Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-04-27

faiIlfui. in association with the Lord
Jesus in his Millennial 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 landmarks Joel ii. 2Sl.
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 a foretaste
of Gods great favor towards Adams
race AS st. James declares ii. 49, the
Church is merely "a kind of frst-fruits
unto God of his creatures True. the
frst-fruits in this case is the very
choicest-our 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 a still greater outpourlng 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 N1illennial Age. not that the world
in general will be begotten of the
holy Spirit to a spirit nature like unto
our case. but the Lord has promised
to take away the stony heart and to
give heart of flesh to all the willing
and obedient of mankind during that
Millennial 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 be was created
perfect, upright, in the image and
| likeness of God. 1t was lost by sin
and displaced by a spirit of selfshness
| and sometimes by spirit of devilish-
ness. 1t will be the great work of that
| thousand years of Messiah's Kingdom
| to lift mankind out 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. It will be Christ on the
throne who will make all things new.
Supper In the 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. corresponded 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 50 that this year
Good Friday and Easter. according to
! the revised Episcopalian Calendar, oc-
CURED nearly month ago-March
1921. | feel sure that as long as |
live l shall not forget the blessed ex-
i perienccs of Friday evening and it's
memorial celebration, in this Upper
Room" of the great event which
means so much to the Church and to
the world-which symbolizes the pre-
cious sacrifice of Christ and also. as
the Apostle explains, symbolizes the
participation of all the faithful mem
bers of Christ in his sacrifce-in the
broken loaf and in the cup of which
we partake antitypically. May we.
dear friends. prove so faithful to our
conservation Vows that we will be in
Guided by our glorious Lord amongst
those who shall be counted worthy to
share also his cup of joy and glory
participation in his Millennial King
dom and his glorious work of blessing
all the families of the earth.