The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-11-25

Adam die. even so all in Christ shall
be made alive But every man in his
own order Tor company: Christ Head
and Bodyl. the First-fruits; after
wards those who shall become Christ's
at [during the time of His presence"
the thousand years of His glorious
Reign for human uplift.-1 Corinthians
15:20-23
The uplifting, the resurrecting, the
Restitution. will not be merely an
awakening from the tomb to the con-
ditions which prevailed before death;
much more is implied Father Adams
dying began when he was perfect. 1t
included all the processes which final
ly led him to the tomb. His resurrec-
ton, or raising again. will not signify
merely his coming from the tomb. but
will include all the steps of progress
up, up, back to all that he was at first
to all that he lost through sin-to all
that was redeemed for him at Calvary
And the same principle will hold with
all his children. his race. In him they
all fell from peSfection. and through
Christ they may all reattain the perfec-
ton which they lost.
Only Two Exceptions.
This blessing of Restitution will in
clude the whole race. with two eXcep-
tons. The first exception will be those
who will reject the gift of God, eternal
life. through Jesus Christ our Lord, by
refusing to cooperate with God in the
love and service of righteousness and
in the hatred of iniquity.
The second exception will be the
Church of this Gospel Age-not the
nominal Church. but the Church whose
names are written in Heaven-all
saints. out of all nations and demon
nations. These will not be returned
to the perfection of Adam. because ac
cording to the call of this Gospel Age
they are invited to a change of nature
and in the present life experience a
begetting of the Holy Spirit. If faith
full. they will share the First, or su
perior, Resurrection. and will be made
perfect on the Heavenly plane. thai
they may be associated with the Mas
ter in the great work of blessing anC
uplifting humanity in general.
Satan the lncorrgible.
For all these six thousand years Sa
tan has maintained his attitude of en-
nifty toward God and antagonism to
ward all the Divine arrangements
laws and regulations. God. all-power
full, could have restrained Satan Al
any moment if He chose. The fac
that He has allowed him to remain
and to practise to some extent hii
evil work assures us that the result:
will fully justify the course pursued b!
the Almighty.
In the sight of the holy angels, thu
vicious, scheming, plotting. deceiving
lying, murdarous spirit of Satan hai
been fully manifest: and by and by tn,
whole world of mankind. now subjec
TO his receptions. will be fully recov
cred and fully informed respecting
them God undoubtedly sees that tn
permitting of sin to take its cours
will eventually bring to the world. t,
angels. and to the Church. a wide
knowledge of good and evil. of RICH
and wrong. than could have been com
municated to them in any other way.
Satan. evidently always hopeful tina
he might outwit the Almighty and &C
complish his purpose. has especial.
labored during the past nineteen cen
turtles When he could not seduce tn
great Redeemer to disloyalty to God
he sought to put Him to ignominiou
death. only to find that in this he ha,
fulfilled the Scriptures. Later. in per
scouting the Church and in bringing
in damnable heresies through seducin
spirits intoxicating doctrines of demons
Satan has sought to turn the hearts o
all against the Heavenly Father. AM
to mislead them in respect to the d
vine character and Plan.
The Kingdom and Its Work.
Gods great Plan will soon have ma
tured. Soon the Church will be CON
| pleted Then Christ will receive he
to Himself as His Bride and Joint-hei
| in His Kingdom Then the work o
| that Kingdom. the rescue of the world
will begin Mankind must first be res
cued from error, superstition. DARK
ness, ignorance of God. brought o
| them by Satan. He shall see tn
wreck of all his deep-laid schemes. bu
he will be powerless to any furthe
| deceive humanity and misrepresent tn
| Creator One of the first acts of Mes
siah in His Kingdom will be to ia
hold on that old Serpent, the Devi
and bind him a thousand years, tina
he may deceive the nations no more.
| Revelation 20:1-3.
Sins Wage Is Death.
| Our great Creator has one Law 70
| His Empire: THE wages of sin
death: the gift of God is eternal life.
Satan was given this gift; but it wa
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. upon his obed
ence. From the moment of his rebe
lion he was worthy of the sentence c
death But it was not decreed. Tim
was given him to see the folly of hi
course. Century after century increa:
| ed Satan's spirit of opposition to Go
| and to righteousness. Even the teri
BILE disaster of sickness. sorrow an
| death which he has brought upon maj
| kind swerved him not from his ev
course. Even the death of the SaviC
for the redemption of the race move
| him not fo cVp,potbv and nitv II
heart seems to have become the mol
hardened in proportion as he has see
manifestations of Divine love and pit,
| This is an illustration of the gener'
trend of sin-to hardness of heart
A certain time has been fixed in Il
Divine Program for the execution
this great murderer. He must fir
witness the undoing of all his wor
He must behold how the light of Il
knowledge of the glory of God wi
sweep away all the delusions which |
has fostered and will emancipate h
mainly, and lead to the anthem, "Gl
ry to God in the Highest, and on cart
peace, good will toward men"
The Scriptures do not inform us
where Satan will be during the perio
of his bondage. during the period of b
restraint from doing evil-during ii
thousand years of Messiah's Reign.
merely informs us that at the concll
sion of that period he will be loose
again, that he may bring a trial and
test upon the human family, then pc
feet in the flesh. Their number, W
are told. will he as the sand of IL
s@ashore-a word full They all wi
ave enjoyed the full benefit of Me