The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-04


its purpose. which is the gathering of
the select of God. 60 be the Bride Of
Christ and His joint-heirs in His King
dom. which Is 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 n year.
the length of this Gospel Dispensationl
IL indicates that at certain time the
great favor of becoming jolnt.sacrl.
flcers with the Redeemer. and thus be-
coming joiut-heirs with Him in His
Heavenly Kingdom. will terminate.
The privilege of walking in the mar
row way" in the footsteps of Jesus, of
self-sncriice 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 &c.
ceptable to God" Romans XII. u,
through the imputation of Jesus merit
The Kings Chamber Granite.
But while the Grand Gallery as n
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.
10 become partakers Of the divine ma
ture. sacrificing all that appertalns to
our human nature. The Ante-Chambef
represents the present life Of Gods con
secrated children. Its peculiar vain
scoting seems to symboically say that
lessons must be learned by each one
who enters-in other words, 1t sym
bolizes the School of Christ. in which
consecrated believers have lessons Of
faith. experience. patience ana forti-
tude TO prove their wothiness to pass
beyond into Heaven itself, represented
by the Kings Chamber
Before entering this Ante-Cham mber or
school. the pupil must stoop low. for
it is entered by low Passage, imply
ing humility. And no sooner has he
risen than he finds himself confronted
by huge granite obstruction, known
as the Granite Leaf. and he can make
no further progress except by bowing
low TO pass under il. Granite seems to
be used in the Pyramid In much the
same way that Gold was used In Is
rael's Tabernacle-to symbolic things
Divine. This Granite obstruction
threatens TO block our way, and re-
qulres us to bow low before 1t. SYM
bollcally, it says, 1t is not sufficient
that you have a desire for Godllness,
and faith in Jesus. and desire to be
taught of Him; you cannot go further
unless you make fHH surrender 10
God-uness you bow to the Divine will
absolutely. in consecrntion 20 God OF
your all
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 conservation
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 us low MS the Granite obstruction.
which seems to say that as the one
represents condition OF death of tho
WILL the other represents actual death
only by actual death could our Sa-
vior or any of His followers pass into
the heavenly state symbolized by the
Kings Chamber; for, as 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 to the Queens Cham
Der to symbollcally represent the trials
and testlngs that will be upon the hui
man family incidental to attaining hui
man perfection .under the glorious
reign of Messiah's Kingdom. when the
Church MS the Bride of Christ will be
associated with her Lord in enecting
nullul ItSAilullhAA w sAA NV NA''f'5
and obedlent.-Acts Ill, 1928.
If. as we believe. God has In this
great mountain of stone caused 10 he
outlined the Divine Plan Of the Ages,
It undoubtedly will tell its wonderful
story in trumpet tones, I'm 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 rlfe-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, il is re-
freshing TO Christian faith to find not
only the Bible itself is opening before
us, and one quotation illuminating an
other and all uniting IN the testimony
that God Is Love. and that "IIis mercy
ehdureth forever" but that the Messi-
onfc EinVdom eO lonp nrop1iqad ia M