Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-10-07

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and his sons were few In comparison
to all the tribe Of Levi, so only
sanity few expect to attain to glory.
honor and immortality with Christ
These are referred to in the Scriptures
as members OF the Body Of Christ"
even as the under-priests, Aaron's
sons. In the type. were members Of
Aaron. Under another beautiful fig
ure this Priestly few are styled the
Bride Of Christ" and His jolnt-heirs
In His Kingdom and work.
Chosen to Bless the People
As these Leyites, including the
priests, were elected, or selected, for
the purpose Of being the instructors Of
Israel, so we perceive the Scriptures
10 teach that the Church Of the First
born, when glorifed, will be associ-
ated with Messiah 10 His greet work
Of blessing and instructing all the peo-
ple-all the families Of the earth. The
knowledge OF the Lord at that time
will be made known to all mankind;
all the blind eyes shall be opened and
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped.
All the Levite class will share in the
work OF blessing, which the Lord for
30 many centuries has declared
through the mouth Of all the holy
Prophets.
The merit Of the death Of Jesus. the
Just for the unjust, when applied on
behalf Of the whole world. will be
efilcaciOus for the cancelling Of the
sins Of the world, and their full re-
conclllatlon to the Father. 1t will
be Divine mercy. however, which will
prevent mankind from being at once
turned over directly to the Father as
soon as the satisfaction for their sins
shall have been rendered and accepted
at the close Of this Age Of dealing with
| the Church. Instead New Law Cove.
nant will be sealed and made operative
with Israel. ard under that New Cove
nant the whole world will be privi-
legged to come into relationship with
Messiah and the blessings Of His King
dom, which will represent to them Di-
vine mercy, power and opportunity for
returning to human perfection and an
everlasting. earthly home-or, rejecting
this grace, they will die the Second
Death, from which there will be no
recovery.
The effect Of the New Covenant will
be to bring the willing and obedent
Of all the people Of earth fully back
into harmony with God; and this. at.
tanned at the end Of Messiah's reign
Of thousand years, will prepare the
way for the surrender Of everything
to the Heavenly Father that He may
be all In all, and that the world there.
after may be dealt with as perfect be.
ings, along the lines Of absolute justice
and without any further need of a
Mediator or other merclful provisions.
The Pth Of the Argument.
This is the pith of st. Paurs argu-
ment in our text and context He
points us down to the consummation
Of this Age-to the time when the
Church of the First-born shall be com
pleted on the plane Of glory-to the
time when Israel and the world of
mankind will reach the place where
God will introduce the New Covenant,
| typlfed In the Law Covenant AS the
latter was introduced by the shaking
of Sinai, in general time Of darkness.
thus, the Apostle intimates, the New
| Covenant Is about to be inaugurated,
in the end OF this Age, by time of
most awful trouble. Of which that AT
Sinai was merely II symbolic picture
or type. Gods voice then shook the
earth, but In the antitype He will
shake everything that can lie shaken.
Things which are absolutely just. true
and righteous will remain unshaken.
and we, the Church Of the Flrst-born,
the antltyplcal Priesthood. will receive
a Kingdom which cannot be shaken.
The True chureh's Glory
In the past we failed to see who
would be members of the true Church
because our eyes of understanding
were beclouded by error Similarly.
we have failed to see the grandeur.
the honor and blessing which God has
promised shall be the portion Of the
one true Church, the little flock 4"
We mixed heavenly things with earth
ly things. We cOnfounded the blessing
of Restitution to human perfection and
an earthly Eden with the spiritual
blessing. We appropriated to ourselves
the promises made to the faithful OF
Israel, that they should build houses
and inhablt them, and plant vineyards
and eat the fruit of them, and should
long enjoy the work Of their hands, ="
In general we were confused
Now as we come to see Gods great
Plan and the different features Of the
same. we are able to discriminate and
to apply properly the Scriptures relat-
ing to each class. The Royal Priest
hood are to be joint-helrs with the Re
deemer partakers Of the divine ma
ture and sharers Of their Lords glory.
honor and immortality. (Rom0ns II. ~
The larger company, symbolized by all
the Levites, aside from the family of
Aaron, are to be the honored servants
Of the Royal Priesthood; and the world
Of mankind are 10 have the glorious
opportunities and blessings Of earthly
restitution
Only the consecrnted and spirit.be
| gotten can have any share I'm the Selec.
tion and salvation now In progress.
and these must all be tested us TO 10y
| nliY To Cod IN tho Trnfh nnd tn the