The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-07
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every name that Is named"
Is this an arbitrary election? Does
God arbitrarily draw and call one
above another? Yes. He thus select
ed the Jewish nation to be His pecu-
liar ~nation-not, however, to the detri-
ment or injury Of other nations. He
thus called Isaac instead Of Ishmael,
and Jacob instead Of Esau to be the
~progenitors of His chosen nation Is
rael, whom He foreknew as a people
and predestinated to a certain service.
But this selection worked no injury to
either Ishmael or Esau. Similarly
during this Gospel Age God chooses
from the world a certain class and
grants them the hearing ear and the
seeing eye, and He passes by others
and gives them not this special favor.
This, however. is not to be to the dis
advantage Of the others-non-elect,
unchosen. uncalled.
According to His Purpose.
St Paul speaks of the Church as
called according to His purpose" He
even tells us what the purpose Is,
namely, that in Ages to come He
might show forth the exceeding riches
of His grace in His loving kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus Ephesians
ii, .. Toward this specially called
class God will to all eternity manifest
special favor. But we are not to sup
pose that there is no reason for this
selection and favor. There Is a reason.
1t Is because of certain intrinsic quail
ties or characteristics possessed by
this class which God is now selecting.
They will all be saints" They will
all love the Lord more than they love
houses or lands, parents or children,
self or any creature. They win all
possess the fruits and graces of the
Holy Spirit.
Indeed. this is Gods particular pre-
destination. st. Paul tells us that He
foreknew that He would provide His
only-begotten Son to be the Savior Of
mankind and the Head over the
Church, and He foreknew that He
would have a Church, a Royal Priest
hood under the great High Priest, as
members of His Body. God foreknew
also the kind of a Message He would
send forth and that it would be at
tractive only to a certain class pos
sessed of a love for righteousness.
These only would heal His call. These
only would have the eyes of their un-
Outstanding specially opened, because
these alone would accept of His assur-
ances and make a full conservation to
His service. Such He would beget of
His Holy Spirit, and such, in due time.
would be born of the Spirit in the res
direction and enter into the fellowship
and companionship and kingly joys of
their Master.
1t Is of this special class that the
Apostle declares. Whom God did
foreknow, these He also did predesti-
nate to be conformed to the likeness
Qmage) of His Son" (Romans viii, 29).
That is to say. Gods predestination
was not only that He would have a
Church. but. additionally. that the
terms or conditions of fellowship in
that Church should be that zach one
would become Christ-like, Surely this
is a good predestination. with which
no one could find fault. Whether we
shall gain L place with the elect" on
the heavenly plane. or a place with
the non-elect world in restitution to
earthly nature. we cannot do other
wise than recognize the justice of God
In so deciding. that nom but the saint
ly copies Of their Lord. could he mem
bers of the elect Church and joint
heirs with Him in His Kingdom.
True and righteous are Thy ways.
Lord God Almightyi' "Who shall not
come and worship before Thee. when
Thy righteous acts ARE made mani
fest?" Truly 1t is written of this
great King of glory Head and Mem
bers, Bridegroom and Bride, Unto
Him every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess to the glory Of God"
ASK of Me and | Mil Give"
Although our Lord did not pray for
the world, He will yet pray for them.
and His prayer will be answered. The
promise reads, ASK Of Me and / will
give Thee the heather for al inner
itance and the uttermost parts of the
earth for a possession" psalm Il, 81.
Jesus did not make this request on
the night of His cruci6xion 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 into 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 a vic
torious one: "He must reign until He
shall have put all enemies under His
feet Gn full subjection); the last enc
my that shall be destroyed is death"
Then, after a 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 q Corinthians XIV, 80.
While Satan will be bound at the
beginning OF Messfah,s reign and every