The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-02-22

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did God service. All who follow in
the Lords footsteps must expect SINH
lar treatment, because, as Jesus said,
1.-THE servant is not greater than his
Lord" Marvel not, if the world hate
you, ye know that it hated me before
it hated you. If ye were of the world.
the world would love his own; but be-
cause We are not of the world. but l
have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth YOU John
xviii, IS. 19l. The Master said, 1.-THE
darkness hateth the light" which ex-
plains why the chief religionists of
his time, being of wrong condition of
heart, instigated his crucifixion. They
were of the darkness, living outwardly
holy. while in heart they were far
from consecrated to God. The very
holding up of the torch of Truth was
painful to them, reproved them and
excited their animosity. Human ma
ture is the same today. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that heretic-roasting has
become unpopular and intolerable to
the world, there are methods of pri-
vately and symbolically roasting,
slashing, wounding and killing prac-
tised by those estranged from God,
though sometimes highly esteemed Of
men and wearing vestments only
slightly less glorious than those worn
by CaiaphaS and PLATE.
"Who Scourseth Every Son."
The ScriT ures explain that there is
a two-fold reason why Jesus and all
of his followers are required to suffer
for righteousness sake.
u 1t is requisite to their own char
acknowledgements that they should not
only profess absolute loyalty to God
and to Truth, but that this loyalty
should be put to the test. Thus we
read of our Lord that though holy,
harmless, undefiled," he was proved
perfect in his loyalty by the things
which he endured-by his obedience
even unto death, even the ignominious
death of the cross. The same princi-
pie, the Scriptures assure us, operates
in connection with all whom God is
now calling to be Emmanuel's associ-
ates in the Millennial Kingdom. They
must suffer with him If they would
reign with him. They must walk In
his steps Galatians V, II; vi, II; II
Thessalonians i, 5; II Timothy i, II;
ii, 8, -; iii, 12).
(OA Hhaca axnopiancoo ara dac;oyo,1
Of God to qualify us to be judges of
the world during the Millennial Age
that the Christ, Head and Body, may
be merciful and faithful towards the
people of earth. Likewise it is proper
that the world should know that its
judges have thus been tempted and
tried, and are able to sympathize with
them in their weaknesses and in the.i
endeavors for righteousness-and more
willing to help them up. up. up to hui
man perfection than to consign them
to the Second Death.
Although this conflict has lasted for
more than eighteen centuries it has
not been long for any single individ-
ual. With the Master himself the trial
period was only three and a half
years. On the whole, as compared
with eternity. the entire Gospel Age of
Sacrifice. as the Master said, is but
"a little while" And as for the af-
fiictions and testings themselves, st.
Paul gives the proper thought, saying,
that at most they are Eight Affections
but for a moment and not worthy to
be compared with the glory that shall
be revealed in u.s." the overcomers
(Romans viii, 49,.
The Church Triumphant.
The Church In glory and in power
will contain no hypocrites and no
merely nominal Christians-only the
true. the sanity, the "sanctifed in
Christ Jesus" Nevertheless it will be
composed of two classes, as illustrat-
ed by the Priests and the Levites in
the type. a. Jesus glorified, the anti
typical High Priest. and his faithful
footstep followers, the antitypical I'M
esthood-otherwise his Bride"
Together these are styled a Royal
Priesthood or a Kingdom of Priests.
st. Paul tells us that MelchiZedek, who
was priest upon his throne, merely
typified the Church Triumphant-He
and Body-The Christ, "a priest for
ever after the order of Melchizedek"
a priest upon his throne. During the
Millennial Age that glorious Priest,
Head and Members, will bless and up
lift, rule and judge, the world Of man.
kind, with view to recovering as
many as possible, as many as Will
obey him, from the ruin of sin and
death. During the thousand years Of
the Melchizedek reign all the families
of the earth will be blessed with OPP
portunities of return to human perfec-
ton and to earthly Paradise. The
willing and obedient will be destroyed
In the Second Death. At the close OF
the Millennium, Christ's Mediatorial
Kingdom will terminate.
AS the Levites were much more nu-
merous than their brethren, the priests,
so there is another class in the Church
acknowledgement "a great COM
pany, whose number no man know
eth,' in that they were not specially
predestinated. These less earnest, less
jealous than the faithful little flock, -
will reach a plane of glory through
tribulation also, but with less joy
These. we are told, will be with the
Bride as her companions. AS Levites
they will serve God In his temple, but
not be members of the temple class
the Priesthood. These will have palm
branches and be before the Throne
while the Royal Priesthood will have
crowns and be in the throne as mem
bers of the Body of Christ.
The Church MiIitant's Surrender.
All the soldiers of the cross, ex.
periencing fightings without and with
in against the powers of sin and dark
ness and their own weaknesses, surely
long for the time of their change" In
the First Resurrection" They long
for the time when this mortal shall
put on Immortality; when this cor
ruptible shall have put on incorrup
ton; when we shall be like our Re
deemer and see him as he is and share
his glory Gladly. therefore. do al
of Gods consecrated people wait fol
the blessed change promised at oul
| Lords Second Coming, when thai
which is sown in weakness shall b.
raised in power; when that which il
sown In dishonor shall be raised II
glory; when that which is sown al
animal body shall be raised spiritua
body q Corinthians XIV, 4244, %
54). Surely such, having prayed, ''Thy
Kingdom come; thy will be done OF
earth as in heaven" are waiting fol
the King and Gods time for estab
fishing his Kingdom for the BLESSING