The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-16

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Of the dead. bath Of the just and I'M
just. II tells that the Divine arrange
ment whereby God could be just and
not repudiate the rulership of His own
Court and yet recover man from the
death sentence, was arranged for. The
arrangement was that Jesus, "by the
grace of God. should taste death for
every man." that las by a man came
death. by a Man also should come the
resurrection Of the dead; for as all in
Adam die even so all in Christ shall be
made alive, every man in his own or
der."-Hebrews ii. 8; Cor. XIV. 81, %.
First the Elect Bride.
With God "a thousand years are as
one day." I'll Peter lii, 81 He has
therefore arranged that six of these
great days shall constitute mans peri
cd of battling with sin and death and
that the seventh of these great days
shall be the Day of Messiah, the Sab
bath or Rest Day to the world. in
which Messiah, as the Divine Repre-
sentative, shall lift up all the willing
and obedient opening their blind eyes.
unstopping their deaf ears and causing
all to know the Lord. from the least to
the greatest.
AS a result. some will refuse and die
the Second Death"-utter destruction.
No more than century of trial is to
be granted, because we read "The sin
ner a hundred years old shall be cut
off''-a child a century old in sin shall
be accursed-to the Second Death
isaiah Ky. 20l But all who will ac-
cept Divine favor may then be brought
to full. human perfection. similar to
that which Adam enjoyed at the be-
ginning, plus the knowledge of good
and evil, which he lacked.
OF these willing and obedient ones
it is written. Every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess, to the glory
of God" Many Of you Chinese. doubt
less, will then be bowling before the
great King of kings and Lord of lords,
whom then you will know completely;
for 1.-THE knowledge of the Lord shall
fill the whole earth as the waters cover
the great deep" And your forefathers.
whom you reverence, will be there,
too; their eyes shall be opened and
their ears unstopped. as 1t is written,
"All the blind eyes shall be opened and
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped."
What great reunion time that will
be for the Chinese hundreds of mil
lions! Yes, and still more! AS the
Scriptures declare, all the families Of
the earth shall be blessed similarly
with knowledge Of God and with
full opportunity for restitution to all
that was lost in Adam--to all that was
redeemed at CaIvary.-Acts lii, 1921.
Do you say to me, This news is too
good to be true? Do you say, No mis-
siOnary ever told us of such a gracious
God and such a mighty Savior! Had
we heard such gracious Message 1t
would have attracted our hearts long
ago, for orr gods are non-sympathetic
they are great. powerful and vicious
But we thought as we heard the mis-
sionaries' message that the Christian
God must be even more ferocious than
ours, for tue awful burning hell Of
which we have heard through Chris
tians is terrible beyond anything we
heathens had ever heard of before OF
conjeetured for Ourselvesi
Satan the God of This World.
Alasi my dear friends. know this
very we'll and the Bible explains the
whole matter. 1t tells us that We
have been believing doctrines of de-
mons" q. Timothy iv. H. These vicious
doctrines in the past when more liter
ally believed than today. led some no
DIe Christian people into most afro
eious conduct.
We are all awaking from this sad
blindness, thank God. We are emerg-
ing slowly from the darkness of the
past. We are in the very dawning of
the morning of Messiahs Kingdom,
which Is TO bless the world. The ris-
ing of the Sun Of Righteousness is to
bring the New Day of emancipation
from ignorance, superstition and death.
The more awake we become the more
clearly do we see the beauty Of Gods
Word and the ridiculous Inconsistency
of things We once believed.
st. Paul explains to us why Satan
strives to put darkness for light and
light for darkness. He explains why
Satan represents himself as an angel Of
light and endeavors to besmirch the
Divine character and to make God the
very personificatton of wickedness and
injustice! 1t is part of his general
endeavor to thwart the Divine Plan, to
mislead those WHO are seeking to know
God. Heaken to the Apostles words.
1.-THE god Of this world hath blinded
the minds of them that believe not,
lest the glorious light of Gods good
ness, as it shines in the face Of Jesus
Christ our Lord. should shine into their
hearts," III. Corinthians. iv. A.
In proportion as humanity miscon-
ceiyes Gods character and His Word,
in that same proportion they will shun
the Bible and Its God, and thus get
away from the faith and hope revealed
in the Bible. AS have told you, had
my own bitter experiences along this
line. How l thank God for the "eye-
salve" and for the glorious vision Of
the Divine character and Plan which
now stands out so distinctly before the
eyes Of my understanding!
Good Tidings Of Great Joy.
The Gospel of the Bible, the Message
Of the great God, Infinite in Justice,
Wisdom, Love ard Power, is a Mes
sage Of grace. OF mercy, as has en-
anated from no other quarter-such as
no other religious book In the world
presents. And what else should we ex
pect than that the great Supreme Be
ing would be Fountain of grace, Of
blessing to His dependent creatures.
1t should not surprise us, then, to find
the Bible clearly teaching that the God
of all Grace has in store for humanity
great blessings-"times of restitution
Of all things spoken by the mouth Of
all the holy Prophets since the world
began" (Acts iii. 1920.
Another Message should not surprise
US; 1t is the message that was sung by
the angels on the night of Jesus birth,
Behold, we bring you good tidings Of
great Joy. which shall be unto all peo-
ple"-the thousands of millions of the
Chinese included! 1t is JOY to me to be
permitted to tell this glorious Message
TO such as have the ear to hear it. 1t
is further joy to me that in the Di-
vine arrangement the time is coming
when call the deaf ears shall be I'M
stopped" and when the clear knowl-
edge of Gods goodness shall fill the
earth as the waters cover the deep.
God first told this Message of His
benevolent designs toward humanity