The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-12-03

| will OF the Father VINO sent Him.
What an exhibition this was to all |
the holy angels! And did the Father |
permit Him to really suffer loss be- |
cause of His loyalty. His faithfulnessl
Assuredly mott He was not left In |
death. He was raised from death. |
Neither was He left by the Father |
on the lower plane Of human ma |
ture, which He took merely for the |
purpose of suffering death on mans |
behalf On the contrary. the Father |
highly exalted Him and exhibited to |
angels and to men the character pleas |
ing in Jehovah's sight. Bringing the |
Only Begotten One forward, Jehovah |
| prophetically declares: Let all the |
messengers of God worship Himp
This same privilege has come to the |
| Church. In response, the invitation to |
| become joint-sacrificers with Christ, |
to walk in His steps, and to enter into |
share of His glory has been accept |
ed by one after another of Gods saint |
| ly people, from Pentecost until now. |
They have confidence that HE who |
brought again from the dead our Lord |
Jesus, that great Shepherd of the |
sheep" Is both able and willing to |
bring them also. through Him, to eter- i
nal glory. AS He walked the narrow |
way" they have courage to walk in |
| His steps. As He overcame, they have |
| the encouragement of His promise that |
His grace will be sufficient for them. |
| To this class Jesus is Gods unspeak |
able Gift To these favored ones. His |
| footstep followers, the Savior is spe- |
cially an unspeakable Gift Of God. If |
| as a Gift to the world His merit is |
beyond the power of tongue to tell |
how much more so is He the unspeak |
able Gift to the Chureh-to the Elect. |
AS the Captain Of their Salvation"
He is leading forth these other sons of
| God. His younger brethren. to glory
Hebrews ii. 10.
| The Savior is an unspeakable Gift to
the Church as the Bridegroom. The
| thought of becoming an associate and
joint-heir In all the glorious work Of
God throughout the Millennium. is an
inspiration which makes the trials and |
difficulties of the way seem as nothing. |
Besides, we have the assurance of the |
Lord that in subsequent Ages the Faith |
er will continue to show special riches |
of grace and lovingkindness toward lis
who are in Christ Jesus. AS our ED |
~ Brother" the Savior is an unspeak |
able Gift. Our interests are His inter |
ests; our welfare His welfare; all Of |
the journey in His footsteps which He
invites us to take, and which He ar |
ranges for us. He has passed over be-
fore. We merely walk In His steps.
As our great High Priest over the
House of Sons, He is an unspeakable |
Gift. Through Him we are privileged |
to be the Royal Priesthood Our offer |
ings to Jehovah. our little all. would be |
unacceptable, because we are all by ma |
ture sinners. children of wrath. blenl- |
ished. But our great High Priests |
merit, imputed to our sacrifices makes |
them acceptable As Christ's "men- |
bers" we are privileged to present our
bodies living sacrifices, holy and ac-
ceptable to God" Romans xii. H.
From whatever viewpoint we look. the |
Savior Is Gods unspeakable Gift. es-
pecially to His Church
OF Grace, Not of Justice.
Undoubtedly Justice must be recos-
nized in respect to the Creators deal |
lngs with His creatures. God. being |
the great Representative OF the princ- |
pie of Justice, continually holding it up |
before His creatures, and demanding |
their obedience to this Law, surely could |
not be exempted from its operation |
Himself. To this the Scriptures agree. |
assuring us that Justice is the founda- |
ton Of His Throne" Our endeavors in
the past to harmonic Love and JUS |
tice with our great Creators dealings |
with humanity have continually involv- |
ed us in difficulty. We were assured |
by the prominent creeds of the world |
that the Creator had knowingly and |
willingly brought us into existence I'M |
der such conditions that the great ma
jority of mankind would spend an
eternity In torture.
We were unable to see Justice in any |
such arrangement, yet feared to criti- |
else our Creator, lest He should, IL pos
sible, do something still worse for US. |
But our reason baked at the PROPOSE
ton, while we desisted from criticisng |
the Creator. We could not endorse such |
program, nor could we see it to be In |
harmony with the Divine regulations |
governing ourselves. If we are to love |
our enemies and be compassionate to-
ward them, should more be expected |
Of fallen beings than of our perfect |
Creator?
Justice Always Satisfied.
From the Divine standpoint the hui |
man family are all convicts. under |
death sentence, dead in trespasses and |
sins, wholly without rights or privi- |
leges. AS the French Government, not |
unjustly, has allowed the medical pro-
fession to make experiments with con-
victs who are under death sentence, to |
try upon them the effects of fear, poi |
son, etc, so God not unjustly has al |
lowed mankind, all under death SEN
tence, to practice all kinds OF evil |
upon one another. and to learn from |
each other great lessons respecting |
the exceeding sinfulness of sin and the
wages or penalty of sin-death
Justice merely exacts its penalty; but |
that penalty paid by Adam and his
family left them hopeless respecting
any future life. Unworthy of ever
lasting life, they died; and surely they
become no more worthy while dead |
None has any claim upon Justice. Adam
at the very moment of his fall
might have been smitten with a thun-
derbolt, without having any claim upon
Justice; for he was under a death pen
| atty. The fact that Justice allowed |
him to live for many years with a for
feited life meant not a waving of |
the death penalty, but Divine liberal |
ity in respect to the execution of the
criminal.
When, therefore. in the Bible God |