The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-11-05

as the people of God and your WORTH
ness of association with Messiah In
His glorious Kingdom to be set up at
bis Second Advent Peter iv, IL.
st. Paul, writing along the same lines,
calls these Eight Affections. which are
but for a moment" and designed to
work out for US a far more exceed
ing and eternal weight of glory"
Oh Corinthians iv, 10 They thus work
out blessings for the Church by puri-
flying them as New Creatures, eliminat-
ing the dross from the gold.
In Malachi's prophecy it is foretold
that Jesus would institute purgatorial
experiences amongst the consecrated
people Of God, the antitypical Levites.
He does this to purify them of dross
and to enable those who have of
fered their lives to God scientifically,
to be acceptable as His members We
read: "He shall sit as a Refiner and
Purifier Of silver, to purify the sons
Of Levi, that they may offer unto the
Lord an acceptable sacrifice"
Jesus has thus been sitting as the
Refiner and Purifier of His Church
for more than eighteen centuries The
fires Of persecution, tribulation, which
He has permitted to come upon them
are all purgatiye-designed to purify,
to purge to make them white. His
people have the assurance that He
will not suffer them to be tempted
above that they are able, but will
with every temptation provide a way
Of escape.
1.-THE Whole World Lieth In the Wick
ed One"
All are children of wrath" and still
under Divine sentence Of condemna-
ton. except the Church of the First
borns-the antitypical Levites, Spirit
begotren. We who have thus been
called out from the world have the
settlement of our prospects for life
everlasting or the Second Death in
this Age, before the blessing Of the
Lord comes to mankind In general.
The Church's trial and purgatorial ex-
periences must all take place during
this Age, before the New Age opens,
which in the Divine arrangement Ia
provided for the worlds Judgment
GOD has appointed a Day 1.-THE Day
Of Christ, thousand years] In the
which He will judge the world in
righteousness [give to each a fair, full,
righteous opportunity for reconcilia-
toni by that Man whom He hath or
dained 1.-The Christ, of which Jesus Is
the Head and His faithful followers
the members. l"-Acts xvii. 81.
The Worlds Purgatory Future.
The Church Of Christ constitute the
Elect, the spiritual Seed of Abraham,
through which all the families Of the
earth, the non-elect, are to be blessed,
according to Gods promise. The
foundation for the worlds blessing
was laid In the same sacrifice of Jesus
by which the Church's reconciliation
was made possible. Nevertheless, the
prospects for the Church and the
world are quite different. The Church,
through following her Redeemer vol
unfairly and SCIENTIFICALLY, in suffering
for righteousness sake, is to be crown
ed with glory, honor and immortality,
beyond the veil, with the spirit ma
ture
BY this, the glorious resurrection
change, the Church will be prepared
for association with her Lord in His
great work of blessing Adam and his
race-regenerating them. A thousand
years have been set apart for the
work by the great LifeGi The
life to be given to the willing and
obedient of mankind will be earthly
life, human life, human perfection, IN
Paradise restored, worldwide.
AS purgatorial experiences are wise
and proper as respects the Church.
similarly fiery trials and chastisementsl
are the Lords plan for dealing with
mankind for their good The pur-
gatorial experiences will prevail es-
pecially at the beginning of the New
Dispensation and viii be abated for
all who will turn to Messiah. seek |
forgiveness and strive to walk in ways
of righteousness. And ways of right
eousness will then not mean, as now
to the Church. self sacrifice. Now the
Divine rule is that HE that saveth |
his life shall lose it," but then who |
ever would save his life may save i'll
by obedience to the Divine laws. by
abstinence to the extent of his ability, /,
from sin. Such may gradually rise up
out of their imperfection, mental.
moral and physical, to the grand i'm
age Of God originally represented in
Father Adam and lost through his
and his sentence of death. |
True, the world has had its suffer
Ings all through the past; the whole |
has groaned and travelled to-
gether under the infiiction of the
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