The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-06-10

Psalmist tells us. for the hour to strike
when He shall take His great power
and reign.-Psalm 2:S-1O.
The first feature Of His campaign
will be the binding of Satan. Then
He will cause the Sun of Righteous
ness to shine forth, with healing in its
beams. The light of the knowledge Of
God shall fill the whole earth. Every
knee will bow and every tongue con
fess. All will have the fullest oppor-
tunity for return to God, and only the
willingly disobedient and rebellious
against light will die the Second Death.
and go into everlasting destruction"
"He Upon the Throne Said"
Beautifully does the Book of Reve
lation picture the coming glories of
Messiah's kingdom and the blessings
to mankind. Mark that it is the en-
throned Messiah who declares, BE
hold, make all things new" and who
tells that, as Jehovah's Messenger and
Representative, He will wipe away all
tears from off all faces and give beau
ty for ashes. and the oil of joy for the
spirit of sadness.-Revelation PA;
Isaiah GLIB.
The God of Love and Grace, the God
who sympathizes with His creatures
and who promises ultimately to wipe
away all their tears, is the only God
who appeals to the human heart and
head Our misconceptions In the past
served to drive the world further and
further away from God, and even the
sanity found it difficult to worship
Him in spirit and in truth-so dense
was the cloud of ignorance and super
stition which enshrouded us. Hark to
Cardinal Newman's words,
Lead, kindly Light,
Amidst the encircling gloom"
God is sending out His light and
truth The encircllng gloom is break
ing. The errors and superstitions
which hindered US from seeing the
beauty of Gods Word are being scat
tered. The light from one page and
statement is shining upon another.
The entire Word of God is heard as
never before. God is speaking His
people are hearing. Bible Students in
all parts OF the earth are awakening
to the unsectarian study of the Lords
Word.-2 Timothy 2:15.
True, Satan is still active. He Is not
yet bound The Prince of Darkness
hates the light, battles against it, and
enlists on his side as many as possible.
Alas, that he is able to gain few as
honest and as blind as was Saul of
Tarsus, nineteen centuries ago. These
now breathe out threatenings, as did
Saul But we have confidence that all
sincere ones of them, like ST. Paul,
will soon see great light and hear
the great voice of the Master, and be
fully delivered from the evil spirit Of
persecution, which, in our day, uses
Islander and Shoots out arrows. even
bitter words" to destroy the Message
and the messengers of the Prince of
Light, now shortly to take His power
to reign for thousand years. subject
ing all things to the Divine standards
"Doctrines of Demons"
The Pastor declared that in his judg-
ment there is no doubt that the Church
during the Dark Ages came under the
influence of the doctrines of demons"
referred to by st. Paul. He declared
that the demons of the Bible are
identical with the fallen angels Of
Genesis 6. They seek to hide their
identity, representing themselves as
holy angels or as dead human beings
speaking TO the living through medi-
ums, as In Bible times-through witch.
es, wizards, necromancers, astrologe-s
soothsayers, etc.
These, under Satan's domination.
have for centuries sought to substan-
tate Satan's lie, and to deceive man
kind into believing that the dead are
not dead-into believing that Satan
told the truth. saying. Eye shall moi
surely die" and that God told the un-
truth when He said, Thou shalt sure.
ly die" To turn the hearts Of men
away from the God of Love and Mercy,
they have traduced His character and
cultivated human fears
Light and Darkness In Foreign Lands.
The Pastor related some of his ex-
periences amongst the heather In In
Ola. The more intelligent quickly
learned of the difference between the
Message of Gods Love which the Pas
tor bore, and the message they had
heard from the missionaries Some Of
them appealed to him to stay longer:
for they wanted to hear more. They
declared that tbs could not accept
the teachings of missionaries, to
the effect that all their forefathers
had gone to hell of torture, simply
because they never heard of Jesus.
They declared that they could not be-
neve In such God, even though they
respected the intelligence of the mis-
siOnarfes on other subjects.
They said, Our gods do not allow
US to torture even brutes or insects,
and hence would not themselves de-
light In torture. How can we receive
the Christians God, with sentiments
less noble than our ownT' The Pas
tors reply was, Dear Friends, we have
all made mistakes, more or less In the
past Gods Word is now opening up
to US more and more. We are learning
wherein we misunderstood Him and
His gracious purposes. Begin a prop
er study of the Bible. You viii find
1t soul-setisfying beyond all else.
The Pastor tells that In India scores
OF Bible Student classes are springing
up; and native teachers In India, Chi
ma, Japan and Korea are hearing of
the God of Love and Mercy and Of the
better and clearer understanding of
the Bible, with rejoicing hearts. The
Gospel Of the Kingdom-that Messiah
is soon to become the great King, to es-
tablish righteousness, to overthrow sin
and to uplift humanity-he says ap-
peals to the simple minds of the
Orient; especially to those attracted to
Christianity, but unable to enter heart
lily into its service because of the dark
ness, mysticism and unreasonableness
attaching to It's exposition.
The prayer of our Methodist friends,
Send out Thy Light and Truth, o
Lord" is surely being answered, said
the Pastor, even though some godly
Methodists are slow TO perceive the
answer. The Message Of the Love of
God which passeth all understanding
is the Message which was forceful
with our own hearts as Christians, and
is the only Message which has power;
hence our Masters prayer, "Sanctify
them through Thy Truth; Thy Word
is Truth. John 17:17.
Fear may be the beginning of Wis
dom, but Love is surely its goal Per-
feet love casteth out all fear and