The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-07-02

discussing that work of Restitution
which belongs to the coming Age of
Messiah's glorious reign Of righteous
ness. On the contrary, it deals with
the specially favored and specially
blessed ones who during this Age are
being called. proved, tested, polished,
prepared for joint-heirship with Jesus
in His Kingdom.
These are special objects of Divine
care. whose blessing consists not in
restitution to earthly perfection and an
earthly Eden home or Paradise. These
are called of God with high call
ing" heavenly ealling"-to be heirs
of God and joint heirs with Jesus
Christ our Lord" (Romans viii, 10
These, st. Peter tells US. have been
granted exceeding great and precious
promises, that by these promises las
the Divine power or energy working
In theml they might become partakers
Of the divine nature.-u Peter i, 4.
All, now we perceive the special
sense in which Divine Power is being
exercised toward the called and elect
Church from that which will be exer-
cised toward the world in general.
God is creating new order of beings
in the Universe-an order or class on
the divine plane, which is far above
that Of angels. principalities and pow
ers or any other plane in the whole
Universe. This is the sense, then, in
which we are Gods workmanship and
newly created of Him in Christ Jesus
unto good works.
Only from this standpoint can the
beauty and harmony Of the Bible be
discerned. The Fathers providences
guided that Jesus should first pass
through the trials and difficulties and
self-sacriiees necessary to a demon
stration Of His loyalty, which would
prove Him worthy of the divine ma
ture. And so the Apostle tells US that
He who was rich, for our sakes be-
came poor; that the L00os humbled
Himself and took a bondman's form
In harmony with the Divine Program.
"And being found in fashion a Man
He humbled Himself still further
even to death. ''even the death Of the
cross" Wherefore also Ion this &C.
count God hath highly exalted Him,
and given Him a name that is above
every name, that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, both Of things
In heaven and things on the earth
Philippians Il, 6-10.
Nor did the New Creation cease with
this exaltation Of the Lo0os, the Re-
hand of power and honor and glory.
that "all men should honor the Son
even as they honor the Father" John
V, 23.) On the contrary, st. Paul ex-
plains to us a Mystery. hidden from
previous Ages and Dispensations, but
now made known unto Gods sanity,
namely, that the Divine purpose Is that
Q Church class shall be selected dur
ing this Gospel Age. to share with the
Lo0Os, Jesus, His exalted glory and
honor, dominion and power and divine
nature-as q Bride class. Thus we
read: at became Him 1.-THE Fatherl,
in bringing many sons to glory,
to make the Captain Of their saliva
ton perfect through suffering.
brews ii, 10.
And now, as the Fathers Repre-
sentative and agent. for eighteen hun
dred years the Redeemer has been do
ing the work of preparing this class
which is to be His Bride and Joint
heir In His Kingdom-the class which
is to be associated with Him in the
judging and blessing Of the world Of
mankind in general Corinthians
vi. 2.
aye See Your Calling. Brethren"
St. Paul. pointing out the privileges
Of those who are now being called,
says, Eye see your calling, brethren,
how that not many wise men after the
flesh. not many mighty, not many no
Bile are called" but chiefly the poor
of this world, rich in faith. heirs of the
Kingdom" q Corinthians i, 20; James
Ii, 81 Those who possess the blessings
Of the present life In great abundance
are thereby disadvantaged respecting
this great High Calling, while the poor
Of this world have their compensation,
for the things of the present time hav-
ing less attraction for them, their ears
and hearts and "the eyes of their I'M
Outstanding" are more ready to discern
the glorious things of the Divine reve-
lation. which the natural eye hath not
seen nor the ear heard-things which
God hath In reservation for those that
love Him-supremely-for those whose
love for God manifests itself In full
conservation of mind and body to know
and to do the Divine will.
Our text tells us of the possibilities
Of our "caIling''-of what God through
Christ is able and willing to do for us
even bringing US to perfection of ho-
illness and faultlessness in the Divine
presence at the end of our race course.
But there are conditions, our text de-
cIares, namely: "If We continue in the
faith, grounded and settled, and be not
moved away from the Hope Of the Cos
pei, which ye have heard and which
was preached to every creature which
was under heaven" %.
Since there are conditions. we must
give them earnest heed; for how could
we be careless or Indifferent In re-
spect to 30 high calling. so heavenly
a Prize as this set before us? Care
lessness. neglect. Indifference in respect
to the terms or conditions, would be
manifest4ng lack Of appreciation Of
the gift, the privilege. the opportunity;
and this in turn would mean that
thereby we mark ourselves in the
Lords estimation as unworthy of the
preferred honors and glories.
eth. Hope of the Gospel"
It should not surprise us that the
Apostle lays great stress upon the
Slope Of the Gospel" God is not work
ing in us with tools of iron and steel
or gold or silver to transform or to
polish us. His fashioning and trans
forming tool is the Hope Of the Cos
pei. 1t is this Hope which the Apos-
tie declares we should have as an
anchor to our soul, both sure and
steadfast. entering into that which is
within the veil, whittier our Forerun-
ner is for us entered" (Hebrsws vi,
10, 20) Thus we will be settled and
grounded and safe in all the storms Of
life. great and small. Our anchorage
Of faith will give US the assurance OF
the Divine promise, that "all things
shall work together for good to those
who are the called according to His
purpose" to those who are the
Happy objects Of His grace,
Destined to behold His face"
But the Divine arrangement Is that
In order to continue in the faith we
must feed continually upon the prom
ises Of God, and must allow them to