The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-02-20

ID the Gospel privileges have stood
open to India and to every nation for
centuries; (2) The Gospel was not sent
to convert India nor any nation, but
merely to bear witness. That witness
has been borne and l am re-echoing it
today The Message is for the calling,
instruction, sealing of as many as de-
sire to walk in the footsteps of Jesus
and no others. Only those who appre-
ciate this great offer will sacrifice ev-
cry earthly interest in order to obtain
this Pearl OF Great Price" The
masses have no ear to hear Gods Mes
sage-they have no desire to self-sac-
rificingly take up their cross and fol-
low the Redeemer
However, all Gods purposes shall be
accomplished; His Word shall not re-
turn unto Him void: it shall accomplish
that which He pleases. 1t will find
the elect number of sanity characters
whom the Father foreordained shall be
with the Redeemer and share His glory
throughout His Messianic reign.
have a special word for the encour-
agement Of the poor of India and Of
every land. wish the poor to realize
this truth, namely. that poverty is not
unfavorable to their best interests for
eternity, but on the contrary, is as
sistful Hence the Scriptures tell us
that mot many great. wise. learned or
rich" will be heirs Of the Kingdom.
but chiefly the poor of this world
rich in faith" Il Corinthians i. 1928;
James ii. 81
1t is not that God more highly esteems
the poor than the rich. but that they
have less to fill and satisfy their hearts
now and are. therefore, more hungry
and thirsty for the right way of the
Lord and more ready to hearken to His
voice, which says to both rich and
poor. Come unto Me. all We that labor
and are heavy laden. and / will give
you rest" The rich usually feel less
weary and less heavy laden-they have
more to console them In the things Of
this present time The poor. on the
contrary. having fewer of the blessings
OF the present. are hungering and
thirsting for some better thing for the
future and thus meantime find the
Lord and are glad to receive His bless
ings upon His only terms-ful con-
secration of mind and body, time and
purse.
Gods Blessing Maketh Rich.
Our text is an epitomized statement
"a sc lok
blessing for our race will come through
the Seed of Abraham-The Christ.
The giving Of His Son to be mans
Redeemer and Deliverer from sin and
death was Gods blessing to man
making man rich. Messiah. having
died for the redemption of the world,
is about to bestow upon men the Dr.
vine blessing promised to Abraham,
''In thee and in thy Seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed"
That blessing to the non elect world
will be a glorious opportunity for ris-
ing up out Of sin and death conditions
TO full human perfection in the image
and likeness of God--as Adam pos
sessed this before his fall 1t will
mean the bringing Of the earth to the
conditions pictured in Eden. The earth,
God declares, He formed not in vain,
but to be inhabited. At present man
is in a condition of enmity and sep
aration from His Creator and his earth
ly home is disordered. Gods foot
stool, for six thousand years, has been
the scene of terrible reign of Sin and
Death.
Why the Delay In the Removal Of Sin
and Death?
The only hope is in Messiah's King
dom, which God has promised shall
be established for the overthrow of
Satan, the aboIishing of ignorance and
superstition. the enlightenment of man
kind and the uplift of all the willing
and obedient and for the destruction
Of the wilfully wicked in the Second
Death. But before the Kingdom
could be established redemptive work
was necessary for the satisfaction of
Justice on behalf Of Adam, the sin
ner, and his race involved with him.
BY the grace of God Jesus has appear
ed and, as corresponding price. has
died, the Just for the unjust. that He
might bring us back into harmony with
God and bring In the glorious and long
promised thousand years of restitution.
Acts iii, 1921.
Eighteen centuries ago Jesus accom-
a.
rewarded. In His resurrection. with
glory, honor and immortality. Ever
since then He Is at the right hand of
Jehovah God. merely awaiting the d.
vinely ordained time when He shall
take unto Himself His great power
and reign. OF that time we read
prophetically. ASK of Me. and l will
give Thee the heather for Thine in
heritance, and the uttermost parts of
the earth for Thy possession" psalm
Ii, 81
But why so long a delay between
the time when He appeared to put
away sin by the sacrifice OF Himself
and the time when He shall appear In
His glory to establish the reign of
righteousness and lift up the world of
mankind for whom He died? The
Bible alone answers this question, and
oh, how much we are interested In its
answer! 1t tells us that In this in
term between the death Of the Savior
and the Inauguration of His Kingdom
a special and great work is to be ac-
complished according to the Divine
arrangement--the calling and the
choosing of a faithful few from
amongst the redeemed race to consti-
tute a Royal Priesthood, to serve and
reign in association with the Savior.
These heirs Of God and Joint heirs
with Jesus Christ our Lord are va
riously described in the Scriptures.
Under one figure they are spoken of
as being members of the Body of
which He is the Head. Thus is shown
the oneness Of Christ and His faithful
followers. In another picture Jesus
Is spoken of as the heavenly Bride
groom, and the Church is described as
His espoused. At the second coming
Of Jesus His espoused virgin Church
Is to be made alive from the dead and
thus to be married to the Bridegroom
and become His Bride and joint-heir
to the glory, honor and Immortality
which are His by virtue of the heav-
emily Fathers arrangement and of the
Savior's worthineSs- faithfulness unto
death, even the death of the Cross.
How Rich We Shall Be MadeI
Thus seen, God, the Fountain Of ev-
cry good and every perfect gift, pro-
poses, first, to make rich the Church.
the Elect Of this Gospel Age Theirs