The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-28

ASK Of Me and Will Give"
Although our Lord did not pray for
the world, Tie will yet pray for them,
and His prayer will he answered. The
promise reads, ASK of Me and will
give Thee the heather for an inher-
itance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for possession" psalm II, 81.
Jesus did not make this request on
the night of His crucifixion because 1t
was not the Fathers time to answer
that prayer. Appropriately He waited,
and while gathering the 'elect" from
every nation, people, kindred and
tongue, the Scriptures declare that He
Is seated at the Fathers right hand Of
! glory expecting or waiting for the
time to come when the Kingdom under
the whole heavens shall be delivered
to Him by the Father. This will be
done at the end of this Gospel Age,
when the sanity Body of Christ shall
have been completed. Then "He shall
take unto himself His great power and
reign"
A great time of trouble will fol-
low. The plowshare of sorrow will
make ready the hearts of mankind for
the great blessings which Messiah will
then be ready to bestow, because that
will be the due time. st. Paul tells
us that Messiah's reign will be VIC
| torious one "He must reign until He
| shall have put all enemies under His
feet Din full subjection); the last enc
my that shall be destroyed is DEATH"
Then after thousand years, after
having accomplished the purpose of
the Father in the uplifting of all the
willing and obedient of mankind TO
earthly perfection the great Prophet,
Priest, Mediator and King of Glory
will at the end of the thousand years
reign deliver up the Kingdom even to
God the Father, that God may be all
In all Il Corinthians XIV, 2S).
While Satan will be bound at the
beginning of Messiah's reign and every
| form of unrighteOusness will be rooted
| out, nevertheless the raising of man
kind up out of sin and degradation to
perfection will be gradual work. AS
! the regenerating influences oper"te in
mankind. they will become more and
more alive. less and less dead-until at
the end of the Messianic reign Adamic
death will be no more; II shall have
been fully destroyed by the raising of
mankind completely out of 1t; the last
enemy that shall be destroyed is death
-Adamlc death
The Second Death will never be de-
stroyed. but will he everlasting. II is
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eousness. but valuable servant to de-
stroy everything wilfully and intelil-
gently out of accord with the Divine
nt-righteousness.
Pray For Them.
All who are seeking to walk in the
footsteps of Jesus: all who have taken
up their cross to follow Him, may well
rejoice in that feature of His prayer
which says. | pray for those whom
Thou hast given Me that they may all
be one, as Thou, Father, and | are
one. that the world may believe that
Thou hast sent Me John xvii. 20. 21).
The oneness of Gods people is not
represented in the various sects and
parties of the present time. 1t is rep
resented in the fact that all the conse-
Grated followers of the Redeemer are
individually united to Him as the
Head and united to each other as
members of His Body. "The Lord
knoweth them that are His" BY and
by, by the power Of the First Resur-
rection, all these shall be perfected on
the spirit plane and constitute the
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Kingdom come; Thy will be done on
earth MS 1t 10 in heaven" AS re-
suit of that Kingdoms coming the
world will all be brought to the point
of believing In Jesus and will all have
the opportunity OF obtaining through
Him the gift Of God. eternal life.
Our Lords solicitude was not merely
for the Apostles and earliest members
of the Church whom the Father gave
Him In the special sense, as His per-
sonal companions and helpers in the
founding of the Church; he prayed on,
saying, NeltheA pray for these alone.
but for all those also who shall be-
heve on Me through their Word. The
Masters words outlined to us the Di-
vine Program, And Jesus himself be-
gan to declare the Gospel and brought
life and Immortality to light. He
commissioned His twelve Apostles, st.
Paul taking the place of Judas, to
speak in His Name and as His special
mouthpieces. Whatever they would
declare to be binding on earth would
be binding in the sight of God In
Heaven. Whatever they would loose
and declare to be non-essential on
earth we may know would be so by
Divine decree Matthew xvi, i9),
In word. Jesus, the Apostles and
the Prophets alone are to be consid
cred the special guides and standard
; bearers for the Church, We are tC
believe on Him through their word 0nt
not through the word of counsels oil
synods or presbyteries. Each individ
ual OF the Church has his personal re
sponslbility. This is In harmony will
our Lords declaration. "My sheeI
! know My Voice and they follow Me; ,
stranger will they not follow, but vii
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