Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-12-13

had much less OPP
portunity for study than have we.
Not only is education general today.
but the facilities for study are com
mon. Every home has at least one
Bible and good light wherewith tG
study Moreover, the curse of toll is
lifting: less sweat of face is required
to earn our daily bread; consequently
we have more time at our disposal
wherein to ascertain the things freely
given unto us of God through His
Word. And what beautiful and con
venient Bibles we possess, with clear
print, marginal references. concor-
dances. helps. etc. God be praised
for such privileges.
Bible students are learning TO use
these mercies and are being blessed
in their use. The Bible is being
studied as never before and being al
lowed to interpret itself, one passage
throwing light upon another This.
evidently, was the Divine design But
i'm addition to all this. we have the
thought that now is Gods due time
to grant blessings aud cnlightcnment
to the world along secular lines. All
this enlightenment is coming, we he
lieve, because we are in the daWnina
OF a New Dispensation, which shortly
is to bring more wonderful things,
However. we are still in what St Pc
ter terms the dark place waiting
for that day dawn to grow more
clear: and we do well to take close
IN, iph w
falls from our Lamp, the Bible.
Christ Not the Church's Father.
Item after item of Divine Truth he
coming clear, sheds Il radiance on other
precious truths. Old. familiar Scrip
lures have a te1-fold significance. Om
text is one of these. No one will dis
pute that it refers to our Lord Jesus
Christ ''IIe shall be called Wonderful,
Counselor. the Mighty God, the Ever
lasting Father Tor the Father whu
gives everlasting lifeI. the Prince oi
Peace" These titles are still prophet.
ic our great Redcemcr has not vet
become the Prince of Peace: for p";i,.,
has not vet come We are still unlC'
the reign of sin and death. Our Re
lasting Father,
Only the Church has yet been dealt
with, and Jesus is not the Father of
the Church. He is our Elder Brother;
or under another figure, He is our ne
trothetl, and at His Second Coming is
to be our Heavenly bridegroom. The
Scriptures distinctly tell us that Jesus
is not the Church'S Father or Life
giver. st Peter SAYS. The God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ >
hath hcgoltcn us. Il Peter i, b
Jesus teStiicS To the same effect. Aft
er His resurrection. when speaking to
Mary. He said. II ascend unto My fa-
ther, and your Father; to My God. and
your God" (Johu XX. III The Scrip
lures never mix figures after such Il
manner as to SpcHl, of Jesus aS the
Church's Father, and then to intimate
that He would become bridegroom to
His own child.
Jehovah, Father of the New Creation.
We must remember that the Church
ceases to he human. earthly. She be-
comes Gods New Creation, She is he
gotten of the Holy Spirit now. and will
be born from the dead by the Holy
Spirit power in the First Resurrection.
to the Divine nature She will be like
her Lord, His Bride, Revelation xxi.
9. 10; Romans viii, 10 To her, ''old
| things pass away; all things become
new" Under the begetting of the Holy
Spirit she becomes in the present life
transformed by the renewing of her
mind and sets her affections on things
above. Her perfecting in the resurrec-
ton Is clearly stated by st. Paul, who
says that in the resurrection each seed
will have It's own kind Of body.
The human, or Adamic seed will
! have human bodies: but those heeotton
again of the Holy Spirit during this
| Gospel Age become the new Seed. to
| whom will be given new spirit bodies.
! rifed Savior or bridegroom and be
! 'likc Him. see Him as He is
spirit being. Describing the S,,iritual
| Seed and It's resurrection 81. Paul says.
! power: 1t is sowp in diShonor: il Is
| raised in glory: il is sowu an animal
body; 1t is raised spiritual body
! There IS an animal body Ihumanl ; u"}
there Is n spiritual body" celestial
heavenly Corinthians XIV. 43. A.
Jesus the Second Adam.
| After the exaitatiou of the Chuf,.h N hI