The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-09-12

dates from Pentecost. But II Is not
call for the world, but for a special
class, the Bride class, to walk sacri-
ficially In the footsteps Of Jesus and to
gain the great reward Of joint -heirship
with Him in His Kingdom. The due
time" for this work will soon be at an
end-when the last probationary mem
ber Of the Church shall have made his
calling and election sure and when the
door into the marriage" shall shut.
But the due time for the masses Of
mankind to hear of His grace and to
respond thereto Is still future, as Broth
or Wesley's favorite text will show US.
Before examining His text we will
note the fact that three-fourths Of the
human family today are heather in the
most absolute sense of the word and
many Of the other fourth are heather
in truthful sense Why do they not
see the grace Of God in Christ? st.
Paul answers, Because the god of this
world hath blinded their minds" be
cause darkness covers the earth and
gross darkness the people Oh Corin-
thians w, 4; Isaiah TX, p.
But why does God not scatter the
darkness and open all the blind eyes
and unstop the deaf ears? We answer,
because, although He has promised to
do these very things, His due time for
their accomplishment is not yet come.
He merely calls His elect during this
dark time, requiring them to prove
ptsll
in the dark: I'VE walk by faith and
not by sight"
With the completion of the elect
Church at the coming Of the Redeemer
after the marriage, when she will be
the Bride-then both Bridegroom and
Bride will shine forth In glory, scatter
ing all the darkness, ignorance and
superstition Of the world. Satan, the
Prince OF Darkness, will be bound
and every evil thing shall be restrain
ed and the light Of the knowledge of
the glory of God shall fill the earth;
all the blind eyes shall be opened and
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped.
What will be the result? Gods Word
answers, that then every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess to the
glory Of God"
Brother Wesley's Proof Text.
Brother Wesley's loving heart found
and tightly grasped the declaration,
"And the Spirit and the Bride say.
Come: and let him that heareth say,
Come; and let him that Is athirst come;
and whatsoever will. let him take the
water Of life freely Revelation xii
10 This text, however, belongs to the
coming Age, to the time when Messi-
ah shall reign: For He must reign
until He hath put all enemies under
His feet q Corinthians XIV, 1920.
There Is no Bride yet to say, Come"
We are glad OF this, glad that it is
still possible for us to become mem
beers of that Bride class which must
make herself ready" for the marriage
and be forever united to the Lord as
His Bride at His second coming. Then
by the marriage she will become the
Redeemers joint-heir to glory, honor
and Immortality In the Kingdom
Then she. In cooperation with the
Spirit of the Lord, will say, Come"
to whatsoever wills to come Of Adams
race. Everyone will say. Come"
there will be world wide invitation
All the blind eyes shall be opened to
see the waters of life; all the deaf ears
shall be unstopped to hear of the gra-
cious favor OF Gods love in Christ.
But as there is no Bride yet to say.
"Come," neither is there any river OF
the water of life" vet to invite them
to. There will be no such river until
after the establishment Of the King
dom for which the Master taught Us
20 pray. 'srhy Kingdom come; Thy
win be done ON earth as 1t is done in
heaven" Jesus explains that in the
present time IFS followers do not go to
the rivers OF the water Of life to drink;
but, on the contrary, he says. ''The
water that shall give him win be in
him, wen of water springing up unto
everlasting life" (John ". IA.
The New Jerusalem Symbol.
The Church in her glorified condition
after the change of the First Resur-
rection, after becoming the Bride, Is
symbolically represented as City, as
q Government-the capital Of Gods
Kingdom, the New Jerusalem, which
will then come to, or be established In,
the earth-hot literal city, but, bet
ter, symbolicai one, OF the Kingdom.
It will be from under the Throne
Of that New Jerusalem, the Messianic
Kingdom, that the river Of the water
OF life will flow, clear as crystal On
either bank of the symbolical river will
be trees Of life, whose leaves viii be
for the healing Of the nations. Then
will be their due time" to come to.
q knowledge Of the Truth that God
loved them and did not predestinate
them to eternal torture, nor to purga-
torial suffering, but sent His Son to die
for them-to pay their death penalty
and thus to make possible their restltu-
ton to Divine favor (Acts Iii, 1920
and to all the earthly blessings, privi-
ieges and rights originally given to
Father Adam-lost by his disobedience
and redeemed at Calvary.
My dear friends, here we have the
grandest and broadcast Free Grace pos
sible to be imagined. In connection with
our Heavenly Father and His great
salvation provided In Christ. AS every
creature shares In Father Adams i'm
perfection and dying conditions, SO
each one is to share in the merit Of
Christ's righteousness and sacrifcial
death: 1t shall be testified to all in
due time" There win be stripes, les
sons, instructions, but they win all be
corrective-with view to the reforma-
ton and the regeneration Of Adam and
his race as human beings mot as spirit
beings. not as angels; Adam and his
race never were such. Only the Church
has been begotten of the Holy Spirit
to spirit nature; only the Church will
share in the resurrection to spirit con-
gels"
This IL Not Universalism.
These two salvations, now Of the
elect. and during Messiah's reign of
the non-elect, do not imply universal
salvation Of our race, but merely
universal opportunity for everlasting
life. The Scriptures most clearly teach
q Second Death, like the first death,
except that none will be redeemed
from the Second Death, and none will
be resurrected from It. 1t therefore
win be, as st. Paul declares, an ever