The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-09-27

more. Messiah's Kingdom will be
high above all other Kingdoms, not
only In its grandeur. majesty and au-
thority, but also in the lofty principles
which It will represent. Thus 1t is
written, HE shall lay righteousness to
the line and justice to the plummet
and the hail TRUTH shall sweep away
the refuge of lies" isaiah xviii. 10.
Nevertheless. as the world shall come
to appreciate the new order of things
all nations shall flow unto it, foso up
to it-contrary to the downwardness
of fallen human nature. 1t will make
manifest such wonderful rewards for
righteousness and obedience to God and
1t will so make manifest the stripes
that must attend all willful disobedi-
ence to the Divine arrangement that
the Scripture will be fulfilled which
declares that when the judgments of
the Lord are abroad in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness isaiah XVI, 81.
Humanity for six thousand years
has been learning 1.-The exceeding sin
fitness of sin," its downward tenden-
cy in every sense of the word Every
form of government has been tried in
an endeavor to secure the greatest
amount of blessing. But the uniform
results have been that those exalted to
place and influence and power have
proved themselves unequal to the op-
portunities and temptations of the po-
sitions and have abused them selfishly
Whoever is acquainted with history
realizes the truthfulness Of all this
If some of us have hoped that the gen.
eral education Of the masses and the
general enlightenment of the race
would abolish sin and selfshness and
demonstrate the truthfulness Of the
Proverb. Honesty is the best policy"
we are willing to confess that this has
been mistake. We perceive that the
greater the wisdom and intelligence
granted to selfish mind and heart
the greater will be its opportunities
for evil and Indictment thereto.
Every Man Against His Neiehbor.
As consequence the world is losing
confidence in itself. All, whether poll
ticians or judges or governors, great
or small, Of one party or another, of
one nationality or another-all are &C.
cused Of being tarred with the same
stick of self1shness. The Bible clearly
indicates that this distrust is not with
out reason and that the great time of
trouble soon to come upon every nation
Daniel xii. u will be the direct result
Of this loss of confidence. The Bibles
description of the matter briefly sum-
med up is, Every mans hand shall be
against his neighbor (Zechariah viii,
10; xiv. 13). 1t will be after that great
time Of trouble shall have thoroughly
sickened humanity as respects itself
and any hopes it might have had of
bringing about a Millennium by its
own efforts-that God will manifest his
Kingdom in the top of the mountains
higher than all other kingdoms every
way, and all people shall flow toward
it As 1t is written, 1.-THE desire of all
peoples shall come" Haggai ii, q.
This is described in the verse follow
ing our text which reads, "And many
people shall go and say, Come We, let
US go up to the mountain (kingdom) of
the Lord, to the house (temple) Of the
God Of Jacob; and he will teach us of
his ways and we will walk in his
paths, for out of Zion 1.-THE spiritual
unseen Kingdom of Messiah shall go
forth the Law and the Word of the
lord from Tary1Solom Tfha oao% ~
earth's empire to bel. And he shall
judge among the nations forwarding
and Furnishing JUSTLY, and shall re-
Duke many people; and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks. Nation
shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more"
All Christians agree that these words
apply to the Messiahs Kingdom They
tell us clearly and distinctly Of how
the judgments of the Lord will be
abroad In the earth, causing wars to
cease and the knowledge of the Lord
to fill the whole earth as the waters
cover the great deep isaiah xi, 81.
o, House of Jacob, comel
We have already noted that this
prophecy belongs to natural Israel and
not to spiritual Israel. AS the first
verse declares, it concerns judah and
Jerusalem. By the time this prophecy
will have begun to be fulfilled, spir-
itual Israel will be beyond the vale.
1t is In full harmony with this that
we read In the fifth verse, 20 house of
Jacob, Come We and let US walk in the
light Of the Lord" This is particular
~ the time when this message to nat
ural Israel should go forth. We I'M
derstand the Scriptures to teach that
during the next few years the Lord
will have special dealings with Israel
In connection with this call. He will
point out to them the way of righteous
ness and the great privileges that are
theirs as a people, because Of Divine
promises to their fathers, Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, etc. But only those
who respond by turning to the light
Of Gods Word to walk In 1t will be
in the proper condition Of heart and
obedience to promptly get the blessing
at the beginning of Messiah's reign.
Those most prompt to respond will get
the greater blessing
Verses 6-10 portray some Of the rea-
sons why Gods favor has been with
drawn for a time from natural Israel
aside from the fact that his special
favor was for the time to be given to
Spiritual Israel. Then follows de-
scription Of the time of trouble, In
which present institutions will sue
cumb, to be followed by Messiah's en-
pire. Let us read some of these verses
and note their applicability to our day
and the correspondence between these
statements and very similar pro-
nouncements In the Book of Revela-
ton, applicable also to the time in
which we are living. We will quote
and paraphrase from verse II to the
end Of the chapter.
What the Trouble VIII Accomplish.
The lofty looks of man shall be
humbled and the haughtiness of men
shall be bowed down; and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in thatday. Oneof
the greatest obstacles In the pathway
Of humanity, hindering approach to
truth and righteousness, is pride The
Almighty God is not sufficiently rev.
erenced. The very learned men Of all
our Colleges seem more and more to
doubt that there is God and that
the affairs of earth are subject to any
other regulations than those of chance.
except as the learned can regulate
them The time of trouble when the
various theories Of man will be tried