The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-06

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The great Messiah, ''King of Glory"
has long been waited for by the civil
lied nations. For thirty-five centuries
the Jews have waited for him as the
great prophet foreshadowed by Moses
and foretold by him (Acts ill, 22); and
as the Great King foreshadowed by
their Kings David and Solomon; and
as their glorious priest typif1ed by
Aaron, but specially in the formers
by Melchisedek-a priest upon his
Throne psalm OK, ~.
Free Masons have waited twenty-five
hundred years for the same glorious
parsonage, as Hiram Abiff, the great
Master Mason whose death, glorifica-
ton and future appearing are contin-
uaIly set before them by the letters
upon their keystones. He died vlo-
lent death, they claim, because OF his
loyalty to the Divine secrets typed in
Solomon's Temple. He must reappear,
they claim, in order that the great
antitypical Temple may be completed
and its grand service for Israel and for
all peoples may be accomplished. They
claim that his presence is to be ex-
pected speedily.
Christians of every shade, in proper
ton as they are conversant with the
Bible Gold Testament and New be-
lieve also, in a great Temple builder
who died because of his faithfulness
to the Divine plans. re the spiritual
Temple. the elect Church Il Peter ii,
a, 81. Him they expect to come sec.
ond time Gin power and great glory
to complete the Temple which is his
Body, and in and through that spirit
ual and glorious Temple to bless Is
rael and all the families of the earth
His second presence in glory and pow
er, but invisible to men, is be1eVed TO
be imminent.
The Mohammedans, also worship
ing the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob and David and Solomon, are
also expecting a great Heavenly Mes
senger to bless them and all peoples
by the establishment of a heavenly
Kingdom. They have awaited his COM
ing for centuries. They believe his
Kingdom to be near at hand.
Who Is This King of Glory?
The same glorious parsonage Will
fulfill all these desires = these hopes
Is it not time that all of these peoples,
fearing God and hoping in his prom
Uses, should come together in one nope,
in one expectation? 1t must be SO, for
do we not read prophetically, The de-
sire of all nations shall conner!
We are well aware that great bar
riers lie between these multitudes; but
we hold that they are chiefly barriers
of superstition and ignorance. IN the
past they have pulled apart, and have
slandered and prosecuted one anotner.
If now they Will sympatheticaiIy draw
near to each other, surely they VIII
find much to appreciate In each oth-
er's hopes and aims.
The Basis of Sympathy.
The fact that the Jews and Mohan-
medans. Catholics and Professionals and
Free Masons, all base their faith on
the Old Testament of the Holy Scrip
lures, is ground for the better under
standing pleaded for.
All Christians must accept the au-
thority of the Hebrew Scriptures be-
cause the founder of Christianity,
Jesus. and his special mouthpieces. the
Apostles. taught nothing contrary to
the Law of the Prophets. Indeed,
they quoted from the Old Testament
in proof of every doctrine advanced.
They claimed that they neither de-
stroyed nor ignored the Old Testament,
but merely noted its fulhllment
The error in the past has been the