The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-12-09


tie very same falsohood which misled
Mother Fv And they have succeed
ed. BY visions. dreams. tipping tables.
trance mediums clairaudient powers.
mesmertc powers. hypnotic powers.
they have deceived the Christian
Church. even as they had previously
deceived the heather. into thinking
that the dead are really alive Upon
that foundation they have built the
doctrine of the fortunes of He'll and
Purgatory. and subsequently, doctrines
Of masses and prayers for the deliver
ance of the dead from Purgatory. and
doctrines respecting Gods having fore
ordained and predestinated all except
the Elect to eternal anguish.
The Pastors Thanksgiving.
On Thursday last, when my heart
went out to God in special thanksgiv-
ing for all the mercies of life. | gave
eyes of my understanding are opening,
enabling me to see Him in the glorious
light Of His great, loving Plan of Sal
walton for the church and for the
world My thanks for all temporal
mercies and blessings were dwarfed
as the anthem of my soul went up.
and l repeated the text of today, Holy.
holy, holy, Lord Of Hostsv'
Ali 1t Is a blessed thought that God
has already made provision that Mes
siah's Kingdom shall be established;
that Satan shall be bound and shall
deceive men no more; and that, instead
Of the darkness of ignorance and super
stition, the glorious light of Gods
goodness shall shine forth, causing the
earth to be filled with His praises!
With great patience God has permit
ted His plans and His character to be
misrepresented and traduced Yet we
can see wisdom in this; for even
tually, when all the blind eyes shall be
opened and all the deaf ears shall be
unstopped. when all the decisions Of the
past-the hobgoblins of seducing spirits
and the doctrines of devils-shall have
gone, the Lords precious character
and loving provision for our fallen race
will stand forth in glorious radiance.
Whom to Know is Life.
The Savior declares, "This is life
eternal, that they might know Thee,
the only true God. and Jesus Christ,
whom Thou hast sent" John 17:3)
Evidently He meant by this that who
ever would have an intimate acquaint-
ance with God must be received again
into Gods family; that those who do
not come back into Gods family will
never know Him in the true sense OF
the word-be able to appreciate the
glories of His grand characteristic
Justice, His Wisdom. His Power and
His Love. Such knowledge is impart-
ed only to those brought into the fam
lily and made partakers of Gods Spirit.
In the present time only very few
of our fallen race are able to take the
steps which lead to this intense, deep
knowledge of Jehovah. The great
mass of mankind are blinded by igno-
rance, superstition and the weaknesses
of their fallen nature. But God is not
content that merely the elect Church
shall have this knowledge of Him and
this opportunity for everlasting life.
His glorious purposes encompass the
world of mankind. His Divine ar
rangement is two-fold: first. that "all
the blind eyes shall be opened and all
the deaf ears shall be unstopped'; sec
ond, that ''the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed and all flesh shall see it
together" and that "the knowledge of
Gods glory shall fill the whole earth.
as the waters cover the great deep"
Grand HaIleIujah Chorus.
We may be sure that when the true
enlightenment shall reach humanity
the real character of the Heavenly Fa-
ther will be manifested. and there will
be a hallelujah chorus on earth which
will rival the Heavenly acclaim of
GLORY to God in the Highest" 1t is
aot for us to say that all. or even the
majority of the human family, enhght-
ened and set free from the bondage to
Sin and Death, will become the willing
servants of God, righteousness and
Truth. We cannot judge from our
own experiences. We must remember
that God recognizes human free agen-
cy, the will; and that He seeketh only
such to worship Him as worship Him
In spirit and in truth.
The Scriptures make clear that only
those who shall learn to love righteous
ness and to hate iniquity, evil-in the
present time as members of the elect
Church, or in the future Age as restor-
ed humanity-onlys such will be judged
worthy of life by the Great Judge.
Any sympathy with sin, after having
known of its bitter fruits, and after
having been recovered from the curse,
to learn the great lessons of seven
thousand years-lessons of the exceed
Ing sinfulness Of sin-lessons of Gods
Justice in Furnishing sin - lessons In
Gods Mercy in providing forgiveness
for our sins and release from them and
from their penalty-lessons in the hui
mility of our Redeemer-lessons in the
cost of recovery from Sin and Death
Whoever. after all these lessons.
would still be sympathetic with sin.
would, according to the Bible, be I'M
worthy of everlasting life For the
Scriptures assure us that death is the
penalty for sin. that the soul that sin
meth must die. and that the gift of
I'd fs 20 I,,.ief
our Lord, which will be given only to
those wise enough and loyal enough to
use 1t in accord with the great Gre
ator's regulations and laws. framed for
the benefit of His creatures and for
the glory of His name.
"Have Patience, Brethren"
Those whose eyes of understanding
are gradually opening to see the real
glory of Jehovah's character as re-
fected in His great Plan of the Ages
may well have patience with others
who see not as yet. The fact that our
own eyes were so long in opening, the
fact that we were as honest and sincere
before as we are now, should lead us
to assume that the same conditions APP
ply to our brethren. protested people
of God, everywhere. Moreover. we are
not to be judges one of another. Pro
claiming the Truth In as nearly as
possible the Bible words, we are to be
content to deliver our Message and to
leave to the Lord the results.
1t is ours to point out the horrible
confusion into which the Lords people
got during the Dark Ages. and which
justified the Lord in calling the nomi-
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