The Daily Missoulian., 1912-08-25

foolish virgins are not hypocrites.
nut true saints; nevertheless. on ac-
count of not living fully up to their
privileges. they will fall 10 gain the
prize and be given portion In the
great trouble time with the hypocrites
This Is the masters own description
of the matter. A little later on (Rev-
elation vii) He tells us more on the
subject, that only Bible students may
fully appreciate and understand He
tells US that after the completion OF
the church. spiritual Israel, the l44,-
600. great multitude viii "come up
through great trbuation and wash
their robes and make them white i'm
the blood of the lamb" These will be
honored with place before the
throne. while the elect" as the bride
viii be honored with Emmanuel I'm his
throne.
This multitude will be granted palm
branches, representing final victory,
but they will never be granted the
crowns of victory, which will belong
only to the elect, wise virgin" class.
the bride upon the throne. The bride
class will be the temple, com posed of
living stones. but the great company,
the foolish virgin" class will not be
stones of that temple, but will serve
God In the temple. An honorable
| place will thus be granted the foolish
virgins" who finally get the oil and
finally cleanse their robes In the time
of trouble. but never will they attain
/ tho portion of the bride.
| I'm. VII, hn.
OF the church of glory, the wise vir-
gin class. She Is pictured AZ bride.
all glorious within and clothed In raj
ment of gold and fine needlework. The
heavenly bridegroom Will present her
faultless before His father, the Great
King; and then we read. THE virgins,
her companions, shall follow her; they
shall be brought into the presence Of
the King" How glad we are that In
divine providence their weeping and
gnashing of teeth and sorrow and dis
appointment at losing Il place In the
! bride class will eventually work out
for them n eontrition of heart and a
demonstration of loyalty which God
can reward with a blessing upon the
| heavenly plane!
waning In outer arkness.
Another text dealing with "wailing
and gnashing OF teeth" deserves con-
slderatlon here. It occurs In connec-
tion with the parable of the wedding
garment. That parable pictures tho
closing time of this age. when under
divine blessing Gods most sanity peo-
pie will be given greater light on His
word and be enabled thereby to more
fully appreciate the lengths. breadths.
heights and depths of His love and
| Its wonderful providences.
These consecrated ones are repre-
sented as being gathered into a great
banquet hall, radiantly beautiful In
| II they tarry, waiting to be ushered
/ into the banquet proper, In an adjoin-
! ing apartment. The light of these
apartments Is in tho parable vividly
| contrasted with the darkness that pre-
walls outside, which darkness repre-.
sents the condition of the world and all
of Gods people who have not yet
come into the light of present truth"
| The parable Is given specially to
show the necessity of the wedding
! garment"-that none may enter, into
the marriage feast except he acknowl-
edges and uses the wedding gar
ment." On such festival occasions in
ancient times 1t was customary that
all guests should be furnished by the
host with garments of white which
would cover their own garments, and
| for the time being. as his guests, this
placed them all on the same footing.
whatever their ordinary station In life.
| Thus we have pictured the justification
which all Gods people receive as a
gift through the merit Of their Re-
deemer, Being justified by faith the
consecrated have not only peace with
God, but they have access to this fig