The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-02-28

with Christians who have not yet lost
all their faith in God and in the Bible.
These should become awakened to the
fact that spirituality and faith are at
a low ebb. Their prayers should as
cend to God, and their Bibles should be
studied as never before They should
make use Of present-day helps In their
Bible study and become fervent and
reviyified of spirit through a better I'M
Outstanding of the Scriptures. They
must see that the Bible was not prop
erly represented in the creeds of the
past; that it is In direct opposition to
many of the doctrines of the past
which have justly become repulsive to
intelligent minds
When once they get the proper focus
on Gods Word, one passage illuminat-
ing another. their faith in God and in
the Bible will become a living one, a
moving one. and, with this spirit. faith
and works will come-Christian zeal,
fervency Of spirit in the service of the
Lord. With these in turn will come
activities in helping one another, ac-
tivities In family worship, in Bible
classes, in prayer and testimony meet
ings, etc. Then, as the Master said,
they will let their light shine and the
worldly will see and be influenced by
these living epistles, known and read
Of all Oh Corinthians iii, p.
Most important Points.
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believe, or to attempt to teach others
that God is great. and just, and low
ing, while at the same time teaching
that He prepared, before the founda-
ton Of the world, an immense torture
chamber in which thousands of mil
lions would be forced to spend eter-
nifty. How our forefathers could be-
heve this and yet believe somehow or
other that God is Love we do not I'M
derstand. 1t was their faith in Gods
Love, and not their faith in eternal
torment, which constituted the power
of God working in them for good and
which Offset the errors of their creeds
to large degree. But no one Of to-
day who is at all awake can any long,
er think Of worshipping God inferior
to himself. A God unjust and unlov-
ing, or unkind and powerless, can no
longer be worshipped in spirit and In
Truth.
What the world needs, and what
first of all the Church needs, is to get
doctrinally straight in respect to the
Almighty's character, and in respect to
His purposes for His human crea-
lures. AS soon as that condition of
mind shall have been reached there
will be no need to pray or ask for re
vivals Of religion-they will follow ir.
resistibly
But what do we see opposing any
such desirable denouement? We see
two hundred thousand Protestant min
listers and Sunday School superintend-
ents working against such desirable
results. We see about two-thirds Of
them advocating Higher Criticism-In-
fidelity and one-third of them striving
to hold the people in ignorance respect
ing the teachings Of the Bible concern
ing mans future seeking, by infer
ence at least, to uphold the atrocious
doctrines of devils foisted upon Gods
people by the great Adversary during
the dark ages" 1t is a sad picture.
Has it no silver lining?
The Clouds Silver Lining.
There are still a sanity few In the
world who are not bowling their knee
to Baal, not worshiping the golden
calf of mammon, not wandering, not
seeking to prove that they are de-
scendants of monkeys, not seeking to
figure God out of creation and to say
that nature is God In this time,
when others are going into outer dark
ness, these children Of God, feeding
upon His Word, are being blessed and
refreshed in spirit as never before. To
them Gods Word is shining more
brightly as the days go by; the rough
places are becoming smooth and the
dark places clear To them the glory
of the Divine character is being re-
vealed. The secret of the Lord is with
them. He Is showing them His Cove
nant and making them to understand
many of the deep things of His Word,
which the natural eye has not seen.
nor the natural ear heard, neither have
these things entered into the heart OF
the natural man-things which he hath
In reservation for them that love Him.
These are now seeing that the King
dom for which He taught us to pray Is
not a myth; these are seeing that it
did not come at Pentecost, nor when
Papacy was established, nor with the
estab lishment of any Of the sects OF
Christendom. Consequently they are
now praying from the heart, "Thy
Kingdom come" and waiting for the
glorious Messiah, promised to begin
His great work of blessing natural Is
rael and through Israel all the families
Of the earth (Acts Nv, AIT; Acts iii.
1929.
These see that the Kingdom Of Gods
dear Son is to be one Of power and
great glory; that before it, In a time
of trouble, every other religion and in
fiuence will crumble to dust; that Satan
shall be bound, and for a thousand
years the most blessed Influences favor
able to righteousness will be brought
to bear upon mankind
Church and World Standards.
During the dark ages" the fact that
the Church is a specially called, cho-
sen, faithful class (and only "a little
fock'), was seen and preached to some
extent. But this lofty Church stand
ard was difficult of application to the
world, and the worlds hope, under a
different standard. was not seen. 1t
clarifies our minds greatly when we
recognize that the elect few are intend
ed by God to be the worlds instructors
and helpers by and by, when the world
will be granted an opportunity Of res
cue from sin and death-not to heaven
ly conditions, but to earthly Restitu-
ton of all that was lost by Adams
transgression, and Redeemed by the
Great Sacrifice of Calvary John iii, 16;
Isaiah xxxv).
After learning that the hell to which
eAC WVhiO SOSS Ia ucdLA ID the grave,
and that it is an unconscious condi-
ton, sleep" the next lesson is the
resurrection of the dead-"Many that
sleep in the dust Of the earth shall
awake, some to shame and
lasting contempt" Daniel xii, p. Man.
kind fall asleep with experiences only
with unrighteousness and very indis-
tinct glimpses Of holiness and saint
ship. When awakened they will rec.
ognize the glory, honor and immortal
ity of the sanity Bride Of Christ and
be recipients of her loving care and
blessing, in proportion as they respond
to the blessed privileges of that time.
AS the Restitution work will progress,
and they obediently rise from their