The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-19

that Gods proposition is life or
death-we are beginning to see is most
reasonable, most logical. Furthermore.
His proposition is that when His Plan
will have been completed, none shall
have life at all who will not have 1t in
perfection. He desires not to have
mental. moral and physical cripples
and degenerates in His Kingdom. He
will give all the fullest opportunity for
recovery through the Redeemer and
the Messianic Kingdom. All who will
not be obedient to the Divine arrange
ment will be eyerlastingly destroyed
as thorns and thistles are destroyed
and as uncomfortable wild beasts are
destroyed. This is the Divine Word on
the subject.-2 Peter PIP; Isaiah 33:12
Thus eventually God will have a
clean universe in which His VIII shall
be done on earth even as now it is done
in Heaven. Eventually every knee
will bow, and no one need any longer
say, Know thou the Lord; for all
shall know Him. and love Him, too.
Then the darkness, ignorance, super
stition, which has blinded us will be
past Then our great Creator will be
seen to be our very best Friend, the
Father of Mercies, the God of all
Grace. Perhaps, indeed, we shall love
righteousness and appreciate our God
all the more because of the previous
ISLANDERS of the Adversary, which for
5000 years have misrepresented Him.
Undoubtedly the Divine Wisdom,
Justice, Love and Power will be more
clearly seen by both angels and men
as the result of the Divine permits
sion of the reign of Sin and Death
Without this permission of sin we
would never realize the absolute JUS
tice of God in allowing our race to go
down into death and in rescuing US in
so wonderful a manner-by the send
ing of His Son to die for us, paying
the Redemption price of Adams penal
ty, dying, thou shalt die We never
would have seen so clearly the height
of Divine Wisdom. nor the depths of
Divine Love.
Even the Power of God, manifested
in the wonderful display In the heav-
ems every night, Is more wonderfully
shown by reason of the permission
Of sin. Even the Wisdom and Power
Of God shown forth in the human or
ganism will be added to by reason of
the permission of sin. How so, is it
asked? We reply that Gods great
d. II n
in the resurrection of the dead. The
Church's resurrection from human ma
ture to the Divine nature, from weak
ness to power, dishonor to glory, from
an animal body to a spiritual body,
will be stupendous expression of Di-
vine Power. And the fact that the
mental powers-memory, character-
will be carried over is beyond our COM
prehension.
Then comes the resurrection of the
world. We are not to think of the
resurrection of the bodies that have
fallen into dust, as the Bible mentions
nothing of the kind, and resurrection
involves no such absurdities But
what the Bible does propose for the
world, as well as for the Church, Is the
resurrection of the soul, of the being,
of the Intelligence. The Apostle ex-
plains that God will give to each a
body as it pleases Him. The bodies
provided for the Church will be of the
spirit kind
The bodies provided for the world
will be of the flesh kind Wonderful
as this is. it is not all; for the human
Divine Power will be the exact coun-
terpart of the present bodies, repre-
senting the same memory, mind, will.
Thus each will know himself, and will
know the others with whom he was
acquainted in the present life How
wonderful, how stupendous, how un-
believable, except as we are able by
faith to grasp the fact of our own lit
tleness and the Divine greatness.
True, as the Apostle tells us, not all
men have this faith-not all men are
able to believe what the Bible so clear
ly sets forth. They stagger at the
great proposition But their stagger-
Ing and unbelief will not change the
facts. Gods Wisdom and Power will
continue to operate. Notwithstanding
our imbecilities. Those who cannot
exercise faith cannot belong to the
Church class, called during the present
time; for with this class faith is par
amount requirement
Foolish IncreduIity-Wise Faith.
How strange it seems that nearly
everybody can be credulous of non
sense, while only few comparatively,
can have faith in the true realities of
the Divine promisesl For instance,
how few seem able to believe in the
Power of God as respects resurrec-
ton of the dead. On the contrary, how
many can be credulous enough to be-
lieve that the dead are not dead-even
when they see them to be dead, and
their senses demonstrate that factl
Under the delusion of Satan, man
kind have come to imagine bells and
purgatories. and to believe in them.
although they do not have even a sus.
picion or a thought as to where these
places are. What better proof could
we have that the world for 5000 years
has been under the malevolent infiu-
ence of 'the Prince of the Power of the
Air, who worketh in the hearts of the
children of disobedience"Y What bet
ter proof could we have that the world
has been under the influence of mis-
leading spirits and doctrines Of dem
ons"?- thoroughly believing Satan's
false statement. 'Ye shall not surely
die"-ye are immortal-and thoroughly
rejecting Gods statement. Thou shalt
surely die" Immortality is a gift of
God, and not an inherent quality.
''The soul that sinneth it shall die:
1.-The wages of sin is death''-not eter.
nal torment.
! Patience and Sympathy Necessary.
If number of drunken men have
been in each others company, and a
few of them begin SOLDERING up, IL
would behoove them to be very sym.
pathetic with their companions still in
a befuddled condition. This is our at
titude. Some of us are more or less
awake. Some of us have learned what
real Bible study means. Some of us
are getting the eyes of our understand
ing open and are seeing some of the
lengths and breadths and heights and
depths of the Love of God. which sur
passes all human understanding, and