk in it.
1t is those few, that little flock
jealous for God, for his Word, To-
righteousness, that he is now marking
out as the prospective joint-heirs will