The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-12-23

thought respecting raiment than ap-
pears on the surface by His words.
"Shall He not much more clothe your
While He assuredly meant that we
are to trust Heavenly provision for our
natural clothing, it would appear that
He may have meant clothing for us
as New Creatures-the spotless, seam
less robe of Christ's righteousness,
granted to us as wedding garment,
in the merit Of which we have access
to all the riches of Gods grace in the
present life and. If faithful, shall be
granted an abundant entrance into His
everlasting Kingdom.
"Take No Anxious Thought"
God takes thought respecting the Di-
vine plans and arrangements. Jesus
thought out carefully the course He
pursued; and He instructed those who
were DESTROYS of being His disciples to
sit down and carefully count the cost.
All these things show us that the Mas
ter would not have His followers
thoughtless, living merely moment by
moment, failing to make provision fol
the seasons. the weather, the table.
etc.
What He meant, what the Greek
text fully bears out, is that His fol
lowers should have no worry respect
ing temperatures. Having exercised
thought, prudence, care, having done
to the best of their judgment and
ability, not slothfully, but energetical-
ly, they are to rest the matter, realiz-
ing that all their affairs are placed in
the hands of the Heavenly Father
through Christ, and that all the Heav-
emily powers are pledged to make all
things work together for good to them.
because they love God and have been
called according to His purpose.
"Seek We Chiefly the Kingdom"
While anxious care was not to be ex-
ercised respecting temperatures, great
care was to be exercised in respect to
anything appertaining to the Kingdom.
The call of the Church is to member
ship in the great Kingdom Of God, of
which Christ Is the Head, the Chief
King; we may be under kings and I'M
der priests, associated with our Re
deemer in His great Messianic work
of a thousand years. 1t was to attain
a share in that Kingdom that we made
conservation of our lives. our wills, our
all, to the Lord; and only through
great tribulatiOn can we enter that
Kingdom. As God is pleased to see
our restfulness respecting temporal
ties of life when He has agreed to pro
vide for US according to His Wisdom
and in response to our efforts. so He
is pleased to see, RAthe contraK. our
zeal our perseverae0e. our almost wor-
rying that the great prize of the King
dom should not be lost by U.S.
The reason for wishing us to thus
worry for the Kingdom. and not to
worry for earthly things. is evident on
reflection. To worry about earthly
things would be to show a faithless
ness and doubt in respect to God and
His promised care But our attaining
the Kingdom or our falling to attain
1t is made dependent only on ourselves.
God has already done His part. He
has provided the Redeemer and the
forgiveness Of sins. He has opened up
the way whereby we might return into
His family. When we came unto Hin
through Jesus. He accepted Us and
gave US the begetting of the Spirit and
with it. a right to all the great and
precious promises. and ioint-heirship
with Jesus on condition of our faith
fulness.-Romans SIT; Peter 1:12.
Hence. to agonize for the Kingdom
to strive for the Kingdom. to run with
patience. to fight good fight, to en-
dure hardness-all these expressions
indicate the great zeal and earnestness
necessary OH the part of those who
would be accounted conquerors-yea
more than conquerors. through Him
VINO loved us and bought us with His
precious blood
Is it any wonder that God should
expect us to be very Jealous in striv-
ing to attain the Kingdom? Would
He give so great an honor to any who
AdCO II uShlll surely Angels ana
cherubim would be glad to accept DO
sitions in the Kingdom if offered to
them But God has passed by the
angels, and invited members of the
fallen race. whose hearts have turned
to Him, that they might become, not
only justified, from their sins. but
sanctified through Christ and heirs of
the Kingdom
Is 1t any wonder that the Lord has
provided that only through much trib-
ulation shall any enter the Kingdom
Whoever is not willing to endure trih-
ulat1on for the Kingdoms sake would
thereby show that he had not the
proper appreciation and that he is not
worthy of 1t If the Master endured
even unto death. how could we ex-
pect that We might be joint-heirs with
Him unless We possessed His spirit.
His zeal? Thus the Lord tells us that
all who will attain the Kingdom glo-
ries will be copies of His Son
What Must We Endure9
Here the question properly arises.
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