The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-18

-as tue sazSs 81 tile seashorcr The
Church, with Christ her Head. consti.
tutes this heavenly. starry Seed OF
Abraham. as saith the Apostle Gala
tians III, l0, 20l; and with the compile
tion OF the Church will come the sec
ondary blessing the development Of
the seed of Abraham as the sand Of
the seashore for multitude. every knee
bowling and every tongue confessing,
to the glory Of God.
But this secondary seed of Abraham.
the earthly seed. is TO receive its bless
ing from the Heavenly Seed. hence
everything waits now until the Church
shall have been completed-untl the
very elect" shall have been gathered
from the four winds Of heaven"-un
iii all the followers Of Jesus shall have
been changed. lin Il moment. in the
twinkling of an eye" as participants
In the First Resurrection.
Then. oh, glorious Day! the Sun of
Righteousness will shine forth-Christ
and His faithful Bride-to chase away
the darkness. ignorance and supersti-
tion from the world and to fully en-
tighten mankind Of every nation, peo.
pie, kindred and tongue. In that glori.
Gus work of enlightenment the natural
seed of Abraham will have a blessed
share, and Abraham. Isaac and Jacob
and all the Prophets shall be Princes
in all the earth" psalm xiv. 10. per-
feet men, representatives of the glori-
Gus Messiah and Ills Bride in the
earth. administrators of the Law.
which will go forth from the glorious
Christ, invisible to men.
All! that will be Earth's Jubilee! As
in olden time, in the Jubilee year.
the lsraelitcs returned TO their own
possessions, to their own homesteads,
so in the Antitype only the latter will
be still more grand: The human fam.
lily will come back into possession Of
its own-that which was lost by sin
and its penalty. that which was recov-
cred by Jesus, that which will be re-
stored by resurrection power during
the Messianic reign.
The Natien Born In a Day.
But what about our text? Did we
misinterpret the Divine statement
when we applied Il to the acceptance
by people of civilization? All. yes:
we made a very foolish mistake: the
wish was father TO the thought. our
misconceptions blinded us TO the prop
er Interpretation of that Scripture
What then does it mean? How should
our text be applied? All. Beloved.
that Nation 10 be born in a day is the
Church, the Holy Nation, Of which ST.
Peter spoke, "Ye are a Royal Priest
hood. Il peculiar people. n Holy Ma
ton" Il Peter II. % The JcgettiaJ of
this Holy Nation began ut Pentecost.
ana has continued down through the
succeeding eighteen centuries and
more. The Jirth will he the resurrec-
tion.
All who now receive the begetting
of the Holy Spirit are reckoned as
members Of this Holy Nation. but
their membership in it is dependent
upon their faithfulness: as we read.
ITO him that overcometh will | grant
TO sit with Me in My Throne" Tho
present life is to every one Of these
royal priests, or priestly kings, as we
may choose TO express it, a period OF
probation. VIII we or viii we not
make our calling and election sure"
Not at the beginning nor at the time Of
our conservation is the matter decided !
but after we "have fought the good
fight and finished the course" and won
the crown, by obedience even unto
death.
For nearly nineteen centuries these
royal priests have been testifying for
the Lord. each in his turn For all
the faithful there is a crown Of right
eousness laid up; as St. Paul said.
"Henceforth there is laid up for me n
crown Of Righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
me ut that day'-early In that day OF