The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-09-10

the Mass. 1t was introduced about
the middle of the Fourth Century. II
has had corrupting influence since
And now that we see it clearly it Is
the duty and privilege of all of Gods
people to get right with God by re
nouncing that which is so abominablt
in His sigh the setting aside of the
one, perpetual sacrifice of Christ, and
the substituting in part therefor OF
the sacrifices Of the Mass. performed
many times every day throughout the
world
In Daniei's Prophecy txi. 31-38) we
recognize a brief synoptical history
covering the period from the Fourth
Century to the days of Napoleon. The
Sanctuary of Truth and Christian
strength was polluted. The daily Sac
rilce. literally the continual sacrifice
was taken away. and the Accumulation
of Desolation was ntroduced-the
Mass. Then follows description OF
the Church nominal. corrupted by fat
terry and prosperity. and a description
of the true saints of Cod who at the
same time. were strong and did won
ders In support of the Truth. A work /
of instruction Is mentioned. yet the In
structors fell by the sword and BY |
fame and captivity and spoil many
days"-many years-yet they were not |
allowed to fall completely God help |
ed them with a little help just |
enough to preserve them from extinc |
ton, that He might not be left with |
out witness. This trying and purginl |
continued until 1.-The Time of the End
which. to our understanding. began in |
1909. Since then none have fallen |
through persecution. Outward perse-
cution has been stopped. Gods people |
are seeing more and more clearly the
true teaching of His Word-the gold
en- vessels of the House Of the Lord
are being brought back from Babylon
and put to their proper uses IN the
spiritual Temple.
Better Sacrifices Than Those.
But we are reminded that st. Paul
himself wrote Of better sacrifices" in
the plural. (Hebrews tx. d. We are
asked what these refer to. If not to the
sacrifices of the Mass.
We reply that st. Paul made no
reference to sacrifices being offered by
earthly priests He referred only to
those offered by the Great High Priest
Himself None but the High Priest is
competent to offer sacrifices acceptable
to God. The sacrifices In the type of
the Day Of Atonement consisted OF
hull f0r A q
| and his household (hls sons and his
| tribe-of Levi. and the Lords goat,
| which he offered on behalf of all the
people of Israel In the Antitype,
''himseIf and his house." represents
the Body of Christ the Under-Priest-
hood, the Royal Priesthoodl, and the
| household of faith-the antitypical
typihed all the world Of mankind who
ultimately will be brought, through the
| merit Of the precious Atonement, into
| full relationship with God and to ever
lasting life.
OF these better sacrifices" the bull
lock represented our Lord Jesus, In
! His own person. The merit Of His
death is throughout this Age imputed
| to His true followers--the sanity few,
| the Royal Priesthood. and to the larger
! number Of less Jealous followers repre-
scented by the tribe of Levi All of
these were covered. reconciled. blessed
directly through the imputation of
Christs merit, when He appeared in
the presence of God for vs.. after His
ascension, Divine acceptance of His
merit being manifested by the imparta-
ton Of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
| But that was not the completion Of
Jesus sacrifice. In the type the bullock
was only one part Of the sacrifice. Next
followed the Lords goat. which repre-
scented the class Of Christians addressed
| by st. Paul in his exhortation. II be-
seech you, brethren, by the mercies Of
| God, that We present your bodies liv-
Ing sacrifice, holy and acceptable to
God" Romans xii. L. During this
Gospel Age the followers Of Jesus have
been privileged to present themselves
to Him for sacrifice. but they do not do
| the sacrificing. He, the spiritual High
| Priest, has proceeded In His work for
more than eighteen centuries. offering
| up for acceptance by the Father all
| who have become His true disciples,
| denying themselves and taking up their
cross and following Him faithfully.
All these are represented by the
Lords goat of the Day Of AtOnement
sacrifice Neviticus 1917. and were rep
| resented In the Pentecostal blessing.
| There all of this class were accepted
representatively and all of them were
devoted to sacrifice. according to the
terms Divinely arranged. AS soon as
the foreordained number constituting
the sacrificial Body of Christ shall have
been sacrificed, the better sacrifices
| will be complete. and all the members
of the Body of the Great High Priest
| will pass to the Head beyond the veil,
into the Most Holy Then the work of
this Gospel Age will be at an end. Then
the work OF the New Dispensation will
begin-the blessing of the world.-Titus
d. IA.
"This ls My Body"
Lutherans as we'll as Catholics hold
that the Eucharist means more than
q memorial of the broken body and
shed blood of Christ Catholics hold
that they have authority for consider
ing the bread and wine which have
been blessed as the actual flesh and
the actual blood of Jesus. because, say
they, Jesus so treated the matter In
the first Eucharist: ION the same
night In which He was betrayed. He
took bread and brake 1t, saying. This
is My body, which is broken for you.
Likewise He took the cup. saying.
This is MY blood. shed for many for
the remission of sins" Hence they
reason that If Jesus recognized the
matter thus as His actual body and
actual blood. so might all Of His fol
lowers. No. we answer. most evident
ly Jesus meant, this bread represents
Ny flesh. and this wine represents My
blood
Our Catholic brethren who hold 9th |
erwise evidently forget that at that
time Jesus flesh was not yet sacrificed |
and His blood was not yet shed.
Therefore the bread and the wine
which He handled could not by any |
possibility have been more than mere |
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES He still had
the original How strange that we
should have overlooked this 80 long!
In harmony with what we have al
ready said respecting the "better sac
riHces," we note that st. Paul explains
that the bread and the wine not only
represent and symbolic the flesh and