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

typical i4-sl Priest. should trim the
lamp of Iivine Truth that the light
might shine out to all of his people,
all Of his members" all of the Royal
Priesthood" all who are III the con-
secrated condition Of heart, symbolical-
~ represented by the holy" of 1srael's
Tabernacle
Mark how gently and how wisely
the Lord permitted the light to shine
in gradually upon his faithful few.
The eyes of their understanding must
not be blinded by an instantaneous
fash. Gradually, as they were able
to bear it, the good tidings of his
resurrection from the dead to glory.
honor and immortality on the divine
plane must be made known to them.
The first limitations were from the
women of the company who had gone
with spices, after the high day." on
the morning of the third day to COM
plete the work of embalming the Lord.
They reported first, that he was gone
from the sepulchre, and secondly. that
they had seen some angels who told
them that he was risen from the dead
And later Mary had reported that she
had seen the Lord and clasped him by
the feet and that he had said to her,
Il am not yet assembled to my Father;
but go to my brethren and say unto
them, | ascend unto my Father, and
your Father; and to my God. and your
God John Xxx, 10. Jesus said to tell
the disciples that he would meet them
in Galilee. as he had said to them
before. These bewildering experiences
were merely leading gradually on. pre-,
pairing the disciples for the fuller
knowledge of the facts.
1t was the same day corresponding
to tomorrow afternoon) that the Lord
overlook two of the sOrrowing disci-
pies as they walked into the country
to spend the night. Here again he
would not shock them and ,overpower
them by vision of his glorious pres
ence such as smote down Saul of Tar
Sus on his way to Damascus. shining
above the brightness of the sun at
monday on the contrary he as
sumed body of flesh and travellers
clothing and talked sympathetically
with the two sorrowing ones. After
hearing their woes and sorrows he
must have astonished them with his
knowledge Of the Scriptures, as we'll
as by his sympathy, saying to them,
20 foolish and slow of heart to believe
all that the prophets have spoken!"
duke xiv, 80 They had been willing
to believe something of what the
Prophets had spoken-the glorious
things, the happifying things pertain
| ing to Messiah's MilleRAdal glory. But
they had been slow to believe the
| prophets other testimonies to the eff
| feet that the Redeemer must be led
as a Lamb to the slaughter" must be
| the sin-offering, must be despised and
rejected Of men. must be lifted up on
| the cross as the antitype of the ''brazen
serpent" and must be raised from the
! dead by the power of the Father to
the glory, honor and immortality Of
his great station as Prophet. Priest,
Mediator, King. the antitype of Mel
chizedek, for the fulflment to Israel
and the world of all Of Gods great
promises
Then said Jesus. in view of these ex
positions, Ought not Christ to have
suffered these things and to enter into
his glOry?' What else should be ex
pected? Did he not foretell his own
death? And did he not foretell his own
resurrection? And were you not toe
confused to understand his teachings
to the full? Did not your minds run
more to the coming glory than to what
| he said to you respecting the necessity
that you should watch and pray lest
We enter into temptation" and lose all
your part and hope under these trying
conditions? A little later, in the same
day. he appeared in the upper room, "
additionally this very room-the doors
being shut for fear of the Jews-bar.
red. we may be sure, because the poor
disciples felt that the envy and hatred
| which had led to the crucifixion of the
Master might easily be transferred
now to them because of their Sympa.
thy with him and their relationship tC
his work. Here Jesus materialized in
their presence and spoke few words
He told them that he was really pres
ent with them and that it was not
merely a phantom which they saw
And then he ate with them, honeycomt
and fish. as evidencing the fact thai
| they were not being addressed by ar
illusion, but by a corporal being
|