The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-11-07

that the day OF the Lord 30 cometh az
a thief In the night: Cor when they
shall say, Peace and safety. then sad
den destruction cometh upon them. o.
travail upon woman with child, and
they shall not escape But ye, breth-
rem, are not in darkness that that day
should overtake you as thief: ye are
children Of the light."-I ThessRIonians
v, is.
The common tendency OF the human
mind is expressed by st. Peter. who
prophesies Of the present time that the
worldly will be saying Where i
the promise Of His presencof
All things continue as they were from
the foundation Of the world" Ignor-
ance Of Gods Plan IL to be expected Of
the world. but the true people Of God
have the promise Of His special In
struction SO that they need not be In
darkness respecting the Divine Pro
gram.
Our world for six Thousand years
has been the battle Geld between the
forces Of light and darkness. truth ana
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Prince Of Darkness. otherwise styled
the "Prince of this world" has led his
forces In person. and has controlled
the masses and II still controlling
them The Prince, Of Light is repre-
scented In feeble way by ambaasa
doris who are specially cautioned by
Him that they must not use carnal
weapons nor carnal methods, but must
in meekness correct those who oppose
| them. They must be subject to ''the
| powers that be" to the extent that
their consciences Will permit. and so
far as possible live peaceably with all
men.
This experience Of subsection to the
powers Of evil has been hard lesson,
difficult to learn; trial Of faith as well
as Of endurance. the value of which
has been difficult sometimes to appre-
ciate. But these must walk By faith
and not by sight If they would please
| the Captain OF their salvation. For
centuries the prayer has gone up to
God from their hearts, "How long, o
Lord" Reason assures them that It
cannot be the Divine purpose TO for
ever permit the victory Of ain and
death under the Prince Of DARKNESS.
Flowing, Sowing, Rsaplns.
God represents Himself aa great
| Husbandman. Each Age IL a season
and bears Its own crop. Each Age has
It's own time for the blowing Of The
| Geld, ths sowing Of. the good seed, and
| the harvest work. Az Bible studenks
We have already noted the HoTk &C
complished in the Age which ended
with the dood. the different work &C.
compiished during the PatriarchaI Age.
and the still different work accom-
plished during the Jewish Age, which
lasted from the death Of Jacob, and
particularly from the giving of the
Law. down to the death Of, Jesus
Our Lords ministry Of three and q
half years was q harvest time to the
Jewish people In the close Of their Age
OF favor or ''day Of visitation" He
said to His disciples. II send you forth
to reap that wherein ye bestowed no
labor; other men labored and 70 are
entered into their labor" John ".
g., The blowing and sowing connAct-
cd with the Jewish Depreciation wes
In the far past The Egyptian. bon
dage served to do blowing work. as
also Israeps escape. from that bondage
and the forty years Of wandering in
the wilderness before they reached
Caanan. The giving of the Law and
the establishment of them as people.
the lessons of their sacrifices. and the
exhortation Of their Prophets. all con-
stttuted seed-sowing. narrowing and
cultivating experience. In the end Of
their Age Jesus gathered the ripe fruit
age of that experience-thoses ancti-
ned thereby and developed In charac-
ter and obedience to God.
The crop gathered by our Lord and
the Apostles in the Jewish harvest
numbered thousands These were gath
cred out of Judaism and from under
the Law Covenant into Christianity
gathered under a Covenant applying
only to the Church which Is the Body
Of Christ" This Covenant. under
which they became associated with
Messiah, reads. Gather together My
saints (holy onesl unto Me-" saith the
Lord. those who have made a Cove
nant with Me by sacrifice" psalm |.
g. All coming thus into relationship
to Jehovah as members Of the Body
Of Messiah came by way Of the cross
through a recognition OF their own I'm
perfection, and Of Jesus and Ills sac
rifice as the satisfaction for THAR sins,
a covering for their blemishes. by
which alone their sacrifices were rem
dered holy and acceptable to Cod
Romans XII. I.
Sowing Follows Reapine.
The reaping work Of the Jewish Age
merged into the sowing work Of the
Gospel Age as the invitation to be-
come joint-sacrifcers with Jesus was
extended to those having hearing ears
amongst nations aside from the Jews. |
For eighteen centuries this sowing |
work, with .harrowings. experience and
various CIVILIZATIONS, has been in prog
ress. Now in turn we haye arrived at |
the harvest Of this Gospel Age-the
reaping time, the time Of gathering |
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