The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-02-27

! can come only through a fellowship
OF spirit and an understanding of the
| Divine Program. None, however, are
| permitted to come to such intimate
knowledge except as they shall mani
fest heart-loyalty. Each step of prog
ress in our loyalty to God brings that
attitude of mind which is pleasing to
Him and which, when thoroughly
| demonstrated, will be rewarded with
everlasting life Thus knowledge is
intimately bound up with our eternal
prospects.
Earth's teeming millions know not
God. Even those portions called Chris
ttGR worship the true God with but
slight appreciation of His true charac-
| ter. None of these, therefore, are in
| the condition to claim everlasting life
according to the teaching Of the Mas
| ter. They are the non-elect, in contrast
with the faithful few, who are Scrip
| turally styled Gods Elect ''the Very
Elect" and who are urged to make
their calling and election sure by per-
severing loyalty even unto death.
In our blindness Of the past, assum-
ing that all the n0n-elect would be con
signed to an eternity of torture, we
have published in our missionary re-
ports that ninety thousand every day
| go down into death, into Christless
| grayes-and, by inference, into eternal
| torture Alas, how misunderstood and
how Internationally misrepresented
has been our gracious Father, the God
| of All Grace, the Father of Mercies
Now we read His character in falrer
! lines as we perceive that the fulfil
ment of His great and wonderful
| plan for the salvation of the world is
merely beginning-that the election Of
| the Church TO be the Bride of Christ
| and joint-heir with Him in His glori-
GUS Kingdom merely marks the time
| for the setting up of that Heavenly
Kingdom, the rule Of which is to bring
such blessing and opportunities to man
kind-the non-elect. Now we perceive
| that for thousand years the Elect, on
the heavenly plane, invisible to men,
like unto the angels" will live and
reign with Christ Revelation Xxx, a for
OAS9nAAAes
| uplifting from conditions of sin and i'm
perfection back to the glorious heights
| of the image Of God in the flesh, lost
by Adams disobedience and redeemed
by our Savior on Calvary, and to be re
| stored to Adam and all his children
found willing to receive it on Divine
| terms.
In view of these things, how reason
| able that we find the Apostles and
Prophets exultingly pointing forward
to Messiah's Kingdom as the time W hen
| all the families of the earth shall be
blessed. How this explains to us the
fact that our Redeemer gave so many
parallels illustrative Of His Kingdom
| describing the class which would con-
stitute the Royal Family and the trials
and difficulties Of their way while prov
ing themselves worthy to share with
our Redeemer in glory; and the condi-
tons In which they would be at His
second coming. when the wise viz
| gins" only would be accepted to the
! glorious honor of becoming the Bride.
the Lambs Wife; and how the
pounds" and talents granted us in
the present time must be used faithful
| ly If we would hear His words: "Weli
done, good and faithful servant; thou
hast been faithful over few things,
will make thee ruler over many things:
enter thou into the Joys Of thy Lord
How Glory In This Knowledqe7
| In the past we have gloried as sects
and parties in cur various creed-idols
| Of which we are now ashamed We
perceive that creed worship did us al
most as much injury as did idol wor-
ship to the heather. Nearly all these
creed-idols declared eternal torment for
the thousands Of millions who had new
er heard of the Only Name. Indeed,
nearly all of them claimed that only
small minority of Christendom would
escape eternal torture. Some Of these
creed-idols declare that so awful ca
tastrophe as the torture Of twenty
thousand millions was foreknown of
God and predestinated by Him before
the creation of Adam. Others claim
the contrary, that God had benevolent
intentions toward our race at the start,
but that His plans miscarried and
would produce the same horrible re-
suits, either because of Divine unwis-
dom or because of lack of power. How
such presentations distressed every
Christian loyal at heart toward His
God and sympathetic toward his fell
lows!
Our colleges and uniyersities-and,
sad to say, our theological seminaries
are busy turning out unbelievers-
inidels. Nor are these people wicked
or immoral in their unbelief; they are
as wellmeaning as ever, but have
lost their way. They reject the Bible
because they believe 1t to be the
foundation of the various inconsistent
cies in their creeds; they are STUN
bling for lack of knowledge; they can
not believe that mans hereafter is
one of centuries of suffering, or of
eternal suffering.
Let us now demolish these idols
which SO long have misrepresented
our gracious Creator and blinded us
" I'LL anu oupSlSIlIlOu- 1cL
US receive the Scripture teaching only
Let us rejoice in the election of the
Church to be the Kingdom class and
let us rejoice in the hope of its King
dom glory for the blessing of the nom
elect, Let US rejoice that "the wilder
ness shall blossom as the rose, and
that the solitary place shall be glad"
and that God will make His footstool
glorious" during the thousand years
Of Messiah's Kingdom. So desiring
we viii come into line with our text:
"Let him that glorieth glory in this.
that he UNDERSTANDABLE and knoweth
Me, that l am the Lord, which exer-
ciseth loving kindness, judgment and
Righteousness in the earth
Now We See obscureIy.
Saint Paul declares: Now we see
obscurely." Only by faith can we
see Gods loving kindness, The reign
Of sin and death for six thousand
years has been but the natural re-
suit of the violation of Divine Law
which our first parents transgressed.
The beginning Of Gods work for our
reclamation from its consequences was
In the sending of His Son to be our
Redeemer. Since then He has been
gathering an elect few to be Messiah's |
Bride and joint-heir in His Kingdom.
Soon-very soon, we hope and be-
neve-the Church will be completed
and the Messianic Kingdom will man
ifest Divine clemency, mercy, loving