The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-12-26

from Isaiah Xvi. 3, respecting the
birth of a nation in a day. He said:-
In my childhood days every penny
I could save was devoted to Foreign
Missions. The Hawaiian Islands and
the Fiji Islands were prominent be-
fore the Christian world as missionary
fields. remember well that the es-
adjustment of civilized government
In these Islands was hailed as the full
filment of the text have chosen-"a
nation born in q day." The thought
then was that thus speedily the world
would be converted and the glorious
promises Of the Hebrew prophets full
filed. How earnestly we labored and
prayed, 'Thy Kingdom come" think
ing all the while that we were bring
ing the Kingdom Of God to earth and
fulfilling the Lords Prayer!
Alasl we are having a rude awaken
ing from such dreams. We are finding
that IL the Kingdom Of God must be
established by human power it will
never be established. We are finding
that the worlds population is doubling
every century. II we double our mis-
sionary enterprises every century we
would only be keeping pace with the
natural increase of the human family.
Statistics show us that there are
twelve hundred millions of heather
today and that a century ago there
were only half as many. Alas! those
missionary hopes Of ours have gone
| glimmering.
But the awakening has done us good /;
It has taught us to think a little. We
are now sensibly inquiring. Suppose
we should convert all the heather and
make the whole world a Christendom
Of the same sort that we have In Eu-
rope and Americal What then? Would
Gods will be done on earth as it is
done in heaven-perfectlyf Could we
thus hope to bring In the glorious con-
ditions prophesied, In which not only
the knowledge Of God would I'LL the
whole earth, but additionally every
knee should bow and every tongue con-
fess in such a manner as to be to the
glory Of God? We see that such hopes
would be worse than foolish; they
would be ludicrous. Thus our awaken
ing has done us good. and sent us again
to Gods Book to see wherein we erred
in our expectations
What Say the seriptures7
The disillusion respecting great works
of our own humbled US before God and
made us realize our dependence upon
Him for the fulflment of the glorious
prophecies. We have read our Bibles
afresh We have taken from our minds
the spectacles Of our forefathers with
the color and gloss which they handed
down to us. We are now reading God s
Book in its own light, allowing God to
be His own Interpreter, and Himself
to make it plain. And what do we
indY All! wonder Of wondersI We
find the Divine Plan wider and deeper
and higher than we had ever dreamed.
We find that the present Age. from
coming of Jesus. is not Gods time for
dealing with the world. opening their
blind eyes. unstopping their deaf ears
and making every knee to bow and ev-
cry tongue to confess. 1t is merely
His time for the gathering out from
every nation. people. kindred and
tongue "little flock" Of such as have
the hearing ear and the appreciative
heart. to become the Bride OF Christ
and His joint-heirs In His glorious
Kingdom, the establishment of which
will mean the blessing Of all the fami-
lies Of the earth. as was promised to
Father Abraham.
Well may we reason that II our God
waited for four thousand years before
He sent His Son to redeem the world
and has since waited two thousand
more for the selecting Of the Bride OF
Christ. He must intend that the great
Kingdom Of His Son. the Messianic
reign of thousand years. Is to do a
| great work for mankind In general
Such broad foundations. such deep laid
plans and arrangements foretell a
grand and glorious outcome. Evident
| Iy Gods Word shall be fulfilled. which
He spoke. saying, MY Word that go
eth forth out Of My mouth shall not
return unto Me void. but it shall ac-
eomplish that which please, and shall
prosper In the thing whereunto | sent
it,"
The message went forth in a primary
sense In Eden. when God declared that
eventually 'the Seed Of the woman
should bruise the serpent's head
should crush evil. His Word went
forth still more distinctly to Father
Abraham, assuring him that he would
have two seeds. two posterities, one
las the stars of heaven" and the other
'as the sands Of the seashore." The
Church, with Christ her Head, consti-
tutes this heavenly, starry Seed OF
Abraham, as saith the Apostle Gala
tians lii. 16 2al; and with the compile
ton Of the Church will come the sec
0ndary blessing-the development of
the seed of Abraham as the sand of
the seashore for multitude. every knee
bowling and every tongue e0nfessing.
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 compIeted-until the
very elect shall have been gathered
from the four winds Of heaven"-un-
til all the followers Of Jesus shall. have
been changed, lin a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye" as participants
In the First Resurrection.
Then. oh, glorious DayI the Sun of
Righteousness will shine forth-Christ
and His faithful Bride-to chase away
the darkness, ignorance and supersti-
ton from the world and to fully en-
tighten mankind Of every nation, peo-
pie. kindred and tongue In that giori-
GUS work of enlightenment the natural
seed of Abraham win have a blessed
share, and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
and all the Prophets shall be Princes
in all the earth" psalm xiv, 49,, per-
feet men, representatives Of the glori-
GUS Messiah and His 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 Jubileel As
In olden time. In the Jubilee year,
the Israelites returned to their own
possessions. to their own homesteads,
so in the Antitype. only the latter viii
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 Nation Born In Day.
But what about our text? Did we
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