The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-06-27

the Redeemer of our race from the
power Of the tomb. Now we are see
ing that the salvation that God has
promised will be brought to US at the
second coming of Jesus and the es-
adjustment of his mediatorial king
dom for the blessing of all the fami-
lies of the earth! Now we are seeing
that the salvation provided is a resur-
rection of the dead-not merely an
awakening from the tomb. but com
plete uplift out Of sin and degradation
to the full perfection of human ma
ture In the earthly likeness of the Gre
ator.
Now we are seeing that this great
blessing has been set apart by the Al
mighty as the work of the great Sab
bath Day Of thousand years. In
which 1.-The last enemy to be destroyed
Is death" Now we are seeing that
the whole earth is to be reclaimed
from the curse and made to blossom
as Eden-that the place of Jehovah's
feet. His footstool. will be made glo-
rious and in every way happyfying to
all the willing and obedient. whom the
great Messiah shall recover fully from
sin and death. Now we are seeing
that the intelligent rejectors of Divine
Grace will not be tormented but. as 1t
Is written, IAN the wicked will God
destroy"
The Church Being Selected.
Now we see that the free grace and
glorious opportunity to human restitu-
ton will be ushered in with the King
dom. but that preceding that glorious
Epoch God is making selection of
sanity class to be the Bride of Christ
''the Lambs Wife" This explains
why the darkness has been SO long
permitted God would test the
''elect" by obliging them to walk by
faith and not by sight-He would test
them by obliging them to endure hard
ness as good soldiers-He would test
them by requiring that they shall suf
fer for righteousness sake and thus
manifest their love of righteousness to
a remarkable degree Now we see
that the faithful of these are to ex-
per1ence change from earthly to
heavenly conditions, In the First Res
direction, and that this change has its
beginning in the Divine begetting Of
the Holy Spirit. Now we see that
these. with the Redeemer.. will consti-
tute the Kingdom class which. in
visible to men. will bind Satan for
Lnousano years and supplant his relgr
Of darkness and sin by reign Of light
and Righteousness. helpful and uplift-
ing to mankind.
"HoIy, Holy. Holy. Lord God"
We come now to our text: 1t de-
clares that the time Is coming when
the whole earth shall be full of Gods
glory. Ali glorious Dayl Then the
shadows of ignorance. superstition,
misunderstanding and misrepresenta-
ton In respect to the Divine character
will all fee before the light Of the
knowledge of the glory of God-the
appreciation of the Divine character as
manifested in the Divine Plan for hui
man salvationi Gould this Scripture
ever be fulfilled. could the Divine
character ever be appreciated by in
telligent honest just and loving
hearts, If In any corner of the Uni
verse there were such orgies and tor
lures Of His creatures as the creeds Of
the Darker Ages have set forth? Sure
ly notl On the contrary. In this gf6ri-
Gus Day will be fulfilled the Scriptural
prediction: "All in heaven and in earth
and under the earth [everywherel
heard ! saying, praise. glory, honor,
dominion and might be unto Him that
stitch upon the throne. and unto the
Lamb foreverr"
AS we emerge from the darkness
and praise the Lord In thought and
word and act. we thus show forth
the praises Of Him who has called us
out Of darkness into His marvellous
light"
"Into the Liberty of Sons of God"
The Apostle Paul Romans viii, 21)
declares that the grooming creation
shall be delivered from its bond
age to corruption into the liberty Of
the Sons Of God. The meaning Of this
Is clear. The corruption came upon
all through Adam, the deliverance
from that corruption Is to come to all
through the second Adam All are to
be delivered from such bondage, how
ever they may use the deliverance and
the privileges of liberty. Those who
use them rightly will come into har-
mony with the Redeemer and with
the Heavenly Kingdom and win be
blessed eventually with the eternal
life. Those who reject these liberties
after they come to understand fully.
and comprehend their lengths and
breadths. win thus be choosing for
themselves the Second Death.
The liberty Of the Sons of God, their
freedom from corruption. death. Is
here distinctly shown. The angels are
not subject to, not bound by, such cor
ruption, such dying conditions. They,
as sons Of God, are free from corrup-
ton. from death. Adam in his origi-
nal perfection was a son Of God, as
the Scriptures declare luke Lii, 38),
but he lost his sonship for himself and
for all Of his race and received In
stead degradation and bondage to cor
ruption. The hope for Adam and for
his race. then. in Christ. Is deliver
ance from the power of sin and death
! into the liberty proper to them as
sons of God. The entire reign of
! Christ on the earth. as the Scriptures
show us, will be devoted to this work
of setting free the human family from
the various bondages Of ignorance,
superstition. weakness. heredity and
bringing back all who will by restttu-
ton processes to the original image
and likeness Of God, and making them
again human sons of God like unto
Father Adam before he sinned, plus a
large and valuable experience gained
during the 5000 years Of the fall, and
also through the 1000 years of the
raising up-the Restitution Age, the
Resurrection Age (Acts Iii. 1921.
The Light Shining More and More.
How glad we are that in this dawn,
ing time of the New Dispensation the
light is shining upon the Divine Word
as well as throughout the realm of
naturei How glad we are that we no
longer must think of the Church alone
as the subject Of salvation and the
world as whole the subject of con-
demnation and eternal torture! How
just. how reasonable. how loving are
the Divine arrangementsl To see these
things should draw our hearts near to
the Lord In appreciative love. and we
should worship with the greater devo-
ton One whom we thus see worthy of
praise and alteration.
We are not, however. to expect the
world to be able to realize these things:
| 1t Ia not the Divine intention that they