The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08

itS purpose, which is the gathering Of
the, "eiect" OF God. to be the Bride of
Christ and His joint-heirs in His King
dom. which ia to bless the world.
Another Interesting feature is that
the Ascending Passage with its Plug
represents exactly the length of the
Jewish Age! And, similarly, the Grand
Gallery represents, an inch to year.
the length of this Gospel Dispensation.
1t indicates that at a certain time the
great favor Of becoming Joint-sacri-
feers with the Redeemer, and thus be-
coming Joint-heirs With Him in His
Heavenly Kingdom, will terminate.
The privilege Of walking In the mar
row way, in the footsteps of Jesus, of
seIf-sacrifice for the Truths sake, will
thus end. "Now is the acceptable
time"-now is the time when God is
| willing to accept these living sacrifices.
which He declares are "holy and ac-
ceptable to Cod (Romans xii. ~.
through the imputation of Jesus merit.
The Kings Chamber Granite.
But while the Grand Gallery as a
whole stands as representative OF
the entire Gospel Age, at its top we
have illustrated the steps necessary to
be taken by each and every one who
would constitute member OF the
| Bride class. to become new creatures.
to become partakers of the divine ma
ture, sacrificing all that appertains TO
our human nature. The Ante Chamber
! represents the present life Of Gods con
secrated children. It's peculiar vain.
scoting seems to symbolicaliy say that
lessons must be learned by each one
who enters-in other words, it sym,
bOlizes the School Of Christ, in which
consecrated believers have lessons OF
faith, experience, patience and forti.
tude to prove their worthiness to pass
beyond into Heaven itself, represented
by the Kings Chamber.
Before entering this Ante-Chamber OF
school, the pupil must stoop low, fol
! tt is entered by low Passage, imply
ing humility. And no sooner has DC
risen than he finds himself confronted
by huge granite obstruction. known
as the Granite Leaf. and he can make
no further progress except by bowling
low to pass under it. Granite seems to
be used in the Pyramid in much the
| same way that Gold was used in ls
raeps Tabernacle2-to symbohze things
Divine. This Granite obstruction
threatens to block our way. and re
auires us to bow low before 1T. Sym
bolically. it says. It is not sufficient
| that you have a desire for Goodness
| and faith in Jesus, and a desire to be
| taught OF Him; you cannot so further
unless you make a full saSreider Il
God-unless you bow to the Divine will
absolutely. in consecration to God OF
your all. .s~>% -. -
And here another lesson is taught
| for the moment the pupil bows under
the Granite obstruction he begins to
tread on the same Granite floor which
constitutes the floor of the Kings
Chamber. The lesson seems to be that
from the moment of. full consecration
the, disciple OF Christ is begotten OF
the Holy Spirit to the divine nature
symbolized 'by the Granite. His new
standing thus declares him in Scrip
| tural language New Creature.
The passage leading from the Ante
| Chamber to the Kings Chamber is
| lust as low rs the Granite obstruction
which seems to say that as the one
represents a condition Of death OF the
will, the other represents actual death
--only by actual death could our Sa
/ yior or any of His followers pass into
| the heavenly state. symbolized by the
Kings Chamber; for, us st. Paul de
clares. I'VE must all be changed be
cause flesh and blood cannot enter
the Kingdom Of Cod
| = Human Restitution Pictured.
We understand the Horizontal Pas
sageway leading 10 the Queens Cham
Der to symbolically represent the trials
and testings that will be upon the hu
| man family incidental to attaining hui
man perfection under the glorious
reign OF Messiah's Kingdom, when the
| Church as the Bride Of Christ will be
| associated with her Lord in effectine
| human restitution to all the willing
| and obedient.--Actsi Ill. 1928.
If. as we believe, God has in this
great mountain Of stone caused to be
outlined the Divine Plan Of the Ages
1t undoubtedly will tell its wonderful
story in trumpet tones. ''ii that day.
What we can appreciate of its teach
ings in harmony with the Bible we
find wonderfully comforting in this
day when skepticism is so rife-when
| the scholars of Christendom are tell
ing us that the Bible prophecies from
/ which Jesus and the Apostles quoted
and which they applied were not writ
ten at all by the persons supposed.
At this time. particularly. 1t is re
freshing to Christian faith to find not
only the Bible itself is opening before
us, and one quotation Illuminating aD-
othei. and all uniting in the testimony
| that God is Love, and that "His mercy
endureth forever" but that the Messi.
anic Kingdom so long promised is Ut
hand. and that it will bring. as fore
told, great joy to all people. with the
| best opportunity for returning to Di-
vine favor and everlasting life. At
| this time itrefreshes our hearts to note
/ the testimony Of Gods great Stone
/ Witness in the land OF Egypt testify
Ing to Divine forekn0wledge Of the