The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-18

udu. ne gave tueul tue opportunity Oh
becoming spirit beings-members OF
Spiritual Israel So many as receive
Jesus, and became consecrated to be
His disciples were received of the
Father, begotten of the holy Spirit, re-
ceived into the family of God as Spir-
itual Israelites. as the Spiritual Seed OF
Abraham. But these were few.
Then Divine favor turned to the Gen
tiles, and gave to them a similar oppor-
tunity Of coming into membership with
| the Spiritual Seed of Abraham. This
work has required nearly nineteen cen
turtles and is now about completed. In
other words, we understand that the
Messiah class is about complete-Jesus
the Head. faithful Jews next, the faith
full from the Gentiles next
Jesus the Head long ago entered into
His glory. Some of His members have
Already entered in. and soon the last
members will pass beyond the veil.
Then the preparatory work of making
up the Messianic class will be COM
pleted.
Immediately on the Inauguration Of
The Messiah. His work of ruling and
blessing will begin. At that point ac-
cording to the Scriptures. Natural Is
rael will return to Gods favor. and be
granted the chief blessing under the
new administration. And through the
Kingdom Of Israel. as the earthly rep
resentative of Messiah's invisible, Spir-
itual Kingdom. the blessing of Jeho-
yah will reach to all the families Of the
earth.-Genesis 1913: 22:17. 10.
What Israel Did Not See.
The Jewish people failed to note
those portions of prophecy which fore
told Messiah's sufferings. As a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so He
would neither open His mouth nor use
any of His superior powers to hinder
the accomplishment of Gods will in re-
spect to His death isaiah 53:7.l The
chastisement for human sin was borne
by Him. In order that, as mans Re-
1eemer, He might have the right to
forgive human sin and to raise man.
kind out Of their degradation and bring
them back into harmony with Gods
Law, fully justified through the blood
Of the Redeemer. Not only the Jews
failed to see the necessity for a dying
Savior. but the whole Gentle world
may be said to equally fail to grasp the
import of Jesus. death.
The death of Jesus was necessary for
two reasons: a. As mans redemption
price; (2) AS evidencing His own faith
fulness to God, His own loyalty even
unto death, and consequently His right
to the Divine promise of glorious ex
altation, compromising His devotion
His self-sacrifce. and honoring Hif
name above every name-making Him
partaker of the Divine nature. With
out His redemptive work, the penalty
Of Divine Justice would have rested
forever upon the human race, ane
none could have been resurrected from
the dead. The sentence Of death upon
man would bring him to the same con-
dition of nonentity as the dying of the
brute accomplishes In him But God
knew in advance of His own purpose
to arrange for mankind the payment
Of the penalty through His Son, who
died. the Just for the unjust, to bring
them back into harmony with God.
1t Is for this reason that none living
prior to Jesus were accepted to sonship
In Gods family, after Father Adam
lost that privilege through disobedi
ence. Only after the redemption could
the invitation to sonship be extended.
Those who accepted needed to wait
until Pentecost to receive it. They
waited until Jesus. who died for their
sins. assembled up on High to make
reconciliation on our behalf. Forth
with the Father accepted all who came
unto Him through Christ. and the Holy
Spirit came upon such. inducing them
into the Divine family as SONS.
The difference between the Church
and the world is that the Church is
called out from the world now, when
everything is unfavorable. while Satan
Is unbound, while ignorance and su
perstition hold sway. and while the
reign of sin and death Is In progress
These circumstances make for the
Church narrow way Of self-sacrifice
in walking In the footsteps of Jesus
But because of this severer trial Of the
narrow way. the Church is to have the
superior blessing also-glory, honor.
immortality, Divine nature, the First
Reconsideration earthly to Heaven
ly conditions
Then will come the general blessing
which God has provided, through Mes
siah's sacrifice. for the world All sin
ned in the one man-Adam. All have
been redeemed by the other Man
Christ Jesus Il Corinthians 1921
All are to be awakened from the sleep
of death. All are TO have a full op-
portunity to come to a knowledge of
the Truth. And all are to be given
everlasting life. who develop the spir-
1t of holiness Only the incorrigible,
those who love iniquity and hate right
eousness. will eventually be sentenced
to the Second Death, from which there
will be no recovery.
Necessity For christ's Reign.
More and more we realize that edu-
cation will not do for the world all
that we once hoped. Many of us hoped
that the education of the heather would
make saints of them. forgetting that
education In the homeland has not
made saints very generally. There are
good people. moral people. trustworthy
people. who are not Christians at all.
But they are the exceptions. The ma
Jorlty Of people are not sufficiently
strong of character to stand thus alone
without the help of Christ.
The great mass of mankind seem to
need something in the way of chastise
ment, punishment, to Offset the down.
ward tendencies OF their own fallen
flesh. A few possibly have been re-
strained by the absurd teaching of
eternal torment at the hands of de-
mons, presented for a long time in the
name of Christianity. But the major
fly reason that whoever else gets
these experiences. they will not. Thus
we find that nearly all the murderers
imprisoned are such as have known the
erroneous teaching Of eternal torment.
and yet have been unabashed thereby
In other words. they have given an
outward assent to the teaching. but
really have never believed It or been
Influenced by It
What the world needs Is a strong
government, which will hold In re-
straint the weaker and baser elements
of society. and seek to help them mp